Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be imprisoned while he appeals his corruption conviction, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled. He is facing 12 years in jail on charges of accepting a bribe but had asked to remain free during his appeal. Lula claims the charges are politically motivated, and designed to … Read more
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal. Lula has rejected claims that he received an apartment as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to state oil company … Read more
Brazilian President Michel Temer has been charged with accepting bribes by the country’s chief prosecutor. He is accused of receiving money from the boss of a giant meatpacking firm implicated in a corruption scandal. Mr Temer denies any wrongdoing. The charges have been delivered to a Supreme Court judge who must now decide if the … Read more
Brazil’s top electoral court voted to acquit President Michel Temer and former President Dilma Rousseff following an investigation of allegations they received illegal campaign funds in the 2014 elections. The 4-3 decision gives Temer some breathing room, but he still faces a corruption investigation and street protests that threaten to force him from office before … Read more
Brazil’s President Michel Temer has been acquitted of irregularities in the 2014 election, a ruling which allows him to stay in office. By four votes to three, the Superior Electoral Court rejected claims that illegal money was used in the campaign. If found guilty, Mr Temer could have been forced out of the presidency. The … Read more
Angry demonstrators in Brasilia have started a fire inside the ministry of agriculture and have damaged several other ministerial buildings. Brazilian authorities estimate around 35,000 are marching in the capital. Troops are being deployed to defend government buildings and there is a heavy police presence on the streets. Protesters are demanding the resignation of President … Read more
Angry demonstrators in Brasilia have started a fire inside the ministry of agriculture and have damaged several other ministerial buildings. Brazilian authorities estimate around 35,000 are marching in the capital. Troops are being deployed to defend government buildings and there is a heavy police presence on the streets. Protesters are demanding the resignation of President … Read more
Brazilian President Michel Temer on Saturday demanded the Supreme Court suspend a probe into his alleged obstruction of justice, claiming the central piece of evidence is flawed. Temer said an audio recording purporting to show him discussing payment of hush money to a jailed politician had been “doctored”. Temer spoke in only his second public … Read more
Brazil’s President Michel Temer has said he will ask the Supreme Court to suspend an investigation against him, because vital evidence has been “manipulated”. In a defiant speech, Mr Temer said the audio, in which he allegedly discusses the payment of hush money to a jailed politician, needed to be validated. Mr Temer is suspected … Read more
Brazilian President Michel Temer has taken millions of dollars in bribes since 2010, according to testimony released by the Supreme Court. The plea-bargain testimony came from bosses of a giant meat-packing firm. If confirmed, the accusations could prove devastating for Mr Temer’s crisis-hit administration, though he has vowed to prove his innocence. He is already … Read more
Brazil is reeling from a dramatic new twist in its ongoing political crisis. Amid calls for his resignation from the public and politicians alike, President Michel Temer is now under investigation by the Supreme Court, accused of authorising bribe payments to allegedly silence a jailed former party ally. Temer denied the accusations and after much … Read more
President Michel Temer of Brazil has denied a newspaper report that he approved payments to silence a possible witness in a corruption inquiry. He was accused of authorising illicit payments to a jailed former speaker of the lower house of the Brazilian parliament, Eduardo Cunha. Cunha was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison … Read more
The former Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has given evidence before the country’s top anti-corruption judge. He was closely questioned for five hours by Judge Sergio Moro. Lula has rejected allegations that he received a flat as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to the state oil company, Petrobras. He says the … Read more
President or prisoner? Many Brazilians think one of those two roads lies ahead for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is due in court on Wednesday on corruption charges. Lula is facing five charges related to the Car Wash scandal, a three-year investigation that has embroiled more than 100 politicians. If convicted, he … Read more
Brazilian trade unions have staged nationwide strikes against President Michel Temer’s austerity measures, causing public-transport disruptions in major cities across the country and clashes between the police and the protesters. Unions said Friday’s strike was a success and pointed to adherence by millions of workers in key sectors like automakers, petroleum, schools, post office and … Read more
Violence has erupted in Brazil at the end the country’s first general strike in more than 20 years. Buses and cars have been set on fire in Rio de Janeiro’s city centre. Road blocks set up by activists were also ablaze and shops were vandalised. For most of the day the strike had been largely … Read more
Brazil has been rocked by dramatic new corruption allegations after a judge ordered investigations into eight cabinet ministers and scores of MPs. The list includes President Michel Temer’s chief of staff, Rio de Janeiro’s mayor during the Olympics and at least four former presidents. They were named by employees of construction firm Odebrecht, which has … Read more
Brazil’s president has moved out of his official residence in the capital, Brasilia, because of “bad energy” and the presence of ghosts. Michel Temer, 76, and his 33-year-old wife Marcela, a former beauty queen, have decamped from the modernist palace and moved into a smaller residence, normally occupied by Brazil’s vice-president. He said he and … Read more
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye is one of a long list of world leaders to have gone through an impeachment process or forced to resign following legal proceedings against them. Not all impeachment proceedings are successful: The best-known survivor is probably former US president Bill Clinton, who remained in office despite an attempt to remove … Read more
Abstract The Brazilian ‘locomotive’ has stopped. Oil production has been one of crucial drives in fostering not only economic but social growth in Brazil, but now sees the country gripped by economic crisis and political instability,. The inquiry of Petrobras’s scandal is changing the equilibrium of powers in Latin “China”. Introduction The process of growth … Read more