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BRAZIL'S LULA SPENDS FIRST NIGHT IN JAIL AMID FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
The imprisonment of Lula, Brazil's first working-class president, throws the October presidential election wide open as he leads the race in opinion polls... READ MORE›
AFTER TENSE STANDOFF, DA SILVA SPENDS FIRST DAY OF 12-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE BEHIND BARS
The first day of da Silva's 12-year sentence marked the downfall of a person who was once one of the world's most popular politicians... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA SURRENDERS TO POLICE TO BEGIN JAIL SENTENCE AFTER TENSE SHOWDOWN
Da Silva emerged a second time shortly after nightfall, this time surrounded by bodyguards who pushed back scores of supporters who tried to stop his advance... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA TURNS HIMSELF IN TO POLICE
A judge then gave him until 5:00 pm local time (2000 GMT) Friday to turn himself in, but Lula missed the deadline... READ MORE›
FORMER BRAZIL PRESIDENT SURRENDERS TO POLICE AFTER DEFYING ARREST WARRANT
Luiz inacio lula da silva faces 12-year corruption sentence but maintains innocence... READ MORE›
LULA TURNS HIMSELF IN TO BRAZIL POLICE, ENDING STANDOFF
Protesters supporting Lula clashed with police outside the walls of the building... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA, ONCE THE WORLD'S 'MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN,' SURRENDERS TO FACE PRISON TIME
Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, left, accompanies fellow former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after leaving the union headquarters Saturday... READ MORE›
BRAZIL: LULA 'NEGOTIATING SURRENDER' TO POLICE TO SERVE JAIL SENTENCE
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's legal team is negotiating his surrender with federal police to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for... READ MORE›
THE 'MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN ON EARTH' SURRENDERS TO POLICE
Former Brazilian president Luiz InA?cio Lula da Silva has vowed to stage his political comeback while serving a 12-year sentence on corruption charges... READ MORE›
EX-BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA AGREES TO SURRENDER TO POLICE FOLLOWING CORRUPTION CONVICTION
Ex-Brazilian president Lula da Silva agrees to surrender to police following corruption conviction... READ MORE›
LULA BEGINS PRISON SENTENCE IN BRAZIL AFTER GIVING HIMSELF UP TO POLICE
Military police in Curitiba later dispersed Lula supporters with rubber bullets and teargas when he arrived at a police station in the city... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S DEFIANT LULA EXPECTED TO SURRENDER TO POLICE ON SATURDAY
Ex-president Lula da Silva remains holed up in steel-workers union HQ, in standoff with police over corruption case... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT 'LULA' DEFIES ORDER TO TURN SELF IN
After running for president several times, in 2002 da Silva finally won... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF FORMER PRESIDENT LULA
On Friday morning, Brazil's daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported that Lula would not hand himself in... READ MORE›
IN SURPRISE MOVE, BRAZIL JUDGE ORDERS DA SILVA TO SURRENDER, BEGIN PRISON TERM
Da Silva, who grew up poor and with little formal education before becoming a trade union leader and politician, says he will go down fighting... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA FACES JAIL FOR CORRUPTION AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING
Supreme court judges ruled against him by six to five after a marathon session... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S TOP COURT RULES THAT EX-PRESIDENT LULA CAN BE JAILED
Weber was seen as the only swing vote and her decision sealed Lula's fate... READ MORE›
BRAZIL COURT REJECTS FORMER PRESIDENT LULA'S BID TO AVOID PRISON
The court ruled against the two-time president early on Thursday, after a marathon session... READ MORE›
BRAZIL COURT TO RULE ON FORMER PRESIDENT LULA'S JAIL TERM
Lula's Worker's party says the conviction was politically motivated to prevent the former president, who remains popular with poorer Brazilians, from running again in October... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA LOSES PROCEDURAL APPEALS, FACES PRISON
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a rally in Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil March 23, 2018... READ MORE›
BRAZIL JUDGE SEIZES EX-PRESIDENT LULA'S PASSPORT
A federal judge in Brazil has seized the passport of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and banned him from leaving the country... READ MORE›
UPENDING BRAZILS PRESIDENTIAL RACE, COURT UPHOLDS FORMER LEADERS CONVICTION
Prosecutors have portrayed Mr. da Silva, who has also been charged in six other corruption cases, as a linchpin of Brazil's endemically corrupt political system... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ON EDGE AS APPEALS DECISION NEARS IN EX-PRESIDENT LULA CORRUPTION CASE
Brazil on edge as appeals decision nears in ex-president Lula corruption case... READ MORE›
BRAZIL POISED FOR LULA APPEAL VERDICT
Three judges in Brazil will shortly decide whether to uphold a prison term given to the country's former President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... READ MORE›
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BRAZIL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AIRS HOMOPHOBIC RANT DURING TV DEBATE
The penultimate televised debate before next weekend's presidential election was overshadowed by the homophobic rant of one of the fringe candidates... READ MORE›
EX-PRESIDENT LULA JOINS BRAZILS CABINET GAINING LEGAL SHIELD
In my government, President Lula will have the necessary powers to help us, to help Brazil, Ms. Rousseff said... READ MORE›
VICE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL EMERGES FROM SHADOWS
In some ways, this leaves the president even more reliant on Mr. Temer, whom Ms. Rousseff named as her chief negotiator with the fractious Congress this year... READ MORE›
FORMER PRESIDENT LULA FACES QUESTIONING BY POLICE OVER BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL
As Brazils credit rating is slashed to junk status, police say the countrys most popular politician may have benefited from kickbacks from the state oil company... READ MORE›
BP TO PAY A?12BN FOR GULF OIL SPILL
BP has reached an 18.7bn 12bn settlement with the US Department of Justice DoJ following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill... READ MORE›
BRAZIL TRANSFIXED AS VOTES ARE CAST ON IMPEACHING DILMA ROUSSEFF
Ms. Rousseff can still appeal to the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil's highest court, though it rejected previous motions to have the impeachment measure dismissed... READ MORE›
TEMPERS FLARE IN BRAZIL OVER INTERCEPTS OF CALLS BY EX-PRESIDENT LULA
A judge in the capital, Brasilia, issued an injunction against the move, arguing that Ms. Rousseff may have violated the law in appointing Mr. da Silva... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION IN OIL KICKBACK SCANDAL
Dallagnol said that Lula, because of his control of the machinery of the Workers' party and the Brazilian government, was the central figure in the scheme... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SEEKS ARREST OF EX-PRESIDENT IN GRAFT INQUIRY
And investigators are looking into whether proceeds from the scheme were used to finance Mr. da Silva's and Ms. Rousseff's presidential campaigns... READ MORE›
BRAZILS PRESIDENT PLAGUED BY SCANDALS REJECTS CALLS TO QUIT
Ms. Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, asked in the interview... READ MORE›
FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION AND MONEY LAUNDERING
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nine years in prison but is expected to appeal... READ MORE›
BRAZILS MOST ENTERTAINING SHOW MAY BE CONGRESS
There is the Party of the Brazilian Woman, for instance -- a group whose elected members in Congress are all men... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S PETROBRAS SCANDAL DEEPENS
Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot has accused many senior politicians of taking bribes... READ MORE›
RELEASE OF TAPPED PHONE CALLS BETWEEN LULA AND ROUSSEFF SPARKS MASS PROTESTS IN BRAZIL
On Wednesday night tens of thousands of Brazilians began gathering in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and other major cities to demand the president's resignation... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN POLICE DETAIN FORMER PRESIDENT LULA IN CORRUPTION INQUIRY
The Lula Institute put out a statement on Thursday saying "former President Lula never participated directly or indirectly in any illegality"... READ MORE›
COURT LACKS MORAL AUTHORITY TO REDEFINE MARRIAGE
Rather, this ruling, like the abortion ruling, all but ensures America will not achieve broad social consensus on same-sex marriage... READ MORE›
DILMA ROUSSEFF SUSPENDED AS SENATE VOTES TO IMPEACH BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT
Brazil's first female president stripped of duties in country's first impeachment in 24 years... READ MORE›
EFFORT TO IMPEACH BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF CLEARS CONGRESSIONAL PANEL
Ms. Rousseff and her top aides argue that the impeachment proceedings amount to a coup... READ MORE›
RECORD BRAZIL PROTESTS PUT ROUSSEFF'S FUTURE IN DOUBT
The corruption scandal has already strained Rousseff's ties with her main coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party PMDB ... READ MORE›
JUDGE BLOCKS BRAZILS EX-PRESIDENT FROM CABINET POST
The latest twist in the crisis underscores the tumult in Brazil over Mr. da Silva's nomination... READ MORE›
DILMA ROUSSEFF IS OUSTED AS BRAZILS PRESIDENT IN IMPEACHMENT VOTE
But Ms. Rousseff and her supporters call her ouster a coup that undermines Brazil's young democracy... READ MORE›
TENSION GRIPS BRAZIL AS EX-PRESIDENT LULA APPEARS IN COURT ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
Hashtags in support of both Lula and Moro have been trending heavily in Brazil... READ MORE›
BRAZIL TUMBLES LIKE 'HOUSE OF CARDS' IN CRISIS
The plot to Brazil's political crisis has become so complicated that even makers of political drama 'House of Cards' joke they are now following events... READ MORE›
ROUSSEFF LEAVES PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE TO SALUTATIONS FROM SUPPORTERS
Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff left on Tuesday the official presidential residence, the Alvorada Palace, amid salutations from her supporters... READ MORE›
HERE'S WHY SOME PEOPLE THINK BRAZIL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A 'SOFT COUP'
But what happens in the coming weeks in Brazil has longer-term implications for elected socialist governments throughout Latin America... READ MORE›
BRAZIL PRESIDENT FORMALLY ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY AGAINST CORRUPTION INQUIRY
Brazil president formally accused of conspiracy against corruption inquiry... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA TO STAND TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION IN BRIBERY SCANDAL
Workers' party supporters claim the Lava Jato investigation is politically biased and that most of those accused in other parties will not be held to justice... READ MORE›
FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA CHARGED IN MASSIVE CORRUPTION SCANDAL
Brazilians had known that Lula was under investigation, and police had recommended charges against him last month for allegedly accepting improper renovations to a seaside apartment... READ MORE›
RIO'S ALTERNATIVE OPENING CEREMONY SHOWCASES THE LEFT'S ANGER OVER THE OLYMPICS
The contrast spoke volumes about how the artists, intellectuals, unionists and activists on Brazil's left see these Olympics... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | TWO POSSIBLE PATHS FOR BRAZIL'S MOST BELOVED EX-LEADER: PRISON OR THE PRESIDENCY
A former union organizer with a fourth-grade education, Lula rose to power as a voice for Brazil's disenfranchised poor... READ MORE›