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›
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... READ MORE›
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›
I want to say that the possibility to approve the reform is very strong, Temer said... READ MORE›
Peruvian officials begin impeachment process against president kuczynski... READ MORE›
Last month, the government of Temer, Rousseff's former vice-president, plunged to 3 percent in one poll... READ MORE›
Zavascki was in the process of reviewing numerous Car Wash testimonies that were expected to further implicate politicians in Brazil and other countries in Latin America... READ MORE›
In particular, Ms. Rousseff and her supporters have argued, how can the impeachment process be directed by someone who is going on trial for corruption himself?... READ MORE›
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›
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nine years in prison but is expected to appeal... READ MORE›
There is the Party of the Brazilian Woman, for instance -- a group whose elected members in Congress are all men... READ MORE›
The Lula Institute put out a statement on Thursday saying "former President Lula never participated directly or indirectly in any illegality"... READ MORE›
Brazil's first female president stripped of duties in country's first impeachment in 24 years... READ MORE›
But Ms. Rousseff and her supporters call her ouster a coup that undermines Brazil's young democracy... READ MORE›
Hashtags in support of both Lula and Moro have been trending heavily in Brazil... READ MORE›
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›
Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff left on Tuesday the official presidential residence, the Alvorada Palace, amid salutations from her supporters... READ MORE›
Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted and sentenced to nine years and six months in prison for corruption and money laundering... READ MORE›
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›
A wall erected down the center of the lawn separated several thousand Rousseff supporters from a similar-sized group of pro-impeachment protesters... READ MORE›
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›
Impeachment vote For Ms Rousseff to be removed from office permanently, two-thirds of the Senate would have to vote in favour... READ MORE›
Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff began a week that could make or break her administration with a bruising defeat in a Congressional impeachment committee... READ MORE›
The contrast spoke volumes about how the artists, intellectuals, unionists and activists on Brazil's left see these Olympics... READ MORE›
A former union organizer with a fourth-grade education, Lula rose to power as a voice for Brazil's disenfranchised poor... READ MORE›
In 1986, Mr. da Silva was elected to Congress and, two years later, a Workers' Party candidate won the mayoralty of Sao Paulo, the country's largest city... READ MORE›
But the president is also losing support among traditional Workers party supporters... READ MORE›
On Friday morning, Rio state Finance Minister Julio Bueno said that if the state were a company, it would enter into judicial recovery... READ MORE›
Popular leftist leader Lula accuses political rivals of targeting him in court to push him off next year's ballot... READ MORE›
Brazil's Lula extends lead in 2018 vote despite graft conviction poll... READ MORE›
She now faces trial by the Senate on charges of doctoring government accounts to give an unrealistically healthy impression ahead of the 2014 election... READ MORE›
Congressman introduces articles of impeachment against donald trump... READ MORE›
The prosecutor, Rodrigo Janot, alleged that eight members of the Workers Party, including Lula and Rousseff, committed a series of crimes involving state-owned oil firm Petrobras... READ MORE›
, Argentina and Cuba so they can turn Latin America into one big Bolivarian socialist republic, yelled Eduardo Mendes, a computer science student... READ MORE›
According to a recent poll by Datafolha, a research institute, Ms. Rousseff's approval among the poorest Brazilians has dropped to 16 percent, down from 50 percent in December 2014... READ MORE›
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