One of Lula's buses with guests and journalists inside was shot at in March while the former president was touring Brazil's southern states... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
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›
Luiz inacio lula da silva faces 12-year corruption sentence but maintains innocence... READ MORE›
Protesters supporting Lula clashed with police outside the walls of the building... READ MORE›
Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, left, accompanies fellow former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after leaving the union headquarters Saturday... READ MORE›
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›
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... READ MORE›
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›
Ex-president Lula da Silva remains holed up in steel-workers union HQ, in standoff with police over corruption case... READ MORE›
After running for president several times, in 2002 da Silva finally won... READ MORE›
On Friday morning, Brazil's daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported that Lula would not hand himself in... READ MORE›
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›
Supreme court judges ruled against him by six to five after a marathon session... READ MORE›
Weber was seen as the only swing vote and her decision sealed Lula's fate... READ MORE›
The court ruled against the two-time president early on Thursday, after a marathon session... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
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›
These strategies were a shift from the 1990s, when Brazil's government ended Petrobras's monopoly, exposing the company to market forces while keeping it under state control... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
At the time Petrobras took control of 50 percent of the refinery, Rousseff was chief of staff to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... READ MORE›
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nine years in prison but is expected to appeal... READ MORE›
Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot has accused many senior politicians of taking bribes... 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›
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›
The latest twist in the crisis underscores the tumult in Brazil over Mr. da Silva's nomination... 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›
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›
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›
Ms Rousseff, who was chairman of Petrobras at the time of the multi-billion pound kickback scheme, was then re-elected last October in a closely fought vote... 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›
After all, they said, Greece was a eurozone member, not a developing country... READ MORE›
Big parts of the Brazil model, it turns out, were glued together with kickbacks, dirty money and lies... 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›
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Thousands of Lula supporters descended on Curitiba overnight, mostly members of activists groups and unions, arriving in chartered buses from across the country... READ MORE›
Now she is one of the many working-class Brazilians to turn against the Workers' Party, even rejecting their onetime hero, unionist-turned-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... READ MORE›
Brazil's ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed to fight allegations that he was involved in a huge bribery scheme run by oil giant Petrobras... READ MORE›
The ruling marked a stunning fall for Lula, Brazil's first working-class president, who left office six years ago with an 83 per cent approval rating... 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›
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›
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