The shock from left-leaning establishment reporters came loudly on Wednesday: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – the “charismatic,” “widely popular,” “iconic,” “commanding” Lula – would finally have to face justice for one of the most expansive corruption schemes in Latin American history.
Multiple Brazilian newspapers are reporting that the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) has no “plan B” on who to run for president during the 2018 election after the conviction of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday on corruption charges.
Surrounded by supporters chanting “Lula, presidente!”, former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva officially announced his candidacy in the 2018 presidential race, his first public statement since being convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to 9.5 years in prison.
A Brazilian judge has sentenced former socialist Workers’ Party (PT) president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil to nine and half years in prison on charges of corruption and money laundering.
With the International Olympic Committee judging the Los Angeles and Paris bids as equal, Los Angeles could again make hundreds of millions of dollars by hosting the either the 2024 or 2028 Olympic Summer Games.
Brazil’s government announced a sudden halt in printing passports last week following the evaporation of public funds for such use. This week, Brazil’s Congress attempted to pass legislation reappropriating funds for education to the passport program, although it appears the latest plan in motion will take money out of the nation’s U.N. funding for this purpose.
An underaged person, whom reports describe as an “adolescent” boy, drove a car into one of the official residences of Brazil’s president Michel Temer Wednesday night in an apparent act of protest.
Nearly a year after Brazil impeached its most-recent president, Dilma Rousseff, prosecutors have charged her successor, Michel Temer, with taking a $152,000 bribe as part of a larger corruption scandal involving a large meatpacking corporation.
The Brazilian government has suspended sales of tear gas to Venezuela amid increasing police violence, Reuters has reported.
A robbery suspect in Brazil entered a convenience store and drew his gun, only to be shot multiple times in a situation in which everyone was armed.
Brazilian President Michel Temer has sent in federal troops to maintain social order in the capital of Brasilia after government buildings were evacuated following a string of clashes between left-wing protesters and police.
Brazil’s Supreme Court released testimony by corporate leaders accused of corruption Friday that accuses President Michel Temer of taking nearly $5 million in bribes from the world’s largest meat processor.
In an extensive piece published this week, Foreign Policy explores the past year of attempts to implement affirmative action in the schools of Brazil, a nation with an extraordinary number of mixed-race citizens. Many of these, the report found, applied to affirmative action programs only to be rejected for being too white.
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An illegal immigrant wanted in Brazil for international human sex trafficking was deported to serve her prison time.
Japan’s opposition parties and civil liberties protesters are objecting to a legislative bill that would greatly expand Japanese police’s capability to prosecute would-be terrorists on conspiracy charges.
A Brazilian soccer player who caused controversy after signing a new, 2-year contract only a month after his release from jail for murdering his ex-girlfriend and feeding her body to his dogs, caused more controversy this week by claiming that the murder of his ex was just a simple “mistake.”
Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, the former leftist president of Brazil, testified for the first time on Tuesday before a federal court as part of the sprawling investigation into a multi-million-dollar corruption scheme at state-owned oil company Petrobras.
A Brazilian soccer player has signed a new, 2-year contract only a month after being released from jail for murdering his ex-girlfriend and feeding her body to his dogs.
Brazilian President Michel Temer confessed in an interview with the Portuguese-language magazine Veja that he and his family moved out of the nation’s Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence, over bad energy and “ghosts” that kept him and First Lady Marcela Temer from sleeping well at night.
Los Angeles officially has the worst traffic in the world, as drivers spent an average of 104 hours stuck in traffic in 2016.
Police officers in Brazil’s Espirito Santo state have finally returned to work after a ten-day strike that left the city in a state of anarchy, with more homicides recorded during the strike than during the entire month of February in 2016.
Protests preventing police from leaving their barracks have led to an astronomical spike in homicides, looting, and other violent crime in Espirito Santo, Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro’s legendary Maracana stadium, built for the 1950 World Cup, lies in a state of semi-ruin six months after the 2016 Rio Olympics, a product of a dispute between the firm that owns the stadium and the Rio 2016 committee.
Brazilian and Colombian officials are warning that Brazil’s largest drug syndicate, the First Capital Command (PCC), has begun hiring members of the Marxist terrorist group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) following the signing of a “peace deal” to disarm the FARC.
Inmates at a northern Brazilian prison filmed themselves cooking the bodies of rival gang members over an improvised grill following the latest in a series of riots throughout Brazil’s overpopulated, barely-controlled prison system.
A war between rival drug gangs has triggered a third massacre in an overcrowded Brazilian prison. After a 14-hour riot, police found 26 inmates charred and beheaded and had little time to begin identifying them before yet another disturbance began on Monday.
Brazilian police have yet to recapture over 100 inmates who escaped from two northern prisoners in riots on New Year’s Day and appear ill-equipped to rapidly resolve the institutional decay that allowed the riots to occur in the first place.
A man stabbed a Brazilian pastor in the neck during a televised mass, witnesses say.
Brayan Bremer, one of over hundreds of inmates who escaped from two prisons in western Brazil over New Year’s Eve, is taunting police with selfies apparently taken from deep within the Amazon rainforest which surfaced on Facebook throughout the week.
For the second time this week, inmates at a western Brazilian prison staged a bloody riot, leaving 33 dead — among them, 30 beheaded and multiple bodies with hearts torn out.
Starved Venezuelans looking for an escape from the socialist tyranny controlling the government of their homeland have begun to flee in droves, challenging the immigration agencies of nations around the world.
The governor of Amazonas, the state in which a prison riot-turned-massacre left over 50 inmates dead, has sparked controversy by dismissing the dead as “not saints” as Brazil’s Justice Minister revealed that authorities had evidence that should have indicated gang members were organizing a riot before it happened.
Graphic images of a massacre that left 56 dead in a prison in Manaus, northern Brazil, this week have surfaced, reportedly taken by prisoners themselves, showing bodies left in pools of blood and decapitated heads lined up on the floor.
In a rising tide of populist sentiment, Brazil’s two largest cities swore in mayors from outside the political class Sunday, underscoring widespread frustration with the establishment.
A Brazilian military police officer has confessed to killing Greek Ambassador to Brasilia Kyriakos Amiridis, the husband of his lover, in what he claims to have been self-defense. Police contradict his claim, however, stating evidence points to the ambassador’s wife Francoise orchestrating the murder.
Venezuelans have been crossing over the border into Brazil in search of food and medical care as Brazilian hospitals struggle to keep up with the influx of new patients.
A groom was left heartbroken at the altar when he found out that his bride had been killed in a helicopter crash just a mile away from the venue.
While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global Zika outbreak no longer an emergency this week, officials in Brazil fear that the incoming spring season will provide a boost to the nation’s mosquito population, and the government will be ill-prepared to stop a second wave of Zika.
More than 700 immigrants from Brazil are scheduled to arrive in Israel by the end of the calendar year.
