Operation Car Wash

Brazil’s top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), voted on Thursday to convict former President Fernando Collor de Mello on corruption and money laundering charges.

Socialist former President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, currently the frontrunner in the 2022 presidential race, disparaged his rival incumbent, President Jair Bolsonaro, as a “court jester” and promised “a little barbecue and beer” for all Brazilians if he returns to power.

Citizens in Curitiba, southern Brazil, organized a caravan protest in front of Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Edson Fachin late Wednesday in response to the STF vacating corruption sentences against socialist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week.

A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s top court, overturned the multiple convictions on charges of corruption against former socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday.

The Brazilian court in charge of prosecutions over the corruption scandal known as “Operation Car Wash” sentenced former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) to 12 years and 11 months in prison on Wednesday for using government contractors to renovate a vacation property.

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced in a letter from prison Tuesday that he would not be running in October’s presidential race, shortly before the deadline to sign up for the presidential ballot and months after his conviction on corruption charges disqualified him from running in the election.

An appellate judge in Brazil scrambled Sunday to overturn a surprise decision by a lower-level weekend duty judge to free former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a socialist serving a 12-year prison sentence for spearheading a million-dollar corruption scheme.

Protesters in Brazil have organized street manifestations on Tuesday in anticipation of a final appellate decision on whether former president – and current presidential frontrunner – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will have to begin to serve his 12-year prison sentence immediately, effectively cutting off his presidential campaign.

Brazilian firm Datafolha found in a poll released Thursday that former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva remains the frontrunner in the 2018 presidential election, despite the fact that over half of Brazilians believe he should be barred from running over his 12-year prison sentence on corruption charges.

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.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has authorized prosecutors to investigate newly-minted president Michel Temer, after a key witness in the sprawling Petrobras corruption trial claimed that Temer had requested illegal funds to help a colleague’s political campaign.

As Rio de Janeiro rings in its tenure as host city to the Summer Olympics with street violence, deadly pollution, jihadist threats, incomplete facilities, and a plague, many around the world are wondering: who thought the embattled Brazilian city would

Thousands of leftist supporters of ousted former President Dilma Rousseff gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday. They want interim President Michel Temer to step down, citing the new government’s call to review the expansive social programs put in place during Rousseff’s tenure.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will not be presiding over this year’s Summer Olympics. The nation’s Senate has voted to impeach her, and as of Thursday morning, she is no longer in power, replaced by Vice President Michel Temer.