Tag: senate

Brazil Transfers Power from a Scandal-Plagued Party to Another No Less Corrupt

Brazil’s Congress has installed Michel Temer as the country’s new president. He had served ...

Senate Has Already Decided Brazil President’s Fate. The Vote Will Be Cast Today

For the last time on Tuesday, the Brazilian Senate heard the arguments of the ...

Charges of Corruption and Money Laundering Are Fiction, Says Brazil Lula’s Lawyer

Cristiano Zanin Martins, lawyer for Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and ...

Brazil’s President Knows She Lost. And Already Started Moving Out of Brasília

The Brazilian Senate has opened the impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff hear ...

Brazil President Says She’s Victim of a Coup by Sore Losers

Talking to a packed theater at the Bank Workers’ Union of Brasília, Brazil’s suspended ...

Let’s Resist Together, Tells Brazil President on the Eve of Her Impeachment Trial

With a few hours left until her impeachment trial begins in the Brazilian Senate ...

Call It Coup or Not, Stage Is Set for Brazil President’s Ouster

With the Rio Olympics over, Brazil’s attention returns to its long-running political drama as ...

Brazil Congress Plot to Pardon Those Involved in the Petrobras Corruption Case

Brazilian financial newspaper Valor Econômico revealed details of an alleged corruption amnesty currently being ...

Brazil Senate Sets Date for President’s Impeachment. Rousseff Proposes National Referendum

Brazil’s Senate President Renan Calheiros said that he will meet with party leaders next ...