Tag: judiciary

Lula gives speech at For Democracy and More Rights in Ceará state - Photo: Ricardo Stuckert

Jail or Presidency? Brazil Court Decides the Future of Ex-president Lula

January 24 will be a stress test for Brazilian democracy. That is when a ...

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Astrid Prange
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Lula’s Conviction Is a Testament to How Far Brazil Has Come as a Democracy

After Dilma Rousseff was ousted as president in August 2016, Brazil’s pro-impeachment camp confidently ...

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Felipe Krause
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The Surreal Reality of Being a Journalist in Brazil, Where Judges Intimidate the Press

Brazilian journalist Erik Silva never imagined that printing information from a municipal government website ...

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Andrew Downie

Brazilian Judiciary Runs Amok in Election Campaign

Reporters Without Borders today condemned measures taken by courts in Brazilian capital BrasÀ­lia and ...

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Has the Brazilian Judiciary Become a Mafia?

The Brazilian judiciary has historically been so rife with corruption and nepotism that one ...

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Augusto Zimmermann

Brazil’s Lula Pushing for a Council to Judge the Judges

Judges in Brazil acquired from the 1988 Constitution an impressive degree of administrative, financial, ...

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Augusto Zimmermann