Brazil’s Corruption Crackdown Crumbles: The New Legal Landscape
(Analysis) Brazil's judicial system is currently undergoing a significant and dramatic transformation process. Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato), once a...
May 26, 2024Topic
Justice Edson Fachin
Opinion: Is Brazil’s growing private weapons arsenal a problem during the election?
A month later, he addressed women to tell them that "traveling alone out there, I believe that a gun would...
September 22, 2022
Brazil’s Bolsonaro speaks to ambassadors, reaping outrage, contempt and outcry
The unconventional, sitting conservative president Jair Bolsonaro has invited ambassadors and talked to them directly about the problem
July 20, 2022
STF decision orders São Paulo state to supply cannabidiol medication to patients
The Federal Supreme Court (STF) has ruled that it is the State's duty to supply drugs that, although not registered...
June 23, 2021
Lula willing to run against Bolsonaro in 2022 presidential election
In statements made last night to Argentine radio station C5N and when asked about the possibility of running for new...
April 16, 2021
Brazil’s Supreme Court upholds annulment of prison sentences against Lula
The Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday ratified the decision adopted by one of its judges, who annulled the sentences handed...
April 15, 2021
Opinion: Fachin’s Gambit – How a judge turned the Lava-Jato legal scene upside down
The most talked-about television show of the late pandemic is “The Queen’s Gambit”. Decades ago, William Faulkner published “Knight’s Gambit”....
March 9, 2021
Lula’s comeback adds to long list of Brazil investor worries
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was thrust back into Brazil’s political scene after a Federal Supreme Court (STF) justice tossed...
March 9, 2021
Brazil Supreme Court Justice overturns Lula’s convictions on jurisdictional grounds
Brazil Supreme Court Justice overturns Lula's. Expert brazil supreme court analysis and reporting from The Rio Times. Latest brazil supreme...
March 8, 2021