Brazil’s Interim Government Replaces Petrobras President
The new interim government is replacing Aldemir Bendine with former Energy Minister, Pedro Parente, as the head the country’s state-run...
May 20, 2016Topic
Lava Jato
Brazil’s Chamber Speaker is Suspended From Congress
Chamber of Deputies Speaker, Eduardo Cunha, is accused of receiving bribes in the mega-corruption scandal known as Operação Lava Jato...
May 5, 2016
Editorial: Brazil, a Modern Day Tragedy or Comedy?
Editorial, by Stone Korshak RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Watching Brazil in the last year reminds me of the slow,...
April 28, 2016
Supreme Court in Brazil Opens More Inquiries Against Cunha
Supreme Court in Brazil Opens More Inquiries Against. Expert brazil supreme court analysis and reporting from The Rio Times.
April 26, 2016
President Rousseff Aims at Cunha and Temer in Brazil
Several days after Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted to authorize the advancement of impeachment proceedings against her, President Dilma Rousseff...
April 20, 2016
Brazil’s Lava Jato Focuses on Odebrecht in Its 26th Phase
The company's former CEO, Marcelo Odebrecht was arrested in June of 2015, accused of bribing ex-Petrobras directors for contracts.
March 23, 2016
Brazil’s Petrobras Registers Highest Net Loss in History
Due to declining international oil prices and the depreciation of the Brazilian currency Petrobras' net loss for 2015 was R$34.8...
March 22, 2016
Lava Jato Case in Brazil Retrieves Billions in First Two Years
The largest corruption scandal Brazil has ever seen has rendered 93 convictions and returned to the government more than R$2.9...
March 17, 2016
Protests For and Against Brazil’s Lula Continue Through Weekend
Brazilian federal prosecutors saying that they had ‘very strong’ evidence that Lula had knowledge and even profited from the Lava...
March 7, 2016