Markets in Brazil React Favorably to Lula Conviction
The U.S. dollar plummeted against the Brazilian real in the foreign exchange market and the São Paulo Stock Exchange skyrocketed...
July 13, 2017Topic
Lula
Opinion: Brazil’s Other “Criminal Masterminds”
Opinion by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Last September, a federal prosecutor accused former President Lula of being...
June 30, 2017 Opinion: Brazil’s Shameless Politicians
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Last week and this have proven beyond any doubt that Brazilian...
June 28, 2017
Opinion: What Anti-Temer Protests Show of Brazilians
Opinion by Jeb Blount - I’ve rarely been as depressed about Brazil’s future as I was watching the giant Brazil-wide...
May 31, 2017 Opinion: Brazil’s “Criminal Mastermind”, an Update
Opinion by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Last September, a federal prosecutor accused former President Lula of being...
May 12, 2017
Brazil’s Lula Denies Wrongdoing in Corruption Scheme Testimony
The former president is accused of having received R$ 3.7 million worth in bribes from OAS contractor via renovations of...
May 11, 2017 Opinion: Brazil as a “Serious Country”
Opinion by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In a remark erroneously attributed to former French President Charles de...
April 17, 2017
Courts to Investigate Three Former Presidents in Brazil
Ex-Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff were named by Odebrecht executives in Lava Jato...
April 12, 2017
Odebrecht’s Secret Testimony Leaks to Media in Brazil
The executive told officials that his company had given money to the Lula Institute, to the Rousseff presidential campaign, and...
April 11, 2017