Valério Implicates Lula in the Mensalao
As the mensalão moves this week into its most politically significant phase, Marcos Valério has claimed the scheme reached the...
September 18, 2012Topic
Lula
Mensalão Case Condemns 3 More: Daily
A majority in the Supreme Court has found three of the four mensalão defendants connected to the Banco Rural guilty...
September 7, 2012
Mensalão Trial Votes on 4 Defendants: Daily
It is expected that the first verdicts of the mensalão will be announced Monday afternoon, August 20th, when the case...
August 20, 2012
Mensalão Corruption Trial Begins in Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court began to hear the huge cash-for-votes corruption case that threatens to tarnish former President Lula’s and Workers’...
August 7, 2012
Brazil 2012 Municipal Election Campaigns
The 2012 Brazilian municipal elections will not take place until October but this year’s elections have already taken on national...
July 17, 2012
Lula Over Rousseff in 2014 Survey: Daily
Despite Rousseff’s record-breaking approval rating of 64 percent after fifteen months in office, polls indicate Lula remains the Brazilian favorite...
April 22, 2012
President Rousseff’s 2012 Foreign Affairs
President Rousseff has made fewer official overseas trips in her first year in office than her predecessor, Lula, did in...
January 3, 2012
Brazil Joins CELAC, a Non-US LatAm Bloc
Brazil has become a member of a new political bloc that unites 33 countries from across Latin America, but significantly...
December 6, 2011
Lula Diagnosed with Throat Cancer: Daily
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been diagnosed with throat cancer, according to a statement by São Paulo’s...
October 30, 2011