PT Warns of a Mensalão Smoke Screen
PT President Rui Falcão has warned against the Mensalão scandal against his party for political ends in the second round...
October 16, 2012Topic
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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, 2012
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
A Simple Curmudgeonly Philippic
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Whatever happened to the separation of powers? Not only does the...
July 19, 2011
The Curmudgeon on The Political Thicket
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mr. Justice Frankfurter, long ago, exhorted his colleagues on the U.S....
January 4, 2011