Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be imprisoned while he appeals his corruption conviction, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled. He is facing 12 years in jail on charges...
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal....
Brazil's President Michel Temer has said he will ask the Supreme Court to suspend an investigation against him, because vital evidence has been "manipulated". In a defiant speech, Mr Temer said the...
Brazilian President Michel Temer has taken millions of dollars in bribes since 2010, according to testimony released by the Supreme Court. The plea-bargain testimony came from bosses of a giant...
The former Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has given evidence before the country's top anti-corruption judge. He was closely questioned for five hours by Judge Sergio Moro. Lula has...
President or prisoner? Many Brazilians think one of those two roads lies ahead for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is due in court on Wednesday on corruption charges. Lula is facing...
A judge has sentenced the former speaker of the lower house of the Brazilian Congress, Eduardo Cunha, to 15 years and four months in prison. Cunha was found guilty of corruption, money laundering and...
Abstract The Brazilian ‘locomotive’ has stopped. Oil production has been one of crucial drives in fostering not only economic but social growth in Brazil, but now sees the country gripped by...
The 2016 presidential campaign confirms what Marx wrote : “all the events and personalities of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice… the first time as tragedy, the second as...
After a lengthy process that took nine months, Brazil impeached its first female president, Dilma Rousseff. The impeachment proceedings, launched owing to accusations of "fiscal peddling", followed...
Marx wrote : “all the events and personalities of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice… the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” Karl, not Groucho, Marx. We...
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ordered one of the country's most senior politicians, Renan Calheiros, to stand down as president of the Senate. Judge Marco Aurelio Mello issued an injunction...
President-elect Donald Trump stepped up his search on Monday for a new U. S. secretary of state, with the focus on David Petraeus, a former U.S. military commander in Iraq whose mishandling of...
Brazil's President Michel Temer has said he will block attempts to approve controversial legislation giving amnesty to politicians who received illegal donations for their campaigns. Brazilians have...
Dozens of protesters demanding a military coup have forced their way into Brazil’s lower chamber of Congress in the capital, Brasilia. At least 40 demonstrators scuffled with guards and took over...
Donald Trump, the President-elect of the United States, has the ideals, magnanimity and empathy of African political icon, Nelson Mandela, to learn from as he prepares to take charge at the White...
Former Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Palocci has been arrested in connection with a long-running inquiry into corruption at oil giant Petrobras. Prosecutors said he had maintained a "criminal...
Rahim Ayew has expressed delight with the exploits of his two brothers Andre and Jordan Ayew. Andre has been out for a couple of months but all the same, he is working hard to get back, Jordan is...
Federal prosecutors in Brazil have asked a judge to file corruption charges against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The prosecutors had been investigating whether Lula and his wife failed...
Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has left her official residence in the capital Brasilia for the last time following her impeachment and removal from office. Supporters and colleagues...
