Tag: Lula
Meet President Hopeful Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilians Might Soon Have Their Own Trump
The Brazilian body politic is bruised and battered. President Michel Temer is crippled from ...
2018, a Year of Elections and Populism in Brazil and Latin America
And the winner is… Nicolas Maduro. At the end of 2017, the president of ...
Petition by Intellectuals in Brazil Says Presidential Elections Without Lula Would Be Fraud
“Election without Lula is fraud” is the manifesto being promoted by intellectuals and artists ...
Marina Silva Announces She’s Running for the Fourth Time for President of Brazil
Marina Silva, Brazil’s third most popular candidate in the past three presidential elections, has ...
World Social Forum: Brazil Wishes to Show Again that Another World Is Possible
It was in 2001. Almost a generation ago now! The first World Social Forum ...
Brazilians Can’t Decide: Half Want Lula as President and the Other Half Want Him in Jail
Half of Brazilians want former President Lula da Silva to win next year’s election ...
If He Doesn’t Go to Jail and People Don’t Change Their Mind, Lula Will Be Brazil’s Next President
Despite being sentenced to nine years and six months over alleged corruption charges in ...
Once Again Defiant Lula Calls Judge Biased and Says Charges Against Him Are a Witch Hunt
Former President Lula da Silva told a Brazilian court on Wednesday that the corruption ...
Forget the American Dream. What Brazil Needs Is a Parliamentary Monarchy
I am a Canadian by birth. My wife is Brazilian. Naturally we try to ...
Brazil’s Prosecutor-general Says Only a New Culture Can End the Country’s Endemic Corruption
Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot released a statement saying that the unprecedented quality and quantity ...