Tag: House speaker
Brazil’s House Speaker Won’t Fall Without Dragging His Colleagues with Him
On June 14, Brazil’s congressional ethics committee voted to remove Deputy Eduardo Cunha from ...
A Communist Is Third in Line to Brazil’s Presidency
A close ally of Brazilian president Lula da Silva, communist Aldo Rebelo from the ...
Brazil’s Lula in Rare Victory Makes the Speaker of the House
The victory by the government’s candidate for the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, ...
Brazil’s Speaker of the House Bribery Case Goes to the Supreme
Brazil’s Federal Police commissioner Sérgio Menezes affirmed that there is already sufficient evidence that ...
Cornered, Brazil’s House Speaker Goes on the Attack
In a news conference Sunday, September 11, Brazil’s Speaker of the House (president of ...
Second in Line of Presidential Succession in Brazil Guilty of Extortion
The owner of the Fiorella, a restaurant and snack bar chain, Sebastião Augusto Buani, ...
Brazil’s House Speaker Wasn’t Bribed Says Entrepreneur
After testifying before the members of the investigatory commission installed in the Brazilian Chamber ...
Brazil’s House Speaker Rebuts Charges of Corruption and Counterattacks
The president of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, Severino Cavalcanti (PP party from Pernambuco state), ...