Tag: corruption
One Third of Brazil’s House Members Have Been Condemned by Justice for 14 Different Crimes
The recently approved Transparency Law in Brazil has exposed that at least a third ...
Brazil’s Left Parties Are Old and Bureaucratized, Warns MST’s Leader
“It is time for the government to ally with the people or pay the ...
The Speech the President of Brazil Should Have Made
“Young people of Brazil, young men and women: “We were wrong. Forgetting your dreams, ...
Mass Protests Awaken Brazil’s Political Consciousness
In what has been deemed Brazil’s largest political mobilization in over two decades, protesters ...
Brazilians Don’t Want Solidarity from their Rulers. They Want Action
Salvador da Bahia. The city is burning. Campo Grande, Rótula do Abacaxi, Iguatemi. Everywhere ...
Brazil Is No Paradise. The Fantasy Is Over.
It was, is, a political earthquake. Suddenly, on 17 June 2013, more than 150,000 ...
Brazil’s Supreme Follows the Money and Condemns Lula’s Top Aide for Corruption
Brazil’s Supreme Court continued the trial of Penal Case 470, the mensalão, second part ...
Found Guilty of Corruption by Supreme, Brazil Congressman Vows to Appeal to OAS Court
Up to yesterday, the 36 defendants in Brazil’s Penal Case 470, known as the ...
The Case of Brazil’s Supreme Against PT Leaders Behind Mensalão to Start October 1st
On Wednesday, September 12,, the justice-rapporteur in Penal Case 470, known as the mensalão, ...
Former Speaker of the House Found Guilty in Brazil’s Mensalão Scandal
Ten of the Brazilian Supreme Court justices have now voted on the first part ...