Tag: petrobras

Until Recently Brazil’s Most Powerful Politician, Ex House Speaker Is Now a Jailbird

Impeached Deputy Eduardo Cunha was arrested this Wednesday, October 19, in Brazilian capital Brasilia, ...

IMF Is Bullish on Brazil Again

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is projecting that Brazil will surpass Italy next year ...

Brazilian Senator and Her Husband, Both Rousseff’s Ministers, Charged with Corruption

Brazilian Senator Gleisi Hoffmann and her husband, Paulo Bernardo Silva, who both served in ...

Brazil’s Petrobras Corruption Scandal Gets Lula’s Finance Minister Arrested

Brazilian police arrested Guido Mantega, a former finance minister under presidents Luiz Inácio Lula ...

Oil Multinationals Might Soon Have a Bigger Piece of Brazil’s Offshore Pie

Brazil’s House of Representatives is ready to vote on whether to privatize the country’s ...

Brazil’s Latest Fraud Case Involves US$ 2.5 billion and World’s Largest Beef Exporter

Brazilian police launched the so-called Greenfield Operation, an investigation of fraud at state-run companies’ ...

Brazil Congress Plot to Pardon Those Involved in the Petrobras Corruption Case

Brazilian financial newspaper Valor Econômico revealed details of an alleged corruption amnesty currently being ...

Navigating the Labyrinth of Brazil’s Petrobras Scandal

Since March 2014, Brazil has been shaken by the revelations from Operation Lava Jato ...

Brazil’s Lula Detention Just Business As Usual in a Land of Corrupts

Brazilians have joked that they’re lucky they don’t have to deal with natural disasters ...

Despite Mounting Evidence of Corruption Brazil’s House Speaker Says He Won’t Quit

Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha declared earlier this week he is fully entitled to ...