presidents of Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's President Michel Temer Friday said closing the northern border with Venezuela is unthinkable. Brazil's northern Roraima state filed a suit in the Supreme Court earlier in the day asking to temporarily close the border with Venezuela to prevent Venezuelan ...

New suspicions involving friends and family of president Michel Temer have led the president to devise, on Thursday (12), a plan to avoid a new political crisis. He met with ministers, government leaders and his team of lawyers in order to determine political and legal strategies. According to their plan, as of ...

Last year he was twice charged with corruption, becoming the first Brazilian president to face criminal prosecution while still in office. For now, at least, he remains shielded by presidential immunity. Go back a little further, to 1992, and you have president Fernando Collor de Mello. He was impeached after ...

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tells supporters he will turn himself in, defends innocence. By The Associated Press. SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil — Apr 7, 2018, 12:06 PM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tells supporters he will turn ...

Lula da Silva was found guilty in August and sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting bribes worth around a million dollars. In January, an appeals court unanimously upheld his conviction and increased the prison sentence to 12 years. His lawyers had argued their client had a constitutional right to ...

Arrest Warrant Issued for Former Brazilian President 'Lula'. Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been given until Friday afternoon to present himself to federal police in the southern city of Curitiba. April 5, 2018, at 9:24 p.m.. April 5, 2018, at 9:24 p.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Arrest Warrant Issued for Former ...

Dilma Rousseff, an economist who served as president of Brazil from 2010 to 2016, and was the first woman to serve in that role, will speak at UC Berkeley on April 16 on the challenges for democracy in her country. Her visit is being organized by Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS).

RIO DE JANEIRO — Michel Temer, the deeply unpopular president of Brazil, signaled that he intends to seek a full term in October's election, telling a newsmagazine in an interview published this weekend that “it would be cowardly not to be a candidate.” Mr. Temer took office in mid-2016 after helping lead ...

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) visits the Instituto Federal Farroupilha in Rio Grande do Sul. | Photo: @LulapeloBrasil ... "I've never seen this type of fascist behavior as I'm seeing here," said former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The campaign caravan of former ...

Brazil's top court has narrowly decided that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will not have to go to prison on a corruption conviction until he exhausts all possible appeals. The court said it would look agian at Lula's case in its next session on April the fourth and until then the left-leaning leader ...

French farmers drive their tractors on the A7 highway to protest changes in underprivileged farm area's 4 French farmers drive their tractors on the A7 highway to protest changes in underprivileged farm area's mapping and against Mercosur talks, in PIerre-Benite near Lyon, France, February 21, 2018.

President of Brazil Michel Temer has reportedly stated that Mercosur and the European Union are “a step away” from signing a free trade agreement, according to Reuters. Temer is believed to have made the comments yesterday (Wednesday, March 21) during an economic council meeting in Brasilia – a ...

Access to drinking water and basic sanitation is a right and one of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. It is a condition for human life. However, up to two billion people on the planet do not have access to a safe source of water at home, and up to 2.3 billion people suffer from lack of ...

21 March 2018 - The Office of the President of Brazil presented the Oswaldo Cruz Gold Medal of Merit to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. Dr Tedros received the medal during a meeting with Brazil's president, Michel Temer, and the country's Minister of Health, Ricardo Barros. The medal, honoring ...