Brazilian Senate Foreign Relations Committee

FILE PHOTO: Caracas Mayor Ledezma talks during a hearing at... FILE PHOTO: Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma talks during a hearing at the Brazilian Senate Foreign Relations Commission at the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil October 27, 2009. REUTERS/Roberto Jayme/File Photo | ROBERTO ...

Two Venezuelan opposition leaders have been taken from their homes, family members have said. Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma were serving house arrest when they were taken, family members said on Twitter. The wife of Mr Lopez and the daughter of Mr Ledezma said they were holding ...

Nunes, as president of the Brazilian Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, has repeatedly advocated that Brazil once again move closer to an alliance with the US and UK. Madeline Albright, a Director of the leading US think-tank, Council on Foreign Relations, is also chair of the prime US Government ...

Nunes returned the favor this week by leading an effort (he is chair of the Brazilian Senate Foreign Relations Committee) to suspend Venezuela from Mercosur, the South American trade bloc. There is a lot at stake here for the major U.S. foreign policy institutions, which include the 17 intelligence agencies, State Department ...

Senator Aloysio Nunes, chairman of the Brazilian Senate Foreign Relations Committee and member of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), which is neither socialist nor democratic, traveled to Washington on the orders of the Brazilian Vice President Michael Temer of the right-wing Brazilian ...

As president of the Brazilian Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Nunes has repeatedly advocated that Brazil once again move closer to an alliance with the U.S. and U.K. And — it almost goes without saying — Nunes has been heavily implicated in corruption allegations; in September, a judge ordered ...

Glenn Greenwald testified before a Brazilian Senate foreign relations committee on Tuesday. The Brazil-based American reporter – who was approached by Snowden while the whistleblower still worked as a contractor for the NSA - has published details of US electronic surveillance programs taking place ...