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by Yanina Olivera © Agence France-Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian President Michel Temer and US Vice President Mike Pence discussed Tuesday the fate of Brazilian children stranded at America’s southern border and Venezuela’s deepening crisis. “I pointed out that our government is ready to help transport Brazilian children back to Brazil, if that is the wish of their families, the authorities of both countries will continue to be in touch with this issue,” Temer […]
by Sebastian Smith and Carola Sole Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s deeply unpopular President Michel Temer insisted Monday that a truck strike crippling the country will end within hours, even as drivers paralyzed fuel, goods and food deliveries. Temer said he had “absolute conviction that between today and tomorrow” the crisis, which stretched into its eighth day, would finally end. In a tweet, Temer gave a slightly longer horizon of […]
by Louis Genot Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil faced serious supply disruptions on the seventh day of a truckers’ strike Sunday, although the government said the country was “on a path to normalization.” Brazilian authorities have deployed the military to clear barricades erected by strikers and have been escorting fuel trucks since Friday to maintain access to refineries. But federal transportation police reported that as of Saturday night, nearly 600 […]
by Damian Wroclavsky with Sebastian Smith in Rio de Janeiro © Agence France-Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Tensions ran high Tuesday in Brazil ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on whether former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should start a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, potentially upending this year’s presidential election. The court showdown scheduled for Wednesday has become a focal point for Brazil’s deeply divided electorate ahead of the October polls, in which Lula […]
by Carola Sole with Sebastian Smith in Rio de Janeiro Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Judges on Brazil’s electoral court were expected to start voting Wednesday in a case that could topple scandal-tainted President Michel Temer. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is examining whether the 2014 reelection of President Dilma Rousseff and her then-vice president Temer should be invalidated because of corrupt campaign funding. There was no indication in the opening session late Tuesday as […]
by Carola Sole / Damian Wroclavsky Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian soldiers were deployed Wednesday to defend government buildings in the capital Brasilia after protesters demanding the exit of President Michel Temer smashed their way into ministries and fought with riot police. “At this moment, federal troops are already here in (the foreign ministry),” Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said in a brief televised statement. “And next there are troops arriving to secure all the […]
by Johannes MYBURGH / Carola SOLÉ Agence France-Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil’s embattled President Michel Temer won a small reprieve Sunday when a key coalition partner delayed a decision on whether to abandon him over an explosive corruption scandal. Nationwide street protests called by leftist groups also had only a modest impact, with no more than a few hundred people in each major city, further easing the sense of intense crisis for the center-right […]
SAO PAOLO, Brazil (Reuters) — Thousands took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday (November 27) to protest against a proposed constitutional amendment which would set caps on public spending over the next 20 years. Demonstrators also chanted slogans against President Michel Temer as they marched through Sao Paulo’s central Paulista Avenue. The proposal, which passed the lower house of Congress as PEC 241 in October and now sits before the Senate as […]
BRASILIA, BRAZIL (AFP) – by Damian WROCLAVSKY Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday debated before voting on whether to send suspended president Dilma Rousseff to an impeachment trial, bringing the Olympic host country’s political crisis to a climax. At the start of the marathon session, Supreme Court President Ricardo Lewandowski reminded senators that they were about to “exercise one of the most serious tasks under the constitution.” The Senate speaker, Renan Calheiros, also underlined the seriousness of […]
