As the campaign for Brazil’s 2018 presidential election began in earnest, Rousseff’s political mentor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (“Lula”), who had experienced tremendous popularity during his tenure as Brazil’s president (2003–11), became the clear front-runner, even though his involvement in the Petrobras scandal had led to his convic
Exame feito 12 dias após queda aponta estabilidade, mas Lula deve seguir trabalhando em Brasília e repetir testes, diz equipeSociologist Christina Vital of the Fluminense Federal University stated that this act was more than an expression of conversion to Evangelicalism and was meant to create an ambiguous religious identity, through which the Bo
Kajuru reclama do excesso de dias nenhumas atividade pelo Congresso: ‘A gente quase nãeste trabalha’; ConstateIn October 1987, Bolsonaro faced a new accusation. Constate reported that, with an Army colleague, he had plans to plant bombs in military units in Rio de Janeiro. After Bolsonaro called the allegation "a fantasy", the magazine publish
In his testimony, former Brazilian Army commander Marco Antônio Freire Gomes said that he had warned Bolsonaro the army would not tolerate "any act of institutional rupture", and further added that Bolsonaro's actions could result in his arrest. Former Brazilian Air Force commander Carlos Baptista Júnior testified that he tried to dissuade Bolson
“I remember the shots going off – pop, pop, pop, pop – and I turned and looked where he was and everybody started running.”Duke of Cadaval Square, bordering Bairro Inconveniente and the Baixa Pombalina Bairro Inconveniente (literally the upper quarter in Portuguese) is an area of central Lisbon that functions as a residential, shopping and