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...Examples include former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, impeached in 2016, Morales, who resigned after massive street protests in 2019 and Argentina’s vice-president and former president Cristina Fernández...
...The FT reported that Dilma Rousseff, then president of Brazil, said the blocking of Morales’ flight was a violation of international law and civilised norms between nations, and demanded “an immediate explanation...
...Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil all drained government coffers to pursue their political dreams. All ended in economic or political ruin....
...Many of the leftwing leaders ended their terms in ignominy, impeached for budget mismanagement like Ms Rousseff, or chased out of office for election fraud, like Bolivian president Evo Morales....
...The protests in Bolivia, which erupted after a widely criticised election count showed President Evo Morales had defeated Carlos Mesa by a wide enough margin to secure a fourth term without a run-off vote...
...Introduced in 2013 under the leftist government of former president Dilma Rousseff, the programme called Mais Médicos, or More Doctors, provided healthcare professionals to far-flung, impoverished communities...
...But sport impacts national morale. If it did not, no one would bother with the beautiful game....
...Cancer did for Hugo Chávez, elections for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina, impeachment for Dilma Rousseff in Brazil....
...“The public security sector is severely, chronically underfunded, it suffers from some weak leadership and the police has extraordinary low morale right now,” says Robert Muggah, research director of the...
...Another critic who may be gloating from the sidelines in tudo certo mood is Evo Morales....
...Of the so-called “pink tide” of leftwing leaders that washed over South America this century, Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and Cristina Fernández in Argentina have been respectively expelled and voted out of...
...With the impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff looking increasingly likely, a lot is being written about what it means for her own country....
...“This would be as big as the Petrobras corruption scandal in Brazil”, which has President Dilma Rousseff against the ropes....
...Meanwhile, Brazil’s controversial impeachment process has seen Dilma Rousseff replaced as president by Michel Temer while she faces trial....
...on scrapping term limits for Evo Morales....
...He “had to let the public know the [dire] state of affairs he inherited,” Joaquín Morales Solá, a leading columnist, wrote in La Nación newspaper....
...Mr Morales has made anti-neoliberalism a central tenet of his electoral appeal....
...Brazil is on the brink of a constitutional crisis after a judge blocked President Dilma Rousseff’s appointment of her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to her cabinet, prompting clashes in Congress...
...But on Tuesday the presidential palace said she would be going to the inauguration ceremony of Bolivia’s leftist leader Evo Morales, instead. “What an embarrassment!”...
...Evo Morales of Bolivia called it Mr Obama’s “biggest error against Latin America”, while Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff said sternly: “We reject the adoption of sanctions.”...
...Propounding sensible policies and polling strongly, Aécio Neves will face off next month against Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s formidable incumbent. He may yet prevail....
...Evo Morales, Bolivia’s leftist leader, last week claimed the fall in global oil prices was a US-led conspiracy to destabilise Venezuela....
...(An aside:Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff and Bolivia’s Evo Morales, who are also aiming for re-election this year, will be relieved.)...
...The 74-year-old former oncologist is the latest in a string of leaders of the Latin American left to be re-elected over the past year, most recently Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, but also Evo Morales in Bolivia...
...Incumbent president Dilma Rousseff, questioned whether she would assist her predecessor and mentor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should he stand in 2018, said she “certainly would”....
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