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...Bolsonaro’s main rival and frontrunner, former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has cautioned prospective buyers against participating in the Eletrobras sale, sparking fears the privatisation...
...the military dictatorship, director Aroaldo Oliveira da Silva says booming agriculture by itself will not be sufficient to lift society....
...The decision comes as a blow to Brazil’s business-friendly PSDB party and counters criticism from the left that the probe has unfairly targeted ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a working-class icon...
...Mr Lula da Silva, who denies the charges, is appealing against the conviction....
...Mr Lula da Silva’s lawyers and the PT have slammed the verdict as a political smear campaign to prevent the former president from running in next year’s elections....
...This past week he indicted former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and for the first time his successor Dilma Rousseff and senior ministers and officials of their leftist Workers’ party for running a...
...Mr Lula da Silva, a former metal worker union leader, is also named in the new evidence as having accepted bribes....
...Mr Lula da Silva and Ms Rousseff will face Sérgio Moro, the tough judge in the southern city of Curitiba who has led the Car Wash court hearings....
...Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president, for instance, was allegedly called simply “amigo”. Another ex-senator with Mr Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party was known as “Ferrari”....
...Possible candidates include Nelson Jobim, a former defence minister under Ms Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seen by some as a candidate who could muster support from the left and...
...“In Brazil, there is a lack of new national leaders with the charisma he [Mr Lula da Silva] has and the visibility he has and that’s what gives him a little bit of hope,” said João Augusto de Castro Neves...
...Workers of General Motors march against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and oppositions as they carry inflatable dolls depicting Rousseff and opposition senator...
...Analysts argue, however, that unlike Mr Lula da Silva, Ms Rousseff is a poor public speaker and her attempt at a comeback will prove difficult....
...The move by the court against Mr Cunha comes as the attorney-general this week filed petitions to investigate a range of politicians, including Ms Rousseff, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and...
...Mr Lula da Silva is accused of concealing assets under the names of a friendly construction company and family friends....
...During the final years of Mr Lula da Silva’s second government, the pedaladas did increase as he confronted the global financial crisis and inflated spending to get Ms Rousseff elected....
...Mr Lula da Silva has denied any wrongdoing and OAS has declined to comment....
...Indeed, irony of ironies, one of the reasons given in Mr Jucá’s recorded conversation for supposedly seeking Ms Rousseff’s impeachment was to protect Mr Lula da Silva himself....
...João Augusto de Castro Neves of Eurasia Group agreed that fears over a sudden shift to the left were unfounded, given Mr Lula da Silva’s desire to build bridges with the PT’s coalition partner, the PMDB,...
...Mr Lula da Silva has ridiculed such claims....
...The PT also has few alternative candidates to Mr Lula da Silva, a situation not helped by a collapse in the popularity of Ms Rousseff. “The PT was a party built to put Lula in power,” said Mr Neves....
...Mr Lula da Silva is facing arrest over charges of money laundering in connection to a beachside apartment at the centre of the corruption scandal — allegations he denies....
...Neither Mr Lula da Silva or Ms Rousseff are expected to give up easily. After his detention, Mr Lula da Silva called for his supporters to take to the streets....
...Mr Lula da Silva, the party’s founder, was credited with reducing inequality in Brazil when he took office in 2003....
...Brazil’s currency, stocks and bonds all plummeted on Tuesday on reports that former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was about to be made a minister by Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s beleaguered president....
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