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...She said the contenders included finance minister Fernando Medina; Mariana Vieira da Silva, number two in the Costa government; Pedro Nuno Santos, a former infrastructure minister; and José Luís Carneiro...
...“Even if Maduro were to get on a plane and take 40 of his worst guys with him, the problems in Venezuela are almost unmanageable,” said Pedro Burelli, a former board member of state oil company PDVSA....
...On January 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will join one of the world’s most demanding clubs....
...“One of the outstanding outcomes of 2020 was that our NHS showed it was capable of meeting the challenge of coronavirus,” said Augusto Santos Silva, foreign minister....
...Born in Santos, Mr Leal, 69, studied business administration at the University of São Paulo and is described by once acquaintance as “urbane with intensity”....
...The Odebrecht scandal 3: Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned as president in March over payments his bank received from Odebrecht while he was a government minister....
...Landlocked behind steep mountains, São Paulo’s nearest beaches are in Santos, a port town about 80km from the megapolis....
...A new contract with Espírito Santo state will extend surveillance to 65 more cities than the 12 monitored at present....
...“The election will be decided by around 400,000 undecided voters in the middle,” said Nuno Garoupa, president of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation think-tank....
...“This election is the last chance for mainstream parties to show that they can deliver on the expectations they have created,” said Pedro Adão e Silva, a Lisbon politics professor....
...Eight other formal suspects are under investigation in the case, including Armando Vara, a former Socialist government minister, Carlos Santos Silva, a businessman and childhood friend of Mr Sócrates, and...
...Slideshow photographs: Hufton & Crow; Inhouse Fotografi; Luís Silva Campos; Bruno Barbosa...
...João Pedro said. “It still makes me angry.” Glauco’s murder is filled with ironies....
...“To the extent that an egregious example of bad management practices like the Espírito Santo group is gone, I think we are left with a healthier economy,” says Pedro Santa-Clara, a professor of finance at...
...Mr Cavaco Silva had been expected to endorse a cabinet reshuffle proposed by Pedro Passos Coelho, prime minister, in a bid to avert a snap election and heal a rift between the two coalition parties that...
...Mr Portas announced his resignation earlier on Tuesday shortly before President Aníbal Cavaco Silva swore in a finance minister to replace Mr Gaspar....
...A bid by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva to persuade the government parties to agree on a “national salvation” pact with opposition Socialists also failed....
...Pedro Passos Coelho, the prime minister, is struggling to hold his coalition together after the resignation of two high-profile ministers in less than 24 hours....
...it has been asked to scrutinise by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva....
...Mr Cavaco Silva surprised Portugal and European policy makers by rejecting a government reshuffle proposed by Pedro Passos Coelho, prime minister, as a means of averting a snap general election and healing...
...Pedro Santos Guerreiro, editor of the Jornal de Negócios, a business daily, said it was difficult to understand why the government had approved “high risk” budget measures likely to be ruled unconstitutional...
...For Pedro Galdi, an analyst at SLW Corretora in São Paulo, Mr Lula da Silva’s recent negotiation efforts in Mendoza go no further than diplomatic posturing....
...Portugal’s President Aníbal Cavaco Silva said the government maintained the necessary support to “fulfill its democratic mandate”....
...“I cannot see how we are going to survive for the next three months without outside financial assistance,” said José da Silva Lopes, an economist....
...João Zorro, head of investment at Espírito Santo Activos Financeiros, said the IGCP was issuing short-term debt to avoid paying higher yields on longer maturities....
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