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...Last year leftwing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made infrastructure a key area for spending, unveiling a four-year $76bn public works programme....
...Campaigners have also criticised Lula’s recent appointment of Ricardo Lewandowski as justice minister....
...Photography and additional reporting by Ricardo Lisboa...
...Chief executive officer and founder Ricardo Gabriel Da Silva says plant-based restaurants are increasingly popping up in Madrid....
...The scandal has deepened the legal troubles facing the far-right populist since he left office at the end of last year, after losing to the leftwinger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...The Landless Workers’ Movement, known as the MST, is a core part of leftwing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s political base, regularly appearing at his rallies and events....
...In Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva demanded action from Fifa, football’s governing body, and La Liga, saying he would raise the issue with Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister....
...Yet the contrast between visits made this year by Brazil’s newly elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the world’s two top powers was telling....
...Ricardo Salles, who resigned as Bolsonaro’s environment minister after being accused of illegally trafficking Amazon timber and proposing to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to relax environmental...
...On January 2, the day after veteran leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as Brazil’s president, Anderson Torres started a new job in charge of security in the nation’s capital....
...Serious, honest, competent and, above all, loyal and discreet,” Ricardo Salles, a former environment minister and close ally of the president, wrote on Twitter....
...Additional reporting by Vanessa Silva in Caracas...
...Ricardo Barros, the leader of the government majority in the chamber of deputies, doubts major reforms will gain parliamentary assent before the 2022 election....
...Bolsonaro already faces a tough election battle, under pressure from a stagnating economy and the return of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the popular leftwing former leader....
...“One thing we have to be clear about is that Ricardo Salles was an operator for President Jair Bolsonaro....
...Francisco Rodrigues da Silva, who farms a tiny sliver of land in Pará state, recounts threats from gunmen — hired by a local soy farmer — to try to scare him off his lands: “I was at home and he was sitting...
...“The challenge is to get diversity of colours,” says Tintex CEO Ricardo Silva. “Today, we have light yellows with thyme and several browns with other ingredients like chestnut. Greens are on the way....
...Ricardo passes by to sell us a cold drink while another merchant lays out his stock of bikinis and colourful beach wraps....
...“In order to manipulate the figures, the regime has centralised PCR testing, and that’s the only test that’s worth considering for serious diagnosis,” said Ricardo Alfonzo, a surgeon in Caracas....
...asked Marina Silva, a former environment minister, pointing to spreading deforestation and the gutting of Brazil’s environmental enforcement agencies....
...“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....
...Augusto Santos Silva, foreign minister, said it was difficult to understand how Britain could impose quarantine measures on travellers from Portugal when it had “28 times more coronavirus deaths”....
...São Paulo resident Ricardo José de Abreu, 58, used to work with transport apps such as Uber but stopped when the pandemic began....
...“Since taking office Ricardo Salles has accused INPE’s data of not being accurate enough for him to take action against deforestation in the Amazon,” said Ricardo Galvão, the sacked INPE director....
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