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...Machado had to pay €150,000 in bail and give up his passport. Both men face charges of influence peddling and deny wrongdoing....
...Additional reporting by Carmen Muela in Madrid and Sérgio Aníbal in Lisbon...
...UBS chief Sergio Ermotti hit out at European politicians and regulators for deliberately suppressing the continent’s banks by stopping their growth and allowing US rivals to dominate....
...Argentina’s economy minister Sergio Massa had an unexpected win over libertarian challenger Javier Milei in the first round of the country’s presidential election, setting up a run-off next month....
...Mr Bolsonaro is currently facing a formal judicial inquiry triggered by claims from Sergio Moro, his former justice minister, that the president was interfering in police investigations....
...“It is not surprising that Congress and the judiciary are reacting: the president is trying to govern alone — without Congress — by abusing his constitutional powers to issue decrees,” said Eloísa Machado...
...Judge Sérgio Moro, the magistrate who has led the country’s largest corruption investigation, known as Lava Jato or Car Wash, issued the order on Thursday evening, effectively demolishing the leftist populist...
...He was caught on tape telling Sérgio Machado, ex-president of a Petrobras subsidiary, Transpetro, in a private conversation that a change of government would be necessary to stop the investigation from implicating...
...The accusations that Mr Temer sought illicit funds for the election campaign of a political ally, Gabriel Chalita, for São Paulo mayor in 2012, were contained in a plea bargain by Sérgio Machado, the former...
...Mr Jucá was caught on tape telling Sérgio Machado, former president of a Petrobras subsidiary, Transpetro, in a private conversation that a change of government would be necessary to stop the investigation...
...Mr Jucá, a PMDB leader, was taped in a private conversation with Sérgio Machado, a former executive of a subsidiary of Petrobras....
...This is what Romero Jucá, Brazil’s former planning minister, discovered after he met Sérgio Machado, the head of a Petrobras subsidiary, for a private chat in March this year....
...Quote of the week “We have to change the government to stop this bleeding”- Brazil’s former interim planning minister Romero Jucá caught on tape telling Sérgio Machado, former president of a subsidiary...
...As soon as he knew the conversation was with Ms Rousseff “he should have sealed the recording and sent it to the Supreme Court,” says Eloísa Machado de Almeida at FGV....
...In testimony released last month, former head of Petrobras’ refining unit said he received cash from Sergio Machado, head of Transpetro, a subsidiary. The investigation into why continues....
...Others found echoes of social historians such as Gilberto Freyre, and even of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Chico’s father....
...We have the choice as to whether or not they will be ours,” says Sergio Machado, president of Transpetro....
...- they all said they were enjoying a book by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis....
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