Lula presses to remove crusading Brazil judge from his case
July 5, 2016 By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lawyers asked on Tuesday that crusading federal judge Sergio Moro be removed from a corruption investigation involving the...
View ArticleBrazil could sell Sao Paulo and Rio airports, president tells paper
July 10, 2016 SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s government will consider selling airports in Sao Paulo and Rio to help to reduce a large fiscal deficit next year, interim President Michel Temer told the...
View ArticleDirector of film ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ dies at 70
July 15, 2016 SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Hector Babenco, whose 1985 film “Kiss of the Spider Woman” made him the first Latin American to be nominated for a best director Oscar, died of a heart attack late...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs to invest $184 million in Brazil storage company: executive
July 22, 2016 SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N> will invest 600 million reais ($184 million) in Brazilian storage company Metrofit over the next 6 years, betting on a recovery...
View ArticleEcclestone’s mother-in-law kidnapped in Brazil: reports
July 27, 2016 SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The mother-in-law of Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has been kidnapped in Sao Paulo and criminals are demanding 120 million reais ($36.5 million) in ransom,...
View ArticleBrazil police free mother-in-law of Formula One empresario
August 1, 2016 By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian law enforcement agents stormed a hideout near Sao Paulo on Sunday and freed the kidnapped mother-in-law of Formula One supremo Bernie...
View ArticleU.S. court puts Brazil’s Petrobras class action on hold
August 2, 2016 By Mica Rosenberg and Marta Nogueira NEW YORK/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday put a class action case against Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petroleo...
View ArticleBrazil parties linked to corruption punished in local elections
October 3, 2016 By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian political parties implicated in the massive Petrobras corruption scandal, including that of President Michel Temer, suffered major...
View ArticleU.S. Treasury reassures Brazil banks trade with Iran OK
November 23, 2016 By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury has reassured Brazilian banks they can finance trade with Iran without fear of sanctions, opening the way to billions of...
View ArticleVerizon to sell data centers to Equinix for $3.6 billion
December 6, 2016 (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc <VZ.N>, the No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier, is selling 29 data centers in the United States and Latin America to Equinix Inc <EQIX.O>...
View ArticleBrazilian squatters offer shelter from anti-gay violence
December 8, 2016 By Nacho Doce BOSTON (Reuters) – A multi-colored gay pride flag hangs in a corner of a bare room in an abandoned Sao Paulo art deco building that was once the headquarters of Brazil’s...
View ArticleOdebrecht ex-executive says Brazil president negotiated donation: report
December 16, 2016 SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A former senior executive at Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL] testified that Brazilian President Michel Temer took part in a 2010 meeting regarding donations to his party...
View ArticlePlane carrying Brazil Supreme Court judge crashed into sea: source
January 19, 2017 BRASILIA (Reuters) – A plane carrying Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki, who is overseeing a massive corruption investigation, crashed into the sea off the coast of Rio de...
View ArticleDeath of Brazil judge to delay political corruption probe
January 20, 2017 By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – The death of a Supreme Court justice handling corruption accusations against dozens of Brazilian politicians will not derail the country’s...
View ArticleDeath of Brazil judge to delay political corruption probe
January 20, 2017 By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – The death of a Supreme Court justice handling corruption accusations against dozens of Brazilian politicians will not derail the country’s...
View ArticleMurders, robberies of drivers in Brazil force Uber to rethink cash strategy
February 14, 2017 By Stephen Eisenhammer and Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) – On a Thursday night last September, Uber driver Osvaldo Luis Modolo Filho accepted a ride request from a teenage couple on...
View Article‘Operation Weak Flesh’ takes bite out of Brazil’s meat exports
March 25, 2017 By Alberto Alerigi and Thais Freitas SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s meat exports have fallen sharply since a police investigation into alleged bribery of food-sanitation inspectors in...
View ArticleBrazilian mayor takes issue with Amazon in graffiti debate
March 28, 2017 By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has dived into a spirited debate about graffiti in Brazil’s biggest city, drawing a pointed response on Tuesday from Sao Paulo’s...
View ArticleBrazilian mayor takes issue with Amazon.com in graffiti debate
March 29, 2017 By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc dove into a spirited debate about graffiti in Brazil’s biggest city, drawing a pointed response on Tuesday from Sao Paulo’s mayor, who...
View ArticleBrazil’s black market pipeline: Gangs hijack Petrobras’ oil, fuel
April 4, 2017 By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – In September, police investigating a wave of killings in the northern Rio de Janeiro suburbs followed a tip to the isolated scrubland near...
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