On February 3, 2022, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Rio de Janeiro, a state where the problem of police abuse is particularly dire, to draft a plan to curb police killings that includes concrete measures, a timeline, and budget.
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Enforcement authorities throughout the Americas continued investigations of fraud, corruption, and other misconduct across the region. Below are some of the highlights of the last.
Brazil After Lawfare: The Return of âPresidentâ Lula and the Fall of a Hero Judge
Operation Car Wash, the probe into the worldâs biggest corruption scandal , has turned out to be a scandal itself.
Lula is riding a popularity wave and leads Bolsonaro by more than 20 points in latest opinion polls. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
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Sao Paulo:Â If a tweet tells a story, this one was perfect. And it came with a photo worth a thousand words. âReturning from Brasilia. See you soon,â Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva tweeted last Friday, with a snap in which the former Brazilian president is sitting in the back seat of a sedan, with his eyes focused on a document in his left hand. In the backdrop, framed with the carâs window, stand two towers with a saucer-like structure on either side and flags of different nations fluttering on the avenue which flanks this edifice. This complex, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is Brazilâs Congress: the right-side up
Court ruling in Brazil promotes political rehabilitation of Lula
In a surprise decision Monday, Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) Justice Edson Fachin annulled the two criminal sentences for corruption of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, which barred him from running for office. Justice Fachin ruled that both cases had to be tried again by the district court based in the capital Brasília, because the 13th district that sentenced him, based in the southern capital of Curitiba, had no jurisdiction over the case.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at the Metalworkers Union headquarters in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, after a judge threw out both of his corruption convictions. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)