Luciana Magalhaes
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 07:20
Judges throw out convictions of 74 military police previously sentenced for murdering 111 inmates. The Sept. 27 decision has also reignited concerns about police brutality in a country with one of the highest levels of killings by police in the world.
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 07:57
Brazil’s justice minister is under fire for granting a private meeting to lawyers of a construction firm implicated in a corruption scandal at Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. , an unusual move that has drawn public condemnation and raised concerns about the influence of powerful companies in Brazil.
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 07:27
"What has been called the rising of a new middle class is fact an increase in consumption," Mr. Cardoso said
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:58
A professional dancer's death sparked a violent protest in a Rio slum that overlooks popular beaches, and armed men torched nearly three dozen buses at a depot outside São Paulo
Friday, August 10, 2012 - 00:00
"The project is not being abandoned. There will be a decision in the right time. But, today, I would prefer not to give a date," Defense Minister Celso Amorim said in an interview.