Dilma Rousseff

Brazil's Prosecutor General Rodrigo Zhano has filed a request with the Federal Supreme Court for charges against former presidents of the country, Luis Inasi Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, for the creation of a criminal organization. An accusation has also been raised against six other members of the Brazilian Labor Party. Reports Sega. 

Former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner was charged in a corruption case Dec. 27 and slapped with a $630-million asset freeze over public tenders awarded to a businessman friend during her administration.

Hundreds of indigenous people and traditional fishermen occupied the veranda outside the entrance to Brazil's presidential palace on Nov. 22.

The demonstrators, many wearing tribal outfits, sang, danced and beat drums under the long veranda roof outside the sleek Palacio do Planalto building where President Michel Temer has his offices, AFP reported.

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BELGRADE - Brazilian police have arrested the former legislator who led the controversial charge to impeach ex-President Dilma Rousseff on corruption charges.

Brazilian political parties implicated in the massive Petrobras corruption scandal, including that of President Michel Temer, suffered major setbacks in the Oct. 2 municipal elections that put right-leaning candidates ahead in key cities. 

Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff left the presidential palace in Brasilia last week and boarded a plane for her adopted home city of Porto Alegre. She leaves behind a successor who risks indictment for far worse offences than the ones that brought her down, and a country that has lost its right to a place among the BRICS.

Brazil's lower house of Congress removed from office Sept. 12 lawmaker Eduardo Cunha, who pushed for the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, for hiding Swiss bank accounts.

"I declare lawmaker Eduardo Cunha stripped of office for conduct incompatible with lawmakers' duties," said the decision, read out after 450 votes in favor or his removal, 10 against and nine abstentions.

Brazil's top prosecutor on May 3 asked the Supreme Court to open a probe into alleged obstruction of justice by President Dilma Rousseff, major Brazilian newspapers reported, in a potentially explosive twist to the country's political crisis.

A new elevated bike path that was heralded as a top legacy project of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics collapsed April 21, killing at least two people.

Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff suffered a humiliating loss in a crucial impeachment vote in the lower house of Congress on April 17 and is almost certain to be forced from office months before the nation hosts the Olympics.