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Latin America | Brazil | Scandal

Survey Indicates 97 Percent of Women Were Harassed in Public and Private Transport

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Almost all (97 percent) of Brazilian women over age eighteen who were surveyed, said they had experiences incidents of sexual harassment on public transport, in Apps transport or in taxis, according to research conducted by the Instituto Patrícia Galvão and Instituto Locomotiva, supported by Uber. "It's a compelling number. This is everyday life for women, the very expression of what is happening," said Jacira Melo, executive director of the Patrícia Galvão Institute. In February of this year, the institutes interviewed 1,081 women who used public or private transportation in the thr
Latin America | Brazil | Career

Vogue Brazil director resigns over birthday photos evoking slavery

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The fashion director of the Brazilian edition of Vogue has resigned after photos from her 50th birthday party drew criticism for evoking colonial depictions of slavery. Images from the party showed Donata Meirelles, who is white, sitting on a throne-like seat flanked by four black women dressed in white at the celebration in Bahia, the Brazilian state with the largest black population. Critics compared the women’s clothes to the white uniforms worn by house slaves, and pointed out the chair’s similarity to a cadeira de sinhá, an ornate chair for slave masters.
Latin America | Brazil | Crimes

Here’s The Viral Photo Of The Bloodied Man Female UFC Fighter Allegedly Beat Up For Attempted Robbery

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A female Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter allegedly beat a would-be robber on Saturday after the man threatened her and tried to steal her phone in Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-six-year-old UFC fighter Polyana Viana told MMAjunkie on Sunday that she was approached by a man while she was waiting for an Uber driver. After asking her for the time, he demanded she give him her cellphone and told her he was armed. Making a split-second decision, Viana decided the "gun" he claimed to have was likely "too soft" to be an actual gun and deployed two punches and a kick to the man, and as he
Latin America | Brazil | Politics

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ousted in impeachment vote

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Brazil’s Senate ousted Dilma Rousseff as president Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to impeach the leftist leader in the culmination of a protracted process that has divided the country. The vote to impeach Rousseff was 61 to 20. Two-thirds of senators — 54 out of 81 — were needed for impeachment to pass. Senators broke into cheering and applause after the electronic voting was announced and sang the national anthem, concluding a process that was given the go-ahead in December.
Latin America | Brazil | Corruption

President Dilma Rousseff takes stand in Brazil impeachment trial

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President Dilma Rousseff insisted Monday she had committed no crime and said she was proud that she'd been "faithful to my commitment to the nation." Brazil's post-Olympic high came to an end as Rousseff's impeachment trial began. Her remarks from the Senate floor suggested the suspended president had no intention of accepting the bid for her impeachment without a fight. "I'll plan and fight for democracy," she said. "I don't fight for my term for the power, but I fight for the democracy for truth and justice and the people of my country."
Latin America | Brazil | Politics

Major New Brazil Events Expose the Fraud of Dilma’s Impeachment – and Temer’s Corruption

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From the start of the campaign to impeach Brazil’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff, the primary justification was that she used a budget trick known as pedaladas (“peddling”: illegal delay of re-payments to state banks) to mask public debt. But this week, as the Senate conducts her impeachment trial, that accusation was obliterated: The Senate’s own expert report concluded there was “no indication of direct or indirect action by Dilma” in any such budgetary maneuvers. As the Associated Press put it: “Independent auditors hired by Brazil’s Senate sa
Latin America | Brazil | Politics

If returned to office, Brazil’s Rousseff favors new election

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Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday she would favor new elections to help Latin America's largest nation emerge from a political crisis — if she is first returned to office. In an interview with foreign news agencies, Rousseff said she must first survive an upcoming trial in which senators will decide whether to permanently remove her from office. Rousseff said the country was experiencing a political "weariness" and that many citizens no longer believed in the process. "This has to be overcome," she said, speaking from the Alvorada presidential palace, where she
Latin America | Brazil | Corruption

Leaked Tapes Expose Coup Plot Against Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff

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On Monday, Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo revealed a recording of a conversation between the country’s planning minister Romero Juca and Sergio Machado, former CEO of state-owned oil company Petrobras subsidiary Transperto, calling for a carefully orchestrated and arguably-legal coup against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. The conversation centered on "changing" the government to "stop the bleeding" revealed by the so-called Car Wash investigation into Petrobras’ corrupt practices. Both men are being actively investigated for corruption under the probe, and Juca res
Latin America | Brazil | Law

Dilma Rousseff Was Not Impeached, Legal Scholars Say

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In Brazil, Ms. Rousseff has not yet been impeached, legal scholars say. “In Brazil, the term impeachment is used only after a conviction is made in the trial,” said Daniel Vargas, a law professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. Now that Brazil’s Senate voted against her on Thursday, Ms. Rousseff will have to step aside during her impeachment trial, which could last for six months. But if she is ultimately absolved, she will not have been impeached, Mr. Vargas said.
Latin America | Brazil | Corruption

Brazil’s Rousseff bows out defiantly after historic Senate vote to try her

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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff bowed out defiantly on Thursday, suspended from office after the Senate voted to put her on trial for breaking budget laws in a historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal. Rousseff, in office since 2011, will be replaced by Vice President Michel Temer, for the duration of a Senate trial that could take up to six months. Rousseff, speaking shortly before she left Brasilia's Planalto presidential palace, said was notified of her suspension on Thursday morning. "I may have made mistakes but I did not commit any crime," Rou
International | Brazil | Corruption

Dilma Rousseff asks Brazil supreme court to delay impeachment process

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Brazil’s embattled president, Dilma Rousseff, has resorted to the country’s supreme court in a last-ditch attempt to avert likely defeat in a criticalimpeachment vote in congress that could lead to her removal from office. Rousseff’s attorney general, José Eduardo Cardozo, asked the top court for an injunction to suspend Sunday’s lower house vote until the full court can rule on what he called procedural irregularities in the impeachment process. Rousseff, already struggling with Brazil’s worst economic crisis in decades and a historic corruption scandal, has lost support with
Latin America | Brazil | Leadership

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Says Not Resigning In Political Crisis

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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff rejected calls for her resignation on Friday midst a political storm deepened by a massive corruption scandal and blamed her opponents for causing a crisis that has damaged the Brazilian economy. "No one has the right to ask for the resignation of a legitimately elected president," Rousseff told reporters, indicating she has no intention of quitting despite Brazil's worst economic recession in 25 years. The leftist leader, who was narrowly re-elected in 2014, blamed her opponents for causing a political crisis that she said has damaged the Brazilian econ
Latin America | Brazil | Business

Brazil’s Women In Tech Who Go Far Beyond Difference

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Candice Pascoal and Tahiana D’Egmont are two women intech substantially beating the odds. As co-founder and chief executive, respectively, of Kickante, they have created the biggest crowdfunding platform in Brazil, launching twice as many campaigns as each competitor. Remarkably, Kickante was only founded itself in 2013. The crowdfunding platform has already launched more than 8,000 campaigns and raised more than 14 million reais ($3.5 million). It offers the possibility for collaborators to donate in installments, and for organizers to receive resources for their projects up front
Latin America | Brazil | Politics

Anti-Rousseff impeachment push in Brazil loses ground

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President Dilma Rousseff's opponents within her main coalition partner, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), are losing hope that they can impeach the leftist leader and replace her with their man, Vice President Michel Temer. A Supreme Court ruling last month that expanded the authority of the Senate, where she has a more solid backing, and reduced the clout of lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha, her arch enemy who triggered the impeachment process, has weakened the bid by opposition parties to unseat Rousseff. But in recent weeks, a growing consensus has emerged in

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