BRAZIL'S LULA ORDERED TO SURRENDER AFTER COURT BACKS JAILING

Former president has plea to avoid 12-year prison sentence for corruption rejected

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BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT, MICHEL TEMER, CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION

Temer is accused of accepting bribes – but any move towards trial would have to pass congress by a two-thirds majority

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BRAZIL POLICE CRACK DOWN AS 150K PROTEST TEMER, DEMAND ELECTION

Riot police attack protests against President Michel Temer and the latest corruption scandal to hit the country, in Brasilia, Brazil, May 24, 2017. | Photo: Reuters

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The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: AFTER LATEST BOMBSHELLS, ONLY MICHEL TEMER'S REMOV...

The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: AFTER LATEST BOMBSHELLS, ONLY MICHEL TEMER'S REMOV...: THOSE WHO DROVE DILMA'S IMPEACHMENT AND WERE EMPOWERED UPON HER REMOVAL WERE JUST CAUGHT IN FLAGRANT CRIMES. The Intercept.com

AFTER LATEST BOMBSHELLS, ONLY MICHEL TEMER'S REMOVAL AND NEW ELECTIONS CAN SAVE BRAZIL'S DEMOCRACY

THOSE WHO DROVE DILMA'S IMPEACHMENT AND WERE EMPOWERED UPON HER REMOVAL WERE JUST CAUGHT IN FLAGRANT CRIMES.

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BRAZIL'S LULA FACES JUDGE IN CORRUPTION CASE "WITCH HUNT"

Brazil's media is painting Lula's testimony as an epic showdown, as tens of thousands of the ex-president's supporters are out in the streets

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BRAZIL PARALYZED BY NATIONWIDE STRIKE, DRIVEN BY A FAMILIAR GLOBAL DYNAMIC OF ELITE CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY

JUST OVER ONE year ago, Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached — ostensibly due to budgetary lawbreaking — and replaced with her centrist vice president, Michel Temer. Since then, virtually every aspect of the nation’s political and economic crisis — especially corruption — has worsened.

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