Workers' Cause Party is a political party in Brazil. Its origins can be traced back to 1978. On that year,several Trotskyist activists who were not satisfied with the socialist international united under the name Tendência Trotskista do Brasil. However,it was only established in 1995.
Regina Blois Duarte is a Brazilian actress who briefly served as Special Secretary of Culture,a cabinet position in President Jair Bolsonaro's federal administration,from March to May 2020.
O Globo is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro. O Globo is the most prominent print publication in the Grupo Globo media conglomerate.
Taís Bianca Gama de Araújo is a Brazilian actress,TV host and model.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil,holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency and had previously served as chief of staff to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
General elections were held in Brazil on 3 October 2010 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors. As no presidential candidate received more than 50% in the first round of voting,a second round was held on 31 October to choose a successor to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT),who was constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term as he has already served two terms after winning the elections in 2002 and being re-elected in 2006.
Censorship in Brazil,both cultural and political,occurred throughout the whole period following the colonization of the country. Even though most state censorship ended just before the period of redemocratization that started in 1985,Brazil still experiences a certain amount of non-official censorship today. The current legislation restricts freedom of expression concerning racism and the Constitution prohibits the anonymity of journalists.
Partido da Imprensa Golpista is a term used by left-wing Brazilian websurfers since 2007 to characterize an alleged attitude of the Brazilian mass media towards President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during the 2006 presidential election. The term was popularized by journalist Paulo Henrique Amorim in his blog. Whenever he uses the term,Amorim writes it with an "i" in lowercase as a pun with the name of the web portal "iG". where he was a journalist before he was dismissed on March 18,2008,which he describes as a process of "ideological cleansing".
The inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as the 36th President of Brazil took place on Saturday,January 1,2011. This inauguration marked the beginning of the four-year term of Dilma Rousseff as President and Michel Temer as Vice President. The event had been awaited with some expectation,since Rousseff became the first woman in the history of Brazil to take office as President. It was also the first inaugural ceremony of the New Republic and of the democratic rule in which an outgoing President passed his office to a successor belonging to the same political party as him –the Workers' Party.
General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president,the National Congress,and state governorships. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 5 October 2014,a second-round runoff was held on 26 October 2014.
Corruption in Brazil exists on all levels of society from the top echelons of political power to the smallest municipalities. Operation Car Wash showed central government members using the prerogatives of their public office for rent-seeking activities,ranging from political support to siphoning funds from state-owned corporation for personal gain. Specifically,mensalão typically referred to the practice of transferring taxpayer funds as monthly allowances to members of congress from other political parties in consideration for their support and votes in congress. Politicians used the state-owned and state-run oil company Petrobras to raise hundreds of millions of reais for political campaigns and personal enrichment.
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff,the 36th president of Brazil,began on 2 December 2015 with a petition for her impeachment being accepted by Eduardo Cunha,then president of the Chamber of Deputies,and continued into late 2016. Rousseff,then more than 12 months into her second four-year term,was charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal budget in violation of article 85,items V and VI,of the Constitution of Brazil and the Fiscal Responsibility Law,article 36. The petition also accused Rousseff of criminal responsibility for failing to act on the scandal at the Brazilian national petroleum company,Petrobras,on account of allegations uncovered by the Operation Car Wash investigation,and for failing to distance herself from the suspects in that investigation.
Cora Tausz Rónai is a Brazilian writer,journalist and photographer.
Miriam Azevedo de Almeida Leitão is a Brazilian journalist and television presenter. She has a program at GloboNews and is a commentator on economics at TV Globo's Bom Dia Brasil and writes the column Panorama Econômico in the newspaper O Globo.
Luiz Philippe of Orléans-Braganza is a Brazilian politician,activist,businessman,and member of the former ruling House of Orléans-Braganza. He was elected Federal Deputy for São Paulo in the 2018 Brazilian elections for the Social Liberal Party with 118,457 votes.
Bernardo Mello Franco is a Brazilian journalist specializing in politics.
Alan Rick Miranda,more commonly known as Alan Rick,is a Brazilian politician as well as a journalist,pastor,and television personality. He has spent his political career representing Acre,having served as federal deputy representative since 2015.
Admar Gonzaga Neto is a Brazilian politician,attorney,jurist and current General Secretary of Alliance for Brazil (APB). He was Justice of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE),nominated by Michel Temer to the seat destinated to attorneys. With electoral career since 1993,Admar was member of the Jurists Special Committee created to propose changes to the Electoral Code.
Cícero Augusto Ribeiro Sandroni is a Brazilian journalist. He was born in the city of São Paulo,on February 26,1935,the son of Ranieri Sandroni and Alzira Ribeiro Sandroni. He did his primary studies and part of junior high school in São Paulo. After his family moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1946,he completed his secondary studies there. He studied at the Faculty of Journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University and EBAP - Brazilian School of Public Administration,at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation,where he was a fellow.
Bonifácio JoséTamm de Andrada was a Brazilian politician affiliated to Democrats (DEM),law academic,university professor,political scientist and journalist.
