Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,also known as Lula da Silva or simply Lula,is a Brazilian politician who is the 39th and current president of Brazil since 2023. A member of the Workers' Party,Lula was also the 35th president from 2003 to 2011. He has also held the presidency of the G20 since 2023.
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.,better known by and trading as the portmanteau Petrobras,is a state-owned Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. The company's name translates to Brazilian Petroleum Corporation —Petrobras.
The Republicans,formerly the Brazilian Republican Party and originally formed as the Municipalist Renewal Party,is a Brazilian political party. Its electoral number,the numerical assignment for Brazilian political parties,is 10.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who has been the Chair of the New Development Bank since March 2023. Previously,she served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. She also previously served as the chief of staff to former and current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
Dommo Energia is a Brazilian publicly listed oil and gas company. Until 2017 it was known as OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (OGX). Prior to a 2013 bankruptcy filing,OGX was Brazil's second-largest oil company by market value after Petrobras.
Luiz Bevilacqua is a Brazilian scientist best known for his work as President of the Brazilian Space Agency (2003–2004) and as Secretary General of the Ministry of Science and Technology (1992–1993). Currently serves as Emeritus Professor,UFRJ and coordinator of the Center for Cognition and Complex Systems of UFABC.
Maria das Graças Foster,commonly known as Graça Foster,is a Brazilian business executive and chemical engineer. She was the CEO of Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil,Brazil's state-controlled oil company,which is located in Rio de Janeiro. She was the first woman in the world to head a major oil-and-gas company. In April 2012,she was listed on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2014,she was recognized as the 16th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. She was ranked by Fortune in 2013 as "the Most Powerful Woman in Business" for the second year in a row.
Operation Car Wash was a landmark anti-corruption probe in Brazil. Beginning in March 2014 as the investigation of a small car wash in Brasília over money laundering,the proceedings uncovered a massive corruption scheme in the Brazilian federal government,particularly in state-owned enterprises. The probe was conducted through a joint task force of agents in the federal police,revenue collection agency,internal audit office and antitrust regulator. Evidence was collected and presented to the court system by a team of federal prosecutors led by Deltan Dallagnol,while the judge in charge of the operation was Sergio Moro. Eventually,other federal prosecutors and judges would go on to oversee related cases under their jurisdictions in various Brazilian states. The operation implicated leading businessmen,federal congressmen,senators,state governors,federal government ministers,and former presidents Collor,Temer and Lula. Companies and individuals accused of involvement have agreed to pay 25 billion reais in fines and restitution of embezzled public funds.
Maria da Conceição Tavares was a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She was a full professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her students included the former president of Brazil,Dilma Rousseff. Tavares was affiliated with the Workers' Party,and she was a Federal Deputy representing the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1995 and 1999. Left-wing focused,she was the author of several books on Brazil's economic development as well as numerous journal articles.
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. Dilma 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.
Events in the year 2018 in Brazil.
Luiz Rodolfo Landim Machado is a Brazilian sports director and petroleum engineer. He is the current president of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo,elected for the 2019–2021 term and reelected for the 2022–2024 term
A long series of criminal investigations have occurred in Brazil associated with Operation Car Wash,since the first one began in March 2014. These investigations are considered offshoots of the original phased investigations.
A long series of criminal investigations have occurred in Brazil associated with Operation Car Wash. The first investigation was launched in March 2014,and is now known as phase 1 of the investigation,with subsequent inquiries numbered sequentially and having code names such as phase 2,phase 3,and so on. By February 2021,there were 80 announced phases of Operation Car Wash.
Carlos Francisco Theodoro Machado Ribeiro de Lessa,better known simply as Carlos Lessa was a Brazilian economist and professor.
Rosângela Lula da Silva,commonly known by her nickname Janja,is the First Lady of Brazil as the wife of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Previously,she was an assistant to the Director-General and coordinator of sustainable development programs at hydroelectric dam Itaipu Binacional,and a communications and institutional affairs advisor at electric utilities company Eletrobras.
Jean Paul Terra Prates is a Brazilian lawyer,economist,environmentalist,entrepreneur,union leader and politician from the Workers' Party. He was Minority Leader of the Federal Senate from 4 February 2021 until 26 January 2023 when he resigned from the Senate to become CEO of Petrobras.
The 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit is the upcoming nineteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20),a Head of State and Government meeting scheduled to take place at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro on 18–19 November 2024. It will be the first G20 summit to be held in Brazil.
The presidency of Ernesto Geisel began with the inauguration of General Ernesto Geisel as President of the Republic on March 15,1974 and ended on March 15,1979 when General João Figueiredo took office.
The Parnaíba Thermal Power Complex is a set of thermal power plants located in the Brazilian city of Santo Antônio dos Lopes,in the state of Maranhão. The gas used in power generation is produced in fields located near the complex. With 1.8 GW of installed capacity,it is currently the second largest natural gas-fired power station in Brazil.
