Brazil’s Justice and Public Security Minister Sérgio Moro and Argentine Production and Labor Minister Dante Sica signed in Buenos Aires on Thursday (May 30) a cooperation deal on consumer protection in the two countries.
Appellate Judge João Pedro Gebran Neto, of a federal court in south Brazil, decided today (Jul. 9) to uphold his decision to deny the release of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, imprisoned since April 7.
The majority of justices making up Brazil’s Supreme Court decided in favor of making it illegal for defendants or people under investigation to be forcibly taken before a court or police authority for questioning—a practice known in Brazilian law as condução coercitiva
José Dirceu, who served as minister under former President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, turned himself in to the authorities in order to start serving a sentence of 30 years and nine months in prison.
Imprisoned in the city of Curitiba, south Brazil, since April 7, onetime President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent a letter to the national president of his Workers’ Party (PT), Senator Gleisi Hoffmann, saying he still plans to run for president in the October election.
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