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Whoever wins Brazil's presidential race this month will inherit a fiscal straight jacket and a drifting economy in urgent need of repair - but will have no governing coalition in Congress to pass reforms. BRASILIA: Whoever wins Brazil's presidential race this month will inherit a fiscal straight jacket and a drifting economy in urgent need of repair: but will have no governing coalition in Congress to pass reforms.
BRASILIA: Brazilian Senator Ana Amelia Lemos of the conservative Progressistas party said on Thursday that centrist presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin was close to confirming her as his running mate, and added the final decision could come on Friday. The pick may help Alckmin, the business-friendly former governor of Sao Paulo target a weakness of the front-runner, right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro, whose backing among women for the October election is half that of his support from men because of comments denigrating women.
Brazil's top court voted narrowly in the early hours Thursday to turn down an attempt by former President Luiz Inacio da Silva to stay out of jail while he appeals a corruption conviction, a decision that will have widespread implications in this polarized nation. After nearly 11 hours of often heated debate, the justices of the Supreme Federal Tribunal voted 6-5 to deny da Silva's preventative habeas corpus request to stave off a 12-year jail sentence while he fights a conviction in a case that he argues was nothing more than a ploy to keep him off October's presidential ballot.
Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles and the UBER's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi meet in Braslia, Brazil on October 31, 2017. AFP / Sergio Lima BRASILIA: Brazil's Senate approved a weaker version of a hotly disputed bill to regulate car-hailing services like Uber Technologies Inc on Tuesday after the U.S. company's chief executive warned it could make its business unworkable in the country.
Temer was hospitalized on Wednesday with an urinary obstruction, his office said, even as lawmakers debat... A former judge who led Guatemala's soccer federation is set to be the first person sentenced in the U.S. in the world soccer scandal. A former judge who led Guatemala's soccer federation is set to be the first person sentenced in the U.S. in the world soccer scandal.
Brazil's indigenous communities are protesting as the Supreme Court deliberates on the legality of... . Police stand guard behind a banner that reads in Portuguese "Demarcation," as Guarani Indians protest outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.
FILE PHOTO: Brazilian President Michel Temer looks on during a credentials presentation ceremony for several new top diplomats at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil June 26, 2017. Federal Deputy Sergio Zveiter, who was chosen to be the rapporteur for the denunciation of the public prosecutor against President Michel Temer in the chamber of deputies, reacts after a meeting of the commission of constitution and justice, in Brasilia, Brazil July 4, 2017.