Dozens of high-level businesspeople and politicians were indicted as part of the widespread investigation into the scandal. In August 2015 the list of those arrested expanded to include José Dirceu, who had served as chief of staff for Lula from 2003 to 2005.

I wish Brazil had a family planning program. It's not even worthy to talk about education when most of these [poor] people are not prepared to receive education, therefore they won't educate themselves. Only rigid birth control can save us from chaos. An educated man and woman will hardly desire an Em excesso child with the sole purpose of engaging in a social welfare assistance program [as it is nowadays]. We need to adopt a rigid birth control policy. We can't make demagogic speeches any longer, proposing bills and means of government to support these poor people [who] are increasingly proliferating throughout the country.

Instead of turning himself in, Lula took refuge in the union headquarters outside São Paulo where he had begun his political career. Lula’s supporters surrounded the building, and the deadline passed without federal law enforcement officials attempting to penetrate the crowd to arrest Lula, out of fear of sparking violence.

We stand at a significant moment for global justice and environmental equity. Let’s hope the G20 leaders recognize the importance of this initiative and act decisively for a greener, fairer world.

“Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” he wrote.

"[303] He later evolved his position to keeping the country a secular state during the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections: "We are going to make a government for everyone, regardless of religion. Even for atheists. We have almost 5% of atheists in Brazil, and they have the same needs that others have."[304]

In a clip shared on X, Ms Harris notes that the former president hand selected three members of the US Supreme Court bolsonaro vereador with the intention that they would overturn Roe v Wade and "as he intended they did".

Por volta DE 8h, Wajngarten usou a rede social para informar que as cirurgias por Bolsonaro já haviam terminado e “transcorreram dentro da elevado tranquilidade”.

Bolsonaro is a strong opponent of affirmative action, and has criticized the Brazilian racial quotas system in universities as a way of dividing society that is at odds with equality between citizens.[334] In 2011, he was accused of racism after questioning the capabilities of Black and indigenous graduates who benefitted from affirmative action, claiming that he would not fly on an airplane piloted by one of them, nor accept a doctor who was admitted to a university bolsonaro hoje through racial quotas to perform surgery on him.[15]

After Mr. Biden’s remark, Harris campaign officials privately gauged whether his comments would require her to disagree with him publicly or support his explanation that the comments were taken out of context, according to people familiar with the internal reaction. They asked for anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

Early in his administration, Bolsonaro focused primarily on domestic and economic issues, ranging from tax reform to changes in social security, but he faced an uphill battle with Congress.[112] Bolsonaro stripped the indigenous affairs agency FUNAI of the responsibility to identify and demarcate indigenous lands, arguing that those territories have tiny, isolated populations who would be controlled by NPOs, and proposed to integrate them into the larger Brazilian society.

Bolsonaro provoked considerable controversy for public remarks made in July 2008, where he proposed to provide poor people with birth control methods, who he suggested might be too uneducated to understand family planning education. Bolsonaro said:

AP sources: White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take vlogdolisboa twitter a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers tasked with recording the president’s remarks for posterity.

The 21-year-old Swedish climate activist said it was "probably impossible to overestimate the consequences this specific election will have for the world".