A Brazilian congressional committee has absolved Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of direct involvement in a corruption scandal that has plagued the PT (Workers Party - Partido dos Trabalhadores) his party.
The committee's report was released Wednesday, April 5. It recommends prosecution of more than a dozen people, including bankers and former members of the governing Workers' Party.
The report will be sent to the federal prosecutor's office, which will decide whether to pursue charges against them.
The scandal involves accusations that the Workers' Party paid monthly bribes to legislators to support certain bills in Congress.
Brazil's president has publicly apologized for the scandal, but denied any involvement. His party blames the crisis on rogue aides.
Several lawmakers have resigned since the scandal surfaced in June.
But the gangs, from left to right... written by Guest,
April 07, 2006
..Brazilian political parties have absolutely no intention to stop what they did, what they do and what they will do. NO ? Here is the proof : Eight members of the ethics committee of Brazil's lower house of Congress resigned in protest on Thursday, following the acquittal of several House members who were accused of accepting bribes and illicit campaign contributions.
The resignations follow the acquittal of former House leader Joao Paulo Cunha of the ruling Workers' Party, or PT, in a vote by the House plenary on Wednesday.
He is the eighth of 18 congressmen to have been acquitted of corruption charges. Only three were found guilty and have been expelled from Congress.
"I feel powerless, discouraged, and disenchanted," said Cezar Schirmer of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, one of the congressmen who resigned from the 15-member committee.
Therefore why all the investigations were done, knowing from day 1 what the outcome will be ?
It also simply demonstrate that Brazilian politicians have absolutely NO ETHIC.
THEY ARE A SHAME TO HUMANITY, AN INSULT TO BRAZILIAN SOCIETY.
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answer? don\'t vote in October. written by Guest,
April 07, 2006
If you believe that most politicians are dead from the neck upwards, don't miss the opportunity-vote with your feet.Stop giving them the chance to perpetuate false hopes in the name of democracy.
Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall recognition of the country's ascension to the ranks of one of the world's most important countries. Now, as it finally takes its place on the world scene, there has been a great deal of concern about what kind of image Brazil hopes to project, now that the world is really paying attention.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area.
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On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking.
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Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall recognition of the country's ascension to the ranks of one of the world's most important countries. Now, as it finally takes its place on the world scene, there has been a great deal of concern about what kind of image Brazil hopes to project, now that the world is really paying attention. 
The only good thing to say about the visit to Brazil of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday November 23, is that it was mercifully short and lasted less than 24 hours. Ahmadinejad had his picture taken being hugged by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who gave him a warm welcome and said Iran had every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose.
..Brazilian political parties have absolutely no intention to stop what they did, what they do and what they will do.
NO ?
Here is the proof :
Eight members of the ethics committee of Brazil's lower house of Congress resigned in protest on Thursday, following the acquittal of several House members who were accused of accepting bribes and illicit campaign contributions.
The resignations follow the acquittal of former House leader Joao Paulo Cunha of the ruling Workers' Party, or PT, in a vote by the House plenary on Wednesday.
He is the eighth of 18 congressmen to have been acquitted of corruption charges. Only three were found guilty and have been expelled from Congress.
"I feel powerless, discouraged, and disenchanted," said Cezar Schirmer of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, one of the congressmen who resigned from the 15-member committee.
Therefore why all the investigations were done, knowing from day 1 what the outcome will be ?
It also simply demonstrate that Brazilian politicians have absolutely NO ETHIC.
THEY ARE A SHAME TO HUMANITY, AN INSULT TO BRAZILIAN SOCIETY.