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AUDITORS for Brazil’s senate cleared President Dilma Rousseff on Monday of personal responsibility in the key charges brought to impeach her.
The sensational auditors’ report said the Workers’ Party (PT) leader did not, as alleged, delay payments to state-run banks in breach of fiscal laws.
Ms Rousseff’s lawyer Eduardo Cardoza called the report “fatal” to the impeachment.
Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
Powerful agribusiness interests are trying to overturn efforts by the Lula government to protect the environment and indigenous peoples of the Amazon region, writes GABRIELA SA PESSOA
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports