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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
BRAZILIAN police questioned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday as part of a bribery investigation being used to target his successor’s government.
Two of Mr da Silva’s sons were also quizzed over the corruption scandal at state oil company Petrobras following a dawn raid on the family home, non-government organisation the Lula Institute and other properties.
Police said they were acting on 33 search and 11 arrest warrants in the Operation Carwash investigation.
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
