Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes called a mediation hearing between the government and Congress on July 15 ...

Brazil’s Congress has rejected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s decree to increase a financial transactions tax ...

Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice in Brazil, stepped into the middle of a high-stakes impasse between President ...

El Congreso de Brasil anuló el miércoles un decreto presidencial por primera vez en décadas, rechazando una medida del ...

The leader of Brazil’s Congress caught President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration off guard with a sudden call to ...

Yet speaker Hugo Motta, who initially supported the government’s plans before reversing course last week, has pledged to call such a vote in the coming weeks and not right away, according to two ...

O ministro da Fazenda, Fernando Haddad, adotou como estratégia seguir no confronto contra o Congresso. Ele defende, por exemplo, que o governo recorra ao Supremo Tribunal Federal contra a derrubada do ...

In a historic move, Brazil's Congress nullified a presidential decree by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to increase a ...

Motta, seen as a moderate, said that the vote “speaks for itself” and that “Each branch of power has to understand the other's limits. That's democracy." He did not elaborate.

Chamber President Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) said he cannot guarantee that Congress will approve the proposed compensatory measures. According to Motta, the end of the exemption may affect ...

Haddad said he believed he had reached "a solid agreement" on the tax rates after meeting with Chamber Speaker Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) and Senate President Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP ...