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Brazil investigates popular former president Lula on corruption charges

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva via AFP

Brazil has opened a probe into claims linking popular ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to a corruption scandal, threatening to cast a shadow over his political legacy and future. The Public Ministry ordered police Friday to investigate an alleged payoff by Portugal Telecom to the ruling Workers’ Party during…

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Environmental icon Marina Silva establishes new political party in Brazil

Former Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva makes a speech during the Women's Forum Brazil 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 4, 2012. (AFP)

Environmental icon and former senator Marina Silva will set up a new party Saturday, one year before Brazil’s presidential elections, an aide said Friday. Silva, 55, won a surprising 20 million votes — 19 percent of the total — in a first round of voting when she ran for president…

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Brazil’s emerging middle class stars in hit soap opera

A man reads a newspaper frontpage dedicated to the final chapter of the soap opera Avenida Brasil (Brazil Avenue) on Oct. 18. Photo via AFP.

Loud, coarse, but hard-working and supportive, the fictional denizens of a Rio suburb hold a mirror up to Brazil’s emerging middle class in a wildly popular soap opera. Brazilian telenovelas have traditionally depicted the melodramas of the elite, but Globo TV’s “Avenida Brasil” breaks new ground by turning the spotlight…

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