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Rodrigo Maia
Rodrigo Felinto Ibarra Epitácio Maia (born 12 June 1970) is a Brazilian politician who served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil between July 2016 and February 2021. A member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party since 2022, he is the son of former Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maia and was reelected five times as a congressman until 2023, when he decided to not run for a sixth term in the Chamber of Deputies. Maia was affiliated to the Democrats party, formerly PFL, from 1996 to 2021, when he was expelled from the party for criticizing the party president, ACM Neto. Biography Rodrigo Maia was born in Chile, while his father, the former Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maia was living in exile, and was registered at the Brazilian consulate in Santiago. Maia started economics at Candido Mendes University, but did not complete the course. In 1990, before starting a career in politics, he worked for Banco BMG and then . From 1997 to 1998, Maia was Municipal Secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excellency
Excellency is an honorific style (manner of address), style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy. Once entitled to the title "Excellency", the holder usually retains the right to that courtesy throughout their lifetime, although in some cases the title is attached to a particular office and is held only during tenure of that office. Generally people addressed as ''Excellency'' are heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, Roman Catholic bishops, high-ranking ecclesiastics, and others holding equivalent rank, such as heads of international organizations. Members of royal families generally have distinct addresses such as Majesty, Highness, etc.. While not a title of office itself, the honorific ''Excellency'' precedes various titles held by the holder, both in speech and in writing. In reference to such an official, it takes the form ''His'' or ''Her Excellency''; in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Maia
Cesar Epitácio Maia (born June 18, 1945) is a Brazilian politician, notable for having been elected three times for mayor of Rio de Janeiro. A native of Rio, born in 1945, Maia was forced to leave Brazil in exile during the 1960s on account of his affiliation with the Brazilian Communist Party. Exiled in Chile, he obtained a degree in economics, but the 1973 coup in the country saw him return to his native land. After becoming Professor of Macroeconomics at the Fluminense Federal University in the neighbouring city of Niterói, Maia became active in the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), founded by Leonel Brizola. Maia supported Brizola's campaign to become Governor of Rio de Janeiro state in 1983, as Brazil was emerging from the military-led regime towards full democracy, and was subsequently appointed Treasury Secretary for the state. A trusted personal adviser to Brizola, who was instrumental in uncovering and denouncing the allegedly electoral fraud that threatened Brizola's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odebrecht
Odebrecht S.A. (), officially known as Novonor, is a Brazilian conglomerate, headquartered in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador by Norberto Odebrecht, and is active in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is . Odebrecht S.A. is a holding company for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America, and Braskem, the largest petrochemicals producer in Latin America and one of Brazil's five largest private-sector manufacturing companies. Odebrecht controls Braskem, which by revenue is the fourth largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the seventeenth in the world. The name Odebrecht has become shorthand for an unprecedented regional bribery scandal. Between 2001 and 2016, Odebrecht paid US$788 million in bribes across Latin A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil)
The Public Prosecutor's Office (, lit. "Public Ministry", often abbreviated "MP") is the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors at both the federal (') and state level (''Ministério Público Estadual''). It operates independently from the three branches of government. It was once referred to by constitutional lawyer and former president Michel Temer as a " Fourth Branch". The Constitution of 1988 divides the functions of the Public Prosecutor's Office into three different bodies: the Public Procurator's Office, the '' Public Defender's Office'' and the Public Prosecutor's Office itself, each one of them an independent body. In addition to that, the new Constitution created the Federal Court of Accounts (), which is also autonomous in its functions. There are three levels of public prosecutors, according to the jurisdiction of the courts before which they perform their duties. There are the federal prosecutors (') who bring cases before judges in lower courts; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Police Of Brazil
The Federal Police of Brazil () or Department of Federal Police () is a Federal government of Brazil, federal law enforcement agency of Brazil and One of the most know nationals Polices forces of the Executive Power of Brazil. Besides with PolÃcia Rodoviária Federal (Federal Highways Police) and PolÃcia Penal Federal (Federal Prisions Police) and the Polices from the Capital, BrasÃlia, Federal District, wich is also organized and maintened from the Federal government. In addition Brazil has more federals Polices from another powers, like the Institutional Polices from the Congress (PolÃcia Legislativa Federal), Federal Prossecuters Officers Police (PolÃcia do MPU) and Judicials Police of the Federal Judiciary. From 1944 to 1967 it was called the Federal Public Safety Department (). The Federal Police Department is responsible for combating crimes against Federal government of Brazil, federal institutions, international Illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, terrorism, cyber-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jornal Nacional
; ) is the flagship television newscast of TV Globo. First airing on September 1, 1969, according to IBOPE ( Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics), in the week of September 28October 4, 2015, it was the second most watched program in Brazilian television, with an average of 26,007,251 viewers per minute (roughly 12.5% of the Brazilian population) and for 5.5 million people worldwide via Globo International. History premiered on September 1, 1969, hosted by Hilton Gomes and Cid Moreira, the first Rio de Janeiro-produced newscast to be shown nationwide. Months later, the program featured the network's first female weekend presenter Márcia Mendes. During the 1970s, preferred to emphasize international news and sports. The British documentary '' Beyond Citizen Kane'' suggests that this happened so that Globo wouldn't have to report the repression of the Brazilian military government, which would have provided a substantial part of the network's growth. Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Época (Brazilian Magazine)
''Época'' is a Brazilian weekly news and analysis magazine. The magazine was started in May 1998. It is published by Editora Globo, part of the Grupo Globo media conglomerate. ''Épocas style is based on the German magazine ''Focus'', emphasizing the use of images and graphics, and even their logos share some similarities. Circulation In 2010, ''Época'' had a circulation of 408,000 copies. It dipped to 389,000 copies in 2012 and slightly rose to 393,000 in 2013. In 2018, it circulates over 500,000 copies weekly and has 5.9 million unique digital users. Criticism and controversies Francenildo Case In March 2006, Época magazine became involved in the political scandal involving the breach of banking secrecy of the handyman Francenildo Santos Costa, which culminated in the fall of the Finance Minister A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Car Wash
Operation Car Wash (, ) was a landmark anti-corruption probe in Brazil.Kurtenbach, S., & Nolte, D. (2017). Latin America's Fight against Corruption: The End of Impunity. GIGA Focus Lateinamerika, (03). Beginning in March 2014 as the investigation of a small car wash in BrasÃlia over money laundering, the proceedings uncovered a massive corruption scheme in the Brazilian federal government, particularly in state-owned enterprises. The probe was conducted through antitrust regulator. Evidence was collected and presented to the court system by a team of federal prosecutors led by Deltan Dallagnol, while the judge in charge of the operation was Sergio Moro. Eventually, other federal prosecutors and judges would go on to oversee related cases under their jurisdictions in various Brazilian states. The operation implicated leading businessmen, federal congressmen, senators, state governors, federal government ministers, and former presidents Collor, Temer and Lula. Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of the Brazilian GDP. The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast (assigned by IBGE). Rio de Janeiro shares borders with all the other states in the same Southeast macroregion: Minas Gerais ( N and NW), EspÃrito Santo ( NE) and São Paulo ( SW). It is bounded on the east and south by the South Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of . Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Brazil from 1763 to 1815, of the following United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1815 to 1822, and of later independent Brazil as a kingdom and republic from 1822 to 1960. The state is divided into 92 municipalities. It stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banco BMG
Banco BMG is one of Brazil's major retail banks. The bank, formerly known as Banco de Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ... S.A., was founded in 1930. Banco BMG had a minority share in a joint venture with Brazil’s Itaú Unibanco, called Itau BMG Consignado, which lent to customers who hold payroll accounts, until December 2016 when Itau bought BMG's remaining share. References External links Official Website Banks of Brazil {{bank-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago, Chile
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, which has a population of seven million, representing 40% of Chile's total population. Most of the city is situated between above sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has served as the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city features a downtown core characterized by 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side streets with a mix of Art Deco, Gothic Revival, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is defined by several standalone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, which is lined by parks such as Parque Bicentenario, Parque Forestal, and Parque de la Familia. The Andes Mountains are visible from most parts of the city and contribute to a smog problem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antônio Carlos Magalhães Neto
Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães Neto, commonly known as ACM Neto, (born 26 January 1979 in Salvador) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was the national president of the Democrats (DEM), and is currently general secretary of the Brazil Union. He is the grandson of deceased Senator and Governor of Bahia Antônio Carlos Magalhães (ACM), nephew of LuÃs Eduardo Magalhães and son of Antônio Carlos Magalhães Júnior, and political inheritor of one of the most powerful political families of the country. He was elected mayor of Salvador in 2012 and reelected in 2016. During both of his terms as mayor he was rated the most popular mayor in Brazil. Neto ran in the 2022 Bahia gubernatorial election, but lost to Jerônimo, winning 47.21% of the vote. Early life Neto was born in Salvador to Antônio Carlos Magalhães Júnior, son of ACM, the former governor of Bahia. He is also the nephew of and great grandson of He is a Lebanese descendant by his grandmother Arl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
