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October. October 13 - 17: A 15-year-old girl named Eloá Cristina Pimentel is kidnapped, held hostage, and later murdered by her ex-boyfriend. This would be the longest hostage crisis in the state of São Paulo's history. The São Paulo police are heavily criticized for their handling of the crisis. [ 7 ][ 8 ]
Brazil is a federal presidential constitutional republic, based on representative democracy. The federal government has three independent branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Executive power is exercised by the executive branch, headed by the President, advised by a Cabinet. The President is both the head of state and the head of ...
Brazil's political crisis stemmed from the way in which the political tensions had been controlled in the 1930s and 1940s during the Vargas Era.Vargas' dictatorship and the presidencies of his democratic successors marked different stages of Brazilian populism (1930–1964), an era of economic nationalism, state-guided modernization, and import substitution trade policies.
Municipal elections were held in Brazil on October 5 and October 26, 2008. [1] Over 130 million voters chose mayors and city councillors for the 5,565 municipalities of Brazil. [2] Brazilian law allowed candidates to run under ballot names different from their legal names. At least six candidates chose the ballot name "Barack Obama" [3] and ...
January 13, 2023 at 4:21 PM. How political unrest escalated into violence in Brazil. Days after authorities regained control of Brazil’s government buildings the nation is still facing the ...
History of Brazil. Brazilian history from 1985 to the present, also known as the Sixth Brazilian Republic or New Republic, is the contemporary epoch in the history of Brazil, beginning when civilian government was restored after a 21-year-long military dictatorship established after the 1964 coup d'état. The negotiated transition to democracy ...
Situation of party seats in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in May 2013. The PT-PMDB coalition government enjoyed a large majority of support (81.6% of the seats), paralleled with high positive popularity ratings (around 80%). After the protests, the margins of support for the government both in the Congress and with the population dropped ...
Direct presidential elections are held in Brazil as part of the general elections every four years (which has been regular since 1994), typically in October. The current electoral law provides for a two-round system in which a candidate must receive more than 50% of the vote to win in the first round; if no candidate passes the 50% threshold, a run-off is held between the top two candidates. [1]