Article: Brazilian stocks sink again on corruption scandal concerns

Article: Leader of governing Workers Party steps down amid ...
AP Worldstream;  July 9, 2005 ;     574 words ... ... Brazil The leader of the governing Workers Party stepped down on Saturday, the third ... mistakes," Genoino said. "But the Workers Party does not participate in illegal activities, the Workers Party does not buy or pay congressmen ...

Article: Brazilian president mum on corruption scandal ...
AP Worldstream;  June 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Brazil Battered by accusations that the Workers Party he helped found paid monthly bribes ... Top congressional members from the Workers Party said Silva was informed about the alleged ... Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that the Workers Party paid monthly "allowances" of more ...

Article: Fall from grace in Lulaland; Brazil's corruption ...
The Economist (US);  July 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... shoe-shine boy to trade-union leader to founder of the Workers' Party (PT), the largest left-wing force in Latin America ... offers much circumstantial evidence that once in power, the Workers' Party, the avatar of clean government, began to finance itself ...

Article: Head of Silva's Workers Party predicts Carnival ...
AP Worldstream;  February 19, 2004 ;     688 words ... ... administration, the head of Silva's Workers Party on Thursday predicted the controversy ... opposition politicians trying to make the Workers Party look bad before important municipal ... administration members _ could damage the Workers Party's efforts to push an ambitious platform ...

Article: Brazilian ruling party admits receiving support from ...
Xinhua News Agency;  July 3, 2005 ;     560 words ... ... accused in corruption scandal RIO DE JANEIRO ... s ruling Workers Party admitted ... involved in the corruption scandal. Officials of the Workers Party had also ... government. The Workers Party had been ... shadow of a corruption scandal after ...

Article: Lula says he does not learn of his party's corruption ...
Xinhua News Agency;  December 8, 2005 ;     382 words ... ... learn of his party's corruption scandal BRASILIA, Dec. 7 ... of anything about the corruption scandal of his Workers' Party. The scandal erupted ... Jefferson accused the Workers' Party of bribing lawmakers ...

Article: Despite ongoing corruption scandal, Brazilian ...
AP Worldstream;  November 8, 2005 ;     560 words ... ... Brazil Despite an ongoing corruption scandal that has rocked his ... has suffered as the corruption scandal engulfed his governing Workers' Party, once viewed as a bastion ... to be crooked. The corruption scandal involves illegal campaign ...