Mauricio Savarese

March 15, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Friends and former classmates told investigators that 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Henrique de Castro were obsessed with the attack on Columbine High School.

By Mauricio Savarese and Peter Prengaman

6 minute read

September 07, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A knife-wielding man stabbed far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro at a campaign rally on Thursday as he was being carried on the shoulders of a supporter.

By Mauricio Savarese and Sarah DiLorenzo

5 minute read

January 04, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Brazilian authorities said that the inmates responsible for the killings of 60 rivals at two prisons in the Amazon region will be transferred to high-security federal institutions in addition to being prosecuted. Many of those slain were beheaded or dismembered in the worst bloodshed at a prison of the South American country since 1992.

By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

8 minute read

December 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

As Brazilians mourned the recent plane crash that killed 71 people, including almost an entire soccer team, President Michel Temer spent days publicly wavering about whether to attend the memorial service in the southern city of Chapeco.

By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

9 minute read

December 07, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The head of the charter airline whose plane crashed in the Andes last week was detained by Bolivian prosecutors for questioning as authorities look into whether the tragedy that killed 71 people stemmed from negligence.

By Carlos Valdez and Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

6 minute read

September 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Brazilian investigators charged former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with money laundering and corruption, calling him the "maximum commander" of the mammoth graft scandal roiling Latin America's largest nation.

By Mauricio Savarese and Peter Prengaman, Associated Press

6 minute read

June 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and suspended last month, her permanent ouster seemed all but certain. But the government of interim President Michel Temer may be doing more to persuade senators to rethink their stance on Rousseff than she ever could while in office.

By Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarese Associated Press

5 minute read

June 01, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Leaked recordings of heavyweight politicians discussing Brazil's sprawling kickback scandal caused more headaches for acting President Michel Temer, with a new tape forcing his anti-corruption minister to quit.

By Mauricio Savarese Associated Press

6 minute read

May 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Brazil's Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff after a months­long fight that laid raw the country's fury over corruption and economic decay, hurling Latin America's largest country into political turmoil just months before it hosts the Summer Olympics.

By Jenny Barchfield and Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

9 minute read

May 07, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Brazil's top court voted unanimously to suspend the scandal-tainted leader of the lower house of Congress from his duties.

By Mauricio Savarese

5 minute read