Well, I’ll Be Damned! The Drummer Was Right After All!
Never print anything in haste, or in anger, I always say. Well, maybe the ...
US Creative Way to Get Rid of Hospital Waste and Make a Buck: Exporting It to Brazil
In the United States somebody found out he could solve the problem of hospital ...
How Brazil Found a Way to Rearrange the Budget Mandated by the Constitution
Promulgated in 1988, Brazil’s most recent constitution made significant advances in revenue sharing. The ...
If It All Goes As In Scripts Past Brazil Will Soon Lose 6th Minister to Corruption
According to Brazil’s most popular weekly news magazine, Veja, advisers to Brazilian Labor minister ...
With UN’s Help Brazil Becomes Center of Fight Against Global Hunger
Brazil and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) have joined forces to launch ...
Brazil: There’s Talk of Revamping Fortaleza for the World Cup. I’m Not Betting on That
When I interviewed the late Julio Trindade (owner of the iconic Pirata Bar), he ...
In Rio, 95% of Favelas Are Controlled by Drug Lords and Police-Connected Thugs
Postcard-pretty Rio, in Brazil, is pockmarked with favelas (slums). More than a thousand of ...
In Brazil Car Sales Decline 10% While Anti-China Feeling Grows
Following September’s fall, which affected all of the Brazilian industry production, car sales in ...
World Cup: Rio Police Takes Control of Last Favela Around Maracanã in Hands of Drug Lords
The Mangueira favela (slum), with a population of around 20,000, became the latest out-of-control ...
At G20, Brazil, Russia and China Pressed to Stop Bribing Abroad
Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, said that solutions to European and global economic ...