Opinion
The Streets Clamored for It, But Brazilian Congress Is Bungling the Electoral Reform
Brazil’s Congress is rushing to approve a series of legislative reforms to update the ...
The Revocation of Brazil’s Pro-Deforestation Decree Has No Teeth
On August 23, 2017, Brazil’s president Michel Temer issued a decree revoking the RENCA ...
Forget the American Dream. What Brazil Needs Is a Parliamentary Monarchy
I am a Canadian by birth. My wife is Brazilian. Naturally we try to ...
After Legislative and Executive Scandals, Brazil’s Judiciary Shows It’s Not Without Its Sins
With the current president Michel Temer under suspicion and two former presidents, Luiz Inácio ...
Zero Deforestation Is the Only Answer in this Side of the Amazon
Perched at the easternmost edge of the Amazon rainforest is Maranhão, one of Brazil’s ...
A Brazilian Landless Movement’s Leader Talks About the MST’s Mistakes, Challenges and Plans
During the 1960s, legend has it that governor José Sarney sat down at a ...
Brazil President Spending Billions in Amendments and Decrees to Hang Onto the Presidency
What does it cost to hang onto the office of President? In Brazil, President ...
In Brazil, Left and Right Are Lost in the Labyrinth of History
In today’s Brazil, everything is as it seems. The belly of politics has been ...
Only Promises of Economic Improvement Keep Brazil’s President in Power
When Michel Temer assumed the presidency in 2016 after the illegitimate impeachment of former ...
Lula’s Conviction Is a Testament to How Far Brazil Has Come as a Democracy
After Dilma Rousseff was ousted as president in August 2016, Brazil’s pro-impeachment camp confidently ...
