Politics

Brazil’s Supreme Decides to Investigate Rousseff and Lula for Obstruction of Justice

Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) Justice Teori Zavascki has authorized Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot to look ...

Brazil Congress Plot to Pardon Those Involved in the Petrobras Corruption Case

Brazilian financial newspaper Valor Econômico revealed details of an alleged corruption amnesty currently being ...

Brazil Moves to Emulate the US and Dismantle Its Universal Healthcare System

Since 1988, the newly established Brazilian constitution has affirmed access to public healthcare as ...

Brazil Senate Sets Date for President’s Impeachment. Rousseff Proposes National Referendum

Brazil’s Senate President Renan Calheiros said that he will meet with party leaders next ...

“Out, Dilma,” “Stay, Dilma.” Brazilians Can’t Decide What to Do with Their President

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Brazil, some calling for the permanent ...

Brazil’s Ex Vice President, Self-Made Millionaire José Alencar, Dies at 79

Brazil’s former vice president, José Alencar, died in the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo ...

The US New Fancy Transformational Diplomacy Gives Top Status to Brazil

Through implementation of her "Transformational Diplomacy" initiative, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has ...

The Drunk Who Cracked the Fortress of Brazil’s Dictatorship

I discovered the political relevance of popular music many years ago, listening to Arlo ...

The World Ignores the Brazilian Genius at Its Own Peril

Unfortunately during the 20th century and now the 21st century Brazil and Latin America ...