Tag: Elections
Brazil Wants to Improve Female Participation in Elections. Now It’s 142nd in the World
Brazil’s October general elections are expected to have the biggest participation of women in ...
In Brazil Voting Is Serious Business and Mandatory to Boot
Brazil’s Election Board, the TSE, which is actually a court consisting of federal judges ...
Brazil Wants to Control Use of Internet in Political Campaigns
In Brazil, proposed reforms of the Brazilian electoral rules, part of broader reforms in ...
Brazil: Presidential Elections Shaping Up as Referendum on Environment
Brazilian senator Marina Silva, Brazil's former environment minister has left the ruling Workers' Party, ...
Political Polarization Has Done Brazil a Lot of Good
The test of a democracy’s health is what happens at levels beneath that of ...
Today’s Election in Brazil May Put Two Women in Competition for Presidency
In Brazil, where voting is mandatory, close to 130 million Brazilians are going this ...
Brazilian Justice Can’t Tell News Reporting from Propaganda
A Brazilian court fined the newspaper Agosto, on June 5, US$ 13,400 for publishing ...
Brazilian Courts Keep Meddling with the Press and Censoring It
On the eve of the second round of Brazil’s general elections on October 29, ...
Poll Gives Brazil’s Lula Presidency Again by a Landslide
Less than two weeks from Brazil’s second-round presidential election the final results are already ...
After Debate, Brazil’s Lula Is More Candidate than President
Both the Brazilian government and the opposition claimed victory in the first televised debate, ...