Tag: Elections

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, ...

Brazil's Folha de S. Paulo headline: Lula and Alckmin Dispute Second Round

Brazilian Masses Send Lula a Message: We May Be Poor But We Are Not Dumb

The first interpretations suggested by the tight electoral results of Sunday (October 1st) have ...

Brazilian Justice Indicts Six Close Aides of Lula for Dossiergate

A Brazilian federal judge indicted six close aides of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula ...