Tag: Brasilia

Obama: Brazil Is a Country of the Future no More. Future Has Arrived

Before flying to Rio on Sunday, Barack Obama, the president of the United States, ...

Obama and Family in Brazil: Lots of Ceremony, Little Else

With American president Barack Obama and his family aboard, Air Force One touched down ...

Brazilian Troops March for Independence Day and Guarantee Peaceful Elections

Brazil’s Independence Day, September 7 – Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822 – ...

In Brasília, Capital of Brazil, Dengue Has Struck Worst Among the Rich

Compared to the same period last year the number of reported cases of dengue ...

Brasília Governor Loses Office to Stay Politically Alive

The jailed governor of the Federal District, José Roberto Arruda, in a gambit, in ...

Brazilian Justice Sends Governor to Jail and Population Celebrates on the Street

José Roberto Arruda, the governor of Brasília, has spent the night in prison after ...

Brasília’s Corruption Case Delayed. Main Witness Also Has Rap Sheet

Brazilian Durval Barbosa, the man who accused some 30 politicians and contractors of Brazilian ...

The Embarrassment But Mostly the Pride of Being a Brasília’s Brazilian

I left Recife in 1970 and lived outside Brazil until 1979. When I found ...

Brazilian Pol Caught Filling Socks with Bribe Back as Assembly’s Chief

Brazilian assemblyman Leonardo Prudente (no party since he resigned so as to avoid being ...

Brazil’s Agro Research Czar’s Dream: Attune Technology and Environment

Pedro Antonio Arraes Pereira, the Brazilian researcher and engineer  who assumed the presidency of ...