Tag: lula

The Ritual Sacrifice of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was sacrificed as a scapegoat for sins and shortcomings widely ...

The Problem with Impeaching Brazil’s President: All in Line of Succession Are Accused of Corruption

Brazil’s crisis is compounding and threatens to drive the recession deeper and drain the ...

The Meaning of Brazil’s Protests and a Who Is Who of the Main Villains

A wave of pro-impeachment protesters against Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, representing the largest political ...

Brazil’s Lula Detention Just Business As Usual in a Land of Corrupts

Brazilians have joked that they’re lucky they don’t have to deal with natural disasters ...

Brazil’s Next Presidential Election Might Be Fight Between Lula and Alckmin

On Sunday 26 October, more than 110 million Brazilians went to vote after an ...

Despite Cardoso’s Stability and Lula’s Social Agenda Brazil Still Waits for a Real Reform

This World Cup definitely feels very different to its predecessors. One sign of this ...

Some Brazilians Are Rooting Against Brazil. It’s All Politics.

As we get closer to the October presidential election, the attacks on the World ...

Lula Is Not Coming Back, Says Brazilian President, Because He Never Went Away

Responding to news that former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is returning to ...

The Battisti Affair Hasn’t Sated Italy’s Appetite for Doing Business with Brazil

Cesare Battisti, a member of Italy’s Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC), lives comfortably in ...

Brazil’s Rousseff Comes Out Swinging Against the Economist and in Defense of Lula

The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, once again repeated she would not be influenced ...