Tag: politics
Brazil’s New Anti-Corruption Law Scares Politicians and Jurists
Brazil’s Clean Criminal Record (Ficha Limpa) aims to moralize Brazilian politics, establishing some ethical ...
Why We Failed: Brazil and World Politicians Can’t See Humanity, Only Voters
Everyone knows that the Copenhagen meeting failed in its attempt to impede the climate-change ...
Enough of Good News, Brazil! Time to Build a Fairer Society Now
A number of events has projected Brazil into the headlines of international news, besides ...
12 Pointers to Turn Brazil’s Congress into a Source of Pride
Each time that an ethical crisis lays waste to politics, a sort of horror ...
Brazil Has Made Twitter into a Tool for a Fairer Democracy
While Twitter has revolutionized communication in the US and around the world, it has ...
Rogues Gallery – Brazil’s PMDB Comes “Clean” at Last
When I first started to cover the Brazilian political scene in the mid-90s I ...
Brazilian Politics Leonard Cohen Style
Whenever I try to follow the ins and outs of Brazilian politics with its ...
So Rich Brazil, So Many Poor Brazilians!
A few days ago, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book Lula of Brazil: The ...
Brazil’s Lula Loses Some of His Moral Luster
One of the great dangers in following Brazilian politics is that you can become ...
Brazil’s Politicians Set to Cash in on Oil and Gas Discoveries
As if Brazil was not blessed with a bounty of natural resources it seems ...
