Opinion: Packing Brazil’s Supreme Court – Chapter Umpteen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This is written on Friday the 13th of November, which may...
November 14, 2015Section
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Opinion Articles from The Rio Times
Opinion: Brazil’s Recipe for Disaster
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Curmudgeon has been off line for a month now, but...
November 9, 2015Opinion: Brazil’s Embattled President
Last week, in a move designed to promote her desire to do something to keep the proverbial cow from meandering...
October 8, 2015
Opinion: The Green-go-fication of Rio de Janeiro
The recycled Olympic aluminum torch will soon make landing in Brazil as it makes its way from the eternal Olympiad...
October 5, 2015
Opinion: Dilma’s Resignation?
The Curmudgeon has suggested several times that Dilma should resign. The news this week shows that in one sense of...
October 2, 2015 Opinion: Brazil’s Un-Real Currency
Around 22 years ago, writing for another Rio publication and using his real name (no pun intended), the Curmudgeon correctly...
September 30, 2015
Opinion: Brazil’s Kleptocracy
The Curmudgeon occasionally hears from U.S. sources that Brazil’s been taken over by communists. That’s not the case. Although Dilma’s...
September 25, 2015 Opinion: Brazil’s Dismal Dithering Dilma, Part II
Those of us who hoped Dilma would quit dithering after S&P’s consigning Brazil to the investment community’s scrap heap have...
September 24, 2015 Opinion: Brazil’s Citizens Re-United
The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) has just dared do what the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) did not dare to...
September 21, 2015