Opinion: Brazil’s Pizzaioli at the Ready
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Not long ago, there were reports that the TCU, one of...
August 16, 2015Section
Opinion
Op-eds, perspectives, and editorial commentary
Opinion: Brazil’s Presidential Dilemma
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Curmudgeon asks his readers to put yourselves in President Dilma’s...
August 11, 2015
Opinion: Brazil’s High Plains Drifter? a Provocation
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The 1973 film epic “High Plains Drifter” stars Clint Eastwood as...
August 6, 2015 Opinion: Bombs Away! (“Pauta Bomba”) in Brazil
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The month of August is known as being difficult for Brazilian...
August 5, 2015
Opinion: Petrobras Scandal Affects Journalists as Well
Opinion, by Peter Howard Wertheim and Dayse Abrantes RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The massive corruption scandal within state–controlled oil...
August 4, 2015 Opinion: Brazilian Pork Barrel, Revisited
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Orçamento impositivo” is the sesquipedalian rendering in Portuguese of “pork barrel”...
August 3, 2015
Editorial: The Sky is Falling in Rio, Finally!
Editorial, by Stone Korshak RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The sky is falling! The Brazilian economy is in a tailspin,...
July 21, 2015Opinion: Brazil’s Presidents under Investigation
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - It’s been a bad week for Presidents in Brazil, with almost...
July 18, 2015
Opinion: Courting Brazil’s Supreme Court
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Recently, the current STF Presiding Justice, Ricardo Lewandowski, had a secret...
July 15, 2015