mensalão

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – From municipal elections to the mensalão, from dams to deforestation, for the slowing economy and the...

Opinion, by Alfonso Stefanini RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - With all the corruption being (re-)discovered and the current battle against its ongoing existence, there is...

Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Throw the rascals out!” This cry is, today in Brazil, relevant to the “mensalão” scandal, in...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Federal Police said Friday they had arrested six people in Brasília and São Paulo for alleged...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - The Minister of Justice in Brazil, José Eduardo Cardozo, reportedly told businessmen in São Paulo that...

Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As this is written, the Justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court (“STF”), in the final stages...

By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s Supreme Court, the STF, has sentenced ex-Chief of Staff José Dirceu to ten...

By Mary Carroll, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Operation Chakal took place on Thursday with the aim of clamping down on a...

Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – “Throw the rascals out!” This cry has been heard for years in U.S. politics, meaning that...

By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Voters in fifty cities, including seventeen state capitals, headed back to the polls on...

By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Fernando Haddad (PT) has been elected mayor of São Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city and business...

Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As this is written, the Justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court (“STF”) are now in the...

By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The biggest novela (prime-time soap opera) of 2012 in Brazil, Avenida Brasil, brought the...

By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Nine state capital cities in Brazil have now elected their mayors in the first...