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Brazil’s Bolsonaro: How’s He Doing After 100 Days? Part III – Economics
Opinion by Michael Royster
São Paulo, SP – It is almost ritualistic for pundits to analyze presidential performance and public opinion during a president’s first...
Opinion | Brazil’s Bolsonaro: How’s He Doing After 100 Days? Part II – Education
Opinion by Michael Royster
São Paulo, SP – It is almost ritualistic for pollsters and pundits to analyze presidential performance and public opinion during a...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro: How’s He Doing After 100 Days? Part I: Foreign Affairs
Opinion by Michael Royster
São Paulo, SP – On April 10, Jair Messias Bolsonaro will commemorate (or perhaps just remember) his first 100 days in...
Opinion: Bolsonaro’s Post-Modern Politics
Opinion, by Michael Royster
São Paulo, Brazil – President Jair Bolsonaro has made it clear—he is NOT going to go back to the "old politics,"...
Opinion: Brazil’s Cultural Marxism and Bolsonaro’s Base
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s President Bolsonaro has, one reads, a cultural guru, whose influence extends to the ability to...
Opinion: Brazil’s Brumadinho is Vale’s Worst Nightmare
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brumadinho is a municipality south of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, where some 12...
Opinion: Brazil’s Supreme Court Enters the Political Thicket
Opinion by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Today, February 21st, Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) will continue discussing and (possibly) voting on an extremely...
Opinion: Thirty Fatalities in Rio de Janeiro! (Yawn)
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Seven dead in favela mudslides: cause, torrential rain. Ten dead in dormitory fire: cause, flamingo vultures....
Opinion: Brazil’s Bolsonaro and The (Not Very) Magic Mountain
Opinion by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A century ago, Davos was the setting for Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain”: it featured...
Opinion: Brazil’s BBB and Voting Blocs – Bolsonaro’s Challenge
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Fear not, gentle reader — the BBB in the headline is NOT about Brazilian broadcasting’s bowdlerized...
Opinion: Brazil and Brexit and Bolsonaro
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Today is crunch time for Brexit, as Prime Minister Theresa May tries to drum up support...
Opinion: Brazil’s Worldview – Past is Prologue?
Opinion by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - After reading Ernesto Araújo’s public address upon his installation as Brazil’s Foreign Minister the Curmudgeon is...
Opinion: Brazil’s Bolsonaro – How’s He Doing in 2019?
Opinion by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Immediately after his formal swearing-in as Brazil’s President, Jair Messias Bolsonaro gave two speeches. The first...
Opinion: Brazil’s Lamentable Lame Duck Presidency
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s last quarter 2018 saw the election of Jair Bolsonaro, who began immediately to act as...