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Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Brazilian Impunity
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This week, STF Justice Celso de Mello overturned an order to imprison a person who had...
Opinion: Brazil’s “Ethical” Congress
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This week, after an interminable nine months of internecine squabbling, behind-closed-doors arm-pulling, vociferous jawboning and dire...
Opinion: Brazil’s Politicians Pre-empt Transplants
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – One of the few things President (for the time being) Temer has done right recently is...
Brazil Visa Waiver From June 1st to September 18th
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This week, on Wednesday, June 1st, the visa exemption began for American, Japanese, Canadian and...
Opinion: Temer’s First Fortnight – a Report Card
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As of Friday, May 28th, Michel Temer will have been President of Brazil for two weeks....
Opinion: Brazil’s Shameful, Shameless Politicians
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Curmudgeon’s last op-ed submission accused the STF of having acted without constitutional support by barring...
Opinion: Brazil’s Politicized Judiciary
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Curmudgeon opined yesterday that STF Justice Teori’s early morning order excluding Eduardo Cunha from his...
Brazil’s President Rousseff to Fight Impeachment to the End
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – A day after Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted to authorize the advancement of impeachment proceedings...
Opinion: Brazil’s Indirect Election, Part II
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In his previous column, the Curmudgeon opined that Congress, while paying lip service to the “presidential”...
Opinion: The Year of Living Dangerously, A Brazilian Tale
Opinion, by Simon Thomas
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In Brazil right now it feels a bit like the last few scenes of one of...
Opinion: Brazil on Tenterhooks, Part III
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The weekend has ended, Holy Week has begun, but the tenterhooks are still holding both...
Opinion: Brazil on Tenterhooks: Will He or Won’t He?
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Curmudgeon, together with almost everyone else in Brazil, is on tenterhooks today. The question on...
Opinion: Lula, Brazil’s Horatio Alger Hero?
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Curmudgeon owes the inspiration for this column to a 2009 film entitled “Lula, Son of...
Opinion: In Brazil “Worse is Better”?
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Quanto pior, melhor” has been a catch phrase for PSDB and other opposition parties in recent...