Brazilian Economy Minister to Stay Until end of Bolsonaro Administration, President Says
Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro said in a video published on Saturday, December 19th, that his finance minister Paulo Guedes assured...
December 20, 2020Topic
Bolsonaro Administration
Opinion: The Triumphal Return of the “300 Picaretas”
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Back in 1993, running for President after serving in Congress for four years, Luis Inácio...
August 20, 2020
Brazil’s Largest Companies Demand End to Amazon Deforestation
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Leaders of some of Brazil’s largest companies as well as multinationals with offices in the country,...
July 8, 2020
Human Rights Goals Not Implemented in Brazil, NGOs Tell UN
Brazil has been able to implement only one of the 163 recommendations made by foreign governments regarding its human rights...
September 19, 2019
Brazil’s Bolsonaro: “How’s He Doing after Six Months in Office?”
Column, by Michael Royster RIBEIRÃO PRETO, Brazil – This coming Monday, July 1st, will mark the beginning of the second...
June 30, 2019
Bolsonaro May Have to Re-create Ministries Scrapped in January
In addition to protests by teachers and students, investigations into one of his son’s financial activities and stalemate in the...
May 17, 2019
Brazil Government Slashes Public Financing of Cultural Projects
Brazil has announced new rules for the Rouanet Law, the government’s main instrument to finance cultural ventures, including a steep...
April 23, 2019
Brazil’s Privatization of Twelve Airports Seeks to Obtain R$2.1 Billion
Brazil’s government will auction off twelve airports on Friday which receive annually almost twenty million passengers, and hope to obtain...
March 15, 2019
Brazil’s Government to Cut Over 20,000 Federal Jobs
Brazil’s federal government plans to save R$209 million per year, by cutting over 20,000 commissioned jobs, according to the Special...
February 4, 2019