Convicted Mensalão Fugitive Arrested in Italy: Daily
Henrique Pizzolato, the former marketing director of Banco do Brasil, was arrested by Italian authorities in the city of Maranello...
February 6, 2014Topic
Brazil politics
Congress to Decide on Brazil’s 2014 Budget
The final version of the proposed federal budget (LOA) report for 2013 has cut the amount of funding provided for...
December 17, 2013
Apartments for Niterói’s Displaced on Hold
Demolition work began earlier this week on two newly constructed apartment blocks originally planned to house displaced favela residents in...
March 26, 2013
Protests Over Feliciano Election: Daily
Protests held in sixteen Brazilian cities against the election of Pastor Marco Feliciano as President of the Human Rights Commission.
March 10, 2013
Ex-Chief of Staff Claims Innocence: Daily
A week after the arrest of the president’s ex-chief of staff, Rosemary Noronha claims she is innocent amid accusations of...
November 30, 2012
The Curmudgeon on The Political Thicket
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mr. Justice Frankfurter, long ago, exhorted his colleagues on the U.S....
January 4, 2011
Scandal Continues as Clinton Arrives
Jaylan Boyle, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The ongoing corruption scandal that has dogged the Conservative Democrat Party...
March 2, 2010
Presidential Candidate: Marina Silva
By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor [caption id="attachment_9812" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Marina Silva, photo by www.revistaepoca.globo.com."][/caption] RIO DE JANEIRO - Following our...
September 1, 2009