Opinion: Brazil’s Power Vacuum
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Aristotle is said to have coined the phrase “Nature abhors a...
November 16, 2015Topic
Dilma
Opinion: Packing Brazil’s Supreme Court – Chapter Umpteen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This is written on Friday the 13th of November, which may...
November 14, 2015 Opinion: Brazil’s Recipe for Disaster
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Curmudgeon has been off line for a month now, but...
November 9, 2015
Rousseff Says Brazil Still Attractive for Foreign Investments
In the past year, Brazil has signed important new trade agreements with countries such as the U.S., Mexico, China and...
October 20, 2015Opinion: Brazil’s Embattled President
Last week, in a move designed to promote her desire to do something to keep the proverbial cow from meandering...
October 8, 2015
Opinion: Dilma’s Resignation?
The Curmudgeon has suggested several times that Dilma should resign. The news this week shows that in one sense of...
October 2, 2015 Opinion: Brazil’s Un-Real Currency
Around 22 years ago, writing for another Rio publication and using his real name (no pun intended), the Curmudgeon correctly...
September 30, 2015
Opinion: Brazil’s Dismal Dithering Dilma, Part II
Those of us who hoped Dilma would quit dithering after S&P’s consigning Brazil to the investment community’s scrap heap have...
September 24, 2015
Opinion: Brazil’s Busted Budget
The government has just submitted to Congress its proposed Budget for 2016, together with the obligatory 4 year plan through...
September 2, 2015