Opinion: Brazil’s Important Municipal Elections
Opinion by Michael Royster RIO DE JANERIO, BRAZIL – Because the Olympics and Paralympics have dominated news from Rio de...
September 28, 2016Topic
Election
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Final Round
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Sunday 105 million Brazilian voters went to polling stations and cast...
October 28, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on “Done and Dusted”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The 2014 Brazilian elections are done and dusted: Marina Silva will...
September 2, 2014
World Cup Loss Unlikely to Affect Presidential Elections
Brazil's economic woes were temporarily forgotten during the World Cup, but will come back into focus as presidential campaigning starts.
July 15, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Strange Bedfellows
Pre-election postulating in Brazil reveals a tangled network of political alliances all scrambling madly for TV time.
July 1, 2014
Lula Backs Political Reform as a Priority in Brazil: Daily
In an online video, former PT president backs campaign for reform ahead of October’s elections.
June 26, 2014
Rio Governor Cabral to Step Down in 2014
By Maria Lopez Conde, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - The state governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral,...
December 3, 2013
A Promise Made is a Debt Unpaid
Poet Robert Service probably didn’t realize how apt the words of his 1907 work “The Cremation of Sam McGee” would...
October 29, 2013
Brazil Reacts as Benedict XVI Resigns
Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation has shocked Catholics, and given Brazil's large numbers of Catholics, some hope the new Pope will...
February 12, 2013