Opinion: Brazilian Pork Barrel, Revisited
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Orçamento impositivo” is the sesquipedalian rendering in Portuguese of “pork barrel”...
August 3, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Orçamento impositivo” is the sesquipedalian rendering in Portuguese of “pork barrel”...
August 3, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Often overlooked in the frenzy over corruption is the number of...
June 18, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon will today focus on Brazilian criminal law. “Boring!” you...
June 17, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The first “king” is Roberto Carlos, a star of Brazilian music...
June 16, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This week or next, the Federal Senate will begin hearings to...
May 4, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - One of the collateral effects of the Lava Jato investigation and...
March 20, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In early 1999, the Curmudgeon watched, aghast, as the dollar went...
March 19, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon will today focus on two closely related topics: (1)...
March 13, 2015
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Traditionally, the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) was largely exempt from political...
March 11, 2015