Opinion: A Tale of Two Courts
The Curmudgeon pays attention to news concerning the Judicial Branch of both Brazil and the USA. He is happy to...
November 17, 2015Topic
Opinion
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, 2015 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, 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: 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 Kleptocracy
The Curmudgeon occasionally hears from U.S. sources that Brazil’s been taken over by communists. That’s not the case. Although Dilma’s...
September 25, 2015 Opinion: Brazil’s Standard? Poor!
The seemingly inevitable has happened—Brazil has now been downgraded by Standard & Poor's, one of the three big credit risk...
September 14, 2015
Opinion: Brazil’s CPMF Tax Resuscitated?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL- There is a Brazilian saying that goes “Farinha pouca? Meu pirão primeiro!” That translates, roughly, into...
August 28, 2015