Opinion: Water, Water … Where?
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s Northeast has long suffered from periodic droughts, particularly in the...
February 13, 2015Topic
Opinion
Opinion: Bovinity and Puppetry, Petrobras in Brazil, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bovinity has been defined as: “the state or quality of being...
February 7, 2015 Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Sacred Cow, an updated Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Groundhog Day, a prominent Brazilian daily announced that President Dilma...
February 5, 2015 Opinion: Fisiologismo 101, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - When you look up this word in Portuguese, you get a...
February 4, 2015 Opinion: Impunity 102, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Under long-standing Brazilian administrative law, all companies whose executives have been...
February 2, 2015Opinion: Impunity 101, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – January 29th, 2014, one year ago, Brazil’s first Anti-Corruption Law (12.846/13)...
February 1, 2015
Opinion: Who Were Those Guys? a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yesterday, December 13th, was the 46th anniversary of the promulgation by...
December 14, 2014 Opinion: A Tale of Two Countries, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yesterday’s headline news from the U.S. was utterly depressing, if not...
December 11, 2014 Opinion: Lula Knew? Dilma Knew? Now what?
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It is difficult these days to read the newspapers and not...
December 10, 2014