Guilty Verdicts for Forming the Mensalão
The Supreme Court (STF) has found at least ten politicians and business figures guilty of setting up the cash-for-votes mensalão...
October 23, 2012Topic
Political
PT Warns of a Mensalão Smoke Screen
PT President Rui Falcão has warned against the Mensalão scandal against his party for political ends in the second round...
October 16, 2012
Brazil Mourns Journalist, Fourth in 2012
The death of reporter Décio Sá, killed last week in Maranhão state, north-east Brazil, brings the number of journalists murdered...
May 1, 2012
President Rousseff’s 2012 Foreign Affairs
President Rousseff has made fewer official overseas trips in her first year in office than her predecessor, Lula, did in...
January 3, 2012
Hello 2012
Especially compared to the rest of the world, struggling in an economic crisis, Brazil looks like a good place to...
December 27, 2011
Brazil Joins CELAC, a Non-US LatAm Bloc
Brazil has become a member of a new political bloc that unites 33 countries from across Latin America, but significantly...
December 6, 2011