Mensalão Corruption Trial Begins in Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court began to hear the huge cash-for-votes corruption case that threatens to tarnish former President Lula’s and Workers’...
August 7, 2012Topic
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Brazil 2012 Municipal Election Campaigns
The 2012 Brazilian municipal elections will not take place until October but this year’s elections have already taken on national...
July 17, 2012
Lula Backs Silva and PCdoB in Scandal: Daily
Presiden tLula has called on embattled Sports Minister Orlando Silva and the PCdoB to stand up to pressure and not...
October 24, 2011
President Rousseff Takes Stand on Corruption
President Rousseff is demonstrating a desire to end a level of institutionalized corruption inherited from a long, often embarrassing, past.
August 23, 2011
Herding Cats III, or…?
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - All of the Curmudgeon’s dedicated readers are wondering how he was...
June 14, 2011
The Curmudgeon on the Minimum Salary
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The battle has been raging, or so they say, over the...
February 22, 2011
Dilma’s PT, PMDB Alliance Good for Rio
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – All eyes are on Brazil's new president Dilma Rousseff...
January 11, 2011Accountability Versus Continuity – Third Presidential Term
Opinion, by Dr. Greg Michener (Ph.D. in political science, University of Texas at Austin) and Hugo Porto Fonseca (Master's in...
October 26, 2010
Serra Given Early Lead in Polls
By Pedro Widmar, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Just weeks away from the beginning of what will undoubtedly prove...
February 2, 2010