Brazil as World’s Most Dangerous Place for Environmentalists
A Global Witness report shows 185 environmentalists were killed in 2015, 50 of them in Brazil., making it the most...
June 21, 2016Topic
Politics
Third Cabinet Member Resigns in Brazil in Less Than a Month
Tourism Minister resigns after being linked to the mega-corruption scandal, seven weeks before the start of the 2016 Olympics in...
June 17, 2016
Brazil’s Interim President Temer Linked to Bribery Scheme
Sergio Machado claims that Temer negotiated with him in 2012 the transfer of R$1.5 million in kickbacks to finance an...
June 16, 2016
Brazil’s House Speaker Eduardo Cunha Closer to Losing Mandate
The Lower House's Ethics Committee approved eleven votes to nine to remove Speaker of the House from office for lying...
June 15, 2016
Brazilian Prosecutors File Suit Against House Speaker
Prosecutors want to revoke Chamber Speaker Eduardo Cunha’s political rights for ten years and the return of R$20 million in...
June 14, 2016
The First Month of Brazil’s Interim President Michel Temer
His plans of trying to restore economic credibility were overshadowed by the resignation of two important cabinet members, weeks after...
June 13, 2016
Impeachment Trial Begins for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
The trial is expected to run until the beginning of August, when the full Senate will vote on whether to...
June 9, 2016
Education Goals in Brazil Unlikely to be Met in 2016
Although the National Education Plan runs until 2024, fourteen intermediary targets were set to be attained between 2015 and 2016.
June 8, 2016
Brazil’s Interim President Temer Bars Political Appointees
Brazilian interim president, Michel Temer, wants technocrats as directors or presidents of state-controlled entities not political nominations.
June 7, 2016