Brasil’s crisis is a mix of corruption, smears, resentment and mal-governance
Brazil’s political crisis, which starts in our flawed party financing system and ends on the streets with people that don’t feel represented by politicians, …
Converging Income Inequality in Brasil and the United States: Some Uncomfortable Realities
The US will become as unequal as Brasil. And that bothers both societies. As we watched President Obama’s second inauguration 2013 it was hard …
Petrobras Scandal Might Dismantle Brasil’s Political Party System
The Federal Police Operation that uncovered bribes to politicians and a cartel of gigantic construction companies goes much beyond corruption at Brasil’s state-oil Petrobras. …
Democracy in Black and White – Football and the Fight Against Dictatorship
The role of the Corinthians’ Democracy in Brasil’s re-democratization: Director Pedro Asbeg discusses Democracy in Black & White Fear of police, social tyranny and a …
Reality versus Red Scare
Losing elections isn’t easy, and Brasil’s anti-communist paranoia is almost as old as communism itself, but in 2014, the decades-old fantasy of a Marxist takeover of the …
Ituassu: The Road to 2018
Two problems and four names emerge from the results of the seventh presidential election in Brasil since the return to democracy in 1988. On …
Why Dilma Rousseff won
Dilma Rousseff won in the closest and most turbulent Presidential Election since 1989 because the people get to vote, not the markets. The majority …
Reinaldo Lobo: The Revolt of the Elite
13/02/2014. A curious phenomenon is occurring in Brasil. Since June last year, a considerable number of protesters who have taken to the streets against the World …
Brasil’s Citizen Kanes
Brasil has a healthy and noisy media landscape; from sophisticated daily papers and weekly magazines comparable to any in Europe, right through to trashy …
A Phantom Crisis
With election campaigning entering its critical phase you could be forgiven for thinking that Brasil was in the throes of economic meltdown, with foreign …