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 …
General Election: Analysis
President With Marina Silva’s support collapsing during the final week of campaigning, her 21.3% and Dilma Rousseff’s 41.6% were in line with the previous …
Brasil’s pioneering Electronic Voting System
In the October 2014 Brazilian Elections, across 5,570 municipalities, 450,000 polling stations and approximately 530,000 electronic voting machines will be used. Electronic voting in Brasil was …
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff is often regarded as a great unknown outside of Brasil but she has been an active force in official politics since the …
Emir Sader: What’s At Stake in Brasil Elections
When, in one of its first foreign policy positions, the Brazilian government – charged, together with the US, with concluding the negotiations for the …
Brasil’s Election Surprise
Brazil’s presidential election campaign, already marked by tragedy, continues with high drama after the first-round results on 5 October 2014. The incumbent Dilma Rousseff …
Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães: United States is betting on Marina
By Darío Pignotti. “The United States strategists are firmly in agreement with the foreign policy guidelines advocated by candidate Marina Silva. If she is …
Aécio Neves
Aécio Neves, was first senator, then governor of the South Eastern state of Minas Gerais. His governorship of Minas Gerais was regarded as a success …
SBT Presidential Debate
ORIGINAL DEBATE TRANSCRIPT TRANSLATED FROM CARTA CAPITAL This second debate, on SBT, and the first since Brasil Wire went live was slightly more nervous than …