The United States and Brasil: On Reaping What You Sow
By Jan K. Black It was often said in Latin America in the early 1960s that when the United States sneezed, Latin America caught …
Chasing the Dragon
The United States engagement with its Latin American neighbours over the past century has been a catalogue of failure, culminating in China filling the vacuum. …
Why Is The US Government Still Hiding What They Did To Brazil In 1998?
Written by Jake Johnston. Original version published at The Americas Blog by CEPR. Republished with permission. On Sunday, October 4, 1998, as international bankers, …
United States Penetration of Brasil – Epilogue
In her 1977 book “United States Penetration of Brazil“, former CIA researcher, Professor Jan K Black exposed the complex role the US had played in …
When A British Government Minister Tried To Privatise The Brazilian Amazon
The legacy of colonialism is no more apparent than in the asymmetry between attitudes to sovereignty in the developing world and the developed. It would …
Echoes in the Echo Chamber: Brasil, Elections, Media & the Ghosts of ’64.
“There’s an unwritten understanding amongst Foreign Correspondents that the U.S. wants PSDB in power.” – Foreign Correspondent, São Paulo, 22/6/2013 Originally published March 2015. …
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 …
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 …