RIO DE JANEIRO
‘Cadeia Velha’Â and the tentacles of Rio’s PMDB
In an exclusive contribution to Brasil Wire, an established Rio de Janeiro journalist using the pseudonym Luiz Matheus exposes how the internal battle within the ruling national PMDB party is upturning...
A Carnival of Chaos
The coup has transformed Brazil into a carnival of chaos and a parade of instability where samba drums have the rhythm of a planned insanity. There have been cuts to the education...
Rio Olympics: A Case Study In PMDB Governance
As the Economist and the Washington Post cheer-lead for a PMDB takeover of the Brazilian government, it is worth looking at how PMDB mayor Eduardo Paes managed World Cup and Olympic...
Rio Olympics: A City within a City
During 2012-2013 Brian Mier conducted a study of changes in Rio de Janeiro's municipal laws related to the World Cup and Olympics. The study was commissioned by the Ford Foundation and...
Rio de Janeiro and the Olympics: What is at stake?
As thousands of foreign media personnel parachute into Rio de Janeiro in the lead up to the upcoming Olympics, be prepared for an onslaught of what Pierre Bourdieu referred to as...
When the RAF went to Rio
In the early 1980s, as the Cold War entered its last decade, the focus of Britain’s defence posture was clear. The threat lay to the East against the massed ranks of...
Brasil is not Rio
The Olympics are arriving in a year and it is only a matter of time before thousands of journalists parachute into Rio as they did last year during the months before...
