Politics

Supreme Court's building in Brasília

70% of Brazilian Authorities’ Cases in the Higher Court Have to Do with Corruption

Some 70% of cases involving authorities at the Brazilian Supreme Court and the Superior ...

Marina Silva 2 - Wikimedia Commons

Marina Silva Announces She’s Running for the Fourth Time for President of Brazil

Marina Silva, Brazil’s third most popular candidate in the past three presidential elections, has ...

A Brazilian woman on her job

Brazil President Softens Pension Reform Bill to Get Congress’s Approval

A new version of Brazil’s unpopular pension reform bill presented this week would require ...

Lula and the masses - Photo: Ricardo Stuckert

Brazilians Can’t Decide: Half Want Lula as President and the Other Half Want Him in Jail

Half of Brazilians want former President Lula da Silva to win next year’s election ...

Congress of young evangelicals - RBC

Brazilian Gangs Are Now Waging Their War in the Name of God

The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in Rio de Janeiro, it’s ...

Brazilian journalist Gleydson Carvalho killed while he was on air

Murder and Impunity: The Risky Business of Being a Journalist in Brazil

Brazil and Mexico are among the countries that saw the highest increases in impunity ...

Michel Temer - Photo: Marcos Corrêa/PR

Brazil’s President Survives Second Attempt to Push Him Out for Corruption

Brazilian lawmakers have voted against suspending President Michel Temer and rejected the push to ...

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, who died in 1999, was an advocate for Liberation Theology. He was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife

What the World Can Learn from a Moribund Liberation Theology

This June saw the passing of two of our generation’s most fascinating and controversial ...