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Brazil Might Enjoy European Living Standard If It Had Kept Growing as in the 60s and 70s

The biggest economic question facing Brazil, as for most developing countries, is when it ...

Brazil May Offer Tax Cuts to Encourage Long-Term Lending by Banks

The Finance minister of Brazil, Guido Mantega has just informed that foreign-based companies operating ...

Almost Certain to Be Brazil’s Next President, Rousseff Beats Serra in His Own Home State

With Lula’s popularity soaring at about 80%, these are not good times to be ...

After Years of Censorship Brazil’s Supreme Allows Political Satire on Radio and TV

The Brazilian Supreme Court decided to suspend the rule banning radio and television comedians ...

Bank of Brazil Looking for Banks to Buy in the United States

Latin America’s biggest bank by assets, Banco do Brasil, plans the acquisition of banks ...

In Brazil’s Inhumane Jails Almost Half the Inmates Were Never Convicted

Since its transition from dictatorship to democracy in the mid 1980s, Brazil has undergone ...

Despite International Outcry Lula Gives Green Light to Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Thursday the contracts for ...

If Elected Brazilian President Rousseff Might Raise Taxes on Foreign Capital

With Brazilian public opinion polls confirming the growing commanding gap between Brazil’s ruling coalition ...

Doctors Declare Presidential Candidate Dilma Rousseff Cured of Lymphoma

Dilma Rousseff, the Brazilian presidential candidate for the Workers Party ruling coalition underwent a ...

Brazil’s Economy Cools Down After 9% Annual Rate Expansion

For the third month in a row Brazil has reported in July slower job ...