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Brazil Is All Smiles over Prime Fall

Despite the cooling-off of the Brazilian economy, 618,577 new jobs were created in the ...

Brazil and US: A Deal on Generics

Under the terms of a new agreement, poor nations will have to go through ...

Dreaming of Rio, in Tripoli

We have warmed to one another. I now feel it is the moment to ...

My 20 Years as a Brazilian Gringo

I’ve become much less American and much more Brazilian. Take my anti-U.S. imperialist sentiments, ...

Brazil’s Fat Lady Can’t Sing – Act Two

The Teatro Amazonas, in Manaus, was inaugurated in 1896 with excerpts from Ponchielli’s La ...

Brazil Doing Bad, Lula Doing Good

At the beginning of the Lula term of office, the time people were willing ...

Brazil: Delmiro’s Legacy in the Backlands

Known locally as the crossroads of the sertão, Petrolina in Pernambuco, and Juazeiro in ...

Landscapes of Hunger in Brazil

Maria Cicera is not assisted by any government program because officially she does not ...

Brazil: Dear President, Can You Spare a Job?

Mr. President, how about a popular vote to find out from Brazilians themselves what ...

Brazil: Carmen Miranda’s Embolada Riddle

No one thought anything of it when Chico Alves’ disc came out, nor six ...