Opinion

Elections: A Far-Right Former Captain Surges as Brazil’s Donald Trump

Since the election victory of Donald Trump, many have tirelessly talked about populism. It ...

Brazil: Get Lula! Now! Or Else…

The interminable, ghastly telenovela aiming at turning Brazil, the seventh-largest economy in the world, ...

In Brazil Coups Are the Rule. Elected Government Is the Exception

With a rom-pom-pom, the Brazilian Marine Corps brass band introduced the national anthem and ...

Brazil: There Was No Coup, But It Was Wrong and Damaging to the Country

The reply of my two distinguished Council on Hemispheric Affairs colleagues, Aline Piva and ...

Brazil’s Temer Has Been Warned: ‘Threaten the Golden Goose and You Will Be the Next to Fall’

The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, stands as both a significant ...

How the New Regime in Brazil Uses Ideology in Effort to Legitimate the Coup

There is some similarity between the atomic age and the action of ideology. The ...

In Brazil, the Old US-friendly White Boys Are Back. And Obama Backs Them

Reports of U.S. Secret Service personnel procuring Colombian prostitutes and duking it out at ...