Politics
Taped Talk Shows Brazil President Approving Hush Money. Opposition Wants Impeachment
On March 7, at around 10:30 p.m., businessman Joesley Batista entered the Brazilian presidential ...
Brazil’s Odebrecht Bribe Bug Has Already Infected 11 Countries
Despite their different political affiliations and ideologies, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, former Brazilian ...
Bad Times Being Used as Excuse to Dramatically Increase Cutting Down the Amazon
From sweeping cuts of funds to protect forests, to the loosening of conservation of ...
Lula Gets Assurances from Moro He Doesn’t Face Imminent Arrest
Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after almost five hours of testimony ...
Brazil’s Lula Finally Meets the Judge Who Might Derail His Race to the Presidency
It took close to five hours the deposition of former President Luiz Inácio ...
The 35 Million-Strong General Strike that Stopped Brazil in Its Tracks
Amid record levels of unemployment and a terribly unpopular government, unions and citizens from ...
Known as the Myth, Jair Bolsonaro Is Brazil’s Version of Donald Trump
On April 4, Christian Social Party congressman Jair Messias Bolsonaro gave a racially charged ...
Brazil’s Endless Corruption: 4 Ex-presidents, 9 Ministers, 24 Senators and More Being Probed Now
Justice Luiz Edson Fachin of Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled that allegations implicating Brazil’s ...
Brazil’s Former House Speaker and Jailbird Threatens to Blow Up Business World
In jail for fraud, Eduardo Cunha, Brazil’s former lower house speaker and chief architect ...
128 Years After the End of the Empire, Brazilians Still Pay a Tax to the Emperor’s Heirs
With its colonial mansions, landscaped gardens and ornate fountains, the town of Petrópolis, a ...
