Tag: Elections

Brazilian players raise World Cup trophy

With Elections and World Cup Brace Yourself for Another Lost Year in Brazil

Brazil seems distant from the many prickly issues that are involving the world’s powers ...

US Interference in Brazil and Latin America’s Elections to Be Monitored by Canadian Group

A network of academics and activists, assembled by a civil society organization based in ...

Brazil Is Voting for President, Governors and Congress This Year

2006 is being ushered in with the prospect of this year’s elections for president, ...

Brazil Vows to Crack Down on Under-the-Table Money for Election Campaigns

The Chief Justice (presidente) of Brazil’s Election Board (TSE, Tribunal Superior Eleitoral), Minister Carlos ...

Brazil Moves Fast to Change Election Laws

A Federal Elections Court (TSE) commission made up of Brazilians jurists and experts has ...

Brazil’s Lula Tries to Rebuild a National Alliance

Brazil’s political scenery has been redesigned, for all practical purposes, with the inauguration of ...

I Don’t Vote in Brazil and I’m Proud of It

Democracy is beautiful, isn’t it true? Too bad that something as dirty as elections ...

In Brazil, the Big Losers Were the Polls

Crowns of laurels to the victorious and crowns of flowers to the defeated. Add ...

Lula’s Party Wins in Six State Capitals

The mayors of 11 state capitals were elected yesterday in the first round of ...

Brazil Votes for Mayor and City Council This Sunday

On October 3, 2004, more than 115 million Brazilian voters in 5,562 municipalities will ...