Tag: US

Wallerstein on Brazil’s Surge and the Decline of the US Empire

In the course of his visit to the Southern Cone of South America, the ...

The US New Fancy Transformational Diplomacy Gives Top Status to Brazil

Through implementation of her "Transformational Diplomacy" initiative, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has ...

Brazil and US Waiting for the Other to Blink First on WTO Talks

Brazil signaled this week it would take a tough stance in talks to save ...

Brazil’s Laundry List of Grievances Against the US

US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson received a long list of complaints during ...

A Brazilian face protest: Não ALCA - No FTAA

Neither US Nor Brazil Can Set Latin America’s Agenda Anymore

Latin American and Caribbean nations have long regarded the United States not only as ...

Protest in São Paulo, Brazil, against US President Bush

Battle for Brazil and LatAm’s Good Will Was Fought and Lost on Bush’s Watch

President Bush is back from his seven-day trip to Latin America. Hoping to dispel ...

Producing ethanol out of sugar cane in Brazil

US Steep Surtax Should Draw Brazil to European and Japanese Ethanol Markets

Brazil may become an international price setter for ethyl alcohol, should ethanol become an ...

Presidents Bush and Lula talk about ethanol at Transpetro, in São Paulo, Brazil

Lula & Bush Didn’t Discuss What Brazil Wanted Most: Tariff Reductions

Brazil and the United States signed today, March 9, a memorandum of cooperation in ...

A sugarcane cutter in a Brazilian plantation

Bush’s Concern for Brazilian Ethanol Just Highlights US Hypocrisy

President Bush begins his tour of Latin America this week, hitting Brazil on March ...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, a thorn on Washington's side

Let’s Talk About US’s Mounting Irrelevance in Brazil and LatAm

President Bush has been witnessing the advent of a new bloc of left-leaning and ...