Tag: globalization

After a Year of Protests Brazil Enters 2014 Ready to Welcome the World

It has been quite a year in Brazil. The country experienced huge demonstrations as ...

Rousseff: Brazil Finally Gets a President With No Self-mythicizing Agenda

The first four months of any new president will give some indication of the ...

Five Presidents Join Anti-Globalization World Social Forum in Brazil

Finding comfort and solidarity under the slogan "another world is possible," tens of thousands ...

Brazil and globalization

In the Globalization Going on in LatAm, Brazil Is Last in Line

Despite growing populism and political tensions, Latin America is becoming more globalized, according to ...

Worker cuts sugar cane in Brazil

Brazil’s Ethanol Producers Call the US’s Free-Trade Bluff

Contrary to the usual outcome of Washington’s subsidies to U.S. farmers, recent grants for ...

Brazil’s G20, the Poorest and the Rich Won’t Reach Accord Without New Language

The Hong Kong meeting of the WTO has amply illustrated how difficult it is ...

Lula’s Brazil Is Indebted to the World for So Many Broken Hopes

Recently a young Turkish student at the University of California in Berkeley told me ...

Brazil’s Lula Will Defend a Just Globalization at the G8 Summit

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva embarks today for Gleneagles, Scotland, where he ...

World Unions Search in Brazil for Fair Globalization

At the closing of a  4-day event at the World Social Forum, in Brazil, ...

Brazil’s Key Role in Globalization

“Today, Brazil is prepared to assume an important leadership role for all of the ...