Tag: porto alegre

Rousseff Leaves Presidential Palace While Her Backers Take to the Streets to Protest

Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff left Palácio da Alvorada, the official presidential residence, where ...

Brazil’s President Knows She Lost. And Already Started Moving Out of Brasília

The Brazilian Senate has opened the impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff hear ...

Brazil Opens World Social Forum’s 10th Edition. All Protestors Are Welcome

Ten years after its creation the World Social Forum, a leftist alternative to the ...

World Debates How to Make More Peace and Less Sex Tourism

The city of Porto Alegre, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do ...

Brazil Hopeful that Its First Chip Plant Will Draw New Foreign Industries

In a few months Brazil should have its first chip (integrated circuit) factory ever. ...

Brazil and Africa Talk Globalization and More Trade

The 8th Ambassador Meeting brings together starting today, August 22, in Porto Alegre, capital ...

An Ambitious Brazilian Program to Recycle 5,000 Computers a Year

Around 500 machines, including computers, printers, monitors, and other equipment, were delivered recently to ...

The Thirst for Power Wrecked Lula’s Party and Corroded Brazil’s Democracy

“When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of ...

Brazil: While Lula’s Revolution Fizzles, Chavez’s Star Rises.

Criticized by some for being little more than a debating society and a “one ...