A fundamental question of the role of Latin American leadership is more pivotal than ever. Highly popular ex-union leader Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva stopped being Brazilian president in 2010. And yet Lula…
Brazilian police have raided the house and detained former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the context of mega-fraud investigation involving the national oil company Petrobras, the newspaper O…
According to Transparency International’s 2015 ranking regarding the classification of a total of 168 countries by perceived corruption, Uruguay outranks Chile as the least corrupt Latin American country, with Venezuela allegedly…
The Centers for Disease Control and Disease Prevention (CDC) have issued a warning to travelers - particularly pregnant women - to avoid 14 countries and territories in the Caribbean and…
Latin America’s largest country spent twelve hours without one of its largest phone and texting services…WhatsApp. The mobile operators in Brazil have had to restore WhatsApp Thursday in compliance with…
The events of September 11, 2001 stimulated foreign policy changes that affected the entire planet. The United States’ post-World War II global influence has not only held strong into the…
With the death of World Cup futbol legend Alcides Ghiggia this weekend, Uruguay is remembering the Maracanazo victory against Brazil 65 years ago. Brazil, however, has a current Maracanazo -…
Brazil set for $64 billion in investment; Current infrastructure limiting economic growth; Dilma turning to the private sector; Brazilian government questioned on ability to deliver on projects Last Tuesday the…
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) set “building a common future” as the theme of last Wednesday’s summit. Set in Brussels, Belgium,…
The unfolding corruption crisis involving Petrobras and the Brazilian government shows no signs of abating (Mariordo Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz 2011) The already bruised presidency of Dilma Rousseff faces an onslaught of popular…
The investigation into the Petrobras corruption scandal might sink President Rousseff’s second term before it has scarcely begun. In Brazil only “prostitutes, blacks and the poor” are ever arrested. So…
At the beginning of this month Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff won the second round of presidential elections by a narrow margin of 51.6% over her main rival Aécio Neves, who…
The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho – ‘Today I want to return alone’) is a heart-warming coming-of-age story revolving around the trials and joys of Leonardo (Ghilherme…
The three key candidates in the Brazilian elections all have a great narrative behind them. The incumbent, President Dilma Rousseff, is a former guerrilla leader against the military dictatorship, and…
The Festival of the Sisterhood of Boa Morte (Good Death). The social marginalised women that preserve the roots of Afro-Brazilian traditions. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xkLZhJsI7Ok/SSLrRT_tb-I/AAAAAAAAAnI/yFOXEY8PT-k/s1600/Irmandade%2Bda%2BBoa%2BMorte-Cachoeira[/caption] For five days every August since 1820,…
In Brazil, the international financial agencies were the first to apply methodologies for assessing environmental impacts. Such assessments were made a condition of loans made to the government to fund…
Fifty years later, football returns to its paradise, Brazil, where the spirit of “joga bonito” immerses in every inch of its soil and the national sport constitutes the source of…
Official mascot is endangered three-banded armadillo; critics say organisers are not doing enough to protect armadillo in the wild; Brazilian government has responded with five-year action plan. Back in 2012,…
You watch the England match? Was great, we lost. And there were these screaming fans, and outside the civilians screaming too, and dry ice for the footballers, and canisters of…
I admit that I am not a big fan of football. I tend to tune in around the World Cup semi-finals, and even then I don’t much care who wins….