President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has postponed a planned official visit to Washington amid fallout over revelations that the U.S. has been spying on her government, the Associated Press reports. Leaks from former-National …
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Leaders of Mexico and Brazil Rebuke U.S. for NSA Snooping
Embattled Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto got a welcome gift this week when Congress passed his education reform bill despite massive protests by teachers. But another present may have dropped into his lap, this one …
Latin America’s Doc Deficit: Brazil, a Continental Giant, Still Needs to Import Cuban Medics
A Brazilian prosecutor is investigating whether President Dilma Rousseff’s government violated federal labor laws by recruiting 4,000 Cuban physicians this month to work in remote areas like the Amazon. That’s just the latest …
Brazil Seeks Answers in ‘Amityville’ Copycat Murders
It was a tragic incident, as inexplicable as it was shocking. According to local police, Marcelo Pesseghini, a 13-year-old Brazilian boy in Sao Paulo, took his father’s pistol late Sunday night and shot his policemen parents, …
A Luta Continua: Brazil’s Protest Movement Sputters, but It’s Far From Dead
In Brazil, demonstrators closed highways, shut businesses and brought large parts of the country to a standstill once more this past week. But unlike in June, when the government was shaken by an almost unprecedented wave of …
What Brazil’s Protests Say About Latin America’s Fumbling Elites
It’s a delusion harbored by ruling classes the world over, but especially in Latin America. It’s the bogus belief that even if people get richer, they don’t get smarter. Ask Chile’s Carménère-sipping elites where that …
Brazil’s Protests: Social Inequality and World Cup Spending Fuel Mass Unrest
Last Thursday, police violently waded into ranks of protesters and fired rubber bullets into crowds amassed in Brazil’s financial capital, sparking days of unrest. On Monday night, some 200,000 to took to the streets of this
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The Obama Administration Looks to Latin America After Years of Neglect
President Barack Obama is sending Vice President Joe Biden on a swing through Brazil, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago later this month. Which means two things: first, the prospect of off-the-cuff gaffes in three different …
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China pulls Quentin Tarantino’s film ‘Django Unchained’ on its opening day citing “technical problems,” Brazil’s new labor equality law for domestic servants could put them out of a job, and the hole in Cyprus’s finances is …
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The ruler of Qatar proposes a $1 billion-fund to help Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Peru declares an environmental state of emergency in its rainforest, and British judges have ruled that an Islamic preacher wanted on terrorism …
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Many Brazilian supermarkets will avoid meat from cattle raised in the Amazon, Malaysia – not China – is Asia’s top investor in Africa and Italian Supreme Court judges ruled that Amanda Knox should stand retrial for the death of …
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The U.N. will investigate whether Syria’s rebel forces used chemical weapons in a rocket attack, Brazilian lawmakers debate abortion reform, and Chad rebels threaten to restart rebellion against country’s government
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The Australian government apologies for its forced adoption policy from the 1950s to ’70s, Brasilia turns to the U.N. to help prepare its World Cup stadium and the Archbishop of Canterbury has underlined the challenges facing the …