Eric Ehrmann

Dilma doing a cameo in a Spike Lee joint, and spotlighting human rights violations. Lula rolls out a new Facebook page and gets tagged at an arts crawl with Dilma. It's all part of the cultural public diplomacy designed to...

With Argentina and Bolivia expropriating big energy firms and Brazil nationalizing strike and scandal plagued World Cup projects, Latin America's often convoluted take on socialism has created a money-hungry cookie monster that's desperate for dollars to cover social costs and palliate restless workers. Boasting the world's...

After Foxconn owner Terry Gou called workers animals at a company meeting, unionized assemblers of Apple IPods at Foxconn's Jundai fab near Sao Paulo are complaining about a lack of food and water and cage-space working conditions and have threatend to go on strike ...

After the confrontational expropriation of oil dinosaur Repsol YPF president Cristina Kirchner of Argentina has published a glowing profile of Dilma Rousseff in Time magazine, praising the Brazilian leader for sharing her commitment to "social equality."

But as politicians and business leaders struggle with the role...

Brazil's reluctance to help Washington topple Syria and their support for Iran's nuclear program have drawn the ire of a White House eager to turn foreign policy into political currency during a presidential election year.

Flexing its muscles, the Pentagon abruptly cancelled a deal with defense giant Embraer and the...

Just weeks after former president Lula was treated for smoking-related laryngeal cancer Brazil's National Health Agency (ANVISA) has prohibited the sale of flavored cigarettes and banned the use of several additive chemicals used in manufacturing tobacco products including certain adhesive substances that, like tobacco, can cause chemical...

As Brazil struggles to modernize stadiums and airports in time for the FIFA 2014 World Cup federal justice officials are investigating Ricardo Teixeira, leader of Brazil's 2014 World Cup Organizing Committee and boss of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in connection with misappropriating $5 million in funds from a FIFA...

Although patchwork agreements with police unions have bought a temporary and uneasy peace in Bahia and Rio, law and order is now the key issue for any candidate seeking to challenge popular leader Dilma Rousseff' in the 2014 presidential race.

Rejecting federal assistance after walkouts by state police, Rio de...

Avoiding the big inflation predicted by financial pundits, the musical chairs government of president Dilma Rousseff has made Brazil the world's sixth largest economy, earning her high marks for her centrist approach after one year in office.

But with Carnival unfolding next month and the World Cup and the...

As the rich flock to Punta del Este to visit their money over the long Christmas season known as la temporada, Uruguay faces diplomatic pressure from France and other G-20 nations to ease the strict bank secrecy that has earned the nation of 3.7 million the...

With the man the staunchly republican Forbes Magazine calls "The Penn State Pedophile" proclaiming his innocence in a high profile interview with Bob Costas it's good to know that some other folks named Sandusky give football a good name.

When Villanova tackle John Sandusky was drafted by Paul...

With a London court ruling that media activist Julian Assange must now return to Sweden to face charges of sex crimes, the WikiLeaks founder has made his last dance a Samba, outing Brazil's most trusted newscaster as what some local media are caling an informant, even suggesting the...

Distancing himself before Sunday's forgettable win over Seattle, Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren may be easing himself out before getting eased out -- a possible victim of his own media relations and the NFL quality gap that's getting wider due to declining team revenue and the global recession.

"I...

Apple's first quarterly downturn in five years is being spun by analysts as a one time event linked to planned obsolescence of an iPhone and the death of co-founder Steve Jobs. But while Jobs envisioned a mobile lifestyle people are willing to pay more for, his outsourcing-dependent business model is...

With sports bloggers and fans demanding his freedom Brazilian soccer star Breno Borges was released from high security Stadelheim prison by German authorities Wednesday 13 days after being detained on suspicion of burning down his rented villa in an affluent Munich suburb.

The 21-year-old Bayern Munich defender has been struggling...

While league officials praise new rules that reduce dangerous hits, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has vowed to penalize teams who game the league's injury policies.

By threatening heavy fines and loss of draft picks if given "reasonable cause," the commissioner appears to have handed the ball off to...

Tagging her "Dynamite Dilma," Newsweek is giving Americans a closer look at the first woman leader to open a session of the UN General Assembly on the cover of their latest edition. But back in Brazil she's setting off political pyrotechnics with a tough anti-corruption campaign that could...

A new forecast by the International Monetary Fund predicting slower economic growth is providing some tough love for the global recovery. But a new highway linking Peru's Pacific ports with the Amazon and China's strategic investments in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia could provide a silver lining for Latin...

President Dilma recently expanded Brazil's anti-bullying campaign to quell aggressive behavor by delinquent kids that is rampant in public schools. Unfortunately, the program doesn't apply to Sepp Blatter, the 77 year old president of FIFA, football's world governing body. Blatter and his minions insist on telling telling the...

Running an NGO out of his Assemblies of God church, Pastor Wladimir Furtado planned to attract ecotourists to Brazil's rainforest. He was arrested last week along with 35 others in "Operation Voucher," a nationwide investigation police say was designed to ferret out people who scammed government tourism funds. It is...