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Hugo ChƔvez and the Middle East: Which Side Was He On?

Danny Postel | Posted 05.13.2013 | World
Danny Postel

I admire a great deal of what ChƔvez and his Bolivarian Revolution accomplished in Venezuela. It's precisely because of these positive accomplishments that ChƔvez's record on the Middle East and North Africa is so disconcerting.

Brazil Amps Up Human Rights as Spike Joints in to Chill Favela Fever

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.22.2012 | World
Eric Ehrmann

Brazil's human rights conundrum is likely to continue with Dilma's recent approval of closer military, intelligence and security cooperation with Washington, ostensibly linked to the World Cup and the Rio Olympics.

Corruption Could Boot Brazil Football Czar Off Golden Throne

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 04.29.2012 | World
Eric Ehrmann

The futebol drama unfolds as president Dilma and her close advisers seek to balance the nation's civic religion and number one source of nationalistic pride with more serious matters of state

Carnival Confidential... Rio Governor Emerges From Strikes as Presidential Contender

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 04.15.2012 | World
Eric Ehrmann

Although patchwork agreements with police unions have bought a temporary and and uneasy peace in Bahia and Rio, law and order is now the key issue Brazil's 2014 presidential race.

Brazil's Former President Starts First Radiation Session

AP | Posted 03.05.2012 | World

SAO PAULO — Doctors say former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has undergone his first session of radiation for throat cancer. Do...

Brazil Springs A WikiLeak... Assange Tags Newsman As Media Mole

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 01.03.2012 | World
Eric Ehrmann

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 ...

Brazil's Silva Begins Chemotherapy

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 12.31.2011 | World

SAO PAULO — The tumor found in the throat of Brazil's popular former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was detected in an intermediate stage a...

Brazil's Garbage Becomes an Olympic Challenge

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.09.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

With the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics putting the world's 5th largest economy in the global spotlight waste collection and disposal is a problem the land of the samba can't dance around.

Soccer Smackdown: Russia and FIFA sandbag Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 09.03.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

Brazil has been getting bashed in the global sports press for not making enough progress in constructing stadiums with the amenities FIFA likes to offer its fat cat supporters. But these critics miss half the point.

Brazil Doubles Down on China Trade

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 06.20.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

While American consumer culture drives Brazil's young, wired and affluent, the China deals are reminders of why Beijing has pulled ahead of Washington as Brazil's top trade partner.

Brazil Unions Flex Muscles as Obama Afterglow Fades

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

Neither foreign investment nor its own political class have narrowed the gap between haves and have nots that remains deeply embedded in the structure of Brazil“s society.

Report From Doha: Al Jazeera Debates the "Winds Of Change"

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Danny Schechter

When I arrived in the capital of Qatar, as one of the guest participants in the 6th annual Al Jazeera Forum focused on the Arab world in transition, it was clear the mood had changed.

Fixed Soccer Matches Create Post Carnival Headache for Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Eric Ehrmann

With Brazilians recovering from carnival hangovers the sports world is feeling the lingering effects of a game fixing case local media are calling the Whistle Mafia.

WikiLeaks: Lula's Dislike of Pesky Leftist Diplomats

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Nikolas Kozloff

Might Rousseff, herself a Lula protƩgƩ from the Workers' Party, extend political asylum to the besieged founder of WikiLeaks?

It Might Be Time to Rebrand It the South American Dream

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Arianna Huffington

In many ways Brazil has become like a photo negative of America. Brazilians are increasingly living the American Dream of upward mobility, while nearly two-thirds of Americans no longer believe their children will live better lives than they did.

Wikileaks Cables Portray a Different Side of Brazil's Lula da Silva

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Nikolas Kozloff

The leaked U.S. cables, which chronicle Lula's eight years in power, show a leader all too willing to placate Washington and double-cross fellow leftists throughout the region.

Brazil Gets Tough on Crime and Wins Another Round

Roberto Ramos | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Roberto Ramos

Brazil's security forces have seized control from the drug cartels who held sway in Rio's poorest districts for close to three decades. It marks more than just a scripted defeat of the bad guys.

Brazil's Dilma in Crossfire of US-China Currency War

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

Brazil has joined China, France and Germany in the call for a coordinated global effort to replace the foundering dollar as the major world reserve currency.

Jon Stewart and Middle East Resistance -- Two Sides of the Same Coin

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sharmine Narwani

The divisive media that Stewart and Colbert rail against for partisan politicking in Washington is on hyper-drive when it comes to the Middle East, creating more fear than is good for us and paralyzing our ability to act.

Brazil's Next President?

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

SAO PAULO — A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil's long dictatorship was elected Sunday as president of Lati...

October Surprises Bring Drama to Brazil's Presidential Race

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

Brazil's economy has been outperforming the United States and all the Euro zone nations, which is why it is attracting investment from so many globalist companies and speculators.

Affirmative Action Divides Brazil as Election Nears

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

It's a reminder of how efforts to globalize the United States model of social organization by race can cause the fragmentation of national identity in a regional power like Brazil.

Who Will Allow Brazil to Reach Its Economic Potential?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mark Weisbrot

The biggest economic question facing Brazil, as for most developing countries, is when it will achieve its potential economic growth. For Brazil, the...

Soccer Hatred Roils Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Eric Ehrmann

Mobile banking in Brazil could be a win-win for globalism and for younger generations if the banks who offer it take steps to insure that everybody is included.

Brazil Seeks New Balance in US Relations

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Eric Ehrmann

It's time for those whose greed propagated the current economic malaise to stop characterizing Brazil as less than and start acknowledging them as being equal.