Brazil

Since 2014, the  Brazilian political class have pushed back against the Operation Car Wash anticorruptio probe, seeking new legislation to curtail the powers of...

Federal judge Sergio Moro sentenced former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) to nearly 10 years’ imprisonment for illicit enrichment.

Despite popular calls for direct elections to replace President Michel Temer, the Brazilian constitution only allows for indirect elections to fill the presidency...

Lula’s case has raised crucial questions about Brazil’s judicial system: specifically, whether it can give Lula a fair trial and protect the due process rights of...

Rocked by endless corruption scandals, Brazil’s democracy is now at its most vulnerable point since the end of the dictatorship three decades ago. The only way to...

In the United States’ own neighborhood, U.S. President Donald Trump has a chance to realign relations with two of most important and influential countries in the...

The recent mass killings in multiple Brazilian prisons shows that the country's correctional system is in desperate need of reform. Brazil's prisons are incubators...

The unraveling of Brazil’s confused political order began in 2013, when millions of youth across the country took to the streets with a range of demands from...

Rio is not the first host city to stage the Olympic Games at a moment of political peril. In fact, several Olympics have occurred amid political, economic, and...

The real cause of Brazil’s problems with corruption is not high-level individual wrongdoing but flawed political engineering. Only an overhaul of the country’s...

Brazil's Michel Temer finally made some headway in its struggle to extract itself from the quagmire created by the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in May

Over the past ten years, the BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—have built hundreds of grand infrastructure projects. But as these governments...

During the Paris climate talks last December, Brazil broadcast its ambitions to reduce its overall emissions by at least 36 percent by 2020 and 43 percent in 2030....

Temer’s cabinet indicates that the new government will place its bets on the economic recovery in the short term in order to guarantee the necessary support to stay...

If Dilma Rousseff is impeached, the current vice president, Michel Temer, might try to rescue Brazil from one of its darkest moments in recent history until the...

As global oil prices collapsed over the last two years, Latin American governments have started to lose their leverage in the energy industry. To attract...

Over the last decade, more than 40 million Brazilians left poverty and joined the country's new middle class, as economic growth soared in the 2000s. But in 2015,...

The Petrobras scandal has deeply transformed Brazil’s global outreach.

Brazil’s Bolsa Familia program shows that even a relatively poor developing country with eye-popping inequality can make major progress in reducing the gap...