Brazil

EspañolBrazilian Foreign Minister José Serra resigned Wednesday, February 22nd, due to health problems. In a letter sent to President Michel Temer, Serra asked to be "exonerated" from his role "with sadness, due to health problems"…
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EspañolThe suspended President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff told members of Congress recently that she favors holding new elections to solve the country's increasingly complex political crisis. According to people close to Rousseff…
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EspañolThe new Brazilian Minister of Planning Romero Jucá announced this Monday, May 23 that he will be temporarily stepping down from his position after a recording emerged of him suggesting the removal of President Dilma Rousseff…
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The World Health Organization is pulling out all the stops in its effort to turn public opinion against the tobacco industry after it released a new photo of a puppet being controlled by the strings of the tobacco company. This image…
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Español On Tuesday May 10, Mayor of São Paulo Fernando Haddad authorized the use of transport services shared by mobile applications, such as the company Uber. The decree stated Uber and other companies offering similar services must…
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EspañolBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s election campaigns of 2010 and 2014 were financed with bribes from the electrical system and Petrobras contracts, newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported on Thursday. An executive at the…
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EspañolStudents for Liberty Brazil has raised the alarm about the Education Ministry's plan to scrap most of human history from its high-school curricula. Ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, and even key revolts…
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By Bernardo Vidigal Over the last months, several public hearings concerning the ride-sharing app Uber took place in Brazil. It was a great opportunity for Uber to showcase its plans to change how people move across cities, even though…
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By Andre Freo EspañolOctober 17, 2015 was a day unlike the rest for Estudantes Pela Liberdade (EPL), the Brazil branch of Students for Liberty. The plan was to bring together hundreds of young Brazilian libertarian leaders in the…
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EspañolUntil recently, socialist hegemony in Latin America seemed unstoppable. Slowly but surely, a political discourse that sought "social inclusion" for the poor became dominant in a region with profound income inequality, where the…
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PortuguêsEspañolBy Bernardo Vidigal On August 28, a public hearing about a bill seeking to ban Uber took place in the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Following similar actions in São Paulo and Vitória, representatives…
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Scholars of constitutional law … will not find lessons on institutional architecture in the new text . Instead, they will find plenty of anecdotal material. What constitution in the world formalizes negligence, ensures immortality of the…
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