brazil politics

I'm talking about Brazil of course, where the first round of the presidential election already had the winner Jair Bolsonaro, and they will go into a second, deciding round at the end of the month. Just read this long but very informative piece by the native Brazilian Pepe Escobar who tries to...

I must begin saying that my English is far from perfect, so I may commit some mistakes. I divided this topic in parts Part I - backgroud The Labour Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores [PT, as I will refer in this text]) was created in 1980, by some left wings and ex-guerrillas. From 1964 to...

Anyone else been following the political situation in Brazil lately? I've seen some headlines about it, but I admit that my knowledge of what is happening there is pretty shallow. I would like to learn more though. The latest development is that President Dilma Rousseff has been impeached...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8157745.stm Caught! Bloody red handed! Redacted (boycott UK)

Brazil president blames white people for crisis What a really clever thing to say! :rolleyes: I guess he doesn't mean me because my eyes aren't blue. :D

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/10/23/brazil.gun.referendum.ap/index.html From the above link, "The whole campaign (against the ban) was imported from the United States. They just translated a lot of material from the NRA," said Jessica Galeria, a Californian who researches gun violence...