RE: “Does Brazil Deserve its ‘B’ for BRIC?”
Dear Editor, The argument put forward by Anthony Pereira in his article “Does Brazil deserve its ‘B’ for BRIC?” points out both the successes and shortcomings of the Brazilian economy. It presents a...
View ArticleOccupy Mato Grosso, the Protest of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples
In the last two years, media outlets have reported the actions of the so-called “Occupy” movement that began on Wall Street and subsequently spread across the globe. Beyond the individual episodes,...
View ArticleBrazilian Protests About Far More Than Bus Fare Hikes
On June 17, over 200,000 protesters took to the streets in several of Brazil’s largest cities. Rio de Janeiro saw nearly 100,000 protesters, while São Paulo saw 65,000—and many more demonstrated in the...
View ArticleAre Brazilian Protesters’ Demands Being Met?
Introduction The wave of mass protests across Brazil has elicited mounting concessions from the federal and local governments over the past two weeks as the Rousseff Administration scrambles to...
View ArticleRE: “An Ever-Deeper Hole”
To the Editor: In “An Ever-Deeper Hole,” H.J mentions some of the factors that have put Brazil’s “federal finances under terrible strain.” The article seems to propose that the chief source of fiscal...
View ArticleUnderstated Responses to Rape in Brazil
In late March, the brutal gang rape of an American tourist in a transit van in Rio de Janeiro garnered worldwide attention. Brazilian authorities responded...
View ArticleUnrest Among the Giants of the Emerging World: Contrasting the Brazilian and...
In a speech given on June 22, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan drew parallels between the current protests and social movements in Turkey and...
View ArticleAppeasing Brazil’s Urban Army: How Can the Government Provide Vital Services...
Beginning in June, over a million people have taken to the streets in more than 100 Brazilian cities to raise their voices against a wide...
View ArticleBrazil’s Defiant AIDS Program: A Model for the Developing World
In mid-July, at the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), experts concluded that a key factor in reducing AIDS-related deaths was ensuring that countries’...
View ArticleBrazil’s Foreign Policy Ambitions and Global Geopolitics
On July 17, Antonio Patriota, Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed his country’s efforts to achieve stability and peace in Africa with other members of...
View ArticleBrazil and Its Relations with the U.S.: The High Cost of Benign Neglect
President Dilma Rousseff’s cancellation of her planned state visit to the United States, which had been scheduled for October 23-24, constitutes one of the most...
View ArticleLatin America Puts Forward A Mixed Picture on the Use of Drones in the Region
To read this article in Spanish, click here. For a PDF version of this article, click here. Over the past decade, a growing number of...
View ArticleParadise Lost: Violence and Impunity in Brazil
Soccer Goals and Blood Baths As reported in the publication InSight Crime, on June 30, 2013, a neighborhood soccer match in northeast Brazil dissolved into...
View ArticleBelíndia: Brazil and Education
Protests Continue After Brazil realized decades of steady improvements in its literacy, performance this year is declining once again. This is a troubling development in...
View ArticleInfrastructure Without Foreign Investment: Can Brazil Afford Economic Growth?
As Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the South American poster child is under pressure to conduct immense infrastructural reforms,...
View ArticleCOHA Senior Research Fellow Sean Burges, Ph.D, was a Guest Editor of The...
Sean Burges, Ph.D, a Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) has published two articles in the just released special issue of...
View ArticleCOHA Report: Drones in Latin America
Over the past several years, drone usage has become increasingly widespread, not solely among global military powers but also among rising mid-level military powerhouses and...
View ArticleCOHA Research: Brazil Upgrades its Sao Paulo Carrier
An obscure fact of Latin American military affairs is that the Brazilian Navy possesses its own aircraft carrier. The vessel, now five decades old, is...
View ArticleCOHA Announcement: COHA Senior Fellow Analyzes Russian Foreign Policy for...
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is pleased to announce that Senior Research Fellow W. Alejandro Sanchez has contributed to the latest report of the “Russia...
View ArticleTensions and Demonstrations in Brazil, Involving Anti-terrorism Laws and...
On February 6, a Brazilian cameraman, Santiago Andrade, suffered a lethal blow to the head while protesting against a nine percent bus fare hike in...
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