Brazil Economics

20/10/2021

My friend was just assassinated in Rio, its time for me to reactivate this page. I look forwarding to our dialogue on how to move forward. Brazil is not the same place that I remember it as. People our suffering, my friend suffered. Its time the country fulfilled is promised is exhibits quaintly as the courtly of the future. Rest in power Leuvis Olivero!

Naturalizado cidadão dos EUA, o dominicano Leuvis Manuel Olivero Ramos, de 38 anos, foi assassinado na Zona Norte da capital fluminense

21/05/2016

21/06/2013

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has cancelled a planned trip to Japan after continuing mass anti-government protests across Brazil. Hundreds of thousands ...

18/06/2013

A $0.09 hike in the price of a single bus fare in Sao Paolo ignited the biggest protests to hit Brazil in over 20 years. As we noted earlier today, the bus fare hike was merely the last straw in a long list of public grievances about the shaky Brazilian economy. But it's worth noting that Sao Paolo'...

16/06/2013

Police violence against the people in Brazil.

11/02/2013

There are many ways of striking it rich in Brazil, but one strategy may come as a particular surprise in today’s economic climate: securing a government job. While civil servants in Europe and the United States have had their pay slashed or jobs eliminated altogether, some public employees in Brazil...

28/01/2013

The horrific fire in a nightclub in southern Brazil at the weekend will indeed, as Samantha Pearson wrote on Monday, add to scrutiny on Brazil. For a country climbing the global economic league table and preparing to showcase its progress with the World Cup and the Olympic Games, the list of errors ...

18/01/2013

If you happen to be a Brazilian evangelical preacher, chances of hitting a heavenly jackpot are actually pretty high these days. Even though Brazil remains the world's largest Catholic country, with about 123.2 million of its population of ...

17/01/2013

Brazil's opposition is urging prosecutors to investigate Lula after he was accused of joining in a corruption scheme by a businessman convicted in the case. Advertising executive Marcos Valerio told prosecutors in September that he transferred funds to

17/01/2013

That's exactly what's happening with corruption in Sao Paulo—the police are squeezing from one side, the PCC from the other, leaving a trail of dead cops as its bloody discharge. The PCC is threatening to kill whoever does their job properly, claiming ...

15/01/2013

England will face Brazil in a friendly in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, June 2, the Football Association has confirmed. Although it had been well known the match was going to take place this summer, the venue for England's first trip to Brazil since the ...read more

15/01/2013

Brazil is urging Venezuela's government to hold elections as quickly as possible if President Hugo Chavez dies, senior officials told Reuters on Monday, a major intervention by Latin America's regional powerhouse that