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Latin America Monitor Another casualty of Brazil's rise: cheap airfare

The founder of Gol, a Brazilian airline that once set out to topple high-cost air travel, is now facing questions on his company's exorbitantly high prices.
Latin America Monitor Why deforesters could soon have freer rein in the Amazon

Despite overwhelming support among the Brazilian public for harsh measures against illegal deforesters, Brazil's Congress looks set to loosen deforestation restrictions instead. Why?
12/09/2011 09:08 am
Latin America Monitor Brazilian President Rousseff ousts another cabinet minister

Rousseff's purge of old-guard ministers – the latest, Nelson Jobim, resigned Thursday – shows a low tolerance for corruption, but she has not brought legal sanctions against the ousted.
08/05/2011 01:10 pm
Latin America Monitor Brazilian President Rousseff's first semester marred by battles with Congress, scandal

Although she has kept Brazil's economy buoyant in her first six months, the president has lost four ministers to corruption scandals and has been unable to keep her congressional allies in line.
07/21/2011 11:04 am
Latin America Monitor 'Hackers Day' in Brazil to defend against cyber-security breaches

Brazil’s Science and Technology Minister, Aloizio Mercadante, has called on the nation's most talented hackers to help understand how it was vulnerable to the recent LulzSec attack.
07/01/2011 10:03 am
Global News Blog Brazil election tightens as Dilma Rousseff slips in polls

Dilma Rousseff still leads polls for the Brazil election Sunday, but scandals are weighing her down despite backing from popular President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
09/29/2010 03:04 pm
Africa Monitor Brazil vs Chile: Can Chile's mastermind coach pull off an upset?

The soccer juggernauts of South America are expected to outshine a sturdy Chilean team in today's Brazil vs Chile match. But not if Chile's coach, Marcelo 'El Loco' Bielsa, has anything to say about it.
06/28/2010 03:39 pm
Global News Blog How alike are Brazil and US? Individualism (and guns) are big.

Brazil and US are alike in many ways -- think individualism and guns -- but not everyone gets it right. Consider the comments of one well known commentator.
03/23/2010 02:53 pm
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