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Opinion: Brazil’s Centrão – Slouching towards Bedlam?
In Brazil’s legislature, however, the “centre” is far from falling apart. The “Centrão” bloc, “its hour come round at last”
November 25, 2021
Opinion: The historical roots of the “secret budget” in Brazil, aka the “Bolsolão”, explained
“How the 300 Scoundrels morphed into the Centrão and want to pay themselves R$19 billion to help re-elect Bolsonaro.”
November 18, 2021
Opinion: Will COP26 be yet another Cop-out?
The top decision-making body of the UNFCCC is called the Conference of the Parties, abbreviated COP opinion
November 5, 2021
Opinion: ‘Operation Varginha’ – From Halloween to All Souls’ Day
But let us return to Halloween in Varginha.The State Police say they received an anonymous tip that a large group...
November 2, 2021
Covid-19 Opinion: Yes, Big Pharma firms have huge profits – and they deserve them
The latest species to infest (anti)social media posits both “Pfizer is earning immoral profits by selling its vaccine,”
October 22, 2021
Opinion: Will Kabul become another Saigon?
(Opinion) Current events in Afghanistan bring back to me, an American, the distressing vision of the fall of Saigon: helicopters...
August 15, 2021
Opinion: Speculating on Bolsonaro’s “indications” of election fraud in 2018
On Thursday, July 29, President Bolsonaro, speaking to supporters in front of the Planalto Palace, said he would supply proof...
August 3, 2021
Opinion: The Ambassador, the Centrão, and the Semi-presidential Express. All Aboard in Brazil?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) On his way out the door, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Todd Chapman, who is...
July 25, 2021
Opinion: Is Brazil’s Centrão voting bloc considering a “parliamentary coup”?
According to reliable sources, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies president, Arthur Lira, has recently said that there are four prerequisites for...
July 19, 2021