Tag: CPI
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Indigenous rights experts, including the United Nation Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli Corpuz, stated on Thursday (June 8th) that the rights of the indigenous are...
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This week, after an interminable nine months of internecine squabbling, behind-closed-doors arm-pulling, vociferous jawboning and dire threatening to open Pandora’s box, the Ethics Committee of the Brazilian Congress voted, 11 to...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The final report of the Congressional Committee (CPI) investigating the Petrobras scandal handed in on Monday, did not call for any indictments of the politicians investigated in the Lava Jato...
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The month of August is known as being difficult for Brazilian Presidents. Getulio Vargas committed suicide in August 1954, and Janio Quadros resigned in August 1961. August 2015 promises to be...
By William Jones, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The president of Brazil's Central Bank, Alexandre Tombini, said that he is not surprised by the sharp rise in food prices reported from February to March this year, and...
By Maria Lopez Conde, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff deemed the opposition's efforts to establish a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) into alleged irregularities at state-controlled Petrobras a "political dispute" this Monday, April 7th....
By William Jones, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A survey of financial analysts conducted by the Brazilian Central Bank has concluded that the country's GDP will grow by a mere 1.79 percent in 2014, a figure that brings...
By Kristen Nozell, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – For the first time since September 2010, Brazil's Central Bank has lowered its inflation forecast for the year. As revealed in the third quarter report released Monday, September 30th by...
By Maria Lopez Conde, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - Just two months after protests over an increase in bus fares led to a widespread demonstration movement across Brazil, numbers from the Secretariat of Transportation in São Paulo...
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This past week, protests about buses have broken out anew, with the Rio Municipal Assembly building taken over by demonstrators. Why all this tumult again?
The reason is simple. Arrangements between the...
