Tag: Jose Serra
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Executives from Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS told federal prosecutors that the company paid politicians like current Senate President, Eunicio Oliveira and former Foreign Relations Minister and current Senator Jose Serra,...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Citing health reasons, Brazil’s Foreign Minister José Serra handed in his resignation to President Michel Temer on Wednesday afternoon. As one of the founding fathers of the PSDB (Brazilian Social...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – On Wednesday, November 30th, in the stadium where the first of two games to determine the winner of this year’s Copa Sul Americana was scheduled to be held, more than...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The tension between Mercosur partners increased on Tuesday, September 13th as chancellors from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay decided not to allow Venezuela to occupy the presidency of the...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The favorable image emerging after the end of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro may help boost foreign trade for the country, according to Brazil’s Foreign Relation Minister, Jose Serra....
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – On Sunday, Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, completed a month in office, after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended while the country’s senate votes on her impeachment process. With many...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The newly appointed foreign relations’ minister in Brazil, José Serra, announced on Wednesday (May 18th) the new strategies which will guide the country’s foreign policy, moving away from what he...
By Shalina Chatlani, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The first monorail in São Paulo, the Linha-15 Prata (Silver-15 Line), opens commercially to the public today after a year of testing and several delays in building. The train...
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Voters in fifty cities, including seventeen state capitals, headed back to the polls on Sunday in the second round of Brazil’s municipal elections, to decide on their prefeito or...
