The Economist
Friday, July 19, 2013 - 00:00
The new pope's identification with ordinary people and shunning of Vatican luxury is likely to go down well in Brazil
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 00:00
Pemex, the sickly, state-owned oil and gas monopoly, is cocooned in a nationalist mythology.
Friday, June 28, 2013 - 00:00
The reform of politics has been discussed for years and is urgently needed. But Brazil's 30-odd political parties, few of which have any ideology beyond the search for patronage and pork, have little appetite for change
Friday, June 21, 2013 - 00:00
The bill currently being debated in the Senate devotes $4.5 billion to border security, including yet more drones, fences and guards with guns
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 00:00
The very middle class that Brazil has created in the past decade—40m people have escaped from absolute poverty, but are still only one paycheck from falling back into it.
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 00:00
El problema fundamental de la tregua del gobierno de Funes es que la misma no se basa en una estrategia institucional de reconstruccion del Estado de derecho en el pais
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 00:00
The private sector has helped the government, with both money and technical expertise, to recruit and run a new police force
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 00:00
The CNE has refuted an allegation that nobody has made: that the machines failed to tally the votes properly. The opposition challenged the result in the supreme court on different grounds
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 00:00
The country has 557 indigenous territories covering 13% of its area, most of them in the Amazon. But more than 100 others are still being considered. The delay is causing conflict
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 00:00
The tax take is now 36% of GDP, far more than in other middle-income countries, or the rest of Latin America, or indeed several developed countries, including Japan and the United States