Brazil’s place within the BRICS bloc is becoming questionable. Since the new President Michel Temer took over, Brazil’s foreign policy has shifted away from BRICS ideals to favour western interests.
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Luis Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s center-left policies helped lift millions of Brazilians out of poverty, earning him the title ‘leader of the poor.’ It’s a legacy worth preserving.
The forced end of Dilma Rousseff’s presidency is the latest in a string of right-wing coups.
The senate has outmanoeuvred a national leader, leaving many wondering which is fighting on the right side of democracy.
Whatever you call it, the new leader, Michel Temer, has an opportunity to return Brazil to policies that promote growth through fiscally sound social inclusion. Can he do it?
As an unpopular vice-president takes the helm, Brazilian politics is mired in distrust, division and corruption.
Brazilians are disgusted with all their politicians. Can anyone take control?
The administration of Dilma Rousseff is caught in a rapidly accelerating cycle of discontent.
Lula led an unprecedented shift in the country’s foreign policy towards the global South. He also helped elevate Brazil to the status of a global player. But, six years on, disillusionment reigns.
A massive corruption scandal is engulfing Brazil’s political establishment – but reports of the country’s imminent collapse are greatly exaggerated.
It is unlikely President Zuma will announce a structural changes in his State of the Nation Address. This, despite education being in dire need of fundamental restructuring and an economy in decline.
Latin America suddenly seems to be lurching to the right – but was it ever that far left in the first place?
Latin America’s most important state could never succumb to another military coup. Could it?
Opposition to president Dilma Rousseff is growing, but there is division over what her fate should be.
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