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Event with Tereza Campello, Brazil’s Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger

Last week, Brazil Talk participated in an event with Brazil’s Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, Tereza Campello, at Columbia University. Mrs. Campello is responsible for the leading widely recognized programs such as Fome Zero and Bolsa Família, two of the most important social policies adopted by Brazil in the last decades. Minister Campello discussed the… Read More Event with Tereza Campello, Brazil’s Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger

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Petrobras: a tail of dirty politics, heavy corruption and an absent Board of Directors

by Tina Evaristo The disclosure last year of what was apparently just a bad business done by Petrobras – the Brazilian semi-public oil company – evolved and became one of the biggest corruption scandal to hit the country after the reinstatement of democracy in 1988. The Brazilian Supreme Court has authorized the investigation of more… Read More Petrobras: a tail of dirty politics, heavy corruption and an absent Board of Directors

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Police violence part of Brazil’s security problem

by Heidi Lipsanen On the morning of April 22nd 2014 the body of 26-year-old Douglas Pereira, the talented dancer of a popular television show, was found on the yard of a kindergarten in Rio de Janeiro’s Pavão-Pavãozinho slum. Locals and his family refused to believe the initial police statement according to which the injuries were compatible… Read More Police violence part of Brazil’s security problem

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Rollercoaster Elections in Brazil

by Eloy Oliveira In the most curious Brazilian election of the last two decades, President Dilma Rousseff will faceoff with the Social Democrat candidate, Senator Aécio Neves, and not Marina Silva, as predicted by many political commentators. To understand the current situation, we must look back four years when Rousseff was first elected president.

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