Explaining Brazil #64: You can’t spell car wash without leaks
This episode, The Intercept and the Car Wash leaks, is supported by Fast Help. Fast Help is a Brasília-based IT company that (...) READ MORE
Lula June 18, 2019
Justice Minister message leaks could destroy Op. Car Wash
Since the finale of Game of Thrones, Brazil’s Sunday evenings were bereft of political intrigue, scandal, and betrayal. But (...) READ MORE
June 10, 2019 | Operation Car Wash leaks set to create another political crisis
Operation Car Wash leaks set to create another political crisis On Sunday evening, news website The Intercept published a (...) READ MORE
May 17, 2019
DON’T MISS THIS A perfect storm is brewing in Brazil Bearish economic forecasts, persistent unemployment, and a government seemingly (...) READ MORE
April 30, 2019
DON’T MISS THIS Brazil to financially smother leftist universities Newly-appointed Education Minister Abraham Weintraub has started a process to (...) READ MORE
What to take from Lula’s first interview behind bars
On Friday afternoon, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gave his first press interview since being jailed in (...) READ MORE
April 27, 2019
THE WEEK IN REVIEW Intrigue. The atmosphere between President Bolsonaro and VP Hamilton Mourão appears tense. Mr. Bolsonaro’s sons have (...) READ MORE
April 24, 2019
DON’T MISS THIS Will the pension reform finally progress in Congress? All eyes of financial markets in Brazil will (...) READ MORE
Despite favorable ruling, Lula’s political influence remains in jeopardy
On Tuesday afternoon, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva saw his prison sentence reduced by the Superior Court (...) READ MORE
Can Bolsonaro “steal” the Northeast from Lula?
The Brazilian Northeast has been impermeable to Jair Bolsonaro’s coarse charm. The region gave him only 30 percent of (...) READ MORE
