List of Brazil articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Like Uber But for Protests: Rideshare Drivers Targeted in Mexico City
Protests against Uber in Mexico City got violent this week, just days before the implementation of new regulations for the controversial ridesharing app.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Lula Is Supporting Corrupt Companies to Do Corrupt Business Abroad’
An influence-peddling investigation into Brazil’s former president is the rare time an ex-leader faces charges for his business dealings after leaving office.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Brazil Won’t Take Dilma’s U.S. Bait
President Rousseff’s attempt to make domestic political gains with her trip to America is falling flat at home.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Supreme Court Whacks Obama’s Power Plant Rules
The judicial setback sends the administration's mercury-emissions rules back for further review. But they've already accomplished most of what they set out to do.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Did Brazil’s President Change Her Tune on Spying?
After Edward Snowden's revelations, Dilma Rousseff came out as a fierce critic of the NSA. Now she's palling around with Barack Obama.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY People attend a mass of the Assembly of God church, in Goiania, Goias State, Brazil, on May 19, 2013. The election of evangelical minister Marco Feliciano as president of the House of Deputies' commission of human rights and minorities, is seen as a sign of the growing influence of evangelicals in Congress, where they have 67 deputies ot of a total 513, and in Brazilian politics in general. Evangelicals count 565 million adherents and represent more than one-fourth of the world's Christians, according to French researcher Sebastien Fath. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Is HSBC Leaving Brazil and Turkey?
Because they have economies with flattening income inequality. And that's bad for business.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dilma Makes Amends With the Markets
Why is Brazil's developmentalist president suddenly talking austerity and rebalancing?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Getting a Handle on National Wealth
It’s time to unleash the untapped potential of public assets — and that doesn’t have to mean privatization.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 On Mother’s Day, Brazil Is Sending Its Convicts Home to See Their Moms
In Brazil, Dia das Mães is an unusually big deal. Families gather for celebrations and meals. The retail sector sees a spike in business topped only by Christmas. And thousands of prisoners are released temporarily so that they can go home to visit the women who raised them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Kickback That Killed Brazil
Itaboraí was once a petro-boomtown; it’s now an empty shell. How the Petrobras mega-scandal is destroying ordinary lives and bringing down the rich and powerful.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Gas Market Following in Oil’s Footsteps With Shell, BG Megamerger
The biggest energy deal in a decade is a $70 billion bet that the world is indeed entering the "Age of Gas."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Greasing the Path to Dilma’s Downfall
Amid a massive oil scandal and a stagnant economy, Brazil’s right has found the opening it’s been waiting for to break 12 years of Workers’ Party rule.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pregnant and Desperate in Evangelical Brazil
As the country grows increasingly religious, strict abortion laws are forcing women to turn to risky, often deadly options to end their pregnancies.
