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21/02/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Lawless Brazil Mob Execution Has Become Part of Daily Life
While today's democratic period in Brazil was initially hailed in the late 1980s as the commencement of a new era of freedom and human rights, the country has nevertheless faced an explosion of violence and criminality over the last two decades, cheapening human life despite the status the law ascribes to it.
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31/10/2005 | Frente Externo
The Brazilian Landless Movement Won't Rest
One of the most radical social movements in Brazil is the Landless Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra - MST). The MST is not just fighting for land reform. The MST also fights, in the words of its main leader João Pedro Stédile, for "a different way of farming that guarantees that [every] land is not seen as private property”.
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06/10/2005 | Transparencia
Corruption? No big deal! That´s the way things are done in Brazil
The present problem of corruption involving the Lula administration finds its roots in the colonial days when Portuguese colonizers were faithful adherents of the extra-legal rule that "a gift makes room for a person". In fact, some of Brazil's colonial rulers were notorious for their rapacity and venality.
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