Will Trump Try to Tip the Scales in Latin America?
A dozen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will hold presidential or legislative elections this year. At the same time, a region synonymous with U.S. intervention now faces the ...
Tag: Brazil
Brazilian Mayor Shot in ‘Fake’ Assassination Attempt for Sympathy Votes Still Lost. By a Lot.
Campaigns can bring out the worst in politicians. The latest revelation from Brazil suggests that what was once thought to be a botched homicide attempt on José Aprígio da Silva ...
Report: Brazilians Illegally in U.S. Using WhatsApp to Evade ICE Raids
Brazilian migrants illegally residing in the United States are utilizing WhatsApp group messaging chats to share live information on ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and avoid getting deported, ...
Marcelo Rubens Paiva On Walter Salles’ Oscar-Nominated Adaptation Of His Book ‘I’m Still Here’: “It Really Is A Universal Film”
All roads in the Brazilian film industry seem to lead to lead to Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and he considers many of the people he has worked with in the last ...
Brazil’s Diosual Entertainment & Medialand Production Forge True Crime Co-Production Pact
EXCLUSIVE: Two of Brazil‘s key production houses are teaming for true crime. Diosual Entertainment and Medialand Production have struck a strategic partnership to co-produce multiple true crime doc series. The ...
Brazil’s Slow-Burning Economic Crisis Might Be the U.S. Future
Halfway through his third (nonconsecutive) term, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is dealing with significant economic trouble. Although markets have recovered somewhat in recent weeks, at the peak ...
Smugglers Are Robbing Slaughterhouses—for Their Cow Parts
Cow gallstones are big business. Gallstones are prized for their medicinal uses. And a nice fat cow gallstone can sell on the black market for tens of thousands of dollars. ...
Leftist Latin American Governments Panic over Potential Trump Deportations
The governments of ten Latin American nations expressed concern over the “threat” of mass deportations under President Donald Trump in a joint statement released over the weekend. Last week, foreign ...
Brazil Blocks Jair Bolsonaro from Attending Trump Inauguration
The Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil on Thursday denied former President Jair Bolsonaro’s request for permission to leave the country to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The ruling, issued ...
Brazil Investigates Chinese EV Giant BYD for Using ‘Irregular Visas’ to Import Slaves
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD is under investigation for using “irregular visas” to ship workers to Brazil, where they were kept in what Brazilian inspectors described as “slavery-like conditions.” ...
