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Does Brazil's WTO Win Matter?
Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia
Brazil's Queen of the Cowboys
Mac Margolis, Newsweek
Brazil Faces Down Remorseless Killer
Follath & Gluesing, Der Spiegel
Pacifying Rio's Biggest Slum
Monica Bergamo, Folha de S.Paulo
The Most Dangerous Countries for Tourists
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic
The WTO has just selected a new leader amid one of the gravest crises since its founding. The race had been narrowed to two candidates, Roberto Azevedo of Brazil and Herminio Blanc...(full article)
As one of Brazil's biggest landowners, Katia Abreu rides a horse to work and never shuns a fight....(full article)
Like a character out of the film "Apocalypse Now," Colonel Sebastião de Moura allegedly hunted, tortured and killed rebels without remorse during Brazil's military dictators...(full article)
Up and down the favela's steep hillside, police have put an end to an economy moved by cocaine. "The measure has hit all those who depended on money coming from the dealers. Before...(full article)
The recent assaults in Brazil and India have raised questions about those countries' safety records. Here are the places where travelers should actually be wary....(full article)
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BRICS Summits Are So Last Decade - Ruchir Sharma, Times of India
One or two of the BRICS may continue to grow rapidly, but it is unlikely that they all will. New stars will replace the fallen. In a tough global economy, each nation needs to be u...
BRIC by Brick - The Hindu
Apart from doing the best on the growth rate front, China is the only BRICS country with a huge current account surplus and has accumulated a massive amount of foreign exchange res...
BRICS Expose the West's Hypocrisy - William Pesek, Bloomberg
The richest nations can stew about this turn of events, as those on the periphery of the world economic system start seeing themselves as the core. Or developed countries can look ...
Assad's Absurd Appeal to BRICS - The National
The Syrian dictator's letter did not explain how tens of thousands of dead civilians, women and children among them, qualify as agents of terrorism. And the idea of Brazil or South...
The Drug Queen of Rio de Janeiro - Jens Glusing, Der Spiegel
Fabiana Escobar was married to one of the most powerful drug lords in Rio de Janeiro. Together they helped run the cocaine trade in the city's largest favela. But her husband was t...
Brazil Needs Immigrants - Millions - Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald
While the United States wrangles over immigration policy, Brazil has already made up its mind about immigrants. It wants more -- as many as 6 million more. They're needed, said Br...
BRICS Nothing But a Chinese Front Group - Harsh Pant, Yale Global
The fascination with BRICS is partly an offshoot of the discussion on the emerging so-called post-American world. Many commentators argue multipolarity is likely to be the norm. Ye...
Brazil's News Outlets Take Aim at Dilma - Vincent Bevins, L.A. Times
Rich and powerful newspapers and TV networks have been critical of the left-leaning president despite her hands-off approach toward them....
Brazil: The Self-absorbed Giant - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Brazil, South America’s biggest country, may become a global economic super-star in the future, but it will have to stop being an inward-looking giant. There is new evidence...
The Coming Atlantic Century - Anne-Marie Slaughter, Project Syndicate
Western fortunes are rising, slowly but surely. Together, Europe and the US account for more than 50% of global GDP, have the largest military force in the world by many multiples,...
Latin America Corruption Starts at Top - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Hld
A new study on corruption in Latin America contains some alarming figures -- an average of about 20 percent of the region's people say they have been asked to pay a bribe by a poli...
Nightclub Fire Could Mark Turning Point for Brazil - Tim Padgett, Time
On Sunday night, Brazilian websites began posting the names, photos and bios of the 233 victims of that morning’s horrific nightclub fire in the southern city of Santa Maria. Wha...
Can Dilma Rousseff Fix Brazil? - Jaime Daremblum, RealClearWorld
Rousseff took office on New Year’s Day 2011, and she inherited a resource-rich economy that had grown by 7.5 percent in 2010. She also inherited a world-famous anti-poverty p...
Latin America's Brazilian Decade - Mac Margolis, Newsweek
From the catwalk to the campaign trail, this stylish, self-confident nation of 197 million will shape Latin America in 2013 and beyond....
U.S. Needs to Win Over Global 'Swing States' - GMF/CNAS
The rise of four powerful democracies – Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey – presents one of the most significant opportunities for U.S. foreign policy in the early 2...
BRICS: The World's New Banker? - Rajeev Sharma, The Diplomat
In setting up the development bank, the BRICS would be mounting a challenge to global institutions like the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, whi...
Ten Big, Overlooked Stories from 2012 - Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy
Ten events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2013....
Brazil's Rio Cleanup a Mixed Blessing - Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times
A so-called pacification initiative drives out drug gangs and helps bring in development, but other types of crime have risen....
Latin America's Adaptive Gangsters - Juan Vergara, Project Syndicate
Criminal networks distort the most important sources of change: globalization, technology, open markets, regional cooperation, and democracy. In a context of weak institutions, per...
Obama Faces Latin America Revolt over Drugs - Brian Winter, Reuters
President Barack Obama will face an unprecedented revolt by Latin American countries against the U.S.-led drug war during his second term and he also may struggle to pass new trade...
Romney Must Romance Brazil - Wingfield & Woods, Bloomberg Businessweek
Mitt Romney’s plan for a Latin American trade region to enhance U.S. export prospects faces an enduring problem: Two decades after President Bill Clinton proposed a similar idea,...
Global Lower Middle Class Is Restless - Doug Saunders, Globe & Mail
Around the world, politicians are making the same discovery. Their constituents, who were satisfied simply not to be poor a generation ago, have now entered an era that might be ca...
The BRICS May Not Be the Future - Antoine Van Agtmael, Foreign Policy
Until the beginning of the 1990s, Russia was still behind the Iron Curtain, China was recovering from the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square unrest, India remained a bure...
South America's Power Vaccum - Sean Goforth, The National Interest
Regardless of who wins Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela, Latin America lives in a post-Chavez era. Now is the time for Brazil to step up. Venezuelan president Hu...
Venezuelan Vote May Determine Latin America's Future - Irish Times
The election has a geopolitical significance well beyond Venezuela. The continent’s politically predominant left has polarised between supporters of a Chávez-Castro axis, encour...
Brazil: The Weak and Broken BRIC - David Rohde, Reuters
For decades, Denis Dias’s parents could never break into Brazil’s middle class. They started a bakery and a pizzeria in the 1970s and 1980s, but the country’s e...
Mexico Gaining on Brazil - Jaime Daremblum, Weekly Standard Blog
Last month in London, Mexico’s Olympic soccer team won gold by defeating its Brazilian counterpart, 2-1. The victory gave Mexico its first-ever trophy in a major internationa...
Brazil's Ego Falters Along with Its Economy - Dom Phillips, Bloomberg
Just a few months ago, Brazil's government dreamed of a 4 percent economic expansion for 2012. With second-quarter statistics in -- GDP grew just 0.4 percent over the first quarter...
Trouble at the Triple Border - Christine Folch, Foreign Affairs
South America's Triple Frontier, where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet at a bend in the Paraná River, has long served as a hub of organized crime and narcotics, weapons...
Why 2013 Will Be a Year of Crisis - David Frum, CNN
Prediction: 2013 will be a year of serious global crisis. That crisis is predictable, and in fact has already begun. It will inescapably confront the next president of the United S...
Can Europe Survive Rise of the Rest? - Timothy Garton Ash, NY Times
While we Europeans should redouble our efforts to ensure that our continent does not forget its troubled past, the need for scale is the key to our shared future. The 21st-century ...
Rousseff: Brazil's Entrepreneur-in-Chief - Glick & Casserly, Forbes
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff recently encountered a young couple in their 30s, with a brood of young children and a hopeful outlook on the future. Until recently the father h...
A Moment of Truth for Brazil's President Rousseff - The Economist
WRITING about the Brazil of a century ago, Warren Dean, an economic historian, noted that the country’s foreign trade “appears to have been limited to commodities in which ov...
The West Is Killing Capitalism - Mzukisi Qobo, Business Day
The singling out of emerging powers as guardians of state capitalism does not only betray gross ignorance of what is at play in these countries — a gradual march towards free mar...
World Could Use More Dull Leaders - Konstantin Sonin, Moscow Times
If there's anyone among the leaders of the top countries of the world who will wind up in the history books, it is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her place in the history book...
Is India More Like Brazil than China? - Ruchir Sharma, The Globalist
There has been plenty of talk in recent years about the parallels and contrasts that mark the India-China relationship. But Ruchir Sharma, author of "Breakout Nations" and a man...
How Brazil Became a Modern Nation - Follath & Gluesing, Der Spiegel
Brazil is booming. Here's why....
Brazil's China Temptation - Jaime Daremblum, PJ Media
What a difference a year makes. In August 2011, as the European debt crisis raised fears of another international financial panic, Brazilian officials were bragging about their...
Brazil Wins Big at Mercosur - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Conventional wisdom is that Venezuela was the big winner at this week’s Mercosur summit when the country officially joined South America’s trade bloc. But for me, the b...
BRICs Are the World's Problem Children - Joel Brinkley, Baltimore Sun
As the world struggles to deal with its two largest foreign-affairs dilemmas, Syria and Iran, resolutely standing in the way are the BRICs.That's the acronym foreign-policy wonks u...
Brazil the Bully - Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, Foreign Policy
Delmi Morales Nosa never imagined she'd need her family's bow and arrow for anything other than hunting. But when construction started last year on a highway set to bisect her home...
BRIC's (Not So) Spectacular Rise - Conrad Black, National Post
For years, we heard of the rise of the "BRIC" nations - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - countries anointed as battering rams to the future, inexorably surging forward, into an...
Mexico Is on the Rise - Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Right now, Brazil has the world’s attention. It is a much vaunted BRIC economy in the company of China, India and Russia. On the other hand, the perception of Mexico is that of...
Why Iran Covets Brazil - Ilan Berman, Weekly Standard
On Wednesday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad touched down in Brazil for his first state visit to the South American nation since 2009. The ostensible reason is to attend the...
Who Will Rise to the Top in a Leaderless World? - Ian Bremmer, HBR Blog
The old order, call it a U.S.-led G7 world, no longer reflects the true international balance of power. But there is not yet a new order to take its place. That's why global mark...