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Brazil: Down, But Not Out
Albert Fishlow, Foreign Policy
The Rise of Latin America
Jaime Daremblum, PJ Media
Brazil Is Making an Example of Chevron
Barrett & Millard, BusinessWeek
Brazil Has Become a Disoriented Giant
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami H'ld
America's Out-of-Date Cuba Policy
Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs
Just because Brazil's growth rates are slowing, doesn't mean the doomsayers are right....(full article)
Over the past month, Latin America has seen two high-profile nationalizations of Spanish-owned companies. In Argentina, Cristina Kirchner announced the expropriation of a majorit...(full article)
Chevron got caught up in Brazilian political crosscurrents having little in particular to do with the U.S. company but revealing much about the delicate state of Brazil's burgeon...(full article)
Unlike some of its neighbors, such as Argentina and Venezuela, Brazil thinks long-term. It has long invested in key industries, such as bio fuels and aerospace, is taking steps t...(full article)
In preparatory talks, the countries of the Western Hemisphere that gathered at the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, this past weekend had agreed on a range of ...(full article)
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Tipping Point from West to Rest Just Passed - Peter Hartcher, Sydney M.H.
It's much easier to see that we're at the end of an old world order than the beginning of a new one....
Brazil Seeks Its Role in the World - William Waack, The American Interest
Earlier this week, Dilma Rousseff made the same trip that several thousand Brazilians have become addicted to: a trip to the United States. Unlike Rousseff, most of those Brazilian...
Mexico Steps Out of Brazil's Shadow - John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times
I once asked Carlos Slim why Mexicans were so down about their country and Brazilians so euphoric about theirs. The world’s richest man, whose biggest investments span both co...
U.S.-Brazil 'Relationship Without Enthusiasm' - Dom Phillips, Bloomberg
For Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, this week's two-day American visit was a big one. She had already been to China, India and Germany, and had even hosted President Barack Oba...
Brazil's Puzzling Anti-Americanism - Sean Goforth, The National Interest
Why aren’t the United States and Brazil closer allies? In terms of twenty-first-century international relations, the natural bonds between the established power and the rising p...
Rethinking the Brazilian Success Story - Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs
Until recently, the consensus view of Brazil among investors and pundits was almost universally bullish. Under the landmark presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the co...
Brazil, U.S. Need to Take Each Other Seriously - Tim Padgett, Global Spin
After I and a number of colleagues wrote last month about possible U.S.-Brazil friction on the eve of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s visit to America, a Brazi...
Brazil and U.S. Accentuate the Positive - Romero & Calmes, New York Times
The friendliness belied a sense that the United States, whose once-dominant sway in Latin America is ebbing, and Brazil, the hemisphere's rising power, still do not see eye to ey...
The End of the Brazilian Miracle - Bill Hinchberger, Foreign Policy
When she strides into the White House on Monday, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will carry with her one thing sure to draw the envy of her American counterpart Barack Obama -- ...
Emerging Economies Struggle to Improve Standard of Living - Gallup
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are all experiencing economic growth, but Gallup surveys show majorities in just three of the emerging-market economies -- Brazil, ...
Brazil Is the India of Latin America - Jaime Daremblum, Weekly Standard
In 2001, Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill famously coined the acronym “BRIC” to describe four of the world’s most populous countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China...
A Global Crisis of Civilization - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
During the Cold War, we said there were two kinds of countries: developed countries like the western industrial democracies and Japan, and developing countries. The developed cou...
A Rising Protectionist Threat from Emerging World - Washington Times
India last week hosted a forum of the most powerful developing nations to discuss various trade and political issues. The BRICS summit - so named after its members Brazil, Russi...
Can Brazil Stop Iran? - Bernard Aronson, New York Times
Brazil should take the bold step of voluntarily ending its uranium enrichment program and calling on other nations, including Iran, to follow its example....
BRICS Won't Walk with West on Democracy - Anita Inder Singh, The Hindu
The nations in the grouping are steered by their individual national interests....
China Finds an Ally in Brazil - Jack Perkowski, Forbes
Make no mistake, a trade war between the United States and China is brewing. In the cases of steel wheels and solar panels, the United States is saying that China exports too m...
Why a BRICS-built Bank Is Doomed to Fail - Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph
Brazil, China and India have little in common apart from opposition to Western control of global financial institutions....
Can the BRICS Create a New World Order? - Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa seek a multipolar world – but some argue they're bound by anti-Americanism.....
BRICS the Defenders of the Developing World - Hu Jintao, The Hindu
In a written interview with BRICS media on the eve of the New Delhi summit, Chinese President Hu Jintao outlines his vision of the role the five-nation grouping can play at the g...
A World Headed for De-Globalization? - Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard
We may be entering an era of creeping de-globalization. It is one thing to be generous with the perceived foibles of your trading partners when your economy is growing and jobs a...
Defusing Brazil's Economic Time Bomb - The Economist
The Senate debates a small measure to help disarm an economic time bomb....
The Cracks in the BRICS - Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
As it prepares to hold its latest annual summit in New Delhi on March 28-29, the BRICS grouping – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – remains a concept i...
It's Time to De-Russianize the BRICS - Robert Kelly, The Duck of Minerva
Russia isn't a great power anymore. It’s not rising in any meaningful sense of that word in international relations theory. Its population is contracting at a startling rate...
U.S. Should Treat Brazil Like India - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
When President Barack Obama welcomes Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the White House on April 9, both leaders will say that their countries’ bilateral ties are better t...
Will Good BRICS Please Stand Up on Syria? - James Traub, Foreign Policy
You can call them respectable democracies, but India, Brazil, and South Africa will be judged by how they act abroad. And on the Syria question, it's been shameful....
Can Brazil Avoid a Slowdown? - Financial Times
Only weeks after ranks of colourful floats paraded across Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome, observers are wondering whether the carnival is finally over for the Brazilian economy....
Emerging Democracies Closer to Russia & China? - Democracy Digest
As the emerging power with the largest economy, China will play a particularly important role in shaping the international system. Russia, though its economy is much smaller, re...
Rising Democracies Take on Russia and China - Piccone & Alinikoff, TNI
Rising democracies like India, Brazil and South Africa, along with their counterparts Turkey and Indonesia, are beginning to stand up for human rights in ways that may reshape th...
Giving BRICS a Non-Western Vision - Samir Saran & Vivan Sharan, Hindu
On issues of common interest, it is time the five-nation group developed its own responses....
A Post-American World? Not Quite - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
As far as the 21st century goes, compared to the alternatives, it is more likely that we are in a pre-American than a post-American age....
Women Take Power in Brazilian Government - Jens Glusing, Der Spiegel
Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, has quickly stepped out of the shadow of her charismatic predecessor Lula. After one year in office, she is more popular than any former ...
Turkey, Brazil Can Solve Iran - Anne-Marie Slaughter, European Voice
The West and Iran are playing a dangerous game. In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and warned the United Statesagainst sending an aircraft carrier...
Brazil's Success Ushers in a New World - John Kampfner, The Independent
Pity the predictors. Forecasting the following year is a mug's game. Forecasting broader trends is easier, and one trend has surely been established beyond any reasonable doubt: th...
Global Portfolio Needs More Than BRICs - Suzanne McGee, Fiscal Times
Investors recently marked the tenth anniversary of the birth of the first big acronym in the world of emerging market investments. BRIC – standing for Brazil-Russia-India-China ...
Will the Americas Drift Apart in 2012? - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Hld
Latin America's Pacific rim countries may decide their future lies in becoming a bridge between Asia and the U.S. market. And Latin America's Atlantic rim countries may decide th...
Is Latin America's Boom Over? - Tim Padgett, Global Spin
While Asian economies account for a third of the world's research-and-development expenditures today, Latin America accounts for about 3%....
Ominous Sign in Brazil's Brewing Land Battles - Dom Phillips, Bloomberg
Indians like Gomes -- squatting on land both they and farmers claim -- are in a dangerous state of legal limbo....
Modesty and Delusion in the Western World - Roger Cohen, NY Times
Elsewhere it's the Renaissance. Palaces rise. A bottle of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild goes for $4,000 in Hong Kong. Chinese and Brazilian bankers ponder whether Europe is creditwort...
U.S. Should Look Both East and South - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
The Obama administration is seeking to increase its presence in Asia both because of that region’s rapid economic growth and because Washington wants to counter a rising Ch...
Will Anyone Rescue Europe? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Amid Europe's economic turmoil, a question nags: Where is the IMF? Created in 1945 - and reflecting the breakdown of global cooperation in the Great Depression - the Internationa...
U.S. to China, Brazil: Take White Man's Burden - Walter Mead, Via Meadia
A lot of the world spends its time oscillating between the gleeful anticipation of American decline and the detailed analysis of those endlessly clever American plots that keep the...
Brazil Flexes Imperial Muscles - Simon Romero, New York Times
Sandal-clad indigenous protesters have excoriated their president, calling him a “lackey of Brazil.” Angry demonstrations in front of Brazil’s embassy here d...
World Cup No Cure for Brazil's Woes - Jaime Daremblum, RealClearWorld
Hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup was supposed to provide an unalloyed boon to Brazil’s global image. Yet tournament preparations have highlighted many structural weaknesses in ...
Brazil's Quest for Superpower Status - Peter Collecott, Diplomatic Courier
Brazil’s quest for superpower status has a long history. Initially, this was probably rooted in the Brazilian sense of size and uniqueness – a continental sized country...
About Brazil
- Federative Republic of Brazil
- Population: 196,342,000 (5th)
- Area Size: 3,287,597 sq mi (5th)
- GDP: $1.31 trillion (10th)
- Currency: Real (BRL)
- Official Language: Portuguese
- Capital City: Brasilia
- Largest City: Sao Paulo
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