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A book by AP reporters Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarese considers the real reasons Brazil's Congress impeached the nation's first female president in 2016.
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COMMENTARYI’m thankful to Ricky Gervais. As host of the Golden Globes this month he mocked Hollywood’s brazen hypocrisy – calling “The Morning Show,” for…
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COMMENTARYHere’s a dirty little secret about Amazon deforestation that liberals prefer you overlook: the slash-and-burn may be ugly under right-wing…
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COMMENTARYIf you needed another reminder that the new Brazil is really just the old Brazil, here’s some handy news:Yet another epic public fraud scheme…
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Impeachment proceedings against Brazil's suspended president are nearing an end. The final vote is widely expected to result in Rousseff's ouster. But first, she's delivering a dramatic address.
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Rousseff, who was formally suspended as president in May, will now face a trial in the Senate over alleged fiscal mismanagement. She has repeatedly denied the accusations.
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Hillary Clinton shares many of the political flaws, and is battling the same sexist attacks, that have Dilma Rousseff sitting in the dock of an impeachment trial.
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COMMENTARYVenezuela’s economic disintegration has wrought severe shortages. Food, medicine, electricity. And now – ¡cónchale, chamo! – even Polar beer.But…
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COMMENTARYLuis Almagro, the secretary general of the Organization of American States, made a particularly sensible point when I talked to him during his…
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In a 2008 interview, then Brazilian President LuizInácio Lula da Silva offered me his formula for success: “I allow the rich to earn money with their…
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A political phoenix has risen from the ashes of a plane crash in Brazil. Next month it might result in South America's political upset of the…
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The line between confident and conceited was pretty thin in Brazil in October of 2007.The South American giant was in the midst of a boom that would make…