The Incalculable Price of Austerity: Rio Museum Destroyed by Fire, Dry Hydrants
The museum fire has been described as a result of the meticulous dismantling of Brazilian society by a government in the pocket of multinational conglomerates.
The museum fire has been described as a result of the meticulous dismantling of Brazilian society by a government in the pocket of multinational conglomerates.
Thirty days into the army intervention in Rio and it has become clear that the situation has only worsened. Military operations are concentrated in the favelas, amplifying the use of repression against the poor, black population. So many beautiful lives are lost.
By Julian Cola
RIO DE JANEIRO (Interview) -- Brazil’s federal government, led by President Michel Temer, gave the green light for a military takeover of all police duties in the state of Rio de Janeiro on February 16. His justification for the move? The restoration of law and order. Criminal gangs and violence had, in his words, “virtually taken over,” and
Julian Cola is a translator (Brazilian-Portuguese to English). A former staff writer at the pan-Latin American news outlet, teleSUR, his articles and essays also appear in Africa is a Country, Black Agenda Report, Truthout, Counterpunch and elsewhere.
Members of Brazil’s President Michel Temer’s administration met with Google representatives to discuss the viability of directing users’ queries to official content produced by the government.
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Thursday’s auction was a juicy meal for the 32 corporate bidders, which included such major Western energy giants as Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP. Unprecedented in size and in the opposition it provoked, the auction fit neatly into Temer’s neoliberal agenda for Brazil.
Indigenous and environmental activists scuffled with security guards after attempting to enter and interrupt an auction organized by the unelected President of Brazil, Michel Temer, last Thursday. Activists
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The allegations are the latest development in Operation Carwash, a sprawling corruption probe that has implicated many of Brazil’s business and political elite.
The presidency of Brazil's Michel Temer, who replaced disgraced and impeached predecessor Dilma Rousseff last summer, lasted about one year without a major corruption scandal. That changed when Brazil's O Globo newspaper,
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Several top allies of the unelected president, including nearly one third of his cabinet, are in the spotlight for fraud.
By teleSUR
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge opened investigations Tuesday into almost 100 politicians who allegedly were part of the largest corruption scheme in the country, including a number of top allies of unelected President Michel Temer.
Eight ministers — which represents nearly one third of the president's cabinet — 29teleSUR English bring you world news with a focus on the people, the common citizen, and stories untold by traditional media. You will only find them at teleSUR.
The former presidents attended the inauguration of a popular water diversion project.
By teleSUR
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and ousted President Dilma Rousseff attended the San Francisco River Transposition, organized Sunday by leaders of social movements, artists and intellectuals in the Brazilian city of Monteiro. "The coup is not over yet. It is underway with systematic lies like the one lived here in Monteiro, where
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