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World's Most Powerful Woman Is...
Want to get onto Forbes ’ annual 100 Most Powerful Women list? Better get yourself into one of these six categories, which is where all of this year’s candidates came from: billionaires, business,...
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Chavez Suggest US Gave World Leaders Cancer
Argentina's Cristina Fernandez has become the latest Latin American leader to be diagnosed with cancer , prompting Hugo Chavez to wonder if the US is to blame. "Would it be strange if they had...
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World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Forbes is out with its annual list of the world's 100 most powerful women, with the top 10 a mix of mostly familiar names from the worlds of politics, humanitarianism, and tech: Angela Merkel: The...
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Tiny Protests Explode as 200K Brazilians Rage
What began as a protest over a small hike in bus fares has mushroomed into a massive protest movement sweeping Brazil. Up to 200,000 anti-government protesters marched in at least eight cities across...
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Brazil Leader to Protesters: Let's Talk
Brazil's president broke what the AP calls her "much-criticized silence" in the face of ever-growing demonstrations in a prime-time address last night, but it's unclear whether it will be enough to...
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NSA Spied on Brazil, Mexico Presidents' Emails
The Snowden files keep on giving: Angry foreign ministers in Brazil and Mexico have summoned US ambassadors over reports that the National Security Agency spied on the presidents of both countries. A...
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Brazil Snubs US Over NSA Spying
Brazil has just exacted a bit of diplomatic revenge over the news that the NSA was reading the emails of President Dilma Rousseff, other Brazilians, and the state oil company Petrobras. President Dilma...
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Great, We've Ticked Off Another Rising Democracy
It used to be that the US would take an annual drubbing from Iran during presidential speeches before the UN General Assembly. Not so this year . Instead, that drubbing came from Brazil in what the...
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Brazil: OK, We Spied on US, Too
In September, Brazil's president decided to skip a planned visit to the US following reports of NSA spying; now Dilma Rousseff's country is admitting it's done some spying of its own—though within its...
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Internet Cable Will Span Atlantic to Thwart US Spying
In the wake of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, a fuming Brazil began plotting an undersea cable to reroute Internet traffic away from the US—and the plan is one that will come to fruition. Brazilian...
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Shock Result Sends Brazil Election to Runoff
Brazil's unpredictable election took another twist yesterday, with left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff being forced into a runoff race as expected—but against a center-right challenger who only...
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Brazil's Leftist Leader Scores Second Term
Brazil's left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected yesterday in the tightest race the nation has seen since its return to democracy three decades ago, batting down a pro-business candidate's...
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Some Brazilian Protesters Call on Prez to Kill Herself
Some 200,000 protesters made their voices heard yesterday in 200 cities across Brazil, protesting a shrinking economy and a bribery scandal involving government-controlled oil company, Petrobras,...
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Lula's Return Rocks Brazil
What's happening in Brazil at the moment has accomplished the rare feat of making American politics look kind of boring. President Dilma Rousseff is facing impeachment over one scandal, and she just...
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Brazil's Crazy Political Crisis Just Got a Little Crazier
Not so fast, Lula. A judge on Thursday issued an injunction to suspend Brazil President Dilma Rousseff's appointment of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as her chief of staff, reports Reuters...
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Yes, Impeach Dilma: Brazil Congressional Committee
A congressional committee voted Monday to recommend that the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff move forward, bringing the possible ouster of the embattled leader a step closer....
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Brazil Starts 'Kafka-esque' Impeachment Debate
The lower chamber of Brazil's Congress has begun debate on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff , with the crucial vote slated for Sunday, the AP reports. The government had carried out an...
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Brazil Congress Votes to Impeach Rousseff
For the second time in under a quarter century, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has voted to open impeachment proceedings against a democratically elected leader, dealing a devastating blow to President...
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'Worst Crisis': Brazil Senate Poised to Decide Rousseff's Fate
Last month, Brazil's Congress voted to start impeachment proceedings against its beleaguered president, Dilma Rousseff. It's now come down to the country's Senate, which will decide Wednesday if she'll...
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Brazil Senate Suspends President
Will she resign? That's about the only suspense left in Brazil on Thursday after the Senate voted to proceed with an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff . The move means that Rousseff...
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