Belíndia: Brazil and Education
By: Tarique Smith, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric AffairsProtests Continue After Brazil realized decades of steady improvements in its literacy, performance this year is declining once again. This is a troubling development in…
Paradise Lost: Violence and Impunity in Brazil
By: Tarique Smith, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric AffairsSoccer Goals and Blood Baths As reported in the publication InSight Crime, on June 30, 2013, a neighborhood soccer match in northeast Brazil dissolved into…
Latin America Puts Forward A Mixed Picture on the Use of Drones in the Region
By: W. Alejandro Sanchez, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric AffairsTo read this article in Spanish, click here. For a PDF version of this article, click here. Over the past decade, a growing number of…
Brazil and Its Relations with the U.S.: The High Cost of Benign Neglect
By: Council on Hemispheric Affairs StaffPresident Dilma Rousseff’s cancellation of her planned state visit to the United States, which had been scheduled for October 23-24, constitutes one of the most…
Brazil’s Foreign Policy Ambitions and Global Geopolitics
By: Luis FerreiraOn July 17, Antonio Patriota, Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed his country’s efforts to achieve stability and peace in Africa with other members of…
Brazil’s Defiant AIDS Program: A Model for the Developing World
By: Christie Mount, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric AffairsIn mid-July, at the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), experts concluded that a key factor in reducing AIDS-related deaths was ensuring that countries’…
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