Category Archive: Brazil

RE: “Seeking Protection”

Dear Editor, Although the cartoon accompanying your article, “Seeking Protection,” casts the symbolic Brazilian macaw in a miserably paranoid light, protectionist policies have met with success in the history pages of the world’s hustling economies.  As a policy, protectionism enjoys …

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COHA in the Public Arena (January 22 – January 27)

On January 18, COHA Research Associate, Courtney Frantz was interviewed by Paul Wienburg of Straightgoods.ca on the state of security in Haiti. On January 24, COHA guest scholar Peter Tase was interviewed by Datamine concerning organic sugar exports from Paraguay …

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The Internet in Brazil: E-Progress and E-Censorship in Latin America’s Poster Child

ALEXINETBRAZILPIC

This inquiry focuses on the internet in Brazil; it is meant to continue and expand upon an article previously published by the author that discusses the role of the internet in Latin America, particularly how it affects Brazil, which can …

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United States Strengthens Relations With Brazil By Throwing Open Its Ethanol Market

Source: Exame.com

After decades of taxing foreign ethanol, the United States government decided to open up its market by allowing the federal tariff impost to expire on December 31, 2011. Previously, foreign ethanol producers had to forfeit USD 0.54 in taxes per gallon …

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Iran’s Ahmadinejad Visits Four Latin American Countries

Source: Aljazeera

Washington and Venezuela’s ties are further frayed as Miami consul general is expelled from the country. President Obama’s authorization of the expulsion of the Venezuelan consul general from the consulate office in Miami has further deteriorated relations between the two …

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