Brazil
Brazil protests: some background
June 24, 2013All last week, major Brazilian cities were the sites of massive youth protests.
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Brazil protests continue with 50,000-strong cathedral rally
June 20, 2013Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Sao Paulo again on Tuesday night.
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Of rhinos and candidates
May 16, 2013Readers may be interested to know that a female black rhinoceros played an important part in the struggle to clean up corrupt elections in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1958.
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Brazil’s Lula hails Mississippi Nissan workers (video)
February 8, 2013Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, issued a stirring call for international worker solidarity, speaking at a UAW conference.
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Brazil probes dictatorship’s human rights abuses
May 29, 2012Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.
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