Six people are dead and more than 20 missing following the Samarco mine disaster in Brazil. But in the rush to blame we must consider the complexity of such failures.
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Brazil – Analyses
With anti-corruption feeling at an all-time high, a populist comedian has swept to power in Guatemala, while Brazil’s president is facing furious calls for impeachment.
Twenty years ago, Brazil and South Africa were in a similar position when it comes to inequality. Brazil has made significant progress in addressing this, but South Africa hasn’t.
What if Malcolm Turbull’s conception of “21st-century government” imagines a healthy civil society and a responsive economy that values debate, imagination, difference and surprise - all provided by the arts.
The First Fleet had three layovers on its voyage to Australia – one was Rio de Janeiro. As Australia and Brazil celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations, it’s worth remembering this encounter.
Back in 2001, a Goldman Sachs economist said Brazil, Russia, India and China would become the powerhouses of the global economy in the coming decades. Is that still in the cards?
Opposition to president Dilma Rousseff is growing, but there is division over what her fate should be.
Rio 2016 promised much, but with just one year to go Brazilians are still waiting for it to deliver…
Some theorists suggest that such platforms are making our world more efficient by natural selection. The reality is a little more complicated.
Latin America’s two biggest players spent much of the 1980s in a low-grade arms race – and they both had nuclear aspirations. How did they manage to diffuse the tension?
New evidence shows marked similarities between two fossils – one from Brazil, the other South Africa. This confirms compelling geological findings that continents were once one giant land mass.
While still host to some of the world’s most unequal countries, Latin America is making strides where Europe and the US are falling behind.
Brazil is being rocked by a graft scandal of titanic proportions. Could it bring down Dilma Rousseff?
The same persistent weather pattern bringing hot, dry conditions to California is likely connected to a punishing drought in the Sao Paulo area in Brazil.
Latin America’s biggest heavyweight and its worst basket case are tied together by politics and trade. But as life gets harder for both, their bonds are starting to fray.
Brazil will find a way to ship its goods to China whether we like it or not, and for a rainforest roads are much worse than rail.
It’s the size of a fingernail but could do you some serious damage – numbness, incontinence, and muscular paralysis.
These tiny creatures have ditched tadpoles and extra toes to make the most of their habitat.
Growth can be predicted and droughts can be planned for. So why did Brazil’s largest water utility get caught out?
Dilma Rousseff’s administration has done little to improve the representation of women in top positions – and has suffered disappointing setbacks.
Early this month, the Federal Court rejected Channel Seven’s appeal against an Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) ruling that its program about the Suruwaha Indians was inaccurate and…
The world quietly celebrated Human Rights Day (December 10) earlier this month. That week, two big, interrelated human rights events occurred. The first was the well-publicised revelations that America’s…
As the world digests the findings of a report on the way the US has treated detainees suspected of terrorism, Brazil has owned up to similar abuses of its own citizens. The Brazilian Truth Commission has…
“Affirmative action won’t be around for much longer, ” said one of our professors twenty years ago, advising against writing a dissertation on this topic. The United States Supreme Court’s Schuette decision…
All eyes are on Brazil following the re-election of Dilma Rousseff as president after an eventful campaign in which the strongly pro-environment candidate Marina Silva was squarely defeated. Now, the country’s…