bruce.douglas·May 26, 2016More embarrassing tapes threaten Temer administrationOn 26 May O Folha de São Paulo reported that advisers to interim president Michel Temer are suggesting he should suspend ministers accused…
bruce.douglas·May 25, 2016Brazilian congress approves budget deficitEarly this morning congress voted to authorise an R$170.5bn (US$47bn) primary fiscal deficit. This was the first major hurdle for the…
bruce.douglas·Jan 27, 2016Brazil declares “war” on the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoOver 4,000 cases of microcephaly, the infant brain disease linked to the Zika virus, have now been registered in Brazil. This week the…
bruce.douglas·Jan 15, 2016State statistics show decline in Rio murdersOn 14 January the state-run Institute for Public Security (ISP) showed homicides for the city of Rio de Janeiro in 2015 reached their…
