Brazil Politics News

Brazilian police on Monday broke a vast international ring that netted $50 million from applicants paying to fraudulently obtain US work visas, US and Brazilian officials in Sao Paulo said. At least 11 people were arrested under 19 warrants issued...

Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armored car company made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend as season-ending soccer matches virtually paralyzed the nation, Brazilian authorities said Monday...Officers followed the tunnel from the...

Aids - No We Can't? 6 December 2009 Washington, DC — "It was ordinary people, people living with AIDS and those who loved them, who spoke up, demanded action. Activists in Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Uganda and elsewhere shamed their...

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says Rio de Janeiro can become a safe city before it hosts the 2016 Olympics . And his consulting firm will be paid to offer advice on how to make that happen. Giuliani visited...

Two Brazilian officials accompanying President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on a trip to Germany have been diagnosed with swine flu. Brazil's official Agencia Brasil news agency says the presidential security guard and an air force official will not leave...

Brazil, an established power in Latin America and an aspirer for a UN Security Council permanent seat, has decided to get involved in the Middle East peace process as a new mediator.     The country has voiced on several occasions its...

Court goes to Maracas scene of 'drug bust' Denyse Renne drenne@trinidadexpress.com Thursday, December 3rd 2009 'how it happened': A police officer gives an account to court staff of the events which led to the arrest of accused drug trafficker Brian...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday deplored the alleged corruption cases exposed in the country's Federal District that is home to the national capital city of Brasilia.     President Lula da Silva spoke of the issue in Kiev...

French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 memoir and masterpiece, "Tristes Tropiques,"...

The outage Tuesday night, which affected up to 70 million people, has proved an embarrassment for the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. at only RM 20 per month. Its easily done via email or over the phone....