John Oliver attempts to explain the chaos in Brazil
John Oliver’s latest episode offers his take on what is going on behind all of the headlines coming out of Brazil.
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March 22, 2016
Rousseff playing goalie
As this crisis unfolds, it becomes clear that president Dilma Rousseff seems to behave more like a losing goalie – making futile attempts to shield her team, and the little that remains of her government’s viability – than like the president which Brazilians vested with trust, and legitimacy to “lead” in 2011.
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March 18, 2016
Monsters in Brazil
As the country prepares to host the Olympic games it simultaneously battles with corruption, an issue which, a leading attorney in the Petrobras scandal characterizes as a “monster” in Brazil.
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March 11, 2016
The sad death of the Latin American left
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Brazil’s Luiz Inacio da Silva dreamed of a new world order. Their successors watched it fall to pieces.
Christopher Sabatini
December 11, 2015