Brazil: The Persistence Of Inequality

An upbet--ifslightly wary--Brazil celebrated the New Year with the inauguration of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, an old leftist who led

Brazil's new trade unionism faces a basic paradox: at the very peak of the CUT's ifluence in the broader political

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The Geledes Black Women's Institute charged in court that a Sgo Paulo shop owner was publicly maligned by a neighboring

The Geledes Black Women's Institute decided to take on one of the continent's mightiest media giants by suing TV Globo

The Southern Common Market (Mercosur in Spanish, Mercosul in Portuguese)-a regional trade bloc comprised of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay-has

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