Tag: Brazil

Construction cranes skirt the Itaquerao stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. The stadium is slated to host the World Cup opener match between Brazil and Croatia on June 12. About 20,000 temporary seats are being installed behind the goals to increase the stadium's capacity to nearly 70,000. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil struggles with its World Cup preparations

Tales Azzoni · April 11, 2014 9:39 am

FILE - In this July 1, 2013 file photo, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff gives a news conference in Brasilia, Brazil. Rousseff's popularity has dipped five percentage points ahead of October's presidential elections, according to a poll published by the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Datafolha attributed the drop in Rousseff's popularity to rising inflation and fears of unemployment and lower purchasing power. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Poll shows Brazil president’s popularity drops

Washington Examiner · April 6, 2014 5:25 pm

The original results released by the Institute of Applied Economic Research noted that 65 percent of respondents agreed that if a woman wore clothes that "showed off her body" she deserved to be sexually assaulted. (Photo: ThinkStock)

Beltway Confidential

That viral Brazil rape poll was wrong, but still disturbing

Ashe Schow · April 5, 2014 4:00 am

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took to Twitter on Monday to defend journalist Nana Queiroz after she was threatened with rape for daring to speak out against what a poll showed was a startling public willingness to accept the rape of women wearing revealing clothing. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Beltway Confidential

Brazil’s president tweets in support of journalist threatened for anti-rape protest

Ashe Schow · March 31, 2014 4:00 am

Brazil police: Worker likely without safety cable

Tales Azzoni · March 30, 2014 5:08 pm

Brazil police push into Rio de Janeiro slums

Bradley Brooks · March 30, 2014 3:26 pm

Beltway Confidential

Women in revealing clothes deserve to be raped, say Brazilians in new poll

Ashe Schow · March 30, 2014 12:00 am

Rio de Janeiro police posts attacked

Rio de Janeiro police posts attacked

Washington Examiner · March 21, 2014 1:42 am

Brazil investigates price-fixing cartel

Brazil investigates price-fixing cartel

Stan Lehman · March 20, 2014 4:19 pm

Brazil’s WCup: Anger over waste, poor planning

Stephen Wade · March 15, 2014 6:30 pm

DDR plans to sell its Brazilian investment

DDR plans to sell its Brazilian investment

Washington Examiner · March 10, 2014 11:32 am

In this Jan. 9, 2014 photo, a resident looks from her window at the Favela do Metro slum near Maracana stadium where some homes have been demolished in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Residents in this slum were evicted from their homes two years ago for the area to be renovated for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, but people reoccupied the homes and are fighting to stay. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Critics blast Rio’s World Cup, Olympic evictions

Jenny Barchfield · February 28, 2014 4:14 pm