Will Lulismo illuminate Peru?
President Ollanta Humala has made no secret of his admiration for the model employed by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil.
Brazil: Love and Revolution
Brazil's pyjama generals take up arms against a TV soap. Jan Rocha reports from Sao Paulo.
USA subsidises Brazil’s cotton to protect Monsanto
The cash-strapped US government is paying Brazil's cotton farmers to stop Brazil suspending intellectual property rights on GMOs.
Brazil: OAS calls for halt to Belo Monte
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organisation of American States (OAS) says that work should end on the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station on the Xingu river, pending "full, free and informed" consultation with the affected comm
Belo Monte: The dialogue that never happened
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, the president of CIMI (Indigenous Missionary Council) in Brazil, has published an "open letter" in which he attacks the government's decision to push ahead with the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon basin.
Lula’s Brazil
This essay, written by the influential British Marxist historian Perry Anderson and published by the London Review of Books, first summarises Lula's achievements in his two terms of government and then looks at the radically different
Amazon: NASA scientists detect extensive drought damage
Satellite images have revealed that last year's drought, the most severe ever recorded, did more extensive and more lasting damage to the Amazon forest than had been expected, say NASA scientists.
Brazil: controversy over Creative Commons
A controversy is raging over the decision by Ana de Holanda, the new Minister of Culture, to withdraw the Creative Commons licence from the ministry's website. The Brazilian journalist, Pedro Ayres, gives his views.
Brazil-USA: tensions over Libya
It was historic -- the first black president of the USA meeting Brazil's first woman president -- but the event was soured by the fact that it was precisely then that the announcement was made of the US-led air attack on Libya.
Brazil: Protesting workers stop work on Amazon dam
On 17 March construction workers at the Jirau dam in the Amazon state of Rondonia set fire to buses and damaged housing. The riot, believed to have been caused by poor working conditions, has brought construction work to a halt.