Political Risk

The presidential campaign officially kicked off on July 6, and as far as the opinion polls are concerned, President Lula of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) is headed comfortably... 2006-07-07

Social problems have recently returned to the Brazilian media spotlight as a result of violence between a drug gang and the police and an attack on congress by a dissident group of... 2006-06-13

Just as it seemed that the worst of the corruption scandal was in the past, an interview given by a former secretary-general of the PT splashed the scandal all over Brazilian newspapers... 2006-05-17

At the end of March, the corruption scandal that has claimed many of Lula's close allies caught a big fish: then-finance minister Antônio Palocci. Palocci's fate had been in lingo... 2006-04-07

President Lula's early year recovery in the polls continued in late February, increasing the gap between Lula and his potential adversaries (José Serra and Geraldo Alckmin of the... 2006-03-10

Geraldo Alckmin, governor of São Paulo, has announced that he will soon resign from his post in order to run for president on behalf of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira... 2006-01-16

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva currently suffers his lowest level of popular support since he entered office in January 2003.

In mid-October, President President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula)'s Campo Majoritário (CM) faction won the party presidency of the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), but... 2005-11-11