Speculators hedging uncertainty in world energy markets are again making renewable fuels derived from corn, cane sugar and soybeans the drivers of food price inflation, just as they did on the eve of the 2008 economic crisis.

With G-20 nations currently meeting in Buenos Aires...

In a nation that still measures democracy in decades, the period between Easter and May Day evokes memories of food riots and coup attempts triggered by runaway inflation. But when Argentina chose Nestor and Cristina Kirchner to play Juan and Evita in the nation's never ending political drama,...

With food and fuel prices causing inflation and strikes, President Dilma Rousseff has returned from China with over $30 billion in deals that will create some high value jobs and help steady the economy. But while the BRIC nations want to do business in local currencies, most of...

Ramping up for the 2016 Rio Games, Brazil is promoting tax incentives that will generate more than $150 million for sports and special Olympics programs designed to take kids off the streets and help them go for the gold.

The vehicle to make this happen is Brazil's unique

Sao Paulo

Brazil is getting back to its own economic reality in the afterglow of president Obama´s rock star visit. With enough unionized high tech workers to fill the Meadowlands, the powerful Sao Paulo data workers union went out on strike to get higher wages and benefits....

With Brazilians recovering from carnival hangovers, the sports world is feeling the lingering effects of a game fixing case local media are calling the Whistle Mafia. A São Paulo court has fined the Brazilian Football Confederation 160 million Reals ($100 million) in connection with a conspiracy among referees and Internet...

São Paulo -- The beautiful game took another ugly turn Wednesday night when former FIFA referee and popular TV analyst Roberto Godoi was gunned down in a São Paulo suburb. Godoi, whose career was marked by several controversial calls in matches that were heavily bet outside Brazil, is...

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With president Obama's State of the Union speech giving notice that free trade with Colombia is not a priority in Washington, Colombia's ability to attract foreign capital now depends on the security provided by US forces and trade incentives linked to the war on drugs. With the...

With president-elect Dilma Rousseff announcing market-friendly budget cuts and the White House still searching for new economic leadership, Brazil has joined China, France and Germany in the call for a coordinated global effort to replace the foundering dollar as the major world reserve currency.

This new "Gang of Four"...

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Whether you're in Brasilia, Boston or Bangalore you might be paying more for your internet services on the road ahead because Washington has just seeded the global "cloud computing" industry with $20 billion in government contracts but hasn't funded the cybersecurity infrastructure to...

Campinas, Brazil

In a democracy that developed technology to protect the integrity of the popular vote and the social contract linked to it globalists aligned with the business-to-business values of the elitist World Economic Forum have added a sense of drama to Brazilian politics by seeking to influence the outcome...

BAHIA, BRAZIL -- Media in South America responded passionately to Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa receiving the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature for his cartography of the structures of global power. But with China establishing a stronger economic footprint in the region, coverage of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo...

Bahia, Brazil

Powered by progressive, neoconservative capital and soft power techniques Green Party candidate Marina Silva sent shock waves through Brazil's male dominated political culture by winning 19 million votes in Sunday's presidential election. She didn't make the cut for the runoff presidential vote but she could become a power...

As Brazil prepares to choose a new leader, disruptive marketing by campaign consultant Ravi Singh has drawn the ire of voters in Latin America much as it did a decade ago when Bill Clinton's top gun James Carville rode into the box canyon of Mexican politics, advising losing PRI presidential...

When Brown started his career in pro football, the South was rife with segregation and racial violence and the minimum wage was a dollar an hour -- when it was paid. That same greenback would get you a seat at Gate E of Municipal Stadium in Cleveland to watch the...

Respected polling now indicates that cancer survivor Dilma Rousseff of the Worker's Party will likely be voted Brazil's first woman president next month. But election season debate over American-style affirmative action quotas is stretching the nation's social fabric and could spell trouble down the road for Dilma, who...

The impressive win by Brazil's young team over the United States at the Meadowlands Tuesday was a victory for futebol culture over soccer culture and its NFL-style marketing. It was also a reminder that the international governing body of football, FIFA, which boasts more members than the UN, has the...

Feeling a clear and present danger from Team Obama's new bases designed to contain the FARC from establishing a nation inside of Colombia, irascible Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is threatening retaliation and cutting off oil exports to his top customer, the United States.

While the move is reciprocity for tougher...

In a recent White House visit King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia emphasized the special relationship his nation maintains with the United States. Meanwhile, Washington, France and other G-8 allies have agreed to support five more years of NATO operations in Afghanistan. But with France raising its retirement age to 62...

During the Cold War diplomats called US-China relations peaceful coexistence. Now, as G-20 nations again gather to sort out the flotsam and jetsam of the Bretton Woods system and mediate globalist greed, that coexistence has shape shifted into economic warfare.

While US treasury secretary Tim Geithner and his minions...