Fabiana Frayssinet

So­cial move­ments and left­ist gov­ern­ments have ben­e­fit­ed from the Venezue­lan pres­i­dent’s vi­sion of in­te­gra­tion.

In Brazil’s shan­ty­towns, a new com­mu­ni­ty ra­dio sta­tion dis­cuss­es abuse, un­em­ploy­ment, and en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sues.

Work on the coun­try’s first nu­clear sub­marines has be­gun in an ef­fort to de­fend oil re­serves and project glob­al pow­er.

Brazil’s first woman pres­i­dent now has ten women in her cab­i­net, two short of her 30 per cent tar­get.

Pres­i­den­tial con­tenders Dil­ma Rouss­eff and Jose Ser­ra court re­li­gious right, al­ter­ing their po­si­tions on ‘moral’ is­sues.