The Brazilian system is nearly-notorious for its arcane system of rules with many loopholes for defendants—as American University Professor Matthew Taylor puts it “the system is set up to leave things unresolved.”
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D'Avila asserted that, “no political leaders are willing to promote cultural change and run political risk” in Brazil and that, “[p]opulism continues to be a recurrent binding constraint for promoting institutional changes."
Read MoreCover Story: Fall 2012“The problem is that in Brazil you don’t convict. I’ve been in court for seven years, yet this is the second time we attempt to reach conviction. This course of action is still very novel to me and to other judges.”
Read MoreIf the system is broken, then it must be fixed. The question, of course, is how. It might be helpful to first look toward public policy elsewhere that has succeeded in reducing inequality and involving citizens more in governmental deliberations. In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a municipal policy called participatory budgeting (PB), which has democratized the process of city budgeting, has succeeded in accomplishing just that.
Read MoreThe Summit of the Americas
Read MoreOf the most controversial topics in Latin America today, few are as divisive as the politics of dam building.
Read MoreA multitude of reasons exist why Americans are monolingual. That’s not the point: What is exasperating is the idea that everyone south of the border is brown and sólo habla español.
Read MoreIn recent months, there has been much talk of the United States’ “strategic pivot” toward East Asia and the Pacific.
Read MoreHere’s the thing about dictators: as sticky as they are when they’re in power, it’s even harder to deal with them once they’re gone.
Read MoreThe future of Latin America has never been brighter, but it still faces tremendous challenges.
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