Horácio Mendes (pseudônimo) O sr. Agripino Grieco é, sem dúvida alguma, o melhor dos nossos críticos da fase destrutiva, já transposta felizmente. Esse relevo, justo e merecido, não lhe dá, entretanto, condição intelectual para esmerilhar a obra, complexa e sutil, do irrealizável criador de Quincas Borba. Uma boa...
By Sergio Sardenberg and Francisco A. Fabiano Mendes In a well-coordinated series of raids – appropriately code-named Operation Hurricane – launched in late April and encompassing three states and the Federal District, Brazil’s Federal Police [Polícia Federal - PF] rounded up 25 persons suspected of involvement...
By Sergio Sardenberg and Francisco A. Fabiano Mendes Brazil’s recently inaugurated president Dilma Roussef, the first woman to be elected the country’s highest official, has taken over the awesome task of leading the world’s seventh largest economy, which has become a powerful magnet for traders and...
By Sergio Sardenberg and Francisco A. Fabiano Mendes The Broad Picture The overwhelming victory in the 2002 presidential elections, of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known simply as Lula), the fiery labor union leader-turned politician, had pundits and most people, in Brazil and elsewhere, alarmed at what...
By Sergio Sardenberg and Francisco A. Fabiano Mendes The current financial meltdown has impacted other countries in different ways and varying degrees. The extent of the damage abroad has been a function of the greater or lesser vulnerability of national economies to external influences and their...
By Sergio Sardenberg and Francisco A. Fabiano Mendes The recent development in Brazilian law of a type of binding court decision, known as binding uniform ruling “súmula vinculante”, constitutes a fascinating instance of a convergence or meeting point between the civil law tradition that has shaped...