The country losing out in the breakfast juice battle on June 5, 2017Brazil is the world’s biggest producer of both oranges and orange juice, but changing breakfast tastes, especially in Europe, mean the country’s reliance on the fruit may have to change. Marco Antonio dos Santos says he was not born under an orange tree. But that’s about the only event in his life not linked to […]
If Rousseff goes, will 47 million Brazilians lose their benefits? on May 15, 2016Mother-of-six Ana Rita de Jesus is worried about the future of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. She works in a women’s pottery co-operative in the secluded rural community of Itamatatiua, in the Northeast state of Maranhao. “I saw on television that they want to remove Dilma from power and end the Bolsa Familia programme,” she tells […]