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Pedro Barciela
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Pedro Barciela has worked with data monitoring since 2014, focused on analyzing social media — especially around politics and elections.
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How Brazil’s Covid hearings unfold on social media
The congressional inquiry into the government's pandemic is being used for political theater. So how is the spectacle unfolding on social media?
1 year ago • Pedro Barciela
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Power
Bolsonaro official signed amicus brief against Roe v. Wade
An official in the Brazilian Human Rights Ministry signed a brief that helped the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, in yet more evidence of Bolsonarism's involvement in American culture wars
4 days ago • Cedê Silva
Power
Sexual harassment complaints within Brazil’s government at over one per day
Most reported victims are female, white, and aged between 20 and 39 years
4 days ago • Amanda Audi
Power
What to expect from Brazil’s UN Security Council presidency
Over the course of July, Brazil will head the UN's top body. Brasília correspondent Cedê Silva investigated the country's priorities
5 days ago • Cedê Silva
Power
How Bolsonaro tries to pander to truckers
Truckers are both vital to the Brazilian economy and a key support base for Jair Bolsonaro. The president has spared no expense to keep them happy, a challenging task as diesel prices soar
6 days ago • Cedê Silva
Power
Black lawmakers ‘go white’ after being elected
Dozens of Brazilian lawmakers self-declared as black before getting elected, which grants them some benefits when financing their campaigns, only to change their status after taking office
1 week ago • Amanda Audi
Insider
Car sales in Brazil drop sharply during the first semester
8 hours ago • Ana Ferraz
Insider
Central Bank workers end strike after three months
10 hours ago • Ana Ferraz
Insider
Education inquiry on hold until after elections
12 hours ago • Amanda Audi
Insider
Courts threw out 78 percent of deforestation lawsuits in Brazil
13 hours ago • Lucas Berti
Insider
The Brazilian currency was the world’s fourth-worst performing in June
1 day ago • Ana Ferraz
Coronavirus
Brazilian Justice minister tests positive for Covid
7 hours ago • TBR Newsroom
Coronavirus
States ask Brazilians to wear masks again, as cases soar
4 days ago • Lucas Berti
Coronavirus
CoronaVac vaccines will no longer be produced in Brazil
1 week ago • Lucas Berti
Coronavirus
Pfizer files for approval of boosters for children aged 5 to 11
2 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
Coronavirus
Data issues mask new Covid rise in Brazil
4 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
2022 Race
Electoral courts sets campaign spending caps for 2022
5 days ago • Lucas Berti
2022 Race
Former Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva to run for House seat
6 days ago • TBR Newsroom
2022 Race
Bolsonaro promises former Defense Minister as running mate
1 week ago • TBR Newsroom
2022 Race
New Datafolha polls shows stability in presidential race
2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
2022 Race
São Paulo electoral court benefits former Bolsonaro minister
2 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
Business
Despite recent positive numbers, Brazilian industry still ailing
The ebbing of the pandemic has brought higher prices, which reduced consumption. But there are deeper problems preventing the sector from getting back on its feet
15 hours ago • Ana Ferraz
Business
Brazil braces for offshore wind boom
Regulatory advances mean Brazil is getting closer to exploiting its offshore wind potential. But the sector is not currently being developed in line with socio-environmental sustainability, civil society advocates say
2 days ago • Constance Malleret
Business
Brazil’s Oi telecom: to the brink of bankruptcy and back
After six years of court-supervised recovery, Oi, Brazil’s fourth-largest telecom, may now emerge with much lower debt
3 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Business
Market roundup: Brazil’s debt costs continue to balloon
High inflation and the world’s steepest monetary tightening process have increased pressure on Brazil’s public debt
4 days ago • Ana Ferraz
Business
Bank account ownership grew more in Latin America than in any other global region
Brazil experienced double-digit bank account ownership growth since 2017. Global Findex, a World Bank report produced with Gallup every three years, surveyed over 125,000 adults in 123 economies
6 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech roundup: iFood’s post-boom pivot
Brazil's massive food delivery app has cut hirings and is shifting focus after the pandemic-led delivery boom
2 days ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Government fails to set an example on data protection
The Brazilian government has been lackadaisical in adopting data protection protocols in government agencies
1 week ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Latin American research is in Google and Microsoft servers. That is a problem
With the pandemic, education institutions moved online en masse and started using ostensibly free systems provided by big tech companies. But not enough questions are being asked about data protection
1 month ago • Amanda Audi
Tech
Tech Roundup: Ten years of the Access to Information Law
Experts warn that Bolsonaro is chipping away and the effectiveness of the Access to Information Law, a crucial piece of Brazil's transparency structure
2 months ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Supreme Court to rule on its access to social media data
A long-running case on how Brazilian authorities can access data held by Big Tech firms is due to be tried in the Supreme Court. At stake is the celerity of Brazilian investigations into digital crimes
2 months ago • Amanda Audi
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #204: A second swing at Bolsonaro
The opposition failed to remove Bolsonaro from office with last year's Covid hearings. They want a new congressional investigation to hurt him at the ballot box
7 days ago • Euan Marshall
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #203: The president v. Petrobras
While the price of gas isn't exactly the best metric to understand the economy at large, the ubiquity of fuel and its direct impact on people's monthly budgets make it an easy shorthand for the broader economic scenario — especially when prices are going up
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #202: Where are Dom and Bruno?
It has been 11 days since journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were reported missing. The police are yet to find the two
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #201: Is the Monroe doctrine dead?
A deflated Summit of the Americas won't bring many noteworthy resolutions, though it will be interesting to see what transpires from a bilateral meeting between Presidents Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Joe Biden of the U.S.
4 weeks ago • Caroline Coutinho
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #200: Hunger haunts Brazil again
Brazil thought the economic growth of the 2000s had rid the country of hunger. But this ghost of the past has returned to haunt the country
1 month ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Society
Case of torture during dictatorship reaches Inter-American Court of Human Rights
"If I had returned to Brazil, I would have died," says Denise Crispim, who was tortured and exiled by Brazil's military dictatorship. She hopes for justice and reparations
10 hours ago • Lucas Berti
Society
Data corroborates fears about growing lawlessness in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil saw its overall murder rate decrease in 2021, but figures saw significant spikes in the Amazon region, highlighting an ongoing trend of violence in Brazil's North
1 week ago • Constance Malleret
Society
The (Danish) father of Brazilian paleontology
Peter Lund spent the majority of his life living in Brazil, helping lay the foundations for paleontology and archeology in the country. He also discovered the remains of the oldest hominid in Latin America
2 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Society
How Brazil’s far-right tries to muffle discussions about the Dom Phillips-Bruno Pereira murder
Far-right netizens are pushing online content about the legend of a long-lost Amazon civilization as a way of drowning out news of the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, which have reflected negatively on the Bolsonaro government
3 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
Society
Exclusive: Brazilian government ignored warnings about “imminent dangers” at Vale do Javari
Journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing ten days ago in the Vale do Javari reserve. The government was warned about the lawlessness in the region at least four times
3 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
Environment
Unknowingly, Brazilians are big consumers of shark meat. That is a problem
Lax labeling means that Brazilians often don’t realize that widely consumed dogfish is actually shark or ray meat. A campaign is trying to change that and raise awareness around conservation issues
2 weeks ago • Constance Malleret
Environment
The future of Amazon journalism after British reporter’s brutal murder
The murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in a remote area of the western Amazon have drawn attention to the criminal dynamics at play in the rainforest and highlight the challenges and risks of carrying out reporting there
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Environment
The Belo Monte Dam is killing the Amazon’s ‘house of God’
Satellites over the Amazon capture the choking of the ‘house of God’ by the Belo Monte Dam – they can help find solutions, too
3 weeks ago • Pritam Das, Faisal Hossain, Hörður Bragi Helgason and Shahzaib Khan
Environment
The tensions within the Amazon’s Vale do Javari reserve
A journalist and an on-leave government official have disappeared in a massive reserve coveted by wildcat miners, illegal fishermen, and drug gangs
4 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Environment
The Andes are melting, and what are we doing about it?
The imperious Andes region is home to 10 percent of the world's population, but melting glaciers could dramatically transform the area forever
4 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Colombia “really close” to protecting one-third of its marine zones
Outgoing President Duque said the country would meet UN commitments ahead of time. Critics say his administration was less than sustainable
3 days ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Fernández’s post-IMF-deal economic plans are already teetering
Argentina had to close its doors to imports this week to meet foreign currency accumulation requirements
4 days ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
Nicaragua becomes a proxy battleground for Russia-U.S. tensions
The renewal of a decree allowing Russian — and American — armed forces to conduct exercises on Nicaraguan soil has drawn a harsh response from the White House, and more sanctions
1 week ago • Lucas Berti and Euan Marshall
Latin America
Chile’s copper plant closure sets up clash between environmental and economic concerns
Miners and truckers go on strike after President Gabriel Boric announces the shutdown of a copper-smelting plant, following decades of concerns over pollution
1 week ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
Mexico’s AMLO willing to sue U.S. company over limestone extraction
Vulcan Materials has been operating in the eastern state of Quintana Roo for decades, but AMLO complains that its mining activities are leading to an "ecological disaster" in the famous tourist region
2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Opinion
Bolsonaro’s desperation presents a major risk for Brazilian democratic safeguards
Trailing in the polls, Jair Bolsonaro is sparing no expense — quite literally — in his re-election bid. His maneuvers are damaging to Brazilian representative institutions and democratic accountability
4 days ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Latest scandal forces Bolsonaro into unfamiliar territory
The president was hoping to use corruption as kryptonite against former President Lula. But he may be throwing stones in a glass house
5 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Opinion
How BRICS can boost cooperation in renewable energy
As the BRICS summit begins against a tense global backdrop, energy could be one area for advances, write Plataforma CIPÓ analysts
2 weeks ago • Renata Albuquerque Ribeiro and Adriana Abdenur
Opinion
Coup or no coup, the damage to Brazil is done
The U.S hearings into the January 6 Capitol riot have offered Brazil a window of opportunity to address its own democratic risks with the 2022 election approaching. Whether it will heed the warnings or not is another matter
3 weeks ago • Filipe Campante
Opinion
Thirty years after Rio-92, Brazil loses environmental protagonism
Rio-92 propelled Brazil to the forefront of the global environmental agenda. But the country has lost its clout due to recent mismanagement
4 weeks ago • Andre Pagliarini
Tourism
War in Ukraine slowing down long-awaited recovery of Brazil’s travel industry
High oil prices, a still-unfavorable exchange rate, and inflation that bites into consumers’ discretionary spending mean the sector still faces a hard post-Covid road ahead
3 months ago • Ana Ferraz
Tourism
Brazil is an emerging gay tourism hotspot, but the government doesn’t want to know
Actions to promote gay tourism in the country have been actively ignored since Jair Bolsonaro came to power, despite Brazil having some of the world's best LGBTQ+-friendly spots
4 months ago • Amanda Audi
Tourism
Petrópolis disaster leaves a scar on Brazil’s historical landmarks
With hundreds dead and much physical destruction, evidence emerges of authorities’ negligence in preparing prevention and mitigation strategies
5 months ago • Renato Alves and Ana Ferraz
Tourism
Idyllic canyon region tries to keep tourism alive after deadly disaster
A deadly cliff collapse in Capitólio has left tourists scared to return, and locals afraid they will lose their revenue
5 months ago • Renato Alves
Tourism
While Brazil dithers on vaccine requirements, flights keep arriving
The government has clashed against regulators over vaccine mandates. Meanwhile, dozens of flights arrived in Brazil from Omicron hotbeds
6 months ago • Janaína Camelo
Guide to Brazil
Brazil creates a visa for foreign “digital nomads”
The country follows in the footsteps of dozens of nations around the world, offering temporary residence to people working remotely for foreign countries. Justice Ministry officials say it will attract foreign capital and boost tourism
5 months ago • Iure Pontes Vieira
Guide to Brazil
October 12: a celebration of Brazil’s patron saint
According to legend, fishermen were inundated with fish to catch soon after finding an image of a black Virgin Mary. Since then, Our Lady of Aparecida has become Brazil's most popular and important saints
9 months ago • Euan Marshall
Guide to Brazil
The story of Christ the Redeemer, 90 years old
Brazil's most popular tourist attraction, the story of how Christ the Redeemer came about is a fascinating one. This week's Rio celebrates the statue's 90th anniversary
9 months ago • Renato Alves
Guide to Brazil
The lesser-known story of the Brazilian Inquisition
After terrorizing much of Spain and Portugal, the inquisition spread to many of these countries' colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas — including to Brazil
9 months ago • Renato Alves
Guide to Brazil
Paulo Mendes da Rocha leaves behind incomparable legacy in Brazilian architecture
Among the most influential modernists in Brazilian history, Paulo Mendes da Rocha designed many of São Paulo's most famous tourist attractions and left a legacy of devoted followers
1 year ago • Renato Alves
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