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Beatriz Farrugia
Beatriz Farrugia has ten years of experience working for international news agencies. She is a former editor at ANSA and holds a post-graduate degree in International Relations from Fundação Getulio Vargas
Sports
Athletics scholarships face cuts as Brazil competes in Tokyo Olympics
Funding for Brazil's renowned Bolsa Atleta program fell 17 percent over the last Olympic cycle, the first budget cut since the program's creation
3 years ago • Beatriz Farrugia
Sports
Copa America: A white elephant parade
Besides the obvious problems with holding an international football tournament during a raging pandemic, the Copa America will showcase brand-new Brazilian stadiums which are hemorrhaging money
3 years ago • Beatriz Farrugia
Politics
“White power” gesture not the first extremist move in Bolsonaro cabinet
Foreign policy advisor Filipe Martins made a gesture linked to white supremacy. It was not the first extremist act in Bolsonaro's government
3 years ago • Euan Marshall and Beatriz Farrugia
Politics
Gun licenses and imports shoot up in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Looser firearm regulations were part of Jair Bolsonaro's campaign promises in 2018 — and the president has certainly delivered on this front
4 years ago • Laís Martins and Beatriz Farrugia
Coronavirus
Pandemic exposes ‘digital inequality’ in Brazilian internet access
While Brazil is an increasingly online society, lower-income families are being left behind in terms of access, quality, and stability of internet connections
4 years ago • Beatriz Farrugia
Politics
Exclusive: Health spending in Brazil states as small as USD 20 cents a day
Brazil's public health system has been held up as an example by the global community, but it struggles with drastic underfunding
4 years ago • Beatriz Farrugia
Coronavirus
Pandemic spurs solidarity efforts in Brazilian cities
While Brazil's economy nosedives, Brazilians are taking matters into their own hands to avoid the worst
4 years ago • Beatriz Farrugia
Coronavirus
How the coronavirus is wrecking Brazil’s tourism industry
The entire tourism ecosystem in Brazil is in jeopardy — as states mull over lockdown measures — and the pandemic continues to spiral out of control
4 years ago • Beatriz Farrugia
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Politics
Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors
6 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
Politics
How Elon Musk joins Brazil’s online far-right
1 week ago • Cedê Silva
Politics
Musk probe increases the likelihood of an X ban in Brazil
1 week ago • Paulo Roberto Netto
Politics
Congress, Supreme Court battle on immunity rules
2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Politics
Supreme Court rules out putschist interpretation of Constitution
2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Senators try to outmaneuver Supreme Court on drugs issue
22 hours ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Lula is Colombia-bound for meeting with Petro
22 hours ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Budgetary guidelines bill moves Brazil’s fiscal goalposts
3 days ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
The Brazilian Report named best news website in the Americas
6 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Insider
Government denies raises while boosting public service numbers
7 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
Brazil keen on moving fiscal goalposts
4 days ago • Cedê Silva
Economy
Market Roundup: Rules for betting platforms to be set in four stages
5 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
March inflation a good omen for Brazilian economy
1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
Market Roundup: Corporate financing via capital market breaks record
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
Once a major exporter, Brazil seeks cocoa self-sufficiency
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Rio wants to be the new LatAm innovation capital with Web Summit
2 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: What to expect from Web Summit Rio 2024
3 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: An inclusive fitness app lands in Brazil
1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: Solar power by subscription
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: AI to save animals
3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Society
Drug traffickers retake Rio territories from militias, study finds
17 hours ago • Isabela Cruz
Society
A hare-raising challenge in southern Brazil as invasive species multiplies like rabbits
7 days ago • Euan Marshall
Society
Healthy food hard to come by in Brazil’s favelas
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Society
Urban militias show the “Mexicanization” of Rio de Janeiro
3 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Society
Brazil records Covid spike, and coronavirus still kills plenty
2 months ago • TBR Newsroom
Environment
Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals
4 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Environment
Brazil’s coal city resists energy transition
4 weeks ago • André Borges
Environment
Amazon climate crisis continues with Acre floods and Roraima fires
1 month ago • Cedê Silva
Environment
After 2023 highs, Cerrado deforestation drops in January
2 months ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
Environment
Brazil-Bolivia dam reignites debates on power in the Amazon
2 months ago • Kevin Damasio
Latin America
British bank Revolut granted license in Mexico
6 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Latin America
How Nicaragua developed its own sign language
7 days ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Trade tensions rise as U.S. accuses China of using Mexico as backdoor
2 weeks ago • David Feliba
Latin America
Violence casts a shadow over Mexico’s presidential cycle
3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
The Broad Front’s dilemma in a divided Uruguay
3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Opinion
The future of X in Brazil, under Elon Musk
2 days ago • Andre Pagliarini
Opinion
AI and data protection in the spotlight at Global Privacy Summit
3 days ago • Marcela Mattiuzzo and Paula Pedigoni Ponce
Opinion
The future of nuclear power in Brazil’s diversified energy infrastructure
1 week ago • Jennifer Eaglin
Opinion
Is Brazil going too far to curb AI-generated disinformation?
2 weeks ago • Bruna Santos
Opinion
The dangerous hubris of Paraguay’s Colorado Party
4 weeks ago • Gabriel Cohen