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Francisco Parra Galaz

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Francisco Parra Galaz is a Chilean freelance journalist

Reporter Amanda Audi spent a day with supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, who continue to try destabilizing the political system
Power

Inside a pro-Bolsonaro putschist camp

2 days ago • Amanda Audi
Bolsonaro's party launched head-on into putschist tactics. Electoral courts reacted
Power

Bolsonaro’s party went head-on into putschist tactics. Electoral courts reacted

6 days ago • Cedê Silva
Putschist protests are getting smaller, but more radicalized
Power

Putschist protests are getting smaller, but more radicalized

1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Amanda Audi
People attending the Bolsa Família registration service in Vitória da Conquista. Photo: Joa Souza/Shutterstock
Power

A new Bolsa Família is more than a mere rebranding of Brazil’s flagship aid program

2 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
One would be forgiven for thinking the 2022 election fell across long-established regional lines, but a closer look at the data shows Lula gaining significant ground in places his party usually struggles
Power

How Lula shifted Brazil’s electoral map

2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall and Gustavo Ribeiro
World Cup: Brazil edge Switzerland with late, stunning goal
Insider

World Cup: Brazil edge Switzerland with late, stunning goal

3 hours ago • Ignacio Portes
Brazil can secure qualification with win over Switzerland
Insider

World Cup: Brazil can secure qualification with win over Switzerland

7 hours ago • Euan Marshall
finance minister Fernando Haddad (center) met with Brazilian bankers on Friday. Photo: Still from Globo
Insider

Markets unimpressed by Lula’s presumed finance minister

3 days ago • Cedê Silva
school shootings
Insider

Man kills at least three in two school shootings in Espírito Santo

3 days ago • Amanda Audi
world cup Neymar, Danilo ruled out
Insider

Neymar, Danilo ruled out of Brazil’s group stage with ankle injuries

3 days ago • Euan Marshall
Brazil life expectancy up to 77 after pandemic dip
Coronavirus

Brazil life expectancy up to 77 after pandemic dip

3 days ago • Euan Marshall
The most recent InfoGripe report by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a federally-run biological institute, shows that severe cases of Covid are rising in 15 out of Brazil's 27 states.
Coronavirus

Severe Covid cases up in 15 Brazilian states

4 days ago • Euan Marshall
authorization Pfizer bivalent vaccines Stefan Lambauer/Shutterstock
Coronavirus

Brazil grants emergency authorization to Pfizer’s bivalent vaccines

5 days ago • Cedê Silva
Brazil reinstates mask mandate for planes and airports after Covid spike
Coronavirus

Brazil reinstates mask mandate for planes and airports after Covid spike

5 days ago • Cedê Silva
pfizer paxlovid pharmacy sales Stuart Monk / Shutterstock
Coronavirus

Brazilian regulators clear pharmacy sales of Pfizer Covid drug

1 week ago • TBR Newsroom
oto: Marcelo Camargo/A
2022 Race

Highway police boss charged with malfeasance for illegal campaigning

3 days ago • Cedê Silva
putschist party bolsonaro Petrobras
2022 Race

Bolsonaro campaign maintains putschist push to toss 60 percent of voting machines

5 days ago • Cedê Silva
putschist accounts court audio leaks
2022 Race

Federal Accounts Court member takes medical leave after putschist audio leaks

6 days ago • Cedê Silva
Lula will take office as president on January 1. Photo: Isaac Fontana/Shutterstock
2022 Race

Lula removes larynx lesion, doctors rule out a tumor

1 week ago • Amanda Audi
protesters block roads again
2022 Race

Pro-Bolsonaro protesters try to block roads again

1 week ago • Cedê Silva
amazon investments
Business

Market roundup: It’s time to put some serious money into the Amazon

2 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes and Ana Ferraz
High indebtedness levels hold Brazilian retailers back
Business

High indebtedness levels hold Brazilian retailers back

3 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Lula relationship Central Bank
Business

The importance of Lula’s relationship with the Central Bank

4 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Ana Ferraz
increase spending blowing up debt
Business

How Brazil can increase spending without blowing up its debt

6 days ago • Ana Ferraz
world cup football economy
Business

How an out-of-season World Cup will impact the Brazilian economy

1 week ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech roundup: São Paulo subway to use facial recognition
Tech

Tech roundup: São Paulo subway to use facial recognition

8 hours ago • Ana Ferraz and Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Teams work in the aftermath of the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster. Photo: Eduardo Anizelli/Folhapress
Tech

Tech roundup: An app to prevent dam disasters

1 week ago • Ana Ferraz and Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
data leak brazil register government
Tech

Government welfare databases in Brazil expose the most vulnerable

2 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
football world cup
Tech

Tech roundup: The World Cup goes digital in Brazil

2 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz and Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
lisbon web summit
Tech

Tech roundup: Brazilian startups flock to Lisbon summit

3 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz and Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Podcast the World Cup halt putschist protests? Salty View/Shutterstock
Podcast

Explaining Brazil #223: Can the World Cup halt putschist protests?

5 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Explaining Brazil #222: What Bolsonaro has to show for at COP27 Photo: Carolina Antunes/PR
Podcast

Explaining Brazil #222: What Bolsonaro has to show for at COP27

3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Explaining Brazil #221: Has Bolsonaro accepted the election results?
Podcast

Explaining Brazil #221: Has Bolsonaro accepted the election results?

4 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
election Lula and Bolsonaro. Photo: Isaac Fontana/Shutterstock
Podcast

Explaining Brazil #220: The last days before Brazil’s presidential runoff

1 month ago • Euan Marshall
the brazilian report
Podcast

Explaining Brazil #219: Five years of The Brazilian Report

1 month ago • Euan Marshall
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Society

World Cup brings piece of Dakar and Quito to São Paulo

6 hours ago • Euan Marshall
Neymar during Brazil's last training session before their World Cup debut against Serbia. Photo: Lucas Figueiredo/CBF
Society

What you should know before Brazil’s World Cup debut

4 days ago • Euan Marshall
Pro-choice activists prepare placards before a demonstration in Goiânia. Photo: Angela Macario/Shutterstock
Society

Prosecutor’s abortion request highlights contradictions in Brazil’s legislation

5 days ago • Constance Malleret
In its last pre World Cup match, Brazil handedly won 5-1 against Tunisia. Photo: Lucas Figueiredo/CBF
Society

Could Brazil really win the World Cup?

1 week ago • Euan Marshall
Politics and mafias still go hand in hand in Rio de Janeiro
Society

Politics and mafias still go hand in hand in Rio

2 weeks ago • Constance Malleret
Cop27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh
Environment

Lula at COP27: “Brazil is back”

2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Cop27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh
Environment

Amazonian indigenous leaders make waves at COP27

2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
cop27 Lula celebrates his electoral win on Sunday. Photo: Rovena Rosa/ABr
Environment

COP27 will mark Lula’s return to the world stage

3 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
amazon Porto Velho, Rondônia capital city. Photo: Fernando Souza/Fotoarena/Folhapress
Environment

Bolsonaro v. Bolsonaro in key Amazon state

1 month ago • Euan Marshall
Four years of Bolsonaro's Amazon destruction, in pictures
Environment

Four years of Bolsonaro’s Amazon destruction, in pictures

1 month ago • InfoAmazônia
Why Mercado Libre grows while competitors slow
Latin America

Why Mercado Libre grows while competitors slow

1 day ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Uruguayan fans during the Chile Uruguay game during the 2019 Copa America. Photo: A. Paes/Shutterstock
Latin America

Uruguay, a world football giant and underdog

4 days ago • Lucas Berti
idb Five candidates from Brazil, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Argentina vye for top position at the Inter-American Development Bank
Latin America

Who is the favorite in this weekend’s IDB presidential election?

1 week ago • Ignacio Portes
amazon colombia
Latin America

Petro weighs up U.S. military help to protect the Amazon

3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Lula-Bolsonaro runoff means Latin America
Latin America

What the Lula-Bolsonaro runoff means for Latin America

4 weeks ago • Ignacio Portes
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Opinion

Lessons from the U.S. midterms for Jair Bolsonaro

1 week ago • Oliver Stuenkel
lula markets cop27 transition spending bolsonaro lula transition government
Opinion

Lula’s transition provides a window into coming government

2 weeks ago • Andre Pagliarini
election president
Opinion

Brazil’s presidential runoff election, in pictures

3 weeks ago • Julia Laüer and Marine Resse
Is Bolsonaro part of a global trend or is he typically Brazilian?
Opinion

Is Bolsonaro part of a global rise of new populists, or a typically Brazilian phenomenon?

1 month ago • Oliver Stuenkel
the brazilian report after live
Opinion

Five years of The Brazilian Report, through the eyes of our staff

1 month ago • TBR Newsroom
blue flag beaches
Tourism

Brazilian beaches are cleaning up their act

2 months ago • Ana Ferraz
ecotourism tourism parks
Tourism

Brazil missing out on billions in eco-tourism potential

3 months ago • Ana Ferraz
tourism industry
Tourism

South American tourism industry hopes for boom from currency devaluation

3 months ago • Ignacio Portes and Ana Ferraz
cuisine "People became desperate to discover regionalities, to discover traditions," says Tuca Mezzomo, chef at Charco, a restaurant in São Paulo. Photo: Julia Rodrigues/Charco
Tourism

Rediscovery of local ingredients earns Brazilian cuisine international recognition

4 months ago • Eric Zalcman
travel industry
Tourism

War in Ukraine slowing down long-awaited recovery of Brazil’s travel industry

8 months ago • Ana Ferraz
world cup brazil
Guide to Brazil

Living the World Cup in Brazil

6 days ago • Henrique Simão, Euan Marshall, Ana Ferraz and André Chiavassa
visa remote work
Guide to Brazil

Brazil creates a visa for foreign “digital nomads”

10 months ago • Iure Pontes Vieira
climate october 12 People light candles to celebrate the day of Our Lady of Aparecida. Photo taken on Oct. 12, 2016. Photo: Nelson Antoine/Shutterstock
Guide to Brazil

October 12: a celebration of Brazil’s patron saint

1 year ago • Euan Marshall
Rio's Christ the Redeemer. Photo: Ricardo Cohen/Shutterstock
Guide to Brazil

The story of Christ the Redeemer, 90 years old

1 year ago • Renato Alves
brazilian inquisition
Guide to Brazil

The lesser-known story of the Brazilian Inquisition

1 year ago • Renato Alves