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Maria Martha Bruno

Maria Martha is a journalist with 14 years of experience in politics, arts, and breaking news. She has already collaborated with Al Jazeera, NBC, and CNN, among others. She has also worked as an international correspondent in Buenos Aires.

Brazil launches aid package for victims of Rio Grande do Sul floods
Brazil Floods

Brazil launches aid package for victims of Rio Grande do Sul floods

14 hours ago • Cedê Silva
South of Brazil becoming accustomed to devastating floods
Brazil Floods

South of Brazil becoming accustomed to devastating floods

16 hours ago • Ítalo Rômany
Stranded horse "Caramelo" rescued after online frenzy
Brazil Floods

Stranded horse “Caramelo” rescued after online frenzy

18 hours ago • TBR Newsroom
porto alegre floods boats
Brazil Floods

Argentina cyclone threatens Rio Grande do Sul with more rain

2 days ago • Isabela Cruz
flood Further downpours and lower temperatures are forecast for this week and over the weekend, putting even more pressure on both civil society and government efforts. Photo: Donaldo Hadlich/CĂłdigo 19/Folhapress
Brazil Floods

Porto Alegre could ‘still be dry’ if flood protection systems worked properly

2 days ago • Leonardo Coelho
alexandre moraes supreme court
Politics

Alexandre de Moraes: between criticism and justification

4 days ago • Isabela Cruz
IBGE President Marcio Pochmann presents President Lula with Brazil's new world map. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
Politics

Brazilians’ polarization hits cartography, in new world map

3 weeks ago • Isabela Cruz
caroline de toni
Politics

Brazil’s firearms debate takes a U.S. twist

3 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors
Politics

Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors

4 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
Elon Musk is a freedom of speech absolutist — when it suits him. Photo: Frederic Legrand/COMEO/Shutterstock
Politics

How Elon Musk joins Brazil’s online far-right

1 month ago • Cedê Silva
Politicians formally charged for Marielle Franco murder
Insider

Politicians formally charged for Marielle Franco murder

19 hours ago • Cedê Silva
amazon rainforest
Insider

Brazil cuts Amazon deforestation rate by 22 percent

2 days ago • Cedê Silva
eve electric flying vehicles
Insider

Eve reveals first images of its under-construction flying car

2 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
susan wild u.s. congress
Insider

Pro-Bolsonaro lawmakers called out in U.S. Congress

3 days ago • Cedê Silva
brazil
Insider

Brazil’s public accounts record slim Q1 surplus

3 days ago • Isabela Cruz
Recovery of Brazilian retail should come at the end of 2024
Economy

Recovery of Brazilian retail should come at the end of 2024

20 hours ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Market Roundup: The new skills corporate board members need
Economy

Market Roundup: The new skills corporate board members need

6 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
textor botafogo match-fixing
Economy

Brazil missing the target with its match-fixing drama

1 week ago • Euan Marshall, Cedê Silva and Lucas Berti
lula senate pacheco
Economy

Lula, Congress swap places in fiscal responsibility debate

1 week ago • Isabela Cruz
Brazil's job market continues to beat forecasts
Economy

Brazil’s job market remains strong despite unemployment uptick

1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
willing use crypto payments?
Tech

Tech Roundup: Are Brazilians willing to use crypto for payments?

4 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Brazil's AI regulation gets first draft to guide upcoming debates
Tech

Brazil’s AI regulation gets first draft to guide upcoming debates

7 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech Roundup: Brazil has a new unicorn
Tech

Tech Roundup: Brazil has a new unicorn

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Brazil's AI-powered music revolution
Tech

Tech Roundup: Brazil’s AI-powered music revolution

3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
cocoa harvest
Tech

The startup helping producers comply with EU deforestation rules

3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
ayrton senna death 30 years
Society

The legacy of Ayrton Senna, 30 years on

1 week ago • Euan Marshall
Brazil wants to know more about its domestic workers
Society

Brazil wants to know more about its domestic workers

1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Covid moderna vaccine late
Society

Brazil’s latest Covid vaccine purchase comes too late

2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Failure to deliver on indigenous land promises has drawn the ire of indigenous activist groups, who are gathered in BrasĂ­lia this week for the Acampamento Terra Livre
Society

Indigenous groups snub Lula as patience runs out

2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
President of Portugal calls for slave trade reparations
Society

President of Portugal calls for slave trade reparations

2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil
Environment

Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
state grid electrical substation in Brazil. Chinese power giant State Grid will build a 1,513-kilometre transmission line and two substations in Brazil’s north-east, a region experiencing a boom in wind and solar power plants. (Image: Jose Luis Stephens / Alamy)
Environment

What State Grid’s new power line means for Brazil’s energy transition

2 weeks ago • Paulo Motoryn
Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals vat
Environment

Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals

2 months ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Brazil's coal city resists energy transition
Environment

Brazil’s coal city resists energy transition

2 months ago • André Borges
amazon climate change
Environment

Amazon climate crisis continues with Acre floods and Roraima fires

2 months ago • Cedê Silva
Petro’s far-fetched train project to compete with the Panama Canal
Latin America

Petro’s far-fetched train project to compete with the Panama Canal

5 days ago • David Feliba
Protests in Panama City against the renewal of a concession for the Cobre Panamá copper mine. After weeks of demonstrations, in November 2023 the contract with Canadian firm First Quantum was declared unconstitutional, and the mine shuttered. Photo: Arnulfo Franco/Alamy
Latin America

As elections near, what’s next for Panama’s closed copper mine?

6 days ago • Errol Caballero
Panama ready to vote as Supreme Court clears frontrunner
Latin America

Panama ready to vote as Supreme Court clears frontrunner

7 days ago • Lucas Berti
Argentina milei protests kirchner
Latin America

Will Argentina’s opposition take advantage of massive anti-Milei protests?

2 weeks ago • Ignacio Portes
Financial instability on the cards as Bolivian gas exports are no longer what they once were
Latin America

Bolivia’s economic model called into question as gas dominance wanes

3 weeks ago • David Feliba
How Brazil plans to use the G20 to be a climate leader
Opinion

How Brazil plans to use the G20 to be a climate leader

2 weeks ago • Bruna Santos
x twitter elon musk
Opinion

The future of X in Brazil, under Elon Musk

3 weeks ago • Andre Pagliarini
data protection privacy
Opinion

AI and data protection in the spotlight at Global Privacy Summit

4 weeks ago • Marcela Mattiuzzo and Paula Pedigoni Ponce
Brazil's nuclear energy goals may be focused more on military objectives than adding much to their ambitious sustainability agenda
Opinion

The future of nuclear power in Brazil’s diversified energy infrastructure

1 month ago • Jennifer Eaglin
curb AI-generated disinformation elections
Opinion

Is Brazil going too far to curb AI-generated disinformation?

1 month ago • Bruna Santos