Brazil’s homophobia trial: what’s at stake BY Natália Scalzaretto and Gustavo Ribeiro During his presidential campaign, Jair Bolsonaro once said: “minorities should bend to the majority—or they will be crushed.” The (...) READ MORE
Why does Brazil have so few retail investors? BY Natália Scalzaretto Financial markets are already calling 2019 “the year of stocks in Brazil”. So far, the Bovespa benchmark index is (...) READ MORE
Colombia’s tax reform saga: a cautionary tale for Brazil? BY Natália Scalzaretto Brazilian investors seem confident that the Jair Bolsonaro administration will be able to pull off a successful reform of (...) READ MORE
How important are state-owned companies to Brazilian cultural investments? BY Natália Scalzaretto Besides being a symbol of national enterprise, state-owned oil giant Petrobras is also seen as an important cultural patron (...) READ MORE
Brazilians want Vale to pay for Brumadinho dam collapse BY Natália Scalzaretto Little more than three years separate Brazil’s two worst environmental disasters. In 2015, a dam collapse in Mariana killed (...) READ MORE
What Brazilian authorities are doing to mitigate the Brumadinho disaster BY Natália Scalzaretto On November 5, 2015, an iron ore tailings dam collapsed in the municipality of Mariana, Minas Gerais, spilling the (...) READ MORE
Looking for funds, São Paulo struggles to find a good model to manage its assets BY Natália Scalzaretto São Paulo turns 465 years old today. In Brazil’s largest city, everything is big, including its leisure options. Municipal (...) READ MORE
Brazil may be in the spotlight if Venezuela moves to new regime BY Natália Scalzaretto Brazil followed the international trend on Wednesday and recognized Mr. Juan Guaidó as the interim president of Venezuela, replacing (...) READ MORE
Brazil is creating jobs, but industry still lagging BY Natália Scalzaretto In a sign of economic recovery, Brazil rounded off 2018 with a positive balance of 529,500 new formal jobs, (...) READ MORE
Why Brazil failed to create its own BBC BY Natália Scalzaretto Founded in 1922, the BBC — British Broadcasting Company — has become synonymous with pioneering and high-quality journalism. To (...) READ MORE