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Paula Pedigoni Ponce

Paula Pedigoni Ponce is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy and General Theory of Law at the University of São Paulo and holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the same institution.

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Brazil Floods

Santa Catarina state also facing rain damage

2 hours ago • Isabela Cruz
porto alegre floods
Brazil Floods

Porto Alegre spent a pittance on emergency management 

7 hours ago • Cedê Silva
Rio Grande do Sul rebuilding could mean relocating entire cities
Brazil Floods

Rio Grande do Sul rebuilding could mean relocating entire cities

5 days ago • Cedê Silva
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Brazil Floods

Lula announces aid for Rio Grande do Sul flood victims 

6 days ago • Isabela Cruz
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Brazil Floods

Maranhão, in Brazil’s Northeast, is also worried about the risk of floods

1 week ago • Isabela Cruz
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Brazil Floods

Lula announces aid for Rio Grande do Sul flood victims 

6 days ago • Isabela Cruz
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Politics

Alexandre de Moraes: between criticism and justification

2 weeks 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

4 weeks ago • Isabela Cruz
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Politics

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

1 month ago • Cedê Silva
Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors
Politics

Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors

1 month ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
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Insider

Congresswoman Zambelli made defendant in judiciary hack probe

50 mins ago • Cedê Silva
federal police guns ammunition
Insider

Federal Police go after ring selling legal guns to organized crime

3 hours ago • Cedê Silva
bolsonaro covid
Insider

Study shows higher Covid mortality in pro-Bolsonaro cities

1 day ago • Cedê Silva
Insider

Analysts increase 2024 interest rate forecast to 10 percent

1 day ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
illiteracy education
Insider

Illiteracy falls in Brazil, but still runs along racial lines

4 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Economy

Porto Alegre sanitation shortfalls known since 2015

3 hours ago • Tamara Zambiasi
The Itaipu dam, shared by Brazil and Paraguay, is the world’s third largest hydroelectric power plant. The renegotiation of the treaty between the two countries that governs the dam has seen uncertainty and disagreements over tariffs. (Image: John Holmes / Alamy)
Economy

Energy, cash, and climate shape talks over the giant Itaipu dam

1 day ago • Maximiliano Manzoni and Kevin Damasio
Market Roundup: Who is the future Petrobras CEO?
Economy

Market Roundup: Who is the future Petrobras CEO?

3 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Banks see default rates fall and credit market rebound in 2024
Economy

Banks see default rates fall and credit market rebound in 2024

4 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Brazil's wine country was hit hard by recent floods. Photo: Vinhos do Brasil
Economy

Brazil’s wine industry holds firm amid climate chaos

5 days ago • Euan Marshall
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Tech

Tech Roundup: Most fraud attempts occur on apps

1 day ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Accion's new fund to digitize financial institutions in emerging markets
Tech

Accion’s new fund to digitize financial institutions in emerging markets

6 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Tech

Tech Roundup: AI can help with learning how to learn

1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
ride-hailing Pick-up spot for Uber drivers in the Salvador airport. Photo: Joa Souza/Shutterstock
Tech

Ride-hailing app bill still pleases no one

2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
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Tech

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

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
press freedoms Brazil's Supreme Court building. Photo: Fellipe Sampaio/SCO/STF
Society

The systematic harassment of journalists as a way to curtail press freedoms

2 days ago • Isabela Cruz
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Society

The legacy of Ayrton Senna, 30 years on

3 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Brazil wants to know more about its domestic workers
Society

Brazil wants to know more about its domestic workers

3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Covid moderna vaccine late
Society

Brazil’s latest Covid vaccine purchase comes too late

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

Indigenous groups snub Lula as patience runs out

4 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Brazil's climate adaptation bill is a dud
Environment

Brazil’s new climate adaptation bill is a dud

4 days ago • Cedê Silva
Torrential rainfall left a trail of destruction in Brazil's southernmost state. Photo: Gabriel Haesbaert/iShoot/Folhapress
Environment

Social issues led Brazil to miss the boat on climate change

5 days ago • Isabela Cruz
Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil
Environment

Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil

4 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

4 weeks ago • Paulo Motoryn
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Environment

Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals

2 months ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
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Latin America

Rare moment of optimism takes hold in Venezuela opposition

9 hours ago • Ignacio Portes
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Latin America

Haiti the X factor in Dominican Republic elections

4 days ago • Lucas Berti
chile border José Antonio Kast, leader of the Chilean Republican Action, speaks during the third Hungarian edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC in Budapest. Photo: Zoltan Mathe/EFE/EPA
Latin America

Chile’s far-right wants ‘Texas-like wall’ on Bolivian border

2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
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

2 weeks 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?

2 weeks ago • Errol Caballero
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Opinion

Brazil’s flood relief efforts and the war on disinformation ghouls

1 week ago • Mario Sergio Lima
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

4 weeks ago • Bruna Santos
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Opinion

The future of X in Brazil, under Elon Musk

1 month ago • Andre Pagliarini
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Opinion

AI and data protection in the spotlight at Global Privacy Summit

1 month 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