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Vanessa Barbara

@vmbarbara_

Vanessa Barbara is a Brazilian journalist and author. She has been published by newspapers Folha de S.Paulo and O Estado de S.Paulo, magazine Piauí, and has been a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.

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 days ago • Isabela Cruz
caroline de toni
Politics

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

6 days ago • Cedê Silva
Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors
Politics

Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors

2 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

2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Musk probe increases likelihood of an X ban in Brazil
Politics

Musk probe increases the likelihood of an X ban in Brazil

2 weeks ago • Paulo Roberto Netto
State autonomy on gun rights bill
Insider

State autonomy on gun rights advance in Brazil’s House

15 hours ago • Cedê Silva
zero-deficit target primary goal
Insider

2024 primary target a tall order, Brazilian government admits

15 hours ago • Cedê Silva
Embraer's Eve is already building its first "flying car"
Insider

Embraer’s Eve already building its first “flying car”

17 hours ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Details on the hacking charges against Congresswoman Carla Zambelli
Insider

Details on the hacking charges against Congresswoman Carla Zambelli

2 days ago • Cedê Silva
Brazil among the best countries for FDI
Insider

Brazil among the best countries for foreign direct investment

2 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
ipo market brazil latin america web summit rio
Economy

Market Roundup: Brazilian startups should not be aiming for an IPO

5 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Brazil keen on moving fiscal goalposts
Economy

Brazil keen on moving fiscal goalposts

2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Market Roundup: Rules for betting platforms to be set in four stages Igor Kyrlytsya
Economy

Market Roundup: Rules for betting platforms to be set in four stages

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
March inflation a good omen for Brazilian economy
Economy

March inflation a good omen for Brazilian economy

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Corporate financing via capital market breaks record
Economy

Market Roundup: Corporate financing via capital market breaks record

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

Tech Roundup: Brazil’s AI-powered music revolution

3 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
cocoa harvest
Tech

The startup helping producers comply with EU deforestation rules

6 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
eduardo paes web summit rio
Tech

Rio wants to be the new Latin American innovation capital with Web Summit

1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
web summit rio
Tech

Tech Roundup: What to expect from Web Summit Rio 2024

1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Accessercise, an app co-created by British Paralympian Ali Jawad, rolls out in the second half this year in Brazil, offering more than 400 video lessons for people with disabilities
Tech

Tech Roundup: An inclusive fitness app lands in Brazil

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
comando vermelho graffiti rio
Society

Drug traffickers retake Rio territories from militias, study finds

1 week ago • Isabela Cruz
farmers The European hare is an invasive species in Brazil, causing agricultural havoc wherever it spreads. Photo: Leo Bucher / Shutterstock
Society

A hare-raising challenge in southern Brazil as invasive species multiplies like rabbits

2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Volunteers prepare to distribute food donations to favelas residents in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Celso Pupo/Shutterstock
Society

Healthy food hard to come by in Brazil’s favelas

3 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
militias rio de janeiro In Rio de Janeiro, real estate expansion and exploitation have become one of the main financial arms of organized crime. Photo: Ilan Pellenberg/FramePhoto/Folhapress
Society

Urban militias show the “Mexicanization” of Rio de Janeiro

4 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Covid infections are going up in Brazil. Photo: Joa Souza/Shutterstock
Society

Brazil records Covid spike, and coronavirus still kills plenty

2 months ago • TBR Newsroom
Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil
Environment

Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil

19 hours 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 days ago • Paulo Motoryn
Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals
Environment

Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals

1 month ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Brazil's coal city resists energy transition
Environment

Brazil’s coal city resists energy transition

1 month ago • André Borges
amazon climate change
Environment

Amazon climate crisis continues with Acre floods and Roraima fires

1 month ago • Cedê Silva
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

4 days ago • David Feliba
ecuador noboa
Latin America

Could Ecuador’s referendum mark the birth of a new Bukele?

7 days ago • Lucas Berti
British bank Revolut granted license in Mexico
Latin America

British bank Revolut granted license in Mexico

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
sign language
Latin America

How Nicaragua developed its own sign language

2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
u.s. trade china mexico
Latin America

Trade tensions rise as U.S. accuses China of using Mexico as backdoor

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 days ago • Bruna Santos
x twitter elon musk
Opinion

The future of X in Brazil, under Elon Musk

1 week ago • Andre Pagliarini
data protection privacy
Opinion

AI and data protection in the spotlight at Global Privacy Summit

1 week 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

2 weeks ago • Jennifer Eaglin
curb AI-generated disinformation elections
Opinion

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

3 weeks ago • Bruna Santos