School in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo: Nowaczyk/Shutterstock
Welcome to “Number of the Week,” where we choose a single figure that helps us understand what is going on in Brazil. For this week’s number, we look at Latin America’s education gap, and how it is set to deepen inequality this year:
Access to education has always been a challenge in Latin America, and the pandemic only made matters worse. Unicef published a report this week showing that over 114 million students in Latin America and the Caribbean — 80 percent of the total — are still prevented from attending in-person classes. That is not only a problem for individual...
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued a provisional decree laying the foundations for Eco…
Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Wednesday delivered to House Speaker Arthur Lira a bill with…
Brazil's IPCA-15 mid-month inflation measurement posted a 0.21 percent increase in April, following the 0.36…
It is not about denying the environmental problems and challenges Brazil faces — that are…
Shareholders of Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras approved in a Thursday general meeting the payment of…
This week, the world celebrates International Earth Day, a yearly call to action to confront…