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Brazil’s spending cap is finished. Where to tie up Ulysses now?
The Bolsonaro administration decided to poke holes in Brazil's five-year-old federal spending cap. Where to go from here?
5 days ago • Luciano Sobral
Opinion
Brazil’s hunger figures skyrocket. But presidential candidates look the other way
The number of Brazilian enduring food insecurity has increased almost 30 percent in three years. But all but one of the leading presidential candidates are ignoring the issue
1 week ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Why the U.S. flag became a far-right symbol in Brazil
The Washington Post was shocked that the U.S. flag had been adopted by the Brazilian far-right. But It shouldn't have been
2 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Plans for opposition truce in Brazil will be dead on arrival
Seen by many as the most credible third-way option for Brazil's 2022 election, Ciro Gomes is seeking a political ceasefire with the Workers' Party. But how long can such a truce last?
2 weeks ago • Andre Pagliarini
Opinion
Legal ins and outs of the Pandora Papers leaks affecting high-ranking Brazilian officials
The Pandora Papers leak revealed that both Economy Minister Paulo Guedes and Central Bank chairman Roberto Campos Neto own offshore companies in tax havens. But what are the legal ramifications of owning such assets?
3 weeks ago • Iure Pontes Vieira
Opinion
The Brazilian Report wins journalism award ahead of fourth anniversary
Our website won the “Best Paid Content Strategy” award for medium- or small-sized newsrooms at the 2021 LATAM Digital Media Awards
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Laura Quirin
Opinion
Covid hearings fall for Bolsonaro ally’s trap
Senators of the Covid hearings committee wasted a full session on Wednesday grilling pro-Bolsonaro businessman Luciano Hang, who repeatedly sought to make a mockery out of the inquiry
4 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Opinion
A return to “caution, serenity, and perseverance” in Brazil?
Inflation in Brazil seems out of control, but the government has one sliver of good news ahead: prices are set to slow down before the end of the year
1 month ago • Luciano Sobral
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Power
Pro-Bolsonaro fugitive risks turning supporters into accomplices
Far-right blogger Allan dos Santos has set up a website to gather donations in U.S. Dollars. But assisting a fugitive in any way is a crime in both Brazil and the U.S.
11 hours ago • Amanda Audi
Power
After six months and 81 indictment requests, Senate wraps Covid inquiry
Senators brought charges against President Bolsonaro for nine crimes, but the prosecutor general will decide whether the head of state will be indicted
1 day ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Janaína Camelo
Power
Pro-Bolsonaro blogger accused of collusion with U.S. Capitol rioters
The Supreme Court believes Allan dos Santos was plotting an attack similar to the January 6 riots in Brazil
5 days ago • Amanda Audi
Power
Covid inquiry requests indictment of Bolsonaro: what comes next?
After almost six months of investigations, senators have accused Jair Bolsonaro of nine crimes for his handling of the pandemic. Now, the ball is in the prosecutor general's court
1 week ago • Janaína Camelo
Power
Bolsonaro failed to plant his flag in Brazil’s poorest region
Last year, Jair Bolsonaro wanted to take Brazil's poor Northeast from the left. He failed — and has all but ignored the region ever since
1 week ago • Janaína Camelo
Insider
Central Bank hikes interest rates by 1.5 points
4 hours ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Insider
Unemployment still affects 13.7 million Brazilians
6 hours ago • Ana Ferraz
Insider
Truckers block Pará highway in diesel price protest
1 day ago • Euan Marshall
Insider
Senate committee postpones voting on Correios privatization
1 day ago • Ana Ferraz
Insider
Inflation predictor for October at highest level since 1995
1 day ago • Ana Ferraz
2022 Race
In the wake of Covid report, Health Minister takes part in public rally
6 days ago • Janaína Camelo
2022 Race
Senate President to switch parties eyeing presidential bid
1 week ago • Janaína Camelo
2022 Race
TV presenter says he’ll run for president in 2022
2 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
2022 Race
Parties make progress on merger to create giant conservative group
3 weeks ago • Janaína Camelo
2022 Race
Doria suggests withdrawing to create third-way unity against Lula and Bolsonaro
3 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
Business
Brazilian lawmakers to investigate suspicious behavior around Petrobras stock
Privatization talks from government officials affected Petrobras share prices. And a few suspiciously perfectly-timed bets made huge profits
7 hours ago • André Spigariol
Business
Spending cap breach forces Brazil to raise interests higher, and quicker
The Bolsonaro government's decision to ignore constitutional spending limits caused havoc in Brazilian markets, increasing expectations (and concerns) around the Central Bank's latest benchmark interest rate hike
1 day ago • Janaína Camelo
Business
Brazilian biodiesel producers warn of shortage risks after regulation change
The federal government has decided to abandon auctions for biofuels, ordering instead that producers negotiate purchases directly with distributors. The former are reeling, claiming it will drastically affect their business
2 days ago • Janaína Camelo
Business
Is it finally niobium’s time to shine?
The darling of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, the country is leading the charge in developing new uses for niobium, hoping to transform it into an important facet of the Brazilian economy
7 days ago • Janaína Camelo
Business
Influencers give ‘realistic’ financial advice to poor Brazilian families
More and more poorer Brazilians are turning toward investment and financial education. A group of "accessible" influencers is there to help
1 week ago • Amanda Audi
Tech
Tech Roundup: Brazil to issue digital ID cards
The most important news in tech and innovation in Brazil. This week: the new digital ID; data privacy as a human right; Brazil exploring dark energy
5 days ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Brazilian researchers develop cancer treatment using guavas
Using knowledge from a similar technique using a pigment extracted from tomatoes, researchers from the University of Brasília have found a way to obtain the substance from red guavas — highly popular across Brazil
1 week ago • Renato Alves
Tech
Tech Roundup: Amid water crisis, Brazil’s asks tech for help
Geotechnology, ESG seal, and Brazilians content consumption online
2 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Small broadband providers want in on 5G
The biggest news on tech and innovation in Brazil this week
3 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Brazilian football enters crypto game
The most important news about tech and innovation in Brazil this week
4 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #175: An obituary for Brazil’s spending cap
Brazil's government is about to obliterate the federal spending cap. One economist believes it is now time for damage limitation, at best
12 hours ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #174: The extent of Bolsonaro’s pandemic crimes
Members of the Covid hearings committee disagree on whether to indict President Jair Bolsonaro for genocide against indigenous groups and murder
1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #173: Saving Mercosur
A deal between Brazil and Argentina breathes new life into the Mercosur trade alliance. At least until the next crisis, that is
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #172: A president’s worst enemy
Inflation is set to hit the 10-percent mark this week. And historical data shows that high inflation and a poor economic outlook are bad omens for incumbent presidents
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #171: Brazil’s own Tuskegee Study
Between the 1930s and the 1970s, hundreds of black men were unknowingly used as subjects in an American syphilis study. In 2020, a Brazilian HMO allegedly used elderly citizens for Covid experiments without their knowledge or consent
4 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Society
Vaccination rates hit 20-year low in Brazil. But anti-vax movements are not to blame
None of the federal government's mandatory vaccines for children reached the 90-percent coverage target in 2020, with researchers blaming the trend on the underfunding of public health
3 days ago • Amanda Audi
Society
Belo Horizonte set the pandemic bar high for the rest of Brazil
Findings from Imperial College London show that, if Brazil's other major cities had followed Belo Horizonte's lead during the pandemic, the country could have avoided over half of its Covid-19 deaths
6 days ago • Renato Alves
Society
They traveled abroad for a vaccine. Now they are in limbo
Without clear regulations on vaccine mandates, Brazilians immunized abroad struggle to get the country's "vaccination passport"
2 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
Society
Brazil Covid death toll tops 600,000. But the pandemic is receding
As vaccines become more widespread in Brazil, the spread of the coronavirus becomes less deadly. But experts warn that it remains too soon for a victory lap
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Society
Brazilians resort to deadly cost-saving measures amid fuel price hikes
With domestic gas canisters becoming prohibitively expensive for poor households, some Brazilians are resorting to cooking with ethanol — which is highly dangerous and has led to an increase in life-threatening domestic accidents
3 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
Environment
Brazil, Argentina among meat producers scolded for “greenwashing” ahead of COP26
Revelations by Greenpeace UK show that countries acted to dilute findings and recommendations that run counter to agro interests in an IPCC report
3 days ago • Charlotte Peet
Environment
World BioEconomy Forum comes to the Amazon
With the Amazon set to play a big part in Glasgow at COP26, public and private sector representatives meet in Belém this week to discuss the bioeconomy in the rainforest
1 week ago • Natália Scalzaretto
Environment
Brazil’s spending on polluting energy will increase inequality levels
The energy crisis has made blackouts a real possibility, but spending on thermoelectric plants to avoid outages will increase inequality
3 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
Environment
Brazilian lawmakers aim to regulate carbon markets ahead of COP26
Congress is seeking to get the jump on the government and approve carbon market legislation before Brazil's delegation jets off to Scotland, hoping to conclude Article 6 negotiations in Glasgow
4 weeks ago • André Spigariol
Environment
Abandoned Amazon land can advance decarbonization plan
Forest regrowth can help compensate for carbon emissions from deforestation. But one new study argues Brazil isn’t doing nearly enough of it
2 months ago • Charlotte Smith, Erika Berenguer and Jos Barlow
Latin America
After Congress and the courts, Bukele looks to control football in El Salvador
Riding a wave of popularity, the provocative president now wants to change how the national association is run, risking severe sanctions from FIFA, the sport’s governing body
4 days ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
The Shining Path is long gone, but its specter continues to hover over Peruvian politics
Now little more than a bogeyman for the right, the history of the left-wing terrorist group shows how it may take longer for wounds to heal
1 week ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
Chile sees Sichel slip and Kast climb ahead of Election Day
Once treated as a credible presidential contender, Sebastián Sichel's campaign is in freefall. Taking his place is José Antonio Kast, once described as Chile's answer to Jair Bolsonaro
2 weeks ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
Brazil shelves its pro-democracy agenda in Latin America
Under pressure from China and agribusiness interests in Congress – and growing global concern over President Bolsonaro’s own behavior – Brazil does a foreign policy about-face
2 weeks ago • André Spigariol
Latin America
Brazil gets Argentina to compromise on Mercosur tariffs
In a meeting that didn't include Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, Brazil and Argentina reached a deal which breathes new life into Mercosur
3 weeks ago • André Spigariol
Opinion
Brazil’s spending cap is finished. Where to tie up Ulysses now?
The Bolsonaro administration decided to poke holes in Brazil's five-year-old federal spending cap. Where to go from here?
5 days ago • Luciano Sobral
Opinion
Brazil’s hunger figures skyrocket. But presidential candidates look the other way
The number of Brazilian enduring food insecurity has increased almost 30 percent in three years. But all but one of the leading presidential candidates are ignoring the issue
1 week ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Why the U.S. flag became a far-right symbol in Brazil
The Washington Post was shocked that the U.S. flag had been adopted by the Brazilian far-right. But It shouldn't have been
2 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Plans for opposition truce in Brazil will be dead on arrival
Seen by many as the most credible third-way option for Brazil's 2022 election, Ciro Gomes is seeking a political ceasefire with the Workers' Party. But how long can such a truce last?
2 weeks ago • Andre Pagliarini
Opinion
Legal ins and outs of the Pandora Papers leaks affecting high-ranking Brazilian officials
The Pandora Papers leak revealed that both Economy Minister Paulo Guedes and Central Bank chairman Roberto Campos Neto own offshore companies in tax havens. But what are the legal ramifications of owning such assets?
3 weeks ago • Iure Pontes Vieira
Tourism
Once despised, jaguars become a symbol of ecotourism in Brazil’s Pantanal
As cattle ranching became widespread in the region surrounding the Pantanal wetland, jaguars were seen as pests. Now, some farmers are converting their properties into nature reserves and reaping the profits
2 days ago • Ryan Biller
Tourism
The never-ending taxiing of Brazil’s tourism sector
Tourism was one of the areas hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Now, even with vaccination coverage improving, a series of factors are standing in the way of any meaningful recovery
3 months ago • Ana Ferraz
Tourism
Recife’s shark problem: too many questions and too few answers
The northeastern city of Recife is famous for its beaches, but locals and tourists are warned to stay away from the water, due to the risk of shark attacks
3 months ago • Renato Alves
Tourism
Meet the Arrudatitan: São Paulo’s very own dinosaur
First discovered in 1997, the specimen was originally believed to be a relative of the Aeolosaurus, but new research shows it came from a completely different genus, exclusive to São Paulo
6 months ago • Renato Alves
Tourism
When Hollywood royalty traded it all for a Brazilian farm
In the mid-20th century, a group of Hollywood movie stars gave up the glitz and glamor to become farmers in the Brazilian state of Goiás
7 months ago • Renato Alves
Guide to Brazil
October 12: a celebration of Brazil’s patron saint
According to legend, fishermen were inundated with fish to catch soon after finding an image of a black Virgin Mary. Since then, Our Lady of Aparecida has become Brazil's most popular and important saints
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Guide to Brazil
The story of Christ the Redeemer, 90 years old
Brazil's most popular tourist attraction, the story of how Christ the Redeemer came about is a fascinating one. This week's Rio celebrates the statue's 90th anniversary
2 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Guide to Brazil
The lesser-known story of the Brazilian Inquisition
After terrorizing much of Spain and Portugal, the inquisition spread to many of these countries' colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas — including to Brazil
3 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Guide to Brazil
Paulo Mendes da Rocha leaves behind incomparable legacy in Brazilian architecture
Among the most influential modernists in Brazilian history, Paulo Mendes da Rocha designed many of São Paulo's most famous tourist attractions and left a legacy of devoted followers
5 months ago • Renato Alves
Guide to Brazil
The forced immigration of the slave trade in Brazil
Brazil took in more African slaves than any other country during the Atlantic slave trade, and the effects of this brutal period can still be felt today
5 months ago • Euan Marshall
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