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Explaining Brazil #147: What to make of South America’s Super Sunday
Elections in Ecuador and Peru were filled with surprises. Latin America correspondent Lucas Berti breaks down what they mean for the region
3 days ago • TBR Newsroom
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #146: A Brazilian vaccine on the way?
President Jair Bolsonaro and São Paulo Governor João Doria are in a race toward the first coronavirus vaccine fully produced in Brazil
1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #145: How much damage can Bolsonaro really do?
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro carried out a massive cabinet reshuffle on Monday, raising fears that his administration could take an undemocratic turn
2 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #144: Lula v. Bolsonaro
Lula has regained his political rights and is set to face off against Bolsonaro next year. What can we expect from this clash of titans?
3 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #143: The legacy of Operation Car Wash
The Supreme Court ruled that former Operation Car Wash judge Sérgio Moro was biased in his prosecution of former President Lula
3 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #142: Four ministers and 280,000 funerals
President Jair Bolsonaro has changed Health Ministers for the third time since the start of the pandemic
1 month ago • TBR Newsroom
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #141: Brazil’s pandemic nadir yet to come
During the pandemic, Brazil became something of an open-air laboratory, showing how new variants can develop when left to spread unchecked
1 month ago • TBR Newsroom
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #140: The Brazilian people v. big mining
Mining giants have been let off scot-free from the consequences of environmental disasters. Brazilians are going after them on their own turf
2 months ago • TBR Newsroom
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Power
Bolsonaro fears the reaper as Covid hearings kick off
Bolsonaro's pandemic response will be under the microscope. Whatever the probe's outcome, it is unlikely to be positive for the president
8 hours ago • Débora Álvares
Power
Congress wants to repeal censorship law. Is the replacement any better?
The 1983 National Security Law has been used as a tool to intimidate demonstrators. Lawmakers hope to introduce a replacement, but will it be any better?
4 days ago • Renato Alves
Power
What actually constitutes an impeachable offense in Brazil?
Many have called for the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro for his mismanagement of the pandemic. But what does the law actually say on the issue?
5 days ago • Beatriz Rey
Power
As Congress kicks off pandemic hearings, Bolsonaro strikes back
A Supreme Court ruling forced the Senate to launch a hearings committee to investigate the Bolsonaro government's pandemic response
1 week ago • Débora Álvares
Power
In-person worship trial used as tryouts for Supreme Court seat
Brazil's Solicitor General and Prosecutor General are using a trial on the reopening of churches to please President Jair Bolsonaro and boost their chances to win a spot on the Supreme Court
1 week ago • Débora Álvares
Business
Change to patent law could be a blow to Brazilian innovation
A Supreme Court ruling limits medical patents to a maximum of 20 years. Investors in innovation are likely to steer clear of Brazil
4 days ago • Ana Ferraz
Business
The (promising) state of Brazil’s oil sector, during the pandemic
Oil has been one of the few Brazilian economic sectors largely unharmed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Further improvements are expected as opportunities open for foreign companies
1 week ago • Suzanne Driscoll
Business
University students pitch in to save ailing small businesses
Students in São Paulo develop projects to assist small businesses in São Paulo, which have been among those hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic
1 week ago • Renato Alves
Business
Vastly underused, Brazil seeks to boost its waterway transport system
Only China and Russia have more navigable inland rivers than Brazil, yet only 2 percent of the country's cargo is transported via waterways
2 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Business
Vaccination by private companies could cause Brazil more headaches
Congress is set to allow private companies to purchase coronavirus vaccines and immunize their employees. Health experts are against it
2 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Renato Alves
Tech
Tech Roundup: The importance of a national data council
Brazil's Data Protection Council is one step closer to creation, which will give regulators a huge boost in decision-making and research
1 day ago • Natália Scalzaretto and Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Virtual trips could save Brazil’s tourism sector
This week’s topics: How tech could help the tourism sector survive. Brazilian startup hubs join forces to build a stronger environment
1 week ago • Natália Scalzaretto
Tech
Starlink expands satellite internet access to Latin America
Starlink, Elon Musk’s new venture, aims to close the internet gap in rural areas. Latin America is next on the project's to-do list
2 weeks ago • Bonny Renner
Tech
The São Paulo research institute leading the charge toward a Brazilian vaccine
Created 120 years ago, the Butantan Biological Institute has a proud history of scientific developments and immunization campaigns
2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Tech
Tech Roundup: Brazilian MVNOs ready to surf the 5G wave
This week’s topics: MVNOs and 5G; Embraer's flying car; and WhatsApp Pay is back to stay
2 weeks ago • Natália Scalzaretto
Society
What we can learn from Brazil’s only fully-vaccinated city
In Serrana, around 300 kilometers north of São Paulo, the local population has taken part in a mass vaccination experiment and now hopes to return to a normal life
1 day ago • Renato Alves
Society
In favelas, economic chokehold adds to the virus fears
With cases and deaths at record levels, cities have tried to listen to experts and close the economy. For those living in favelas, however, restrictive measures cause economic distress and hunger
1 week ago • Ana Ferraz and Bruno Rico
Coronavirus
Brazil vaccinating indigenous communities at a snail’s pace
Indigenous people were included among Brazil's vaccine priority groups, but they are receiving immunization at a much slower pace
3 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Society
How São Paulo became a positive vaccine outlier in Brazil
São Paulo is suffering from overcrowded hospitals. Still, Brazil's richest and most populous state is making great strides in vaccine rollouts
1 month ago • Natália Scalzaretto and Lucas Berti
Coronavirus
Brazil faces widespread oxygen shortage amid coronavirus peak
Increased demand and consumption around the country could lead to oxygen shortages, similar to those seen in Manaus two months ago
1 month ago • Renato Alves
Environment
As U.S. and Brazil discuss the Amazon, civil society says “don’t trust Bolsonaro”
The two countries are set to discuss terms over potential U.S. financial aid to help Brazil fight deforestation
3 days ago • Renato Alves
Environment
New “pre-salt” oil reserves on the Amazon coast excite markets
Researchers claim to have found new deepwater oil reserves off Brazil's northern coast. However, environmental agents say coral reefs could be destroyed by oil extraction activities
1 week ago • Renato Alves
Environment
Brazil’s next oil lease auction threatens hundreds of marine species
Brazil's National Oil Agency is set to sell off 92 oil fields in October, but many are located close to environmental reserves
2 months ago • Renato Alves
Environment
11,000 Brazilian families sue Norwegian miner for environmental disaster
Norwegian giant Norsk Hydro repeatedly discharged toxic waste into rivers surrounding the town of Barcarena, damaging the local environment
2 months ago • Renato Alves
Environment
Effects of Brumadinho disaster all too present two years on
A tailings dam collapsed in the Minas Gerais town of Brumadinho two years ago. The victims remain without homes and water
3 months ago • Renato Alves
Latin America
Amid a slow rollout, Mexico gambles on homemade vaccine
President AMLO presented the new vaccine as being 100-percent made in Mexico, but it relies on technology developed in the U.S.
2 days ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Uruguay luring disgruntled Argentinian businessmen
Uruguay has often served as a sort of a tax haven for Argentinian businessmen. Now, more Argentinian firms are also calling Uruguay home
2 days ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
What good will Chile’s new constitution really do?
One political scientist believes Chileans are being too optimistic about the benefits of a new constitution, without realizing the risks
5 days ago • Francisco Ricci
Latin America
Vaccine story so far in Chile, Latin America’s fastest rollout
Chile has been a success story in rolling out coronavirus vaccines. But why are infections still rising at an uncontrolled pace?
6 days ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
The pandemic’s actual death toll in Mexico likely to be 60 percent higher
The government in Mexico discretely published a report on Saturday revising the coronavirus death toll in the country by 60 percent
3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Opinion
Ahead of 2022, anti-partisanship is a looming risk for Brazil
More and more Brazilian voters have no party allegiances of their own, while actively opposing at least one political party. That is a problem
2 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Bolsonaro is scrambling on shaky ground
After a major cabinet reshuffle, President Jair Bolsonaro should manage to find some political stability. However, it will come at a price
2 weeks ago • Leonardo Barreto
Opinion
Brazil among world’s top 10 democratic backsliding countries
Data shows the trend beginning in 2016, prior to the Bolsonaro government
3 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Can any attempt to hold the Bolsonaro accountable be apolitical?
A prosecutor from Brazil's Federal Accounts Court issued a request to suspend Bolsonaro and members of his cabinet
4 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Lula is the least of Bolsonaro’s problems
Rising inflation, an uncontrolled pandemic, and massive economic uncertainty should keep Bolsonaro up at night — much more than Lula
4 weeks ago • Leonardo Barreto
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
6 days ago • Renato Alves
Tourism
The ancient stone city of Pireneus: Brazil’s best-kept secret
The city of Pirenópolis attracts tourists from all over for its lavish vegetation. But its most stunning attraction is remains unknown
3 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Tourism
Businesses in Brazilian tourist city organize their own voluntary lockdown
Small business-owners in Alto Paraíso de Goiás took matters into their own hands after the local mayor failed to do so
1 month ago • Renato Alves
Coronavirus
Foreign residents in Brazil being turned, despite right to enter
The government decreed that visitors from the UK would be denied entry, except for permanent residents. However, this has not been observed
3 months ago • Lucas Berti
Tourism
The show must not go on for Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival
The world's most iconic carnival destination has definitively canceled its 2021 celebrations, causing huge losses to multiple sectors
3 months ago • Renato Alves
Coronavirus
South American football says: “What pandemic?”
Football in South America has continued largely unaffected during the Covid-19 pandemic, and executives want fans in the stadium
3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Sports
The part-time Brazilian team that sold out the Santiago Bernabéu
In 1958, a football team billed as the "champions of Brazil" played a glamorous tour in Europe — but the lowly Bela Vista had won anything
4 months ago • Renato Alves
Sports
Brazilian footballers take on video games in legal battles
FIFA is Brazil's most popular game, but scores of footballers have sued the developers over the use of their names and likenesses
4 months ago • Lucas Berti
Sports
Diego Maradona’s little known contribution to monetary theory
Maradona's legendary goal against England in the 1986 World Cup is memorable for many reasons — and has even helped shape financial policy
4 months ago • Lucas Berti
Sports
What Maradona represents for Argentina and Latin America
Tributes roll in as Diego Armando Maradona, one of the greatest footballers ever to play the sport, dies at his home in Buenos Aires aged 60
5 months ago • Euan Marshall and Lucas Berti
Business
How to get a Brazilian investor visa
Brazil offers indefinite residence permits for foreigners who invest in Brazilian companies, or set up their own enterprise
3 weeks ago • Iure Pontes Vieira
Guide to Brazil
How to become a Brazilian citizen
Migratory processes in Brazil are notoriously cumbersome and time-consuming, but the country's requirements for naturalization are fairly liberal
2 months ago • Iure Pontes Vieira
Guide to Brazil
Looking back at South America’s bloodiest war
The Paraguayan War was a brutal conflict opposing Paraguay and an alliance between Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. It ended 150 years ago
4 months ago • Natália Scalzaretto
Guide to Brazil
Marechal Rondon: the legacy of a lifelong defender of indigenous rights
Cândido Rondon devoted his life to protect indigenous communities and inspired generations with a humanistic approach to native peoples
4 months ago • Euan Marshall and Lucas Berti
Guide to Brazil
São Paulo’s forgotten rebellion
São Paulo celebrates today the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution. However, the state's history of battles and skirmishes goes beyond 1932
9 months ago • Natália Scalzaretto
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