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Explaining Brazil #180: A new home for Bolsonaro
After much comings and goings, Bolsonaro has found a new party, in an arrangement that will help shape Brazil's political landscape for 2022 and beyond
2 hours ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #179: Brazil’s vaccination success
This time last year, Brazilian citizens were unsure if they would ever get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Now, the country has immunized 80 percent of its adult population
1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #178: Argentina’s far-right lion
Javier Milei: vaccine skeptic, climate change denier, libertarian economist … and now, one of the biggest political stars in Argentina
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #177: What Brazil did at COP26
Brazil showed up in the west of Scotland ready to listen and compromise with the international community. But were its commitments enough?
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #176: Will Chile get Kast away?
Seen as Chile's answer to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, José Antonio Kast has been consistently rising in polls since early in September. Could he win on November 21?
4 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
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
1 month 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 month 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 months ago • Euan Marshall
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Power
The Bolsonaro government colluded with far-right activists
Between instructions to "go after" the Supreme Court and legal protections, the government went out of its way to defend far-right groups
22 hours ago • Amanda Audi and André Spigariol
Power
Change to Brazil’s misconduct law brings more certainty but hinders anti-corruption fight
The Bolsonaro government has made sweeping changes to the so-called Misconduct in Office Law, making it harder to convict public officials for wrongdoing. Experts are split on the move's importance
1 week ago • Amanda Audi
Power
How Brazil’s House Speaker wields his power
House Speaker Arthur Lira has managed to whip votes for government-backed projects within the opposition to Jair Bolsonaro. And here's how he does it
1 week ago • André Spigariol
Power
Social democratic primaries in Brazil an exercise in futility
The PSDB party was once a dominant force in Brazilian politics. It will hold a historic primary election on Sunday. But does anyone care?
2 weeks ago • Janaína Camelo
Power
New ICC complaint against Jair Bolsonaro unlikely to prosper
After a first attempt was turned down by judges in The Hague, the ABJD is lodging another complaint against Jair Bolsonaro to the ICC, for "crimes against humanity"
3 weeks ago • Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
Insider
Supreme Court pick promises to “defend secular state” in Senate hearing
37 mins ago • Janaína Camelo
Insider
S&P keeps Brazil’s BB- rating and stable outlook, but raises debt concerns
1 hour ago • Natália Scalzaretto
Insider
Brazilian government allocates supplementary credit to Petrobras
2 hours ago • Ana Ferraz
Insider
Brazil expects 1,500 refugee requests from Afghan nationals
3 hours ago • André Spigariol
Insider
Lula promises to interfere with Petrobras pricing policy if elected
1 day ago • Janaína Camelo
2022 Race
Under pressure, Bolsonaro lays groundwork to skip 2022 debates
5 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
2022 Race
Social democrat primaries debacle gets even worse
7 days ago • Ana Ferraz
2022 Race
Brazilian social democrats get new voting app after primaries fiasco
1 week ago • Janaína Camelo
2022 Race
VP Mourão considering run for Rio governor
1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
2022 Race
Lula and Macron meet in Paris, both thinking of 2022
2 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Business
Vale’s failed promises on mining in indigenous lands
Vale recently promised a complete halt on mining adjacent to indigenous lands. However, the company has not kept its word
1 day ago • Renato Alves
Business
Brazilian football eyes up Gulf money as corporate ownership becomes possible
For the longest time, Brazilian football clubs have been private members' clubs with elected presidents. But a new law will allow them to become companies — and woo big bucks from the Middle East
6 days ago • Ana Ferraz and Euan Marshall
Business
Candidates for 2022 must address Brazil’s energy crisis
This year's water crisis has laid much of the country's energy vulnerabilities bare, and the electricity sector is adamant that the 2022 election campaign must contain a broad debate on the industry's future
1 week ago • Janaína Camelo and Euan Marshall
Business
The passion for passion fruit goes beyond Brazil’s borders
Among Brazil's most-loved summer fruits, the country's passion fruits are also sought after abroad for their medicinal and cosmetic properties
1 week ago • Renato Alves
Business
Brazil continues selling arms to conflict zones, violating UN treaty
Brazil is a signatory of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty, but data shows that the country's major weapons and munitions manufacturers are still selling arms to war zones and places with poor human rights records — and in astonishing quantities
2 weeks ago • André Spigariol
Tech
Tech Roundup: Rio enters the delivery app business
The main news about tech and innovation in Brazil. This week: Rio's delivery app, data privacy, and Black Friday
5 days ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Government adopts blockchain technology
This week. E-commerce is big in Brazil, but online shoppers still tend to be richer. The government makes the use of blockchain in documents official. Brazilian startup aims to become the ‘Apple of urban agriculture’
2 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Eyeing the presidency, São Paulo governor makes push for 5G antennas
São Paulo Governor João Doria makes a push for 5G technology, as a way to beef up his résumé ahead of his party's primaries
2 weeks ago • Janaína Camelo
Tech
Tech Roundup: Patent delays deter innovation in Brazil
The main news about tech and innovation in Brazil. This week: patent delays, instant payments, real estate startups
3 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Embraer launches concept line of ‘green planes’ amid ESG shift
The Brazilian planemaker's very future was in jeopardy last year, but it is now betting on a sustainability push to guarantee its market share in the medium and long-term
3 weeks ago • TBR Newsroom
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #180: A new home for Bolsonaro
After much comings and goings, Bolsonaro has found a new party, in an arrangement that will help shape Brazil's political landscape for 2022 and beyond
1 hour ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #179: Brazil’s vaccination success
This time last year, Brazilian citizens were unsure if they would ever get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Now, the country has immunized 80 percent of its adult population
1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #178: Argentina’s far-right lion
Javier Milei: vaccine skeptic, climate change denier, libertarian economist … and now, one of the biggest political stars in Argentina
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #177: What Brazil did at COP26
Brazil showed up in the west of Scotland ready to listen and compromise with the international community. But were its commitments enough?
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #176: Will Chile get Kast away?
Seen as Chile's answer to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, José Antonio Kast has been consistently rising in polls since early in September. Could he win on November 21?
4 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Society
Bolsonaro cuts Madonna, condoms, and coups from university exam
The 2021 edition of national university entrance exam Enem took place this weekend under a cloud, amid claims that the Bolsonaro government sought to censor "controversial" questions
2 days ago • Amanda Audi
Society
Brazil’s drug policy is desperately lacking — but not because the UN says so
Brazil ranked dead last in a study analyzing drug policies in 30 countries. However, while Brazil's approach to drugs is poor, it isn't for the reasons highlighted by the ranking
2 weeks ago • Amanda Audi
Society
Over 19,000 people rescued from modern slavery in Brazil since 2010
A recent raid at a farm in Goiás rescued 166 people from working conditions analogous to slavery, including children and teenagers. Offending companies are put on a "dirty list"
2 weeks ago • Janaína Camelo
Society
Operation Welcome not all rosy amid Venezuelan migrant crisis
The Brazilian government has held up its Operation Welcome shelter and relocation scheme as a triumph, but chaos still reigns in the country's border towns
2 weeks ago • André Spigariol
Society
A year and a half of closed schools will harm kids. And the economy
The effects of one of the world’s longest pandemic-driven school closures will be felt over the coming years
2 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Environment
Brazil’s ESG commitments: ask corporations, not the government
On the whole, major Brazilian companies seem to be on board with a more sustainable approach to business. Customer engagement and social norms are also pushing the ESG agenda
5 days ago • Anna Lygia Rego
Environment
Courts become a new ally in fight against climate change
Climate change litigation is becoming more and more common around the world, and the trend is gaining ground in Brazil
4 weeks ago • Rebeca Stefanini and Isabela Ojima
Environment
With strings attached for Brazilian agro, rich nations agree to fund forest conservation
The so-called Global Forest Finance Pledge will provide billions in funding to boost climate initiatives in developing countries, but there's no such thing as a free lunch for the Brazilian government, with Big Agro set to face changes
4 weeks ago • André Spigariol
Environment
Brazil to unveil new, but unambitious climate goals at COP26
While the country's proposed new climate pledge raises emissions reduction goals, it does not go nearly far enough — and may even allow Brazil to pollute more
1 month ago • André Spigariol
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
1 month ago • Charlotte Peet
Latin America
Left poised to reclaim power in Honduras after 2009 coup
Xiomara Castro’s landslide victory ends 12 years of conservative dominance following the ousting of her husband, Manuel Zelaya
2 days ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
Mario Vargas Llosa, the immortal
On the back of his induction into L'Académie Française, we look back at the life and career of legendary Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa
3 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Latin America
Opposition competes in Venezuelan elections, but Maduro wins again
Doubts over the fairness of gubernatorial races persist, but the opposition missed a chance to challenge Nicolás Maduro with it still riven by internal divisions
4 days ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
Kast and Boric reach decisive presidential runoff in Chile
Polarized election confirms the anti-establishment sentiment in Chile, as traditional parties fall to fourth and fifth place
1 week ago • Ignacio Portes
Latin America
Chile heads into its most consequential presidential election in decades
Left-wing momentum emerging from the 2019-20 protests has now been challenged by a rising far-right candidate, with unpredictability and surprising turnarounds the order of the day
2 weeks ago • Ignacio Portes
Opinion
Brazil’s Central Bank is the world’s most hawkish. So why do inflation expectations keep rising?
Trying to hold down consumer prices, the Central Bank has been furiously increasing benchmark interest rates, in a trend unlikely to end any time soon. But pursuing unrealistic inflation goals could spell disaster
6 days ago • Luciano Sobral
Opinion
House speakers hold too much power in Brazil, and that’s not changing any time soon
Arthur Lira is among the most powerful figures in the country's politics. And he would have to sign off on any attempt to reduce his vast and often damaging influence
1 week ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Bolsonaro’s new party is a monument to Brazil’s political limitations
The Liberal Party is perhaps an odd choice for Jair Bolsonaro, given the party's reputation of corruption and political cronyism
3 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Climate negotiations with Bolsonaro a lost cause
Brazil is heading into an election year in which environmental issues are unlikely to figure prominently
3 weeks ago • Andre Pagliarini
Opinion
The Brazilian Report takes home two prizes from 2021 EPPY Awards
We are delighted to have won in both the best news feature video and best homepage design categories at this year's EPPY Awards, capping off a remarkable 2021 for The Brazilian Report
4 weeks ago • Caroline Coutinho
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
1 month 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
4 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
5 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
7 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
8 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 months 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 months 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
2 months 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
6 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
7 months ago • Euan Marshall
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