The world has abandoned chloroquine as a possible cure against the coronavirus. But Brazil's Bolsonaro is doubling down on his bet

In the Covid-19 war, which path will cause fewer casualties: enacting a lockdown, or reopening the economy? These economists believe they know...

Brazil's president is trying to keep his Covid-19 test results private. Now, the Supreme Court will step in

Links to paramilitary mafias, controversial cabinet firings … and a botched pandemic response. None of this has dented Bolsonaro's core group of...

Sergio Moro has left Bolsonaro in a delicate situation: it has lost his anti-corruption poster boy, and Moro's revelations could lead to...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made the similarities between Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump even more apparent

Despite Brazil updating Covid-19 figures every day, inconsistencies in the data have left policymakers in the dark over the real spread of...

Amid the worst pandemic in a lifetime, President Jair Bolsonaro has gone after his own Health minister, stopping just shy of sacking him

Brazil's large informal labor market suggests that the country's employment rates may be decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic

The world goes into self-isolation and governments pass relief packages to save their economies. But Brazil's president wants "business as usual"

Brazil has recorded its first Covid-19 death, and cases are growing exponentially. Authorities warn it will get much worse before it gets...

The coronavirus outbreak is cooling off the global economy—but the Brazilian government resists the use of stimulus packages

By asking supporters to take to the streets and ask for the shutdown of Congress and "the end of the Supreme Court,"...

The implementation of 5G in Brazil still has many obstacles in its way, not least pressure from the country's two leading trading...

New revelations show the CIA sold encryption tools which allowed them to spy on South American dictatorships during some of the most...

Heavy rains and other extreme weather events have become the norm in Brazil, with much of the blame lying with climate change...

President Bolsonaro has a lot on his plate: pressing reforms, a Supreme Court vacancy, and much intrigue.

Even more contagious than the new strain of coronavirus that emerged in mid-December is misinformation about the disease. The number of cases is jumping...