Municipal elections have a significant impact on national politics. And what happens in November 2020 will ripple over until 2022

Some Latin American countries have been called out for not enacting distancing rules during the pandemic. Others, for using them to repress...

The 75th edition of the United Nations General Assembly was a unique one. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaders did not attend the UN...

Luiz Fux takes office as Brazil's new Supreme Court chief justice at a crucial moment. What kind of court will he lead?

Every single living former governor of Rio has been jailed at some point, and the incumbent governor looks set to face the...

Brazil's Q2 GDP results have been released and it's official: the country is back in recession. We analyze how Brazil can recover

Coronavirus got to Latin America six months ago, and the region quickly became the world's epicenter. How have things gotten so bad?

Álvaro Uribe is the most powerful politician in Colombia, but he has been placed under house arrest. What does this mean for the future?

Brazil has rushed its national football championship into a hasty return, and already there are Covid-19 cases popping up all over the...

Ironically, Brazil's mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis may lead to the country cutting the line in the race for a vaccine

Everyone predicted that the pandemic would plummet Jair Bolsonaro's approval rates. But the president sees his re-election prospects grow more realistic

Few elections worldwide influence Brazil as much as the U.S. presidential race. Joe Biden seems poised to beat Donald Trump, but what...

Deforestation is on the rise, and now investors have threatened to remove their money from Brazil, forcing the government to act

After months of reckless behavior, President Jair Bolsonaro has been infected with the coronavirus. And is trying to make lemonade out of...

The pandemic is set to cost millions of jobs in Brazil, which can cause a number of troubling knock-on effects in society

In this final episode of our series, we frame the legacy of the 1970 World Cup, both in Brazil and abroad

Pelé is the greatest football player in history, and the 1970 World Cup in Mexico is seen as his finest hour, when he led...

50 years ago today, the greatest football team of all time won the 1970 World Cup. We tell the full story in...