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Copa America: A white elephant parade
Besides the obvious problems with holding an international football tournament during a raging pandemic, the Copa America will showcase brand-new Brazilian stadiums which are hemorrhaging money
7 days ago • Beatriz Farrugia
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 months 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
7 months ago • Euan Marshall and Lucas Berti
Sports
Pelé at 80: is he still the greatest of all time?
With three World Cup winners medals, 1,279 goals, and star status around the world, is Pelé still the greatest footballer who ever lived?
8 months ago • Euan Marshall
Sports
Money talks as Santos bin Robinho
Santos sack Robinho after rape outcry, and Brazil's World Cup TV rights at risk with new Fifa rule
8 months ago • Euan Marshall
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Changing tack, Covid hearings decide to follow the chloroquine money instead
Evidence that government officials may have benefited financially from pushing ineffective treatments has given the Senate hearings new momentum
18 hours ago • Janaína Camelo
Power
Covid inquiry brings Marielle murder back into the spotlight
A former Rio de Janeiro governor used the committee to suggest the president is linked to a murder case, in what is the latest episode of how the Covid inquiry is being used for political theater
3 days ago • Janaína Camelo
Power
Could Brazil’s “third way” come from the left?
Polls show voters polarized between Lula and Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the 2022 election, with candidates more to the center failing to be competitive
4 days ago • José Roberto Castro
Power
Brazilian state governors in a race for vaccines (and popularity)
Several state governors announced they are bringing their local vaccination timetables forward, in a mad dash to immunize their populations ahead of the 2022 elections
5 days ago • Janaína Camelo
Power
Over 11,000 public works ‘disappear’ from government records in data blackout
A new report found a series of problems in public works databases, with thousands of projects simply disappearing from government systems. The Economy Ministry has 30 days to fix the issue
6 days ago • Janaína Camelo
Business
Minas Gerais shows steel in pandemic recovery
Home to Brazil's largest number of steel mills, Minas Gerais has been able to mitigate negative effects of the pandemic amid rising iron ore prices
2 days ago • Renato Alves
Business
Brazil’s beef consumption hits all-time low amid price hikes
With a weakened currency and an economy ravaged by the pandemic, Brazilians are being priced out of beef on supermarket shelves
2 days ago • Ana Ferraz
Business
GM wheat from Argentina sparks clash between Brazil and green associations
Brazil imports most of its wheat from Argentina, but the prospect of purchasing genetically modified crops has led to massive pushback from civil society and environmental organizations
4 days ago • Renato Alves
Business
Brazil is starting to exploit its huge solar energy potential
New investments in solar plants in Minas Gerais and Ceará show the way in expanding the country’s capacity in renewables
1 week ago • Renato Alves
Business
Brazil’s new startup framework: progress or a missed opportunity?
The federal government has ratified a new legal framework including regulations for startup companies in Brazil. However, experts warn that the legislative changes are too shallow to make a meaningful difference
1 week ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech roundup: ICT sector creating jobs
1 day ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Online sales to save Valentines’ Day
A digest of the most important news on technology and innovation in Brazil
1 week ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Electric cars gain steam in Brazil
A digest of the most important news on technology and innovation in Brazil
2 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Startup brings favelas into e-commerce boom
A digest of the most important news on technology and innovation in Brazil
3 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz
Tech
Tech Roundup: Brazil flirts with restrictive social media decree
The Brazilian Report’s weekly tech roundup is a digest of the most important news on technology and innovation in Brazil
4 weeks ago • Ana Ferraz and Natália Scalzaretto
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #156: The future of work in Brazil
In Brazil, the remote work solution was never easy, as the country has an extremely informal economy. This week, we discuss the future of work in Brazil
4 days ago • Euan Marshall
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #155: Bolsonaro opens a military Pandora’s box
Amid the president's threats to ignore the results of a potential electoral defeat, seeing the Army cave to his will on a legal matter is very worrisome indeed
2 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #154: A crisis in Angola threatens Bolsonaro
President Jair Bolsonaro is battling multiple domestic crises — but one dispute across the Atlantic could cost him the support of a valuable ally
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #153: More variants, fewer vaccines
As vaccine rollouts stumble in multiple Brazilian regions, health officials confirm the country's first cases of the Indian variant
4 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Podcast
Explaining Brazil #152: A president without a party
Jair Bolsonaro has seen his popularity dip in recent months, now polling behind Lula. But he has an even more immediate concern: the president needs to find a party
1 month ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Coronavirus
Uruguay: unions organize protests against “starvation and inequality”
1 day ago • Lucas Berti
Coronavirus
Paraguay buys 1 million vaccines from Vaxxinity
1 day ago • Lucas Berti
Coronavirus
PAHO: “until everybody has vaccines, we need urgent health protocols”
2 days ago • Lucas Berti
Coronavirus
Mexico sends over 1 million medical supplies to Guatemala
2 days ago • Lucas Berti
Coronavirus
Paraguay struggling to keep up with neighbors in vaccination push
2 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Society
Brazil terrorized by manhunt for violent rampage killer
Over the past ten days, Lázaro Barbosa has been on the run for the police after a string of murders and robberies. Local residents are fleeing their homes in fear
2 days ago • Renato Alves
Society
Citizens chancing their arm with São Paulo’s zero-waste vaccine policy
As vaccination marches on in Brazil's biggest state, citizens outside of priority groups are able to sign up to receive surplus immunizers at health centers. The result is chaos, with glimmers of hope
3 days ago • Lucas Berti
Society
Online far-right grows, stoking fears of a Brazilian “January 6”
Drawing inspiration from U.S. groups, the Brazilian far-right is highly active on the Parler network, where conspiracy theories circulate freely
7 days ago • Renato Alves
Society
The House of Death and a human incinerator: dark tales from Brazil’s military dictatorship
A federal court ordered the expropriation of a Rio de Janeiro sugarcane mill this week, notoriously used by the military dictatorship to incinerate the corpses of tortured dissidents
2 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Society
Serrana mass vaccination trial a rousing success
Researchers administered coronavirus vaccination to 95 percent of the adult population in the small city of Serrana. Covid-19 deaths have plummeted and the town is returning to normal
3 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Environment
Widespread grain farming raising temperatures in the Amazon
A recent study found that average temperatures in the city of Belterra increased by almost 1 degree Celsius over 30 years, thanks to an increase in grain farming and deforestation
6 days ago • Euan Marshall and Natália Scalzaretto
Environment
The traditional Brazilian cactus which could solve crop drought
Scientists have found that bacteria found in the mandacaru cactus can drastically improve the drought resistance of corn plants, making it a game-changer in Brazilian agriculture
2 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Environment
Neither half-full nor half-empty, glass is overflowing or bone dry in the Amazon
While experts warn of a spate of forest fires after low rainfall in Amazonas, the state's main rivers are breaking their banks and flooding cities
2 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Environment
Major Amazon mines contaminate rivers and threaten local population
Polluted rivers on an Amazonian indigenous reserve have been linked to major tin miner Taboca, which denies any responsibility for dam leaks
3 weeks ago • Renato Alves
Environment
Are Brazilian cities prepared for climate change?
Brazil is set to experience dramatic and disastrous changes in the future, whether it likes it or not
3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Latin America
Castillo leads in Peru, but will he be able to govern?
Peru has been marred in a never-ending loop of political crises, with weak presidents and a trigger-happy Congress
2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Ortega ramps up authoritarianism in Nicaragua
Charges against journalists and opposition leaders are part of the Ortega playbook to tip the scales ahead of November’s presidential election
2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
National football shirt at the center of political disputes in Peru
As has become the case in Brazil, the Peruvian national football team jersey has become a symbol of the country's right-wing movement
3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Copa America in Brazil sparks flurry of outrage
Critics claim the tournament would pose a massive health hazard to the country
3 weeks ago • Euan Marshall and Lucas Berti
Latin America
Copa America shrouded with uncertainty amid pandemic surge
Copa America has already lost one of its two hosting nations to protests. It could lose the other to a new Covid-19 surge
3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Opinion
Impunity is the norm amid Brazil’s epidemic of police killings
The death of pregnant 24-year-old Kathlen Romeu in Rio de Janeiro sparked public outcry, but people being killed at the hands of the police is worryingly common in Brazil — and often goes unpunished
5 days ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Bolsonaro’s Armed Forces meddling ushers ghosts from Brazil’s past
The president interfered with the military to save a former cabinet member. Brazilian history shows this can lead to drastic consequences
1 week ago • Andre Pagliarini
Opinion
Army ruling opens dangerous precedent ahead of 2022 race
General Eduardo Pazuello broke military rules by taking part in a pro-Bolsonaro rally — but escaped punishment. The ramifications could be severe for Brazilian democracy
2 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
Opinion
Rising U.S. inflation a cause of concern for Brazilian markets
Brazil's stock exchange has broken records due to a weaker currency. But concerns in the U.S. could lead to extreme capital flight and the further devaluation of the Brazilian Real
2 weeks ago • Marco Harbich
Opinion
Tabata Amaral and the weakening of Brazilian political parties
Congresswoman Amaral was granted the right to leave her party without losing her term. The court decision opens a dangerous precedent for Brazilian democracy, as political parties become less and less powerful
3 weeks ago • Beatriz Rey
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
1 month 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
2 months 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 months 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
3 months 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
5 months ago • Lucas Berti
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
4 weeks 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
1 month ago • Euan Marshall
Guide to Brazil
The real story behind Portugal’s “discovery” of Brazil
School books will tell you that Brazil was discovered by Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500. Records show the country had visited the new land years before
2 months ago • Renato Alves
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 months 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
4 months ago • Iure Pontes Vieira
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