LatAm Report

Dec 26, 2025

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6 min read

📜 US-LatAm treaties that shaped history

From the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to NAFTA, five agreements that marked the history of US relations with Latin America.

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Dec 26, 2025

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6 min read

📜 US-LatAm treaties that shaped history

From the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to NAFTA, five agreements that marked the history of US relations with Latin America.

Dec 25, 2025

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8 min read

🫐 From superfood to superfuel

Once an environmental liability, açaí waste is being turned into biomass fuel and construction material — cutting emissions in one of the world’s hardest-to-clean industries.

Dec 24, 2025

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7 min read

🚛 From highways to courtrooms

A 2018 law imposing a minimum freight rate for truck drivers is only now approaching full enforcement through increased oversight. But industry groups want the rules to be reviewed.

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Brazil Daily

Concise, insightful briefings on Brazil’s top developments

Brazil Daily

Dec 19, 2025

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17 min read

🚨 Back-to-back raids

Raids in Congress over embezzlement cases. Another delay for the EU-Mercosur deal. Calls for a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices.

Gustavo Ribeiro, Isabela Cruz

Dec 18, 2025

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13 min read

🤯 EU-ltimatum

Lula makes a final push for the EU-Mercosur deal. Bolsonaro sentence-reduction bill makes its way through the Senate. Ozempic’s Brazil patent is running out.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Dec 17, 2025

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18 min read

🙄 It’s not me, it’s EU

Yet another bump in the road for the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Lula and Bolsonaro are both happy with the latest polling. One more step toward tax reform.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Dec 16, 2025

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14 min read

🔮 What lawmakers think

Is Congress warming up to the idea of a Lula re-election win? Braskem could be in for an ownership change. Natural gas producers want their energy to be considered green.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Mercosur-EU

A curated breakdown of the key developments, negotiations and perspectives shaping the Mercosur-EU relationship

Mercosur-EU

🤑 Follow the pork

Budget earmarks probe closes in on former speaker Lira. The Bolsonaros lose their Trump card. We speak to the French ambassador in Brazil.

Mercosur-EU

🦶 Bolsonaro arrested after violating ankle monitor

Jair Bolsonaro was arrested after trying to remove his ankle monitor. Brazil celebrates more US tariff cuts. Final COP30 decision viewed as a dud.

Mercosur-EU

🚫 Too big to bail

The Central Bank vetoes the BRB-Banco Master deal. The latest from the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. The Bolsonaro trial completes its second day.

Mercosur-EU

🏷️ Terrorist label?

A bill on terrorism poses a law-and-order test for President Lula. The EU and Mercosur continue their will-they-won’t-they relationship. An intra-BRICS payment system could be ready in September.

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LatAm Report

A twice-weekly look into Latin America’s evolving landscape

LatAm Report

Dec 26, 2025

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6 min read

📜 US-LatAm treaties that shaped history

From the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to NAFTA, five agreements that marked the history of US relations with Latin America.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Dec 23, 2025

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11 min read

🗓️ 25 years, 25 events

The 25 events that marked Latin America in the first quarter of this century, from Peru’s Alberto Fujimori fleeing to Japan to Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro’s fraudulent re-election.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Dec 19, 2025

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11 min read

📜 The Don-roe Doctrine

Trump’s National Security Strategy sees Latin America as a buffer zone to protect US interests. And rhetoric for military escalation in Venezuela shifts from drugs to oil.

Gustavo Ribeiro, Ignacio Portes

Dec 16, 2025

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13 min read

🤔 What to expect from Kast in Chile

José Antonio Kast will be the most right-wing president in Chile’s recent history, but he is also a career politician in a relatively stable country, two big differences with Milei and Bolsonaro.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Brazil Business

Your essential guide to the largest economy in Latin America.

Brazil Business

Dec 24, 2025

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7 min read

🚛 From highways to courtrooms

A 2018 law imposing a minimum freight rate for truck drivers is only now approaching full enforcement through increased oversight. But industry groups want the rules to be reviewed.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 17, 2025

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10 min read

🔕 Off the market

Amid an IPO dry spell, the São Paulo stock exchange has seen a steady decline in the number of listed firms.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 10, 2025

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9 min read

💰 Front-loading profits

Brazilian companies are rushing out shareholder dividend payouts in an attempt to avoid the rules of a soon-to-be-enforced income tax reform.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 3, 2025

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9 min read

📦 Brazil’s warehouse race

The continued growth of e-commerce in Brazil is fueling a race for warehouses, pitting Latin America’s Mercado Livre against Asia’s Shopee.

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Climate

Updates on Brazil's environmental impact

Brazil Climate

🫐 From superfood to superfuel

Once an environmental liability, açaí waste is being turned into biomass fuel and construction material — cutting emissions in one of the world’s hardest-to-clean industries.

Brazil Climate

🌍🌡️ What are EU talking about?

European opposition to the EU-Mercosur trade deal has been declared in environmental terms, but are the arguments valid? Or do they stray into protectionism?

Brazil Climate

💣 Blowing up a river?

Plans to privatize parts of crucial Amazon tributaries could bring logistics gains, but also involve exploding a riverbed rock formation and casting the livelihoods of local communities into doubt.

Brazil Climate

🥾 On the path to conservation

Launched at COP30, the Amazon Atlantic Trail is the largest continuously signaled trail in Latin America — and could serve as a conservation blueprint for other threatened regions.

Brazil Agro

For all things agriculture

Brazil Agro

Dec 22, 2025

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7 min read

🌎 Expanding markets

The Brazilian government has accessed over 500 new agricultural markets in the past three years, in an attempt to diversify its export mix beyond soybeans and China.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 15, 2025

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9 min read

🚬 Up in smoke

With smoking rates going down and e-cigarettes encroaching, Brazil launches a new program for tobacco farmers seeking to leave the sector.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 8, 2025

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10 min read

🥩 China’s got beef

China is extending its sweeping review of beef imports, which could be bad news for producers in Brazil.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 1, 2025

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9 min read

🫏 Donkey trade

Once a staple of simple rural life, Brazilian donkeys are being slaughtered to feed an international market.

Letícia Arcoverde

📜 US-LatAm treaties that shaped history

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

LatAm Report

🫐 From superfood to superfuel

Euan Marshall

Brazil Climate

🚛 From highways to courtrooms

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🗓️ 25 years, 25 events

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

LatAm Report

🌎 Expanding markets

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🇪🇺 Failure loop

Gustavo Ribeiro

Guide to Brazil

Bolsonaro Trial

A curated breakdown of the key moments and must-see perspectives from the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro

Bolsonaro Trial

🪖 Untouchables no more

Bolsonaro and co-conspirators begin serving their prison sentences as the coup trial ends. The Lula government has fallen out with Congress, again. Projections for Black Friday leave retailers giddy.

Bolsonaro Trial

🦶 Bolsonaro arrested after violating ankle monitor

Jair Bolsonaro was arrested after trying to remove his ankle monitor. Brazil celebrates more US tariff cuts. Final COP30 decision viewed as a dud.

Bolsonaro Trial

⌛ Bolsonaro’s final countdown

Bolsonaro submits last appeal before coup conviction becomes final. More questions around a major data center project in Brazil’s Northeast. MBRF’s major halal meat deal.

Bolsonaro Trial

⚖️ Another coup trial

The next wave of coup trials. Brazil experiences a brief power outage. In Brasília, Lula’s next Supreme Court pick is the hot topic.

Brazil Sports

More than scores.

Brazil Sports

⛷️ No snow, no problem

After decades of fighting just to take part in the Winter Olympics, Brazil’s team is now going into Milan-Cortina with a genuine shot at a medal.

Brazil Sports

💰 Pay your dues, or else

Brazilian football will be governed by new financial fair play rules as of next season. We look into what changes should be expected.

Brazil Sports

🏆 Brazil’s World Cup group

The Brazilian national team has been drawn into Group C of the 2026 World Cup, facing Morocco, Scotland and Haiti.

Brazil Sports

🏆 The biggest Brazilian match ever?

Tonight’s Copa Libertadores final between Palmeiras and Flamengo has been billed as the biggest match between two Brazilian clubs in history, at least in the post-Pelé era.

Guide to Brazil

Go beyond the surface and dive into Brazilian culture, news and societal trends.

Guide to Brazil

🇪🇺 Failure loop

Thursday’s last-minute Italian reversal resulted in yet another delay to the trade deal between the two blocs, with January cited as the new deadline.

Guide to Brazil

🎥 Oscar odds on

Acclaimed by critics, the Brazilian period thriller ‘The Secret Agent’ shows that where the rule of law collapses, authoritarianism seeps into social relationships at every level.

Guide to Brazil

⚖️ Brazil's ‘judiciarism’

Under the 1988 Constitution, the Supreme Court has the final say on whether a law is constitutional — but even this model’s defenders have spent a century debating its boundaries.

Guide to Brazil

👉 Brazil’s Bolsonaro-based right

Ashamed after the military dictatorship, Brazil’s self-proclaimed right wing came out into the open just over a decade ago. Now, its most popular leader is behind bars.