LatAm Report

Dec 12, 2025

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13 min read

💧 Water debts and dollar loans

The latest strife between Mexico and the US comes from a 1944 water-sharing agreement. And the hype around Argentina’s return to bond markets under Javier Milei.

Latest

Dec 12, 2025

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13 min read

💧 Water debts and dollar loans

The latest strife between Mexico and the US comes from a 1944 water-sharing agreement. And the hype around Argentina’s return to bond markets under Javier Milei.

Dec 12, 2025

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16 min read

🤖📝 Lula’s AI bill

The Brazilian government’s proposal for regulating AI. New tariffs for Brazil: this time from Mexico. One-third of Rio is under criminal control.

Dec 11, 2025

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14 min read

💣 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.

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Brazil Daily

Concise, insightful briefings on Brazil’s top developments

Brazil Daily

Dec 11, 2025

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16 min read

📖 Between the Central Bank’s lines

The Central Bank’s latest interest rate decision came as no surprise. As talk of reducing Bolsonaro’s sentence gains steam, Congress tests the government. Millions lose power in São Paulo.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Dec 10, 2025

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18 min read

👊 Political hooliganism works

The House speaker used security officers against journalists and a lawmaker, while the Senate passed legislation that directly contradicts Supreme Court precedent.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Dec 9, 2025

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17 min read

👵 Pensions tension

Brazilians are living longer. But what does that mean for pensions? One Supreme Court justice’s crusade against opaque earmarks Brazil celebrates historic HIV-AIDS results.

Gustavo Ribeiro, Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 8, 2025

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15 min read

☝ The chosen one

Jair Bolsonaro picks his heir. Or does he? Lula’s standing after three years in office. Influential people in Brasília are less concerned.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Amazon COP30

A curated breakdown of the key moments and must-see perspectives from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) hosted in Brazil.

COP30

🎙️ Podcast: Good COP? Bad COP?

Carlos Nobre, head of the Planetary Science Pavilion at COP30 in the Amazon, talks to us about the conference’s results, the climate emergency we are living through, and what Brazil can still do.

COP30

💭 Final COP thoughts

Rounding off our COP30 coverage, this week’s Brazil Climate newsletter invited more guest contributors to give their first-hand takes on the UN conference in Belém.

COP30

🔥 COP30 catches fire

COP30 venue catches fire, causing interruptions to major negotiations. Brazil updates key national security documents. Supreme Court convicts military special forces for Lula assassination plot.

COP30

🌿 COP30 from the ground

With COP30 coming to a close in Belém, we decided to reach out to an expert on the ground, to give us a first-hand account of the conference.

LatAm Report

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

LatAm Report

Dec 12, 2025

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13 min read

💧 Water debts and dollar loans

The latest strife between Mexico and the US comes from a 1944 water-sharing agreement. And the hype around Argentina’s return to bond markets under Javier Milei.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Dec 9, 2025

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11 min read

💉 Vaccinations drop in Milei’s Argentina

Eradicated diseases are making a worrying comeback in the Southern Cone. And Mexico’s university aimed at preserving indigenous languages.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Dec 5, 2025

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11 min read

✋ Trump resisted, Tito doubted

Opposition to an attack on Venezuela is stronger in the US than in Latin America. And the latest from Honduras’ disputed presidential election.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Dec 2, 2025

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12 min read

😓 Technically tied in Honduras

A chaotic Honduran election is yet to have a clear winner. Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum sees her first signs of trouble after a year-long honeymoon.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Brazil Business

Your essential guide to the largest economy in Latin America.

Brazil Business

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

Nov 26, 2025

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10 min read

🚢 Taking stock of a trade shock

The US has exempted various products since first imposing steep tariffs on Brazilian goods in August, but the impact on trade could be as much as USD 3 billion a year.

Letícia Arcoverde

Nov 19, 2025

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10 min read

💸 Chronic tax debtors

Large-scale investigations into organized crime’s money-laundering schemes gave momentum to a bill targeting companies that use tax delinquency as a business strategy.

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Climate

Updates on Brazil's environmental impact

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 Climate

💭 Final COP thoughts

Rounding off our COP30 coverage, this week’s Brazil Climate newsletter invited more guest contributors to give their first-hand takes on the UN conference in Belém.

Brazil Climate

🌿 COP30 from the ground

With COP30 coming to a close in Belém, we decided to reach out to an expert on the ground, to give us a first-hand account of the conference.

Brazil Agro

For all things agriculture

Brazil Agro

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

Nov 24, 2025

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9 min read

🐔 The EU’s U-turn on Brazilian poultry

After a seven-year suspension, Brazilian poultry will return to a pre-listing system that streamlines exports to the European Union.

Letícia Arcoverde

Nov 17, 2025

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9 min read

☔ Sowing risk

Despite its major farming sector, Brazil’s agricultural insurance market never fully developed, and crop coverage is at an all-time low.

Letícia Arcoverde

💧 Water debts and dollar loans

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

LatAm Report

🤖📝 Lula’s AI bill

Gustavo Ribeiro

💣 Blowing up a river?

Euan Marshall

Brazil Climate

📖 Between the Central Bank’s lines

Gustavo Ribeiro

Brazil Daily

💰 Front-loading profits

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🎙️ Podcast: What needs repair in Brazil's public sector machine?

Euan Marshall, Isabela Cruz

Podcast

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

🏆 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.

Brazil Sports

🦁 Mirassol: the roar of the Countryside Lions

This week, we look at the remarkable story of Mirassol, the tiny football club that is hitting the heights in Brazil.

Brazil Sports

🥋 Taekwon-dominance

Two golds and two silvers at the World Championships in Wuxi showcased the strength of Brazil’s young taekwondo talent — and its ambition for Los Angeles 2028.

Guide to Brazil

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

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.

Guide to Brazil

🪶 One indigenous chorus

The indigenous coordination seen at the COP30 is the result of a process that began in the 1970s — always driven by traditional communities’ fight for land rights.

Guide to Brazil

♻️ Coming full circle?

In 1992, Brazil hosted the United Nations conference that set the foundation for today’s entire global climate agenda. Now, COP30 aims to implement what has been agreed upon since then.