LatAm Report

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

Jan 16, 2026

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11 min read

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

Two weeks before its election, Costa Rica said an activist hired a hitman to kill Rodrigo Chaves. And Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates a big drop in homicides in Mexico.

Latest

Jan 16, 2026

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11 min read

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

Two weeks before its election, Costa Rica said an activist hired a hitman to kill Rodrigo Chaves. And Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates a big drop in homicides in Mexico.

Jan 16, 2026

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3 min read

🎙️ Podcast: What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations?

A diplomat and a reporter explore the history of bilateral relations and regional geopolitics — and the weight of oil in those political calculations.

Jan 16, 2026

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14 min read

🪜 Brazil’s complicated income ladder

The “middle class” in Brazil has never been bigger. How celebrity gossip accounts could have an influence on the election. Bolsonaro’s new prison cell.

Jan 15, 2026

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12 min read

⚖️ Belo Monte: a river divided

The massive Belo Monte hydroelectric plant is the site of a battle between national energy demands and local ways of life.

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Brazil Daily

Concise, insightful briefings on Brazil’s top developments

Brazil Daily

Jan 16, 2026

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14 min read

🪜 Brazil’s complicated income ladder

The “middle class” in Brazil has never been bigger. How celebrity gossip accounts could have an influence on the election. Bolsonaro’s new prison cell.

Gustavo Ribeiro, Letícia Arcoverde

Jan 15, 2026

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19 min read

🤯 Master minds

More twists in the Banco Master tale. A new Quaest poll gives Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro food for thought. Questions surround the brief visit of a Chinese hospital ship.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Jan 14, 2026

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16 min read

👨‍👦 Nepo daddy

The House speaker wants a back scratch from the president. A mining cooperation deal with Saudi Arabia. Brazil donates military equipment to neighbors.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Jan 13, 2026

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15 min read

🤨 Family ties

The questions around a Supreme Court justice in the Banco Master case. The contradictions of Brazil’s silence on Iran. Feds carry out more raids in budgetary grant investigations.

Gustavo Ribeiro, Isabela Cruz

Mercosur-EU

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

Mercosur-EU

🇪🇺 EU agreement is a big deal for Brazil

How the EU-Mercosur deal will affect economies on either side of the Atlantic. Lula savors his inflation victory. “The Secret Agent” makes Golden Globes history.

Mercosur-EU

🇪🇺 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.

Mercosur-EU

🚨 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.

Mercosur-EU

🌍🌡️ 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?

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LatAm Report

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

LatAm Report

Jan 16, 2026

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11 min read

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

Two weeks before its election, Costa Rica said an activist hired a hitman to kill Rodrigo Chaves. And Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates a big drop in homicides in Mexico.

Ignacio Portes

Jan 13, 2026

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11 min read

♟️ Is Cuba next?

The capture of Nicolás Maduro has set alarm bells ringing in Havana. And a look at Diosdado Cabello, the enforcer at odds with new Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez.

Ignacio Portes, Jorge C. Carrasco

Jan 9, 2026

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14 min read

🛢️ Petro-wars and Petro’s peace

US oil plans in Venezuela face a conflictive history and huge investment needs. And Trump signals a détente with Colombia’s Gustavo Petro.

Ignacio Portes, Jorge C. Carrasco

Jan 6, 2026

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14 min read

🪖 Maduro’s ousting is not like Noriega’s

Why has Trump replaced one hardline Chavista for another? And concern about US interventionism spreads regionally after the attack on Venezuela.

Ignacio Portes

Brazil Business

Your essential guide to the largest economy in Latin America.

Brazil Business

🔮 The 6 issues that will shape Brazil’s economy in 2026

Jan 14, 2026

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13 min read

🔮 The 6 issues that will shape Brazil’s economy in 2026

General elections, tax reform, cabinet changes, interest rates — here is what will shape the Brazilian economy in 2026.

Letícia Arcoverde

Jan 7, 2026

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11 min read

🚩 A region at risk?

The US military action in Venezuela heightens the need to monitor geopolitical risk as a key factor when doing business in Latin America and Brazil.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 31, 2025

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7 min read

🛍️ Luxury squeeze

Brazilian streets known for luxury retail saw some of the strongest rental price rises in the world, but most of the boost came from real estate development and the corporate office market.

Letícia Arcoverde

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

Brazil Climate

Updates on Brazil's environmental impact

Brazil Climate

⚖️ Belo Monte: a river divided

The massive Belo Monte hydroelectric plant is the site of a battle between national energy demands and local ways of life.

Brazil Climate

😦 Microplastics in the rainforest?

Microplastics appear to be everywhere these days, but a recent finding from Brazilian researchers found these tiny particles in a remote protected area of the Amazon forest.

Brazil Climate

🦜 Birdwatching takes flight in Brazil

Brazil is stereotypically labeled the land of beaches, samba and soccer — when in actual fact, it’s the land of birds.

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 Agro

For all things agriculture

Brazil Agro

Jan 12, 2026

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11 min read

🌾 Say it ain’t soy

After a year of intense pressure from agribusiness and several court disputes, a key Amazon conservation mechanism loses its largest trader member.

Letícia Arcoverde

Jan 5, 2026

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11 min read

🛫 Will SAF take off?

Brazil has developed a steady ethanol market and solid biofuel credentials globally. Now it hopes it can do the same for Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 29, 2025

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7 min read

🥜 Brazilian peanuts

Brazil's peanut output has seen strong growth in past years through exports. Now, farmers want to find the same success with the domestic market.

Letícia Arcoverde

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

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

Ignacio Portes

LatAm Report

🎙️ Podcast: What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations?

Euan Marshall, Isabela Cruz

Podcast

🪜 Brazil’s complicated income ladder

Gustavo Ribeiro, Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Daily

⚖️ Belo Monte: a river divided

Euan Marshall

Brazil Climate

🤯 Master minds

Gustavo Ribeiro

Brazil Daily

🔮 The 6 issues that will shape Brazil’s economy in 2026

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

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

⚽ A turning point for women’s football

A new report highlights the consistent growth of the women’s game in Brazil, but there are structural bottlenecks that are still holding the sport back.

Brazil Sports

🔭 Brazilian sport in 2026

Join us as we look ahead to the major events in Brazilian sport this year, from the World Cup, to gymnastics, to tennis.

Brazil Sports

🏍️ Brazil’s MotoGP comeback

For the first time in decades, Brazil will not only host a MotoGP event but also have a homegrown driver on the grid.

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.

Guide to Brazil

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

Guide to Brazil

🫵 Big Stick energy

Trump’s so-called “Don-roe Doctrine” is not just a repetition of the past, with Venezuela marking the arrival of US big-stick diplomacy in South America.

Guide to Brazil

🗺️ Why Brazil has never broken apart

When Spanish America became independent, it fractured into many countries, while Portuguese America held together as one. We explain why.

Guide to Brazil

🩴 Havaianas’ fashion footprint

Brazil’s iconic rubber flip-flops were the world’s most coveted fashion item in 2025 — yet much of the country’s fashion culture remains to be revealed.

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.

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

Latest

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

🎙️ Podcast: What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations?

🪜 Brazil’s complicated income ladder

⚖️ Belo Monte: a river divided

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Brazil Daily

🪜 Brazil’s complicated income ladder

🤯 Master minds

👨‍👦 Nepo daddy

🤨 Family ties

Mercosur-EU

🇪🇺 EU agreement is a big deal for Brazil

🇪🇺 Failure loop

🚨 Back-to-back raids

🌍🌡️ What are EU talking about?

Podcast

🎙️ Podcast: What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations?

🎙️ Podcast: How Trump’s Venezuela play reshapes South America’s risk map

🎙️ Podcast: Checks and balances turned into vendettas

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

🎙️ Podcast: Good COP? Bad COP?

🎙️ Podcast: Brazil’s Central Bank led a revolution

🎙️ Podcast: Supreme Court to Brazilians: “Follow the money”

🎙️ Podcast: Who will be Brazil's next Supreme Court justice?

🎙️ Podcast: 2026 election. A year away, what do polls say?

🎙️ Podcast: Brazil's tax system fuels income inequality

🎙️ Podcast: Self-serving politics

🎙️ Podcast: The PCC’s sprawling presence in Brazil’s economy

LatAm Report

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

♟️ Is Cuba next?

🛢️ Petro-wars and Petro’s peace

🪖 Maduro’s ousting is not like Noriega’s

Brazil Business

🔮 The 6 issues that will shape Brazil’s economy in 2026

🚩 A region at risk?

🛍️ Luxury squeeze

🚛 From highways to courtrooms

Brazil Climate

⚖️ Belo Monte: a river divided

😦 Microplastics in the rainforest?

🦜 Birdwatching takes flight in Brazil

🫐 From superfood to superfuel

Brazil Agro

🌾 Say it ain’t soy

🛫 Will SAF take off?

🥜 Brazilian peanuts

🌎 Expanding markets

🔪 Another presidential assassination attempt?

🎙️ Podcast: What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations?

🪜 Brazil’s complicated income ladder

⚖️ Belo Monte: a river divided

🤯 Master minds

🔮 The 6 issues that will shape Brazil’s economy in 2026

Bolsonaro Trial

🪖 Untouchables no more

🦶 Bolsonaro arrested after violating ankle monitor

⌛ Bolsonaro’s final countdown

⚖️ Another coup trial

Brazil Sports

⚽ A turning point for women’s football

🔭 Brazilian sport in 2026

🏍️ Brazil’s MotoGP comeback

⛷️ No snow, no problem

Guide to Brazil

🫵 Big Stick energy

🗺️ Why Brazil has never broken apart

🩴 Havaianas’ fashion footprint

🇪🇺 Failure loop