LatAm Report

Jan 2, 2026

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8 min read

🇨🇺 The Cuban Revolution, explained

66 years after Fidel Castro’s armed rebels forced dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile, we look at the history and legacy of a movement that transformed Latin America.

Latest

Jan 2, 2026

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8 min read

🇨🇺 The Cuban Revolution, explained

66 years after Fidel Castro’s armed rebels forced dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile, we look at the history and legacy of a movement that transformed Latin America.

Jan 1, 2026

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8 min read

🦜 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.

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.

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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

Jan 2, 2026

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8 min read

🇨🇺 The Cuban Revolution, explained

66 years after Fidel Castro’s armed rebels forced dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile, we look at the history and legacy of a movement that transformed Latin America.

Lucas Berti

Dec 30, 2025

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5 min read

📚 The genius writer of few books

Before Gabriel García Márquez hit fame, Mexico’s Juan Rulfo was there to inspire him. As the 40th anniversary of his death nears, we look at the life of Pedro Páramo’s author.

Lucas Berti

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

Brazil Business

Your essential guide to the largest economy in Latin America.

Brazil Business

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

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

Brazil Climate

Updates on Brazil's environmental impact

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 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 Agro

For all things agriculture

Brazil Agro

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

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

🇨🇺 The Cuban Revolution, explained

Lucas Berti

LatAm Report

🦜 Birdwatching takes flight in Brazil

Euan Marshall

Brazil Climate

🛍️ Luxury squeeze

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

📚 The genius writer of few books

Lucas Berti

LatAm Report

🥜 Brazilian peanuts

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🩴 Havaianas’ fashion footprint

Isabela Cruz

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

🏍️ 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.

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.

Guide to Brazil

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

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.

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.