LatAm Report

Aug 29, 2025

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4 min read

🗡️ Coke and dagger

Is Nicolás Maduro heading a drug trafficking organization, as the Trump administration claims? And Bolivia’s courts shift right in the post-MAS era.

Latest

Aug 29, 2025

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4 min read

🗡️ Coke and dagger

Is Nicolás Maduro heading a drug trafficking organization, as the Trump administration claims? And Bolivia’s courts shift right in the post-MAS era.

Aug 29, 2025

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3 min read

🔫 Bringing a gun to a gunfight

Brazil looks to put its ‘Reciprocity Law’ into action. Yesterday’s organized crime raids reflected terribly on Brazil’s Wall Street. Why a census update is not quite all it’s cracked up to be.

Aug 28, 2025

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4 min read

⛏️ After the raids, before the returns

Federal crackdowns may drive out illegal miners, but without state support, indigenous peoples face renewed invasions — and the lure of fast cash continues to divide communities.

Aug 28, 2025

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4 min read

👔 Organized crime is going corporate

Police try to dismantle a massive illegal network entangling organized crime and the fuel sector. H&M lands in Brazil, launching in a São Paulo shopping mall. Brazil lays out its plans for the next generation of broadcast television.

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Brazil Daily

Concise, insightful briefings on Brazil’s top developments

Brazil Daily

Aug 29, 2025

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3 min read

🔫 Bringing a gun to a gunfight

Gustavo Ribeiro, Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 28, 2025

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4 min read

👔 Organized crime is going corporate

Gustavo Ribeiro, Isabela Cruz, Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 27, 2025

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4 min read

🧢 Trump’s new terms and conditions

Lula’s Big Tech push could draw further ire from Trump. Bolsonaro will be put under round-the-clock surveillance. Brazil’s regulatory agencies are on their knees amid a budget crunch.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Aug 26, 2025

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4 min read

🇲🇽🇨🇦 Seeking new partners

Mexico and Canada could become Brazil’s trade cushions amid tariffs. Regional cooperation is always at a premium in Latin America. Congress begins its pension fraud inquiry today.

Gustavo Ribeiro, Lucas Berti

Bolsonaro Trial

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

Bolsonaro Trial

📽️ Bolsonaro Trial: videos

A curated breakdown of the key moments and must-see perspectives from the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro — accused of plotting a coup to stay in power

Bolsonaro Trial

🏠 Bolsonaro under house arrest

Supreme Court places Bolsonaro under house arrest. A timeline of the Bolsonaro case: from the January 8 riots to now. BP strikes oil in the pre-salt layer.

Bolsonaro Trial

🚨 Bolsonaro deemed a flight risk

Bolsonaro to wear an ankle monitor — while the Lula-Trump feud rages on. The latest debt forecasts from the National Treasury make for grim reading. Ibama and Petrobras open the latest chapter in their tense relationship

Bolsonaro Trial

Brazil puts Bolsonaro on trial #InsiderTalks

For our latest edition of #InsiderTalks, we’ve invited experts on law, democracy and electoral trends to analyze the trial of Bolsonaro and his allies for an alleged coup plot.

Brazil Business

Your essential guide to the largest economy in Latin America.

Brazil Business

Aug 27, 2025

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4 min read

⛏️ Nickel deal

Chinese miner MMG recently purchased Anglo American’s nickel mines in Brazil — a deal being thrust into a larger geopolitical dispute over critical minerals.

Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 20, 2025

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3 min read

🔍 Securities scrutiny

As Brazil’s markets grow and diversify, the underfunded CVM faces staff shortages, budget gaps and pressure for sweeping reform.

Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 13, 2025

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4 min read

💾 Public data going private

Paraná is moving to privatize its state-owned IT company. Privacy watchdogs say the plan risks exposing sensitive information.

Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 6, 2025

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5 min read

💰 Investment backlash

The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment in Brazil. Will a trade crisis between the two countries affect this longstanding history?

Letícia Arcoverde

LatAm Report

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

LatAm Report

Aug 29, 2025

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4 min read

🗡️ Coke and dagger

Is Nicolás Maduro heading a drug trafficking organization, as the Trump administration claims? And Bolivia’s courts shift right in the post-MAS era.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Aug 26, 2025

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4 min read

🚁 Normalizing drone warfare

The growing presence of unmanned aerial vehicles in regional conflicts. And the Colombian Amazon is at risk due to oil and gas advancements.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Aug 22, 2025

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3 min read

🪤 Gotta catch ‘em all!

Peru is sending all of its former presidents to jail. And Javier Milei’s economy is showing signs of stress in Argentina.

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

Aug 19, 2025

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4 min read

🥀 The end of an era

Bolivia’s vote ends two decades of hegemony for the ruling left-wing MAS party. And foreign investment stagnates in Latin America.

Lucas Berti, Gabriel Terra

Brazil Climate

Updates on Brazil's environmental impact

Brazil Climate

⛏️ After the raids, before the returns

Federal crackdowns may drive out illegal miners, but without state support, indigenous peoples face renewed invasions — and the lure of fast cash continues to divide communities.

Brazil Climate

🩸 Blood on the land

The 2024 murder of Pataxó leader Nega Pataxó underscores how the controversial time frame law and the rise of alleged landowner militias are fueling a surge in rural bloodshed.

Brazil Climate

✒️ Lula tames ‘Devastation Bill’

Despite making a raft of vetoes to the controversial ‘Devastation Bill,’ one risky concession from President Lula is set to considerably weaken Brazil’s environmental licensing framework.

Brazil Climate

🔫 Red Command, green hell

Drug gangs have seized control over large swaths of the Brazilian rainforest.

Brazil Agro

For all things agriculture

Brazil Agro

Aug 25, 2025

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4 min read

🌾 Return of the soybean wars

As China bolsters soybean imports from Brazil, US farmers claim tariff disputes are hurting their business. Plus, antitrust watchdog CADE halts the Soy Moratorium.

Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 18, 2025

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3 min read

🍔 A beefed-up merger

Two of Brazil’s largest meat producers, BRF and Marfrig, are close to a merger that will further consolidate the country’s protein market.

Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 11, 2025

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4 min read

🤔 Agro in a bind

The agribusiness sector has long supported far-right politics in Brazil. But now it is taking a tariff hit motivated by former President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to evade a criminal conviction.

Letícia Arcoverde

Aug 4, 2025

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4 min read

🌍 Seeds of influence

In a bid to deepen its strategic ties, Brazil is striking new deals to export its agricultural know-how to African nations.

Sophia Santos-Pearcy

🗡️ Coke and dagger

Ignacio Portes, Lucas Berti

LatAm Report

🔫 Bringing a gun to a gunfight

Gustavo Ribeiro, Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Daily

⛏️ After the raids, before the returns

Euan Marshall, Gabriel Terra

Brazil Climate

👔 Organized crime is going corporate

Gustavo Ribeiro, Isabela Cruz, Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Daily

⛏️ Nickel deal

Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🧢 Trump’s new terms and conditions

Gustavo Ribeiro

Brazil Daily

Brazil Sports

More than scores.

Brazil Sports

🏄 Brazilian Storm or hurricane?

If Yago Dora wins just one heat of this week’s WSL finals, he will seal Brazil’s eighth men’s surfing world championship in 11 years.

Brazil Sports

🤔 Does Brazil actually like football?

A major study on Brazilian football fan preferences and behaviors gives fascinating insight about supporters of the beautiful game in the “land of football.”

Brazil Sports

🏇 Saddled with debt

A symbol of elite tradition, Brazil’s jockey clubs are mired in debt and risk losing prime real estate.

Brazil Sports

🏆 Brazil’s indigenous champions league

Brazil has launched its first indigenous-only sports tournament, backed by top officials. Organizers hope it’s more than just a game: they want lasting inclusion where past efforts fell short.

Guide to Brazil

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

Guide to Brazil

🪖 Trump targeting the troops

Fraying military ties with the United States could bring Brazil’s Armed Forces back to the center of politics — and that’s a problem.

Guide to Brazil

🪤 Brazil and the middle-income trap

Brazil has been an upper-middle income country for almost 20 years. Why can’t it take the next step?

Guide to Brazil

🎖️ A Confederate legacy in Brazil

After the American Civil War, some Southerners sought to preserve slavery abroad — and found Brazil.

Guide to Brazil

🤳 Favela creator economy

A wave of digital influencers hailing from Brazilian favelas is connecting brands to low-income neighborhoods.