Podcast: Steel, drought and neopentecostalism

How Trump’s steel tariffs are expected to affect Brazil. A year after historic floods, Rio Grande do Sul now suffers from drought. And how Brazil’s evangelical shift is changing national politics

Podcast: Trade wars, health alerts and oil

As Trump's trade threats reshape global commerce, Brazil grapples with a mounting yellow fever outbreak ahead of Carnival. Meanwhile, controversial Amazon oil drilling plans gain momentum under new Senate leadership, testing the country's environmental commitments.

Explaining Brazil #320: Brazil's Congress elects new leaders

The upcoming elections for the leadership positions in Congress and how they will affect Brazil’s political landscape, the tensions between the Lula administration and the far right, as well as how the new congressional outlook will affect landmark projects such as the tax reform

Explaining Brazil #319: Delaying the EUDR?

The EU had approved a law demanding that products exported to the bloc would have to prove they are deforestation-free. After much adaptation and preparation, the implementation of that law has been delayed for an extra year, benefiting Brazilian commodity exporters

Explaining Brazil #318: Lula in a currency chokehold

Explaining Brazil #317: The tax reform gridlock

Explaining Brazil #316: Taking stock of the G20 Summit in Rio

The Amazon at war

In this To Be Read episode, journalist @Marcos Colón talks to @Isabela Cruz about the existential crisis that criminals, multinationals and the state have imposed on the Amazon and its people, and what can be done in this fight for life.

Explaining Brazil #315: How the U.S. election influences Latin America

Explaining Brazil #314: A Brazilian MAGA?

Explaining Brazil #312: Brazil has a gambling problem

Explaining Brazil #309: Musk flinches in X standoff