Letícia Arcoverde is a journalist based in São Paulo. She has worked as a reporter at Valor Econômico and as an editor at Nexo Jornal.
Brazil Agro
Sep 1, 2025
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4 min read
Brazil’s leading farm states are turning to capital markets to bankroll crops as traditional credit falls short.
Brazil Daily
Aug 29, 2025
3 min read
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
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.
Brazil Business
Aug 27, 2025
Chinese miner MMG recently purchased Anglo American’s nickel mines in Brazil — a deal being thrust into a larger geopolitical dispute over critical minerals.
Aug 25, 2025
As China bolsters soybean imports from Brazil, US farmers claim tariff disputes are hurting their business. Plus, antitrust watchdog CADE halts the Soy Moratorium.
Aug 21, 2025
Feds find a draft request for asylum in Argentina on Bolsonaro’s phone. Brazilian companies are focusing more on lobbying in the US. The opposition is left in charge of a potentially painful inquiry in Congress.
Aug 20, 2025
As Brazil’s markets grow and diversify, the underfunded CVM faces staff shortages, budget gaps and pressure for sweeping reform.
Aug 18, 2025
Two of Brazil’s largest meat producers, BRF and Marfrig, are close to a merger that will further consolidate the country’s protein market.
Aug 14, 2025
Brazil’s plan to respond to Trump. The US tariffs are set to have long-term implications on Brazilian exports. Washington is now going after Brazil’s Cuban doctors program.
Aug 13, 2025
Paraná is moving to privatize its state-owned IT company. Privacy watchdogs say the plan risks exposing sensitive information.
Aug 11, 2025
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.
Aug 8, 2025
Pro-Bolsonaro mutiny reveals deep rifts in Congress. Calls grow to impeach US-sanctioned Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The inflation bite reaches wealthy Brazilians.
Aug 6, 2025
5 min read
The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment in Brazil. Will a trade crisis between the two countries affect this longstanding history?
Guide to Brazil
Aug 3, 2025
A wave of digital influencers hailing from Brazilian favelas is connecting brands to low-income neighborhoods.
Jul 31, 2025
Trump confirms 50% tariffs, but with exceptions. US sanctions a Brazilian Supreme Court justice. Is Trump forcing a Brazilian alignment with China?
Jul 30, 2025
As the US prepares steep tariffs on Brazilian goods, we explore what’s at stake. Plus, the fresh US sanctions on a Supreme Court justice.
Jul 28, 2025
A wave of startups is reshaping how farmers access credit, a financial segment that public banks have long dominated with subsidized loans
Jul 23, 2025
Political and trade disputes with the US could renew the Brazilian government’s push to launch a new tax for Big Tech companies.
Jul 21, 2025
Brazilian organic agricultural production has grown 150% since 2013, but it is still far from fulfilling the country’s potential.
Jul 16, 2025
Brazilian planemaker Embraer could see a hit rivaling its Covid downturn if the US follows through with 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports, its CEO warns
Jul 14, 2025
Trump’s new tariffs could deliver a huge blow to some key segments of agriculture, the one sector in which Brazil actually has a surplus with the US.
Jul 9, 2025
New regulations will make Brazilian capital markets more accessible to small and mid-size companies, encouraging more equity offerings and debt issuances for businesses in earlier stages of growth.
Jul 4, 2025
At long last, the Workers’ Party adopts a more social media-savvy communications strategy. The Brazilian real was a major currency success story in the first half of this year.
Jul 3, 2025
Who are receiving Brazil’s “supersalaries”? Brazil takes over the presidency of Mercosur. And Uruguay seeks to revisit old border disputes
Jul 2, 2025
Simplifying Brazil’s highly complex tax system will demand major technological adaptation from the government and companies, in a process that will need to be accomplished while legislators are still working out the new framework’s rules.
