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Brazil Climate
Oct 29, 2026
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The strongest El Niño on record is drowning Brazil’s south and baking its north, right as the soy goes into the ground.
Brazil Business
Oct 28, 2026
6 min read
The Shell-Cosan joint venture wants to fire its board, cut capital, and split in two. A hedge fund manager raised its stake days before the vote.
Oct 27, 2026
Lula wins. Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede, markets tumble, and the police seize his passport.
Brazil's 2026 Elections
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'Cultural Janonism' helped Lula win Brazil's runoff. The left abroad wants the recipe, but it may travel badly.
Brazil Agro
Oct 26, 2026
Brazil’s wheat crop is collapsing after weeks of rain, yet bids keep falling.
Brazil Society
Oct 25, 2026
8 min read
Here is what to watch tonight, and what each candidate would do with the country.
Brazil Sports
Oct 24, 2026
A thinner squad and a fraction of the budget took Estudiantes past Flamengo and into a Copa Libertadores final with Palmeiras.
Oct 23, 2026
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The Army called off the Oct. 27 signing without explanation, a day after Avibras’s role in the deal was reported. Its new owners, the Batista brothers, had taken control 12 days earlier.
Oct 22, 2026
Forest clearing in Brazil's Amazon fell 71% from 2022 levels. One economist values the climate dividend at BRL 1.16 trillion.
Oct 20, 2026
Lula's campaign says Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are muffling the left days before the October 25 vote. Meta blames glitches.
Oct 19, 2026
The final days of the presidential campaign. The first debate between the two remaining candidates. A plethora of investigations.
Price surveys show Brazilian farmland values holding up despite high interest rates. Deal flow tells a different story.
Oct 17, 2026
A 21-year-old from Recife won a test-track shootout for Esteban Ocon's seat and will be the first driver from Brazil's Northeast to race in the category
Oct 16, 2026
Embraer paid about BRL 27,000 for control of a Mahindra-created firm with no revenue. The real target is the Indian Air Force's medium transport aircraft tender.
Oct 15, 2026
Fire hotspots in Amazonas have more than tripled from last year, and federal officials say most were lit on purpose.
Oct 14, 2026
Five months into the Mercosur-EU trade agreement, Brazilian sales to the European Union are booming. Much of the growth came from goods Europe never taxed, while the sectors the deal was built for are stalling or blocked.
Brazil Tech
Oct 13, 2026
The São Paulo chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association wants a federal court to rein in Enter, a legal-tech startup. The case may decide how far AI can go inside Brazil's overloaded courts.
Oct 12, 2026
Lula tries to stage a comeback. The electoral court under suspicion. Flávio set to skip debates.
IBGE now counts the oilseed in its official crop survey. Shipments have more than tripled in two years on Chinese demand, but prices are sliding.
Oct 10, 2026
Brazil's most popular football club has licensed its brand to a payroll-loan platform as delinquency on private-sector payroll credit hits a record high.
Oct 9, 2026
The maiden flight of a Gripen E assembled in São Paulo state shows a 2014 bet on technology transfer starting to pay off.
Oct 8, 2026
For decades, the Amazon’s danger map had one red zone: the deforestation arc in the south. A new study by 53 scientists just drew a second one.
Oct 7, 2026
Output, sales, and investment plans are falling together, and the machinery makers that industrial policy was meant to revive are faring worse
Oct 6, 2026
Brazil wants a top-10 artificial intelligence machine, built on home soil and free of any single supplier.
Oct 5, 2026
Bolsonaro's allies won decisively on Sunday, taking the lead in the presidential race, a string of governorships and the largest blocs in both houses of Congress.
