Brazil Society

Aug 23, 2026

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7 min read

📚 Grading on a curve

The country's flagship education index rose across the board in August. Look inside the arithmetic and the recovery starts to look thinner.

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Aug 23, 2026

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7 min read

📚 Grading on a curve

The country's flagship education index rose across the board in August. Look inside the arithmetic and the recovery starts to look thinner.

Aug 22, 2026

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6 min read

🎣 Shooting fish in a barrel

Half the quarterfinalists in both the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana are Brazilian. The gap that produced them is financial, legal, and by now self-sustaining.

Aug 21, 2026

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6 min read

💻 War in code

A regional cyber exercise in Brasília, a much larger one in September, and an unusually candid seminar at Army headquarters show how Brazil's generals now define the enemy.

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Brazil Daily

Concise, insightful briefings on Brazil’s top developments

Brazil Daily

Aug 21, 2026

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7 min read

🎙️ Zingers over substance

The first presidential debate of 2026. The first major poll after campaigns officially started.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Aug 20, 2026

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9 min read

✈️ Gol cries foul

Airlines stage antitrust battle. Lula's son continues to be a campaign headache. The rules on social media during the campaign.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Aug 19, 2026

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10 min read

🛢️ A passport to the future?

Petrobras strikes oil, and the political class celebrates. Rio's contested governor's race returns to the Supreme Court. Brazil's oddest election rule.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Aug 18, 2026

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7 min read

🧭 The 'real' election at stake

The presidential race gets all the attention in Brazil. Congress is where power will actually be won or lost.

Gustavo Ribeiro

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 Business

Your essential guide to the largest economy in Latin America.

Brazil Business

Aug 19, 2026

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6 min read

🌊 The little guys are drowning

In June, 9.1 million Brazilian companies were behind on their bills, the most since records began.

The Brazilian Report

Aug 12, 2026

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7 min read

💴 Pix-flavored transactions

Washington treated Pix, Brazil's instant payment system, as a trade barrier. Beijing treated it as a payment rail worth plugging into

The Brazilian Report

Aug 5, 2026

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5 min read

⏳ Punting the port

Tecon 10 in Santos will massively increase the capacity of Latin America's busiest port. It has also become a proxy fight over antitrust doctrine and presidential authority.

The Brazilian Report

Jul 29, 2026

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6 min read

🏭 Old habits die hard

A US tariff shock has Brazil reaching for industrial policy again — the same tool it's used for a century, usually without a deadline attached.

João Caetano Leite

LatAm Report

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

LatAm Report

Jul 10, 2026

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5 min read

💥 Running on fumes

The region's new consensus is more brittle than its map of victories would suggest.

Clara Brum

Jul 7, 2026

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6 min read

🇨🇴 Dropping the torch

A troubled transition in Colombia. No transition in sight for El Salvador.

Gustavo Ribeiro, Clara Brum

Jul 3, 2026

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6 min read

🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇦 Not renewing the vows

Trump disowns the treaty he negotiated during his first term. How the betting craze manifests in Argentina.

Ignacio Portes

Jun 30, 2026

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6 min read

🍀 Fourth time lucky

Peru’s vote count is finally done. And Cuba's new favorite sport.

Jorge C. Carrasco

Brazil Climate

Updates on Brazil's environmental impact

Brazil Climate

🐟 Mariana's long tail

Anomalies turned up in 60.5% of the otoliths sampled at the mouth of the São Mateus River, more than double the previous national high.

Brazil Climate

🌳 Right on paper, gone in practice

Justices upheld the agreement's validity but said a private pact cannot bind state action. But states were also allowed to withhold tax breaks from companies that take part.

Brazil Climate

💦 Flying rivers, drying up

Amazon deforestation is linked to falling rainfall in the Iguaçu River basin, the hydrological engine of southern Brazil's economy

Brazil Climate

💨 Off-season storm

Rare July windstorms killed five people and cut power to half a million properties, days after Brasília unveiled a package built for a slower kind of disaster.

Brazil Agro

For all things agriculture

Brazil Agro

Aug 17, 2026

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6 min read

🏇 Rodeo rally

The Barretos Rodeo Show opens on August 20 with three presidential hopefuls on the guest list and an incumbent who has never accepted the invitation.

The Brazilian Report

Aug 10, 2026

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7 min read

🌾 The next Mato Grosso?

Cheap, never-farmed soil across the Paraguayan border is drawing Brazilian farmers and land funds.

The Brazilian Report

Aug 3, 2026

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5 min read

🥩 Still hungry for Brazil

Feeder cattle from Mexico cannot refill American plants that Brazilian boxed beef already supplies.

The Brazilian Report

Jul 27, 2026

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6 min read

🐄 Tokenized cows

Ten tokenized dairy cows in Paraná just secured a BRL 100,000 loan registered on the stock exchange

The Brazilian Report

📚 Grading on a curve

The Brazilian Report

Brazil Society

🎣 Shooting fish in a barrel

The Brazilian Report

Brazil Sports

💻 War in code

The Brazilian Report

Defense & Security

🎙️ Zingers over substance

Gustavo Ribeiro

Brazil Daily

🐟 Mariana's long tail

The Brazilian Report

Brazil Climate

✈️ Gol cries foul

Gustavo Ribeiro

Brazil's 2026 Elections

Brazil Sports

More than scores.

Brazil Sports

🎣 Shooting fish in a barrel

Half the quarterfinalists in both the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana are Brazilian. The gap that produced them is financial, legal, and by now self-sustaining.

Brazil Sports

🗳️ From the pitch to the ballot

Dozens of former athletes are running for office in 2026. Their appeal to political parties has everything to do with the country's complicated system for electing the lower house of Congress.

Brazil Sports

🏊 Rio's Olympic decade

Rio de Janeiro marked 10 years since it hosted the Olympics. This week, we looked at what the Games left behind.

Brazil Sports

🏎️ Bearing the load

Gabriel Bortoleto has scored 10 of the 12 points Audi has taken in its debut season as a Formula 1 works team.

Guide to Brazil

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

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