Guide to Brazil | The Brazilian Report

Go beyond the surface and dive into society, history and the key trends shaping the country today.

Guide to Brazil

Jun 14, 2026

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8 min read

📱 How Pix was born in Brazil

As the US targets Brazil’s ubiquitous instant payment system, everyone wants to claim Pix as its own. Here’s how and why it was created

Letícia Arcoverde, +2

Guide to Brazil

Jun 7, 2026

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6 min read

🎞️ Brazil enters the streaming wars

A new state-run streaming platform seeks to boost Brazil’s cinema industry, which has for years been crowded out by foreign players.

Elizabete Fernandes

Guide to Brazil

May 31, 2026

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5 min read

📈 Human development for whom?

Brazil's improved HDI scores are a reason for celebration, but they still mask the country’s vast inequalities and vulnerabilities.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Guide to Brazil

🤔 How much of it is the economy, stupid?

May 24, 2026

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6 min read

🤔 How much of it is the economy, stupid?

How much economic results will weigh on government approval ratings is among the key questions ahead of this year’s presidential election in Brazil.

Letícia Arcoverde

Guide to Brazil

May 17, 2026

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5 min read

🗳️ Brazil's electronic voting turns 30

Much maligned by the conspiratorial far right, Brazil’s electronic system has completed 30 years without any credible allegations of fraud.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Guide to Brazil

May 10, 2026

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7 min read

🎖️ A new defense push

Amid changing geopolitical conditions, Brazil has altered its approach to the defense industry. We explain how.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Guide to Brazil

May 3, 2026

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7 min read

📺 Globo hegemony

Brazil’s largest media group is no longer the absolute leader it once was. It is still a gigantic powerhouse.

Letícia Arcoverde, +1

Guide to Brazil

Apr 26, 2026

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5 min read

🙏 Secularism on trial

We bring today an op-ed by lawyer Welber Barral on a Supreme Court case concerning Brazil's notion of secularism.

Welber Barral

Guide to Brazil

Apr 19, 2026

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6 min read

📽 Lights, camera, propaganda?

A pair of pro-Bolsonaro productions serve as the latest example of Brazilian politics using the medium of cinema for campaign gains.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Guide to Brazil

Apr 12, 2026

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10 min read

🚀 Getting lapped in the space race

Brazilian researchers have a hand in the Artemis II mission, but the country is lagging way behind in its national space program.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Guide to Brazil

Apr 5, 2026

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11 min read

🫠 Data delays

Brazil’s statistics agency built one of the world's finest statistical bureaucracies. Now, under a polarizing president and years of neglect, it is struggling to do its most basic job.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Guide to Brazil

Mar 29, 2026

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11 min read

💰 Tax reckoning?

Beginning to generate its first effects for the middle class, the 2025 income tax reform is modest — but it breaks with decades of negligence with tax fairness.