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Get smarter on Brazil and Latin America
Dec 19, 2025
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Trump’s National Security Strategy sees Latin America as a buffer zone to protect US interests. And rhetoric for military escalation in Venezuela shifts from drugs to oil.
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Raids in Congress over embezzlement cases. Another delay for the EU-Mercosur deal. Calls for a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices.
Dec 18, 2025
A series of decisions made Brazil’s Congress look like a machine of political retaliation. But what paved the way for this situation, and how can the country move beyond it?
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European opposition to the EU-Mercosur trade deal has been declared in environmental terms, but are the arguments valid? Or do they stray into protectionism?