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Explaining Brazil
News from Brazil, by The Brazilian Report — an independent media outlet uniquely positioned to offer an insider’s view of current affairs in Brazil.
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Brazilian trade: Life after Washington
The US now takes less than 10% of Brazil's exports — the smallest share in decades — and Washington's tariff wall is accelerating a realignment that w...
An imported playbook for Brazil's elections
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro used his turn at Debating Brazil — an event series in which Brazilian presidential candidates present their vision of the cou...
An imported playbook for Brazil's elections
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro used his turn at Debating Brazil — an event series in which Brazilian presidential candidates present their vision of the cou...
Flávio Bolsonaro has a few problems to deal with
On this episode of Explaining Brazil, Gustavo Ribeiro, editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report, talks with James Green, a historian at Brown Universit...
Flávio Bolsonaro has a few problems to deal with
On this episode of Explaining Brazil, Gustavo Ribeiro, editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report, talks with James Green, a historian at Brown Universit...
Brazil's crime syndicates are now terrorist organizations
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the Comando Vermelho (Red Command, or CV) and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capit...
Brazil's crime syndicates are now terrorist organizations
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the Comando Vermelho (Red Command, or CV) and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capit...
Lula meets Trump in Washington
Editor-in-chief Gustavo Ribeiro sat down with historian James N. Green to unpack Lula's recent meeting with Donald Trump. While the visit yielded no c...
Lula meets Trump in Washington
Editor-in-chief Gustavo Ribeiro sat down with historian James N. Green to unpack Lula's recent meeting with Donald Trump. While the visit yielded no c...
Trouble ahead for Brazil-US relations?
What role will the United States play in Brazil's high-stakes 2026 elections? Join editor-in-chief Gustavo Ribeiro and historian James N. Green of the...
Troubled ahead for Brazil-US relations?
What role will the United States play in Brazil's high-stakes 2026 elections? Join editor-in-chief Gustavo Ribeiro and historian James N. Green of the...
Time to investigate Brazil's Supreme Court justices? (preview)
Amid deepening polarization and the judiciary’s growing role in the country’s political life, Brazil’s Supreme Court has become accustomed to being ra...
Time to investigate Brazil's Supreme Court justices? (preview)
Amid deepening polarization and the judiciary’s growing role in the country’s political life, Brazil’s Supreme Court has become accustomed to being ra...
Brazil's water leverage. And its fault lines (preview)
Humanity has entered what scientists are calling an “era of water bankruptcy.” According to the United Nations University, many critical water systems...
Brazil's water leverage. And its fault lines
Humanity has entered what scientists are calling an “era of water bankruptcy.” According to the United Nations University, many critical water systems...
An indigenous victory against Cargill on the Tapajós River (preview)
Advances in oil exploration and the construction of railways and highways in recent years have shown that, when large infrastructure projects clash wi...
An indigenous victory against Cargill on the Tapajós River (preview)
Advances in oil exploration and the construction of railways and highways in recent years have shown that, when large infrastructure projects clash wi...
Brazilian stocks’ record run (preview)
190,000 points. After a string of record highs that have been piling up since mid-January, the Ibovespa — the benchmark index of São Paulo’s stock exc...
Brazilian stocks’ record run
190,000 points. After a string of record highs that have been piling up since mid-January, the Ibovespa — the benchmark index of São Paulo’s stock exc...
Brasília enters an election year on edge (preview)
Brasília is back to work — and the new legislative year has opened with all the familiar rituals: lofty speeches about stability, institutional balanc...
Brasília enters an election year on edge (preview)
Brasília is back to work — and the new legislative year has opened with all the familiar rituals: lofty speeches about stability, institutional balanc...
Banco Master and the Supreme Court: After the glory came the crisis (preview)
As the saying goes, the calm comes before the storm. In Brazil’s Supreme Court, the current crisis came after a period of glory and renown. In Septemb...
Banco Master and the Supreme Court: After the glory came the crisis (preview)
As the saying goes, the calm comes before the storm. In Brazil’s Supreme Court, the current crisis came after a period of glory and renown.
In S...
How the Mercosur-EU deal impacts Brazilian firms beyond exports (preview)
Amid a global context of eroding multilateralism and rising US trade wars, Mercosur and the European Union are trying to create a shared market for mo...
How the Mercosur-EU deal impacts Brazilian firms beyond exports
Amid a global context of eroding multilateralism and rising US trade wars, Mercosur and the European Union are trying to create a shared market for mo...
What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations? (preview)
Lula did not recognize Maduro’s 2024 election win, but his first two terms in office in the 2000s saw him make South American integration a top priori...
What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations? (preview)
Lula did not recognize Maduro’s 2024 election win, but his first two terms in office in the 2000s saw him make South American integration a top priori...
Trump’s Venezuela play: How it reshapes South America’s risk map (preview)
In Latin America, 2026 quite literally got off to an explosive start. Just before sunrise on January 2, the city of Caracas was violently awoken by th...
Trump’s Venezuela play: How it reshapes South America’s risk map (preview)
In Latin America, 2026 quite literally got off to an explosive start.
Just before sunrise on January 2, the city of Caracas was violently awoken...
Checks and balances turned into vendettas (preview)
In any democratic republic, it’s normal for the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to clash. That’s a sign of mutual oversight. It’s also n...
Checks and balances turned into vendettas (preview)
In any democratic republic, it’s normal for the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to clash. That’s a sign of mutual oversight. It’s also n...
What needs repair in Brazil's public sector machine? (preview)
In a country with 27 state governments, more than 5,000 city halls, and around 12 million people working in the public sector, calls to reform — or im...
What needs repair in Brazil's public sector machine? (preview)
In a country with 27 state governments, more than 5,000 city halls, and around 12 million people working in the public sector, calls to reform — or im...
Good COP? Bad COP? (preview)
Carlos Nobre, head of the Planetary Science Pavilion at COP30 in the Amazon, talks to us about the conference’s results, the climate emergency we are...
Good COP? Bad COP? (preview)
Carlos Nobre, head of the Planetary Science Pavilion at COP30 in the Amazon, talks to us about the conference’s results, the climate emergency we are...
Brazil’s Central Bank led a revolution (preview)
Five years ago, Brazil launched a public digital payment infrastructure — and its impact on the financial market and society has been immense. Send us...
Brazil’s Central Bank led a revolution
Five years ago, Brazil launched a public digital payment infrastructure — and its impact on the financial market and society has been immense.
S...
Supreme Court to Brazilians: “Follow the money” (preview)
Over the past decade, Brazilian lawmakers have steadily built up procedures to expand their powers over the purse. That has included increasing the ov...
Supreme Court to Brazilians: “Follow the money” (preview)
Over the past decade, Brazilian lawmakers have steadily built up procedures to expand their powers over the purse. That has included increasing the ov...
COP30: Will climate action take root? (preview)
Each passing year, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) gains more urgency. More and more biomes around the world are approaching what s...