Brazil
Explore our coverage of Brazil’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
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Leaders
As Brazil bans Elon Musk’s X, who will speak up for free speech?
Free expression has become a culture war, and those who should defend it are staying quiet
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The all-powerful judge taking on Elon Musk
Is the legal cure of banning X worse than the disease?
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The Americas
The plight of Brazil’s indigenous groups worsens
Blame illegal miners, ranchers, loggers, traffickers and an unsympathetic Congress
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Leaders
To halt Brazil’s decline, Lula needs to cut runaway public spending
Investors have started to worry
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Under Lula, Brazil is walking on the financial wild side
Investors have started to worry about deficits and debt
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Finance & economics
Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
To avoid an economic shock, they are pursuing a strange mix of free trade and protectionism
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The Americas
Huge floods in Brazil’s south are a harbinger of disasters to come
Climate change is making weather events more extreme in the region
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Leaders
How to pacify the world’s most violent region
The iron-fist approach will not solve Latin America’s gang-violence problem
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Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court
The court has become the de facto regulator of social media in the country
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Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
That is prompting anxiety in the United States about security, coercion and competition
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The Americas
Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
Tree loss in South America fell by almost a quarter in 2023, compared with the year before
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Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them
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Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
American efforts to reduce reliance on Asia for semiconductors present an opportunity
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Lula’s gaffes are dulling Brazil’s G20 shine
Its relationships with the West are healing. But Brazil has not decided what kind of country it will be
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Can Lula fix Brazil’s fiscal mess?
Reform of the world’s most complicated tax system will cut businesses’ costs—if lobbies permit it
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Why is Brazil a hotspot for financial crime?
Its success as a fintech hub is mostly to blame