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The Big Picture Brazil Explained: The Country, Its Politics, Its Economy and What to Watch Economy, politics, society and daily life — the whole country in one essential read.Brazil election risk in numbers: a record fear gauge, falling rate futures and bank bets on the real, five days before the 4 October presidential vote.
What is Vale? How Brazil’s iron ore giant makes money, its Q2 2026 results, who owns it, China exposure and the Mariana and Brumadinho dam legacy.
What is Petrobras? How Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant makes money, its Q2 2026 results, who controls...
What is Nubank? How Brazil’s digital bank makes money, its Q2 2026 results, who controls it,...
Most visitors know Rio’s Little Africa, Pequena África, for Monday samba, not the Valongo Wharf nearby,...
Brazil prison vote rules let Daniel Vorcaro, the jailed owner of Banco Master, choose a president from Papuda...
Tonight in São Paulo: André Prando's Iririu at Blue Note, Oruã's ten-year show in Sumaré, jazz in Moema...
Jamaica's prime minister wants government and business to give farmers long-term supply contracts so they can invest. What...
Mexico's health regulator named fake or tampered lots of Saizen, Bedoyecta, Buscapina and Granulox on 28 September. Here...
A Chilean clinic owner accused of fake breast scans for 1,439 low-income women took a fast-track deal; prosecutors...
Brazil's top labour court ruled the Caixa strike was not abusive but ordered staff at the state bank...
Meta blocked the ad account of Brazil's President Lula on 23 September and says it works again. Paid...
The Banco Master Supreme Court freeze covers the police probe, a Senate inquiry and Vorcaro's depositions, pushing all...