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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.Four injured, more than 39,000 affected and 78 municipalities hit as storms batter Rio Grande do Sul — with an extratropical cyclone due to form overnight.
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,...
The Brazil betting ban leaves US$330 million in accounts about to close. A study of 180,000 posts finds...
A week before Brazil votes, Lula says the nearly US$955 million public electoral fund should go, blaming it...
Seized messages show Ricardo Lewandowski invited Banco Master owner Daniel Vorcaro to his 2024 swearing-in as Brazil's justice...
Brazil's longest-serving justice wants every federal appeals court inspected for inflated court-ordered debts after the Banco Master collapse.
Brazil's Senate front-runners back Supreme Court term limits: 81 of 89 leading candidates told an Estadão survey they...
The last Brazil election poll round before the vote: BTG/Nexus and Quaest both put Lula five points ahead...
Tonight in São Paulo: Sandra-X closes her season 12 metres underground at the Centro da Terra at 8...
Genial/Quaest poll of 2,004 voters, field September 24 to 27: Lula 39%, Flávio Bolsonaro 34% first round; runoff...