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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.AtlasIntel's final pre-election poll puts Lula on 46.2% of valid votes against Flávio Bolsonaro's 43.1%, with a runoff deadlocked at 50-50.
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,...
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 hears the Caixa strike on 29 September, day 20 of a walkout over a...
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...
Brazil inflation expectations for 2026 rose to 4.99% in the central bank's Focus survey, above the 4.5% target...