Brazil

Explore our coverage of Brazil’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


Leaders

To halt Brazil’s decline, Lula needs to cut runaway public spending

Investors have started to worry

The Americas

Under Lula, Brazil is walking on the financial wild side

Investors have started to worry about deficits and debt

Finance and 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

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

Leaders

How to pacify the world’s most violent region

The iron-fist approach will not solve Latin America’s gang-violence problem

The Americas

Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court

The court has become the de facto regulator of social media in the country

The Americas

Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America

That is prompting anxiety in the United States about security, coercion and competition

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

The Americas

Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro

Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them

The Americas

Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged

American efforts to reduce reliance on Asia for semiconductors present an opportunity

The Americas

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

The Americas

Can Lula fix Brazil’s fiscal mess?

Reform of the world’s most complicated tax system will cut businesses’ costs—if lobbies permit it

The Americas

Why is Brazil a hotspot for financial crime?

Its success as a fintech hub is mostly to blame

Video The World Ahead

Will the BRICS challenge America in 2024?

The economic bloc wants to compete with America for dominance

Leaders

The Economist’s country of the year for 2023

It is possible to enact painful economic reforms and still get re-elected

Leaders

Rainforests provide a public good. The world should pay to conserve them

An ambitious Brazilian plan launched at the COP could help

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