Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted fmr. President Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup, sentencing him to 27 years in prison–a ...

At the start of the twenty-first century, Brazil's economy was floundering. Record levels of unemployment, high inflation and the woes of its trading partner, Argentina, were just a few of the factors ...

Drug companies are in a strange and difficult position—as the inventor and supplier of a stream of life-saving products, they are essential to mankind, but at the same time, they are almost friendless ...

The Brazilian justice system showed its strength by jailing Jair Bolsonaro, President Lula said. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that Brazil had given the world a lesson in ...

Brazilians have low levels of institutional trust. They also have low levels of trust in each other. Why? Essential trust: Lessons from Brazil's trust crisis Sign up for the On Point newsletter here.

This article originally appeared on Undark. As the Covid-19 vaccine campaign gained steam in the United States last spring, I was locked down in my apartment in Rio de Janeiro, trying to avoid being ...

U.S. policymakers should pay close attention to how Brazil goes about resolving its public debt problem. Despite a number of major differences between the U.S. and Brazilian economies, they share the ...

“God is Brazilian!” declared President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva upon the recent discovery of massive new oil reserves off Brazil’s coast. But while God deserves a share of the credit for Brazil’s ...

Admittedly, Brazil and today’s world are not Germany and the traumatized Europe of the 1930s. One of Bolsonaro’s challenges will be to prove to the ruling classes that he actually can govern, which ...