Travis Waldron

Bloomberg.com • 30th April 2025

Brazil Denies Plans for Red Soccer World Cup Jersey After Political Backlash

Brazil’s iconic yellow soccer jersey has become such a potent conservative political symbol that many leftists refuse to wear it. Now, rumors the team might don a different color with deep associations to the left at the 2026 World Cup are inflaming the right.

Bloomberg.com • 14th April 2025

Latin America Is Stuck in the Middle of Trump’s China Trade War

Donald Trump is pulling his nation’s closest neighbors into the center of his trade war with China as he seeks to elbow the Asian giant out of a region the US has long considered its own backyard.

Bloomberg.com • 28th March 2025

Brazil Finance Chief Pins Lula’s Falling Support on Global Woes

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s popularity plunged to all-time lows largely due to economic challenges that are plaguing leaders around the world rather than his own policy missteps, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said in an interview.

Bloomberg.com • 3rd June 2024

The End of AMLO’s Presidency Will Leave a Void in Mexico’s Morning

Bloomberg.com • 1st June 2024

For Sheinbaum, Rise and Fall of Rousseff Is a Cautionary Tale

Bloomberg.com • 29th February 2024

Bolsonaro’s Right-Wing Heir Apparent in Brazil Is Reluctant to Accept the Crown

Sao Paulo's governor insists he's not thinking about running for president as the standard-bearer of banned former leader Jair Bolsonaro's right-wing movement. Across Brazil, nobody seems to believe him.

Bloomberg.com • 11th February 2024

Argentina’s Power Duo Meets at the Vatican After Trading Insults

Javier Milei was in the middle of his first television interview as Argentina’s president-elect when an adviser abruptly handed him a mobile phone. The cameras stopped rolling. Pope Francis was on the line.

Bloomberg.com • 8th January 2024

Bolsonaro’s Shadow Looms Over a Revamp of the Brazilian Right

The fiery Brazilian right-wing movement ignited by Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 ascent to the presidency is seeking a rebrand. A year after Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the capital in a bid to overturn his election defeat, members of his inner circle are trying to chart a more moderate path toward municipal contests in October, as they attempt to broaden their appeal ahead of a 2026 presidential race in which their standard-bearer can’t take part.

HuffPost • 3rd May 2022

The U.S. Is One Of The Only Countries Moving Backward On Abortion Rights

Dozens of nations have expanded abortion rights over the last 30 years. The Supreme Court’s likely overturn of Roe v. Wade would make the U.S. just the fifth to further restrict them.

HuffPost • 26th November 2021

Bolsonaro Launched A Trumpian Anti-Vaccine Campaign. Brazilians Got The Shot Anyway.

Brazil's decades-long success with vaccines helped it quickly inoculate its population, and offers many lessons for the United States. But experts fear a new strain of anti-vax sentiment could have corrosive effects instead.