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 • 6th March 2025

‘Ice Queen’ No More: Sheinbaum Charms Trump on Tariffs

Claudia Sheinbaum’s dispassionate style on the campaign trail was once seen as such a political weakness that her opponent in last year’s Mexican presidential election branded her “The Ice Queen.” But months into a trade dispute with Donald Trump, Sheinbaum’s calculated and technocratic approach to politics suddenly appears to be a crucial strength.

Bloomberg.com • 17th November 2024

Biden Tours Brazil’s Amazon, Says Clean Energy Here to Stay

Joe Biden announced new conservation efforts and funding as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon region, touring part of a rainforest nature preserve and meeting with local environmental activists. With his time in the White House ending in January, Biden said he’s leaving President-elect Donald Trump and the US a “strong foundation to build on, if they choose to do so.”

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 • 17th May 2024

Milei Picks Far-Right Rally Over Spanish PM During Madrid Visit

For most heads of state, it’d be unthinkable to visit another nation, skip meeting its leader and instead attend an opposition rally.But for Argentine President Javier Milei, it’s just another poke-in-the-eye trip. To a historic ally, no less.

Bloomberg.com • 28th March 2024

Lula-Milei Clash Embodies the World’s Competing Economic Views

There are few presidents in the world today with more radically different economic models than Argentina’s Javier Milei and Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Milei is desperate to gut public spending, sell off state-run companies and slash regulations. Lula, meanwhile, hounds his aides to ramp up spending, revitalize state companies to drive industrial policy and strengthen regulations to protect workers and the environment.

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 UK • 15th June 2022

'Human Remnants' Found In Search For Dom Phillips And Bruno Pereira, Brazil Minister Says

Phillips, a British journalist, and Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous affairs expert, have been missing since June 5. A fisherman has confessed to involvement in their killings.

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 • 16th April 2022

The Amazon Rainforest Can’t Survive 4 More Years Of Brazil's Far-Right President

Far-right Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has presided over record deforestation of the Amazon. As his reelection campaign begins, experts say the fate of a critical global ecosystem is on the ballot.

HuffPost • 2nd April 2022

Biden’s Ambitious Global Climate Agenda Is In Peril. Can He Save It?

Russia's war and high energy prices have forced the administration to walk a tightrope. Can it combat oil supply crunches without sidelining its climate goals?

HuffPost • 17th December 2021

A Pro-Pinochet Presidential Candidate Threatens To Swing Chile To The Far Right

José Antonio Kast has drawn comparisons to both Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. On Sunday, he could become Chile's next president.

HuffPost • 27th October 2019

This Indigenous Teenager Is Fighting To Save The Amazon From Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Artemisa Xakriabá, 19, represents two groups most threatened by environmental destruction: indigenous tribes and young people.

HuffPost • 8th March 2018

How Brazil's 'Lord Of Guns' Armed Rio's Drug War With U.S. Weapons

HuffPost • 22nd August 2021

Bolsonaro's Own Version Of Jan. 6 Now Feels Inevitable In Brazil

Brazil's far-right president is following Trump's playbook to undermine 2022 elections. And he's working hard to secure the military support Trump lacked.

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.

HuffPost • 1st January 2019

Brazil Is About To Show The World How A Modern Democracy Collapses

Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to Brazilian democracy — and a model for authoritarianism that leaders around the world will follow.

HuffPost • 20th April 2020

Amazon Tribes Say Christian Missionaries Threaten 'Genocide' During Pandemic

Indigenous Brazilians are demanding a missionary group based in Florida with deep ties to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro stay off their lands.

HuffPost • 6th October 2021

Facebook’s ‘Digital Colonialism’ Made Monday’s Outage A Crisis For The World

WhatsApp has monopolized communications in Brazil, India and across the Global South. When it goes down, everything grinds to a halt.