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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Letícia Arcoverde |Lucas Berti
Hello, and welcome to the LatAm Report, your pulse on Latin America’s power plays and economics. If you have any questions about this newsletter, or topics you’d like to see covered in future issues, you can reach us at Colombia is launching a Pix-like instant payment system Cash still accounts for almost 80% of transactions in Colombia.
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Gustavo Ribeiro |Lucas Berti |Isabela Cruz
Good morning! Did you know that nowhere has more Uber drivers than Brazil? The country has 1.4 million motorists on the ride-hailing app, according to the company’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi. Brazil-US tensions rise over free speech standardsFor years, Brazil’s far right has treated Alexandre de Moraes as a bogeyman. Now, the Trump administration has its sights on him as well.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Lucas Berti
5 min read In 1983, Father Ernesto Cardenal — a Nicaraguan priest, teacher, and poet — found himself at the center of a global spectacle. During Pope John Paul II’s visit to Managua, Fr. Cardenal knelt before the pontiff, only to be rebuked publicly, finger-wagging and all. Fr. Cardenal had been Nicaragua’s culture minister since 1979, when the Marxist-led Sandinista revolution toppled the Somoza dictatorship.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Lucas Berti
2 min read Tariffs against Mexico. Against China. Against Canada. Against products flowing through a new Peruvian port. Are you a member of BRICS? Tariffs for you, too! Republican billionaire Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, still has a few weeks before his January 20 inauguration. But even before taking office, the eccentric politician is already pointing his finger at multiple nations, promising to impose high tariffs against them. This rhetoric is not new.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Lucas Berti
Latin America WWF reports an alarming loss in the region's monitored wildlife between 1970 and 2020. The region accounts for the highest percentage of species lost in the period, ahead of Africa and Asia 5 min read Over the past 50 years, Latin America and the Caribbean have witnessed an alarming decline in wildlife populations, becoming the region with the highest share of local species that were wiped off the map worldwide.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Lucas Berti
Latin America Inter-American Dialogue president emeritus Peter Hakim says the migration crisis will be one of the few regional matters that the next White House leader will follow closely 6 min read Election season is almost over in Latin America, with a presidential runoff in Uruguay later this month the sole date left in the schedule.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Lucas Berti
As global leaders, experts, activists and Indigenous voices meet this October in the Colombian city of Cali at the U.N. Biodiversity Conference, COP16, missteps and successes within President Gustavo Petro’s environment agenda are watched closely.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Lucas Berti
2 min read Paris, the City of Light, is one of Europe’s biggest and most bustling cities. And one could make an argument that São Paulo, Latin America’s biggest and most chaotic city, could make a claim to the “City of Light” moniker, with its 24-hour energy and pulsating skyline. But that perhaps tenuous comparison looks wildly inaccurate over the last week, as more than a million São Paulo residents stayed the whole weekend without electricity after a powerful storm and high winds.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Lucas Berti
Latin America The indigenous leader and three-times former president ignored a call to testify on human trafficking and rape charges, denouncing “lawfare” and “political persecution” 5 min read Bolivia seemed to have changed at the start of the 21st century. The country had gotten used to presidents who lasted less than a year, as well as to navigating constant economic crises and violent street protests.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Lucas Berti
Politics From Ecuador to Bolivia, the theme of treason and backstabbing is tearing apart leaders from some of their top allies 6 min read Latin America’s unstable political history has provided multiple examples of presidents ruling (or trying to rule) by proxy, with elected leaders dwelling in the shadow of their more popular godfathers, sometimes during their entire terms. Examples in the 21st century abound.
