
Michael Pooler
Brazil Correspondent at Financial Times
Financial Times reporter in Brazil @ft
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2 weeks ago |
ft.com | Michael Pooler |Michael Stott
The head of Brazil’s biggest investment bank reckons his country will supply 80 per cent of the extra food needed to feed the world over...
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2 weeks ago |
ft.com | Michael Stott |Michael Pooler
Jair Bolsonaro’s medical condition has worsened, nearly two weeks after the former president of Brazil was admitted to hospital for...
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3 weeks ago |
ft.com | Michael Stott |Michael Pooler
China and its partners in the Brics group of developing countries will increasingly stand up for international co-operation as the US...
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3 weeks ago |
ft.com | Michael Pooler |Suzi Ring
In his early days as a lawyer, Tom Goodhead learnt the trade through unglamorous personal injury cases such as medical negligence, car...
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1 month ago |
afr.com | Susannah Savage |Michael Pooler |Beatriz Langella |Joe Leahy
Susannah Savage, Michael Pooler, Beatriz Langella and Joe LeahyApr 14, 2025 – 10.30am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? London/São Paulo/Beijing | The US and China’s dizzying tariff tit-for-tat has spurred Brazil’s agricultural sector and pummelled American farmers, as Beijing looks to Latin America’s largest economy for a swath of goods from soyabeans to beef.
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The Goldman of the Tropics wants Brazil to help feed the world. Latin America's top investment banker Andre Esteves told us about his plan for BTG Pactual, the lender he runs, to take on the globe's biggest commodity trading houses. Read it in the FT: https://t.co/nRsqY5hItF

The upcoming trial of rightwing populist Jair Bolsonaro for an alleged coup plot has divided Brazil. What is the prosecution's case - and what does it mean for Latin America's biggest democracy? Today's big read in the Financial Times - free link: https://t.co/6B6mCwSUG1

Brazil's ex president Jair #Bolsonaro, accused of plotting a coup, told us the country needs "support from abroad" to prevent a slide into dictatorship. "American help is welcome," said the rightwinger, in an apparent appeal to the Trump administration https://t.co/PL95zGod6K