16 Jul 2019
Event On 28 June, the EU and Mercosur (an economic trade bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) announced that they reached a huge ...
30 Oct 2018
Event Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right lawmaker and former army captain, member of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), is the new President of Brazil. With ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
06 Sep 2018
Event Rising global interest rates and risk aversion have put many emerging market currencies to the test in the last months. In Latin America, ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
01 Dec 2017
Event Bruno Araújo resigned from his post as minister of Cities. Araújo was one of four ministers representing the centrist PSDB (Brazilian Social ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
04 Apr 2017
Event This month, Brazil surprised the world with a new corruption probe. This time it concerns sales of tainted meat. The ‘Weak Flesh’ ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
02 Nov 2016
Event In October, Brazil’s 5,570 municipalities held elections to appoint mayors and city councils. Yet given that the local ballot constituted the ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
02 Aug 2016
With the unwinding of the commodity boom, the Brazilian economy started to slow down in 2011. More recently, a confidence crisis exposed the exhaustion of the consumption-led domestic growth model.
COUNTRY: Brasil
05 Apr 2016
Event On 29 March, Brazil’s largest political party – the Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), which controls 68 of the 513 seats in the Chamber of ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
21 May 2015
Until a few years ago, international as well as domestic conditions contributed to Brazil’s success story. Terms of trade evolved favourably as ...
COUNTRIES : Brasil
01 Apr 2015
Event On 15 March, cities across Brazil (and the opposition stronghold of Sao Paolo in particular) were the scene of the biggest anti-government ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
01 Nov 2014
Event On 26 October, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff of the centre-left Workers’ Party (PT) won re-election by the narrowest of margins. She ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
01 Sep 2014
Event Eduardo Campos, the presidential candidate of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), was killed in an aeroplane crash near the city of Santos on ...
COUNTRY: Brasil
