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  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    Deforestation
    Data is new weapon in battle to protect Amazon rainforest

    Satellite images become flashpoint as Brazil’s government seeks to discredit scientists

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    Climate change
    Brazil’s price tag on its climate goals scorned by environmentalists

    Proposal for $10bn annual payment from other countries comes ahead of UN summit

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    Special ReportBrazil: The Road to Sustainability
    Business leaders see ESG as crucial to competitiveness

    An FT roundtable reveals a growing emphasis on sustainability alongside profitability

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    News in-depth
    Brazil’s Bolsonaro faces centrist threat after local elections

    Results complicate populist president’s path to delivering on economic agenda ahead of 2022

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Brazil’s local elections deal blow to Bolsonaro

    Party of former leader Lula is also battered as ‘establishment’ politics makes a comeback

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    News in-depthGlobal Insight
    Brazil’s recalcitrant president risks isolation after Trump defeat

    Bolsonaro has yet to congratulate Biden and needs to change tack on foreign policy

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    Local elections will test political climate in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

    A record number of women, people of colour and military officials set to contest seats

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Son of Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro charged with corruption

    Development threatens to ensnare country’s leader in scandal again after months of calm

  • Tuesday, 1 September, 2020
    Lead prosecutor quits Brazil’s ‘Lava Jato’ probe

    Deltan Dallagnol’s departure comes amid growing attacks from officials close to Bolsonaro

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  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    Brazil’s once-mighty Workers’ party faces reckoning

    Ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s promises of a PT comeback in 2022 are met with scepticism

  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    Brazil
    Brazil reels from sudden departure of top economic officials

    Resignations threaten finance minister’s programme of liberal reform

  • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Bolsonaro and the generals: will the military defend Brazil’s democracy?

    As his position has come under threat, the president has raised the prospect of political intervention by the army

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    Oliver Stuenkel
    International pressure can save the Amazon from Bolsonaro

    The political calculus that maintains destructive environmental policies could be changed

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    Brazil
    Brazil’s basic income plan aims to stimulate growth and boost Bolsonaro

    Coronavirus emergency relief revealed millions of neediest had fallen through welfare safety net

  • Sunday, 26 July, 2020
    Interview
    Anti-corruption drive floundering under Bolsonaro, says ex-minister

    Sérgio Moro made his name spearheading long-running ‘Lava Jato’ corruption probe

  • Sunday, 19 July, 2020
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil powerbrokers sense chance to kickstart economic reforms

    Politicians and officials unite around need for action as pandemic suspends infighting

  • Monday, 13 July, 2020
    Spread of fake news adds to Brazil’s pandemic crisis

    Bogus coronavirus stories fuel push for legislation to stop flood of disinformation

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    Brazilian economy
    Investors warn Brazil to stop Amazon destruction

    Firms say surging deforestation raises ‘widespread uncertainties’ about investments

  • Sunday, 7 June, 2020
    Brazil accused of hiding data on coronavirus crisis

    Bolsonaro government stops counting total cases and deaths as country becomes global pandemic hotspot

  • Thursday, 4 June, 2020
    News in-depth
    Brazil’s top judges take stand against Bolsonaro

    Supreme court emerges as last bastion of democracy with congress failing to hold government to account

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil’s record outflows underline investors’ fears of Bolsonaro

    Foreign capital flight raises red flags over Latin America’s largest economy

  • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
    Jair Bolsonaro
    Brazil’s president comes under more pressure in investigation

    Supreme court releases video showing Jair Bolsonaro threatening to remove Rio police chief

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    Deforestation
    Brazil faces international backlash over Amazon land reform bill

    Sweden’s AP7 pension fund and Marks and Spencer among groups threatening boycott

  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
    News in-depth
    Jair Bolsonaro’s radical supporters: ‘He only has us, the people’

    Brazil’s president fires up extreme fringe as his popularity dips and faces calls for impeachment

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Brazil loses second health minister in a month

    Resignation of Nelson Teich follows disputes with president over coronavirus response

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