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A collection of resources about Latin America, examining key policies, economic development trends, and pressing social issues. This compilation focuses on governance, trade, inequality, and sustainable development, providing insights for students, researchers, and policymakers interested in the region's dynamic landscape.
A collection of resources about Brazil's Amazonas region, focusing on Manaus and its economic development challenges. This compilation covers sustainable practices, urbanization, environmental concerns, and socio-economic dynamics, providing insights into the interplay between natural resources and economic growth in the Amazon.
A collection of resources about Carnaval, exploring its cultural significance, historical origins, and diverse regional practices. Key themes include traditional costumes, music and dance forms, community involvement, and the global impact of Carnaval celebrations. Ideal for educators and students seeking to understand this vibrant festival.
A collection of resources about Brazil, exploring its rich cultural heritage, diverse ecosystems, historical significance, and socio-economic dynamics. Key themes include Brazilian geography, indigenous cultures, economic development, and environmental challenges, providing a comprehensive understanding of this vibrant South American nation.
A collection of resources about Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, exploring its rich cultural heritage, diverse ecosystems, historical significance, and socio-economic challenges. Key themes include urban development, environmental conservation, and the impact of tourism on local communities. Ideal for educators and researchers interested in Brazilian stu...
A collection of resources about São Paulo, Brazil, exploring its geography, historical development, and cultural diversity. Key themes include urban expansion, socioeconomic influences, and the city's role as a cultural hub in Latin America. Ideal for students and educators seeking comprehensive insights into this vibrant metropolis.
A collection of resources about Brazil's rich sports culture, focusing on soccer's historical significance, key players, and major tournaments. Explore themes of national identity, regional rivalries, and the impact of sports on Brazilian society and youth development. Ideal for educators and sports enthusiasts alike.
A collection of articles and videos about Brazil and it's geography
Brazil - and international trade, importing and FDI issues
Brazil - introduction
A collection of articles and videos about Fordlandia Brazil
A collection of articles and videos about Politics in Brazil - 2018 Presidential election
a collection of articles about Brazil - more
A collection of articles and videos about Brazil with a focus on Music and Culture
A collection of articles and videos about the "Lava Jato"(car wash) political scandal, and reform in Brazil
A collection of resources about the Colonial History of Brazil and Portugal, exploring their interconnected narratives. This compilation covers key themes such as exploration, cultural exchange, economic systems, indigenous populations, and the impact of colonialism on modern society. Ideal for students and educators in historical studies.
A collection of articles and videos about crime and violence issues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A collection of articles and videos about Politics and Religion in Brazil
A collection of articles and videos about Politics in Brazil
a collection of articles about Brazil - finance and economics
Brazil - tech, startups, innovation and entrepreneurship
A collection of articles and videos about Brazil with a focus on Culture, Race, and Inequality Issues
A collection of articles and videos about Labor and Pension reform in Brazil
A collection of articles and videos about crime and criminal justice in Brazil
A collection of resources about Brazil's role in international trade, exporting, and global business. This compilation offers insights into Brazil's economic landscape, key export sectors, and its partnerships within the global market. The materials examine Brazil's trade policies, the impact of regional agreements such as Mercosur, and the chal...
Brazil - energy issues
Brazil - Agriculture and economic development
Brazil - Property Rights, Inequality, Land Rights, Agriculture and Development issues
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Brazil - Education Issues

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The meat industry. The world’s biggest food company plans to beef up in America

JBS, Brazil’s meat-packing giant, wants to expand. Will its critics let it? | Business (2025)


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Xi Jinping tries to press China’s advantage in South America 

New polling suggests locals are warming to China | The Americas (2025)


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Brazilian football looks like the next Premier League

A new private model has helped Brazil’s football clubs become dominant. Awash with money, the country’s teams are conquering South America | Th... (2024)


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Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America

Climate, and geopolitics, the great green rivalry. Chinese clean technology is blooming and at America. Uncle Sam is worried. That is prompting anx... (2024)


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Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro

Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them | The Americas (2024)


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Oil in Brazil. The perils of Petrobras

Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company. His worst instincts are undermining the national oil company’s hard-won gains | The A... (2024)


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To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it

The fight against deforestation is going better. But it needs cash, cops—and a better property register | The Americas (2023)


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Brazil’s hinterland now resembles Texas

The new Brazil. It is a land of “roughs”, not playboys. The hinterland is getting political and cultural clout | The Americas (2023)


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Latin America could become this century’s commodity superpower

Commodities in the 21st century. A growing, greening world will be ravenous for Latin America’s commodities. Will it deliver? | The Americas (2023)


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The next commodity boom. How Latin America could be a commodities superpower

It must not squander the opportunity of the next commodity boom | Leaders (2023)


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MST in Brazil: If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It - The New York Times

The Landless Workers Movement organizes Brazil’s poor to take land from the rich. It is perhaps the largest — and most polarizing — social movement... (2023)


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Read Your Way Through São Paulo - The New York Times

Brazil’s ultra urban megacity overwhelms the landscape and the imagination. Paulo Scott recommends books that peel back its layers. (2023)


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What a Brazilian state can teach the world about education | The Economist

Ceará offers a model for rebuilding schools after the pandemic | The Americas (2022)


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Hunger in Brazil - An old scourge returns - The Economist

As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)


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Why Latin America’s economy has been so badly hurt by covid-19 | The Economist

Global GDP contracted by 3% last year, but that of Latin America and the Caribbean fell by 7% | The Americas (2021)


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The Amazon - Of chainsaws and supply chains

Of chainsaws and supply chains - How big beef and soya firms can stop deforestation | The Americas | The Economist They don’t chop down Amazonia... (2020)


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A year of Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s president can boast some achievements. They come at a high price | Leaders (2020)


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Deathwatch for the Amazon - Rainforests

Brazil has the power to save Earth’s greatest forest—or destroy it (2019)


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Tectonic Shift in Latin American Venture Capital Explained - TheVentureCity

At TheVentureCity, the world is our oyster. We are a venture capital fund that invests globally, with no specific regional focus. We know that grea... (2019)


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The danger of tailings dams - The Economist explains

MORE THAN 300 people are missing, with many already confirmed dead, after millions of tons of muddy sludge engulfed homes and roads when a tailings... (2019)


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Brazil is shaping up for a unique kind of financial crisis - The Economist

RUDI DORNBUSCH, a renowned economist who died in 2002, said there were two sorts of currency crisis. The pre-1990s kind is slow. It starts with an ... (2018)


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Privatization Begins for Brazilian State Electric Firm | Reuters

Brazilian firm Equatorial Energia bought state-owned Eletrobras’s unit (LAHT) in northeastern Piaui State for a symbolic $13,500. Eletrobras, Lat... (2018)


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In Rough Rio de Janeiro Neighborhood, Ballet as ‘Anesthetic’ and Escape - The New York Times

Led by an indomitable teacher, ballet students in a poor district didn’t let the closure of their school stop them from dancing — or from deliverin... (2018)


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Tough times for Embrapa, a jewel of Brazilian innovation - The Economist

AN HOUR’S drive from Brasília, Brazil’s capital, humped zebu cattle take refuge from the heat of the cerrado (tropical savannah) under neat rows of... (2018)


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Opinion | The Men Who Terrorize Rio - The New York Times

Ruthless mafia-like militias have taken over much of the Brazilian city, killing whomever they want, from City Council members to bird thieves. (2018)


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Brazil’s Crime Costs Double in Two Decades to More Than $75 Billion - Bloomberg

Crime now costs Latin America’s largest economy over $75 billion a year, double the amount of two decades prior, and efforts to combat its spread h... (2018)


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Demand for American Sperm Is Skyrocketing in Brazil - WSJ

Over the past seven years, human semen imports from the U.S. to Brazil have surged some 3,000%, with most buyers selecting donors whose online prof... (2018)


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How Brazil’s Michel Temer is clinging on to power - The Economist explains

IN MAY O Globo, a Brazilian newspaper, reported that Michel Temer, Brazil’s president, had been caught on tape at his official residence discussing... (2018)


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China moves into Latin America - Bello | The Economist

WHILE Donald Trump was in Davos last week trying to persuade the global plutocracy that “America First” does not mean “America alone”, China’s fore... (2018)


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An overhaul of Brazilian labour law should spur job creation - Bye-bye, Benito

IN THE litany of bosses’ gripes about Brazil’s inclement business climate, rigid labour laws vie for pride of place with its convoluted tax laws an... (2017)


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How China’s $285M Export Hub in Brazil Will Cost U.S. Billions | WSJ Center Point

China’s new $285 million export terminal in Brazil, being built outside of São Paolo by Chinese state agricultural giant Cofco, threatens billions ... (2025)


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Petrobras: fuelling the future or stuck in the past? | FT Film

The oil giant is once again at the centre of government plans for economic growth and job creation. But Petrobras has a chequered past, including d... (2025)


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AI, Brazil, and the Future of VC: Insights from Manoel Lemos (Redpoint eventures) - PodKast #233

In this episode, Manoel Lemos, a managing partner at Redpoint eventures and a key player in Brazil’s startup scene, takes us on a ride through his ... (2024)


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Vita Coco: My Billion-Dollar Coconut Water Company

After a chance encounter with two Brazilian women in a New York City bar in 2003 and hearing about the tasty coconut water they missed from back ho... (2024)


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Manaus: Why Brazil Built a City in the Middle of the Amazon

The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)


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Brazil: History, Geography, Economy & Culture

Taking up half the continent of South America, Brazil is host to vast array of landscapes and biomes - from the steamy Amazon Rainforests, to the s... (2023)


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How did Brazil Become a Country?

How did Brazil Become a Country?Once Portugal realized that this newfound land was on their side of the Tordesillas line, the initial goal was to e... (2023)


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10 Best Places to Visit in Brazil - Travel Video

10 Best Places to Visit in Brazil - Travel Video Famous for being home to one of the world’s top football... (2022)


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São Paulo, Brazil's MEGACITY: Largest City in the Americas

São Paulo, Brazil is the largest metropolis in the Americas and the economic engine of the world’s sixth most-populous country.Video by Bryce Plank... (2022)


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What's happening to football in Brazil?

Brazil produces some of the best football players globally and has done for genera... (2022)


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Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory

Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory (2021)


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Geography Now! Brazil

Wow this was a difficult one. Thanks to all the Brazilian Geograpeeps that contacted me and helped out with this video! (2021)


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Don't go to Brazil - Travel film by Tolt #17

One advice: never set foot on Brazilian soil. Please watch this video until the end to be sure to understand. Some of the footage used in this clip... (2020)


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Why Brazilian Women Support Jair Bolsonaro - New York Times

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s newly elected president, is known for his offensive remarks about women, but his hard-line agenda on crime has spurred man... (2019)


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Why this far-right candidate won Brazil's election -- Vox

Jair Bolsonaro, a congressman who has praised Brazil’s past military dictatorship, has become the country's president. Subscribe to our channel! ht... (2018)


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The biggest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history - And possibly the whole world -- Vox

Vox Published on Oct 26, 2018 In 2014, the largest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history erupted in Brazil. It involved bribes between ... (2018)


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Brazil's Geographic Challenge - Stratfor

Stratfor explains Brazil's geographic challenge to consolidate control over its vast territory and connect its regions more efficiently. About Stra... (2018)


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Brazil's Evangelical Far Right Could Elect The Country's Next President (HBO) - Vice News

Brazil’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has to start serving a 12-year prison sentence immediately, ... (2018)


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Why Brazil Might Elect An Ultra-Right Wing President (HBO) - Vice News

RIO DE JANEIRO — On a recent Sunday morning, a few hundred shirtless men wearing camo pants tucked into army boots got together to run in formation... (2018)


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Brazilian Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - 2018

Brazil is about to elect a new president during a turbulent period of political corruption and economic uncertainty. John Oliver urges the people o... (2018)


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Inside Rio’s favelas, the city's neglected neighborhoods - Vox

The Rio you won’t see at the Olympics Watch part 1, "2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see" (2018)


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Carnival: origins of the world’s biggest party | The Economist

The Economist Published on Jan 31, 2018 Carnival started as a pagan festival in ancient Egypt and has grown to become one of the largest celebr... (2018)


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“Salvador Hyperlapse” - Shot on a Cell Phone in Vimeo Staff Picks on Vimeo

- All the images that make up this video were captured with the ASUS ZENFONE 3 phone. All the editing made in Adobe Lightroom and After Effects. -... (2018)


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Go Outside - Repellent Radio

Using radio music to repel mosquitoes This is "Go Outside - Repellent Radio" by bruno bomediano garcia on Vimeo "Go Outside's Repellent Radio... (2017)


Podcast

A Sea of Yellow

Back in 2017 we ran an episode about the history of Brazil's iconic, yellow national soccer jersey. We were reminded of that story during the recen... (2023)


Podcast

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR

An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2017)


Podcast

Fordlandia (Brazil)- 99% Invisible

In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped... (2018)


Podcast

The world's first "nature superpower" | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho

Over the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all... (2025)


Website

Fastdezine

We are a marketplace for outsourced recurring design needs with ensured delivery. Through project management and our platform, we guarantee delivery. (2018)


SlideShare

Brazil Digital Report - 1st Edition - 2019 - Brazil at Silicon Valley

Brazil Digital Report: a first-edition dossier on the Brazilian digital economy. A comprehensive report on trends and facts for investors, public a... (2019)