
Brazil’s TikTok-born workplace revolution fights for more than one free day a week
President Lula looks to put an end to the 6x1 schedule, and Congress is debating over how much the 44-hour work week will be cut

President Lula looks to put an end to the 6x1 schedule, and Congress is debating over how much the 44-hour work week will be cut

The institutions that obtained the worst scores in a new national examination are private or municipally-run, and some charge very high tuition fees

The Latin America and Caribbean International Economic Forum 2026, organized by CAF in collaboration with Grupo Prisa, brings together seven heads of state in an informal ‘Latin American Davos’

The South American country, which has huge reserves of graphite, niobium and nickel, maintains contacts with Washington and Brussels and wants to go beyond extraction

The former president of Brazil will be moved from the police station where he is being held to a larger cell in the military wing of the Papuda penitentiary complex

Personal interviews indicate that two-thirds would leave the drug trade if they had a legal alternative

Chavismo recognizes the mediation work, in some cases lasting for years, carried out by the Arab state, by the Brazilian president and by a former prime minister of Spain

The most unsettling issue is not that the authoritarians are winning. It’s that those who should be opposing them seem to have forgotten why

The clan’s eldest son is presenting himself as a moderate version of his father, while the traditional right is calling for a candidate who is not from the family

The South American giant is exceeding the government’s most optimistic forecasts. For now, locals are welcoming the influx despite signs of gentrification in cities like Rio de Janeiro

Bolsonaro-aligned members of parliament argue that an advertisement featuring Fernanda Torres is an attack on conservatives

The letter accuses the U.S. president of using tariffs to influence the court that convicted Bolsonaro for attempting a coup

The leaders of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia have responded in very different ways to the return of the far right to the South American country, which held a runoff vote on Sunday

A series of brutally cruel cases is forcing society to confront the deadliest side of misogyny, which kills four women every day

President Lula da Silva presents the $38 billion project as he tries to strike a delicate balance between Beijing and Washington, his largest trade partners

The Brazilian city that hosted the climate summit illustrates the challenges faced by Global South cities in adapting to the effects of global warming
A conservative network that originated in Brazil and spread through Argentina has reached Mexico, acting as a political weapon

This year’s summit is being held in a country that has defied both authoritarianism and environmental collapse, a reminder that democracy triumphs where despotism destroys

Despite the number of inmates serving time at home, the country’s penitentiaries remain overcrowded

The coordinator of the Center for Security and Citizenship Studies considers the operation an example of the lack of a clear strategy on the part of the authorities

Rio’s governor echoes Trump’s rhetoric on ‘narco-terrorists’ and places the issue at the center of 2026 presidential campaign

Residents found more than 70 bodies following the previous day’s raid aimed at halting the spread of organized crime

This year’s summit in Belém will not only test the durability of the Paris Agreement, now a decade old—it will test whether the world can still come together to confront global threats at a time of fracture and distrust

The Brazilian Supreme Court reached a majority verdict to convict high-ranking military officers for attempting to prevent the transfer of power to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after losing the 2022 election

The historic curse of pardoning politicians and military officers looms in Brazil as the Supreme Court tries the former president for an attempted coup

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling this week on the former president and several military officers accused of leading a conspiracy against Lula

The former president of Brazil, who is not required to appear, is monitoring the Supreme Court’s final deliberations from his home, where he remains under house arrest