This Sunday, October 30, Brazil heads to the polls for a second-round runoff between President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva.
Despite having advanced economically in the last few years, Brazil still needs to manage to overcome the political barriers that characterize the bottom billion countries.
Regardless of this week’s election outcome, Brazil’s top economic and environmental concerns may not be solved through engagement with China.
Beyond Uruguay’s frustrations with Mercosur, the Chinese market has become increasingly critical for the country and its importance is growing.
Lapper’s Beef, Bible and Bullets provides an excellent guide through Brazil’s current political complexities and the man who would be Trump. It is strongly recommended.
Considering the level of passion from Bolsonaro supporters and the large number of Brazilians who dislike the president, Brazil could remain a highly polarized country and runs the risk of slipping into a political landscape where groups from the left and right express themselves more forcibly through non-constitutional means.
On Sunday, 61.8 percent of Chileans voted to reject the Constitutional Assembly’s draft, while 38.1 percent voted to approve it. Nearly 13 million of 15 million Chileans and residents who were eligible to vote cast ballots across more than 3,000 voting centers.
In July, we sat down with Uruguayan Vice-Minister of Environment Gerardo Amarilla to understand Uruguay’s decisive path toward renewable energy, sustainability, and climate resilience.
On Monday, prosecutors in Argentina publicly requested that former President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner be sentenced to 12 years in prison for alleged corruption during her eight years as president and her husband’s preceding four years in office.
La descripción de “significativamente corrupto” no debería pesar solo sobre el Señor Horacio Cartes, sino sobre la sociedad paraguaya que conscientemente acepta y apoya conductas que sabemos todos pueden ser más honestas, más transparentes.
