Lula’s Fourth-Term Dilemma
Re-elected with 51.77% of the vote, Lula must fit R$ 39.8 billion in promises into the 2027 budget without breaking the fiscal target. Here is the dilemma.
Re-elected with 51.77% of the vote, Lula must fit R$ 39.8 billion in promises into the 2027 budget without breaking the fiscal target. Here is the dilemma.
Lula’s surprise re-election sent the Ibovespa down 13.88% in a single session. From fleet rental to retail and banks, here are the companies that lost the most and why.
Whether to show up became a move in the game. How Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro turned debate attendance into a game of chicken, from the canceled Globo debate to the Band showdown.
From beginner-friendly waves at Muizenberg to kitesurfing at Blouberg, whales in Hermanus and romantic dinners in the Winelands: how to plan a surf-and-romance honeymoon on South Africa’s Cape coast.
Flávio Bolsonaro says he would keep Bolsa Família but turn it into the start of a path toward jobs, lower taxes and stronger entrepreneurs. Here is the case his supporters make, and what critics say in response.
Indonesia’s state oil company is circling the Guyana-Suriname basin, one of the world’s hottest offshore frontiers. It is not yet a player like Exxon or TotalEnergies, but it wants to become one.
Brazil crashed out of the 2026 World Cup in the Round of 16, their earliest exit since 1990. Now Carlo Ancelotti is rebuilding, and Vinícius Júnior is the face of a new generation. Will the Hexa finally arrive in 2030?
eyesonbrasil Every purchase leaves a trace. A flight, a steak dinner, a pair of jeans: each carries emissions that never appear on the receipt. A new generation of apps wants to make that trace visible, and the idea is spreading through banking. How the technology works The method is simpler than the marketing suggests. These…
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Is the “Country of the Future” Finally Arriving? eyesonbrasil On Monday, October 5, Brazilian assets did something they rarely do all at once: they soared together. The dollar closed at R$ 5.0022, down 4.12%, while the Ibovespa climbed 7.85% to 207,190 points, one of the strongest sessions of the year. It was the dollar’s biggest…
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Paraguay votes on machines that print each vote on a chip-embedded paper ballot. How the system works, how it is meant to build trust, and what Brazil could and could not learn from it.
