President Lula’s administration has been consulting lawmakers on support for repealing the tax on low-value international online purchases, which imposes import duties on purchases of up to $50. The issue still faces... Read more »

Published on 08/05/2026 at 18:30 Government benefits reached 22.7% of households in 2025, according to IBGE, after two consecutive years of decline, but still appear in the income of 18 million Brazilian... Read more »

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese firm BYD reshapes Brazil’s auto industry, Argentine health officials race to find the origins of the hantavirus outbreak on... Read more »

US pressure on Cuba is rising. A country that has already been under US-led and enforced embargos for almost 70 years, Cuba is now in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, with... Read more »

Lula and Trump declare bilateral relationship reset after three-hour meeting at the White House Friday, May 8th 2026 – 05:08 UTC “We discussed many subjects, including trade, specifically tariffs,” Trump... Read more »

Colombia’s pension industry association Asofondos warned this week that Decree 415 of 2026 will force private pension funds (AFP) to transfer COP$5 trillion (US$1.3 billion) to state-run Colpensiones by May 14, creating... Read more »

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will discuss cooperation in the fight against organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, Brazil’s finance minister Dario... Read more »

image:  The experiment evaluated the offspring resulting from crossbreeding wild-type females (left) with white albino males  view more  Credit: Vander Bruno dos Santos/IP-APTA An experiment conducted in the state of São Paulo,... Read more »

São Paulo – The Praça dos Três Poderes, home to the Palácio do Planalto, the Supreme Federal Court (STF), and the National Congress, features prominently in Brazilians’ daily news and in decisions... Read more »