Brazil: Employment & Benefits – 2025 Highlights and 2026 Outlook | Insights

This past year marked a period of significant regulatory and jurisprudential activity affecting labor and employment practices in Brazil, with developments spanning worker classification, pay transparency, immigration facilitation for technical assignments, enforcement... Read more »

Why is US President Trump threatening Venezuela’s President Maduro?

Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News Online Reuters US President Donald Trump has been ramping up pressure on Venezuela’s leader, President Nicolás Maduro. The Trump administration has doubled the reward for information... Read more »

EU agrees deal to end Russian gas purchases by 2027 | Russia-Ukraine war News

The European Union has reached a deal to end all Russian gas imports by November 2027. The “provisional agreement” between the European Council – the grouping of the 27 governments of the... Read more »

‘We’re true guardians of the forest’: quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition | Brazil

Walk through the conference centre where the recent UN climate talks were held and representations of Indigenous people and culture were everywhere, from the spear-carrying, fiery-headed Cop30 mascot Curupira to huge mural-sized... Read more »

Why The U.S. Is Preparing For Venezuela And What Brazil Must

Key points: US strikes, naval deployments and legal moves around Venezuela look less like a drug war and more like a prepared regime-change framework. The operation fits a wider US effort to... Read more »

Democrat Mandela Barnes joins the race for Wisconsin governor

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrat Mandela Barnes, who served four years as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and narrowly lost a 2022 U.S. Senate bid, jumped into the battleground state’s open race for governor... Read more »

Neoenergia And Honda Unveil Brazil’s First Commercial Station In Brasilia – Hydrogen Fuel News

Neoenergia and Honda have shook hands on a partnership to roll out Brazil’s very first commercial green hydrogen service station in Brasilia. Backed by Brazil’s National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL) via its... Read more »

Companies join forces to accelerate Brazil’s critical minerals sector

The newly created Critical Minerals Association (AMC) aims to coordinate companies in Brazil’s sector to address obstacles such as financing and permitting. At the same time, the association —made up of companies... Read more »

Senate moves forward with approval of Mozambique debt restructuring – Mozambique

File photo: Folha de Maputo The Brazilian Senate’s Economic Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved the authorisation of a debt restructuring agreement between Mozambique and Brazil for US$143 million (€123.3 million). This is... Read more »

6 Hidden Towns to Visit in Brazil

I’m Brazilian, and I haven’t seen nearly enough of my own country. While it’s hard to admit, I know I’m not alone. Travel within Brazil was not accessible to most Brazilians until... Read more »