Brazil

People hold an inflatable doll of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of the demonstration to demand more protection for the Amazon rainforest, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 25, 2019. The sash reads "Lula free". REUTERS/Sergio Moraes - RC129F36ED80

Op-Ed

Corrupt anti-corruption campaigns

Thursday, August 29, 2019

An aerial view shows smoke rising over a deforested plot of the Amazon jungle in Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, in this August 24, 2019 picture taken with a drone. Picture taken August 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC180A432CE0

Podcast Episode

What do the Amazon fires mean for Brazil’s economic future?

Otaviano Canuto

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

The latest on Brazil’s economic reforms: A conversation with Economy Minister Paulo Guedes

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM EDT

Venezuelan nationals living in Peru protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's second term, outside the embassy of Venezuela in Lima, Peru January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo - RC180EDCB3F0

Report

Latin America’s struggle with democratic backsliding

February 2019

Reports

Demonstrators shout slogans against Jair Bolsonaro, far-right lawmaker and presidential candidate of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), during a protest called "dictatorship never again" in Sao Paulo, Brazil October 10, 2018. The poster (R) reads: "Fight for democracy!" REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli - RC12E4A0D820

Global Governance & Politics

Rising democracies, burden-sharing, and the international liberal order

February 2019

Demonstrators march during the so-called "mother of all marches" against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, April 19, 2017. Carlos Garcia Rawlins: "That day was one of the biggest rallies up to then. There were thousands of people trying to find their way to the office of the state ombudsman after gathering in more than two dozen points around Caracas. But as in previous rallies, they were blocked by the National Guard. Waving the country's yellow, blue and red flag and shouting 'No more dictatorship' and 'Maduro out,' demonstrators clogged a stretch of the main highway in Caracas. I remember the desperation of the people trying to escape the tear gas and not having space to run because there were so many." REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo SEARCH "POY VENEZUELA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2017 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. - RC1DC4F53B10

Latin America & the Caribbean

Resilient or in decline?: Current trends in Latin American democracy

Friday, September 29, 2017

Brazilian soldiers of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces attend a training exercise in Rio de Janeiro April 22, 2015, before departing to Haiti. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares - RTX19U2E

Brazil

A “Brazilian way”? Brazil’s approach to peacebuilding

Charles T. Call and Adriana E. Abdenur

February 2017

Gang members who are also inmates pose for a photograph at a prison in Quezaltepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador June 2, 2012. The relentless tit-for-tat murders between El Salvador's two largest street gangs - "Calle 18" and "Mara Salvatrucha" - made the country the most murderous in the world last year after neighboring Honduras, also ravaged by gang violence. That was until Garcia, from the Calle 18 ("18th Street") gang, along with elders from the Mara Salvatruchadeclared an unprecedented truce that authorities say has cut the homicide rate in half in just four months. Picture taken June 2, 2012. To match Feature SALVADOR-GANGS/ REUTERS/Ulises Rodriguez (EL SALVADOR - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST) - RTR34YC6

Report

Inside out: The challenge of prison-based criminal organizations

Benjamin Lessing

September 2016

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Report

Converging on the future of global Internet governance: The United States and Brazil

Harold Trinkunas and Ian Wallace

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Blog Posts

Children of the Satere Mawe Indian tribe school at the Sahu Ape village pose for a picture in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, July 10, 2015. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Bruno KellyPICTURE 13 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226436

Future Development

Prioritizing public schooling over social transfers in Brazil

Martin Raiser and Joao Pedro Wagner De Azevedo

Monday, November 26, 2018

Congressman Jair Bolsonaro speaks during a forum hosted by newsmagazine Veja in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 27, 2017. REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto - RC1ADE98BCF0

Order from Chaos

How Brazil’s Bolsonaro can apply global lessons learned in fighting crime

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Jair Bolsonaro, far-right lawmaker and presidential candidate of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), looks on as he arrives to cast his vote, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 28, 2018. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/Pool - RC1FE5488C00

Order from Chaos

Brazil’s new president: strongman at home, weak man abroad?

Harold Trinkunas

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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Events

Five rising democracies and the fate of the international liberal order

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST

Converging on the future of global Internet governance

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Intertwined economic and political fortunes in the southern cone: The future of Brazil and Argentina

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

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Related Books

Aspirational Power

By David R. Mares and Harold A. Trinkunas

2016

Unexpected Outcomes

Edited by Carol Wise, Leslie Elliott Armijo, and Saori N. Katada

2015

Brazil as an Economic Superpower?

Edited by Lael Brainard and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

2009

Experts

Women eat watermelons at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California April 10, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - GF10000055583

Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Charles T. Call

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Latin America Initiative

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Multimedia

Olympic City in Rio

Podcast Episode

The real cost of hosting the 2016 Rio Olympics

Juliana Barbassa, Theresa Williamson, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

Friday, October 20, 2017

Christ The Redeemer is seen during sunrise in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 2, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTSKPFX

Podcast Episode

Brazil on the global stage

Harold Trinkunas, David R. Mares, Fred Dews, and Bill Finan

Friday, August 5, 2016

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Podcast Episode

Five rising democracies

Ted Piccone, Fred Dews, and Bill Finan

Friday, February 12, 2016

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