There’s an old joke about Brazil that suggests that it’s the country of the future – and it always will be. For a while this looked to be an anachronistic, possibly racist stereotype that had been decisively…
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Lula led an unprecedented shift in the country’s foreign policy towards the global South. He also helped elevate Brazil to the status of a global player. But, six years on, disillusionment reigns.
Debt is the reason jitters for emerging markets are now worse than during the Asian financial crisis.
A massive corruption scandal is engulfing Brazil’s political establishment – but reports of the country’s imminent collapse are greatly exaggerated.
Do the countries affected by Zika have the capacity to deal with a baby boom if pregnancies are delayed?
There are benefits to hosting the Olympics - but when it comes to culture, there’s no mega-event like Carnival.
With limited laboratory capacity and a lack of experts and funding, an outbreak of the Zika virus in Africa could be problematic.
Despite high rates of infection, the Zika outbreak would not have been particularly alarming had it not been for the sudden and – apparently associated – increase in the numbers of infants born with microcephaly.
Brazil faces an uphill struggle with Zika – here’s what’s happening on the ground already.
Zika is quite different to Ebola – and experts would do well to wait before making recommendations this time.
Some have criticised the idea of birth control to counter small heads in babies thought to be linked to Zika virus but it’s an opportunity.
Zika was discovered almost 70 years ago, but wasn’t associated with outbreaks until 2007. So how did this formerly obscure virus wind up causing so much trouble in Brazil?
From drought to economic slowdown, 2016 promises a mixed bag for the world’s forests.
Residents of Rio’s favelas are facing forced evictions – but they’re not moving out without a fight.
Could this relatively unknown virus become a household name in the Americas in the year to come?
Latin America suddenly seems to be lurching to the right – but was it ever that far left in the first place?
Mega sports event promoters use the term ‘legacy’ extensively to justify the amount of – mostly public – money involved in the bid and execution of such events.
Thalidomide is notorious for causing death and disability but it – and its derivatives – are proving useful for conditions such as leprosy.
The country must protect its huge forests from fires and logging.
Latin America’s most important state could never succumb to another military coup. Could it?
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
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Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Political Science, University of Florida
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
