But in protest at the electoral deceit, Brazil’s left-wing government vetoed Venezuela’s attempt to join the bloc. That was a humiliation for Mr Maduro, seeing that 13 other countries, even his ...

Yet when Uruguayans went to the polls on October 27th they were asked a version of this question, thanks to a union-led ...

Chart: The Economist Start with turnout. It regularly breaks 90% in Uruguay and Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru it hovers around 80%. Globally, enforced compulsory voting boosts ...

A NEPALI, a Slovak and a Brazilian sit in a room in a prisoner-of-war camp and explain that they had never signed up to fight in the Russian army but that were tricked into doing so. The Ukrainian ...

Chart: The Economist That is the highest figure in a decade ... Its market value has soared by 500% over the past five years, ...

Brazil analysts lifted their 2024 inflation expectations for the fourth straight week and now expect consumer prices to rise ...

FOR OVER a decade, BRICS summits have featured the same cast of characters, meaning the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. That will change on October 22nd, when the ...

Chinese manufacturers may be invoicing in yuan, but bilateral trade between Brazil and India is not going to be settled ...

Another study, by Emanuele Colonnelli of the University of Chicago and his co-authors, looks at the political affiliations of private-sector business owners and employees in Brazil. They find that ...

Establishing a carbon price of $25 per tonne of captured CO2 could transform Brazil’s Amazon rainforest into one of the world’s largest natural sinks, countering emissions at a far lower cost than ...