While it may be obvious that political stability, economic growth, and social steadiness are not its most favorable angles, Latin America’s resilience has seen it mature from a heterogeneous group of developing nations to a geostrategic bloc of countries in the international arena. Latin America...
Although Brazil is by any standard a regional power in Latin America, it has struggled in the twenty-first century to convert regional strength into significant global power, partly due to domestic political changes that have raised concerns about the stability of its foreign policy stances. ...
New Government in 2023 On October 30, 2022, former president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) was elected as Brazil’s next president. Despite receiving the largest number of votes ever for any candidate in Brazil’s democratic history, Lula beat the incumbent president Jair Messias Bolsonaro ...
In January 2023, Lula began his third term as president of Brazil. His first month was marked by several changes: (1) the reinstatement of the Amazon Fund, which was created in 2008 to finance projects to monitor and reduce deforestation but was revoked by Bolsonaro; (2) creation of the ...
With so much at stake, citizens worry not only about who will win or lose but even more so about the political system's stability altogether. As of September 2021, more than three out of four people thought the spread of fake news on politicians and the Supreme Court threatened democracy ...
The DIY & Hardware Store Market in Brazil has experienced a slight decline in growth due to various factors, such as the economic downturn and the recent political instability in the region. However, the market is still driven by the increasing demand for home improvement and renovation, as wel...
Statistics show that China's annual imports from Brazil in the past three years have stayed above $100 billion, while bilateral trade volume reached $181.53 billion in 2023, up 6.1 percent year-on-year. Xi noted that China and Brazil share a natural affinity for and a common pursuit of all...
The president of a country should attract foreign capital by offering credibility and political, social and legal stability, Lula told a business forum held in the northwestern Portuguese city of Porto and attended by some 200 Portuguese and Brazilian business leaders. ...
Despite this, governability is achieved by means of coalitions that contribute to increasing the weight of small political parties in national politics, beyond their real size. The practice of forming coalitions contributed to the stability of Brazilian democracy, that passed two important tests: the ...
stability to the socio-technical regime of bioenergy and the expansion of ethanol consumption. Consequently, the number of “Flex-fuel vehicles” increased from 39,853 to 1,336,702 in cars and from 9411 to 190,593 in light commercial vehicles (ANFAVEA,2023) and the expansion of ethanol ...