Brazil

The Brazilian local elections, whose first round took place on October 6, are important as predictive elements of the country’s main political trends. There is a partial correspondence between the results of these municipal-level elections and the electoral outcomes that may be found in the general elections, which are always held two years later.

Brazilian agribusiness’s fervour for Soybean cultivation has manifested itself domestically as much, if not more so, than externally, with deforestation accelerating as plantations abound with similar velocity in both the Brazilian Amazon and the

On Sunday 30 November 2022, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – or Lula for short, of the left-wing Workers Party – was elected with a razor thin margin as the new President of Brazil.

The word ‘development’ is polysemic. It can be understood as economic growth, as a promise of well-being through the satisfaction of needs or it can be linked to ecological prudence, through sustainable development.