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Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice Luís Roberto Barroso told Brazilian reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday that Brazil “risks losing sovereignty” over the Amazon to organized crime. “Organized crime is starting to get bolder, as recently happened in Ecuador, and to contaminate political spaces,” Justice Barroso told CNN […]

Fornecedores de livros didáticos a escolas públicas, grandes editoras coagem professores a escolherem seus materiais de modo a ganhar ganhar mais contratos com o governo, revela The Brazilian Report

In the process of procuring textbooks for Brazil's schools, major publishing groups coerce schools and teachers to favor their materials in order to win contracts, The Brazilian Report can reveal

Recent readings of retail and services data have led economists to revise their forecasts for Q4 2023 GDP results upwards.  According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the services sector posted a monthly growth of 0.4 percent in November. In the same month, core retail sales were up by 0.1 percent month-on-month. When […]

Coaf, Brazil’s federal money laundering enforcement agency, produced a record 16,411 financial intelligence reports in 2023, a 25 percent increase from the previous year. The numbers were made publicly available by Coaf on its website. Financial intelligence reports (RIFs) are produced when there’s evidence of money laundering, concealment of assets, or the financing of terrorism […]

Facial recognition tools using AI-powered algorithms have been used extensively in Brazilian law enforcement. However, there is heated debate on whether these algorithms carry racist bias and propagate existing inequalities