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September 16, 2011

Economics
Reads of the Week: The Latin American Soybean Boom, Mexican Security Spending and U.S. Drug Markets

Workers harvest soybeans at a farm in Tangara da Serra, Brazil (Paulo Whitaker/Courtesy Reuters). A recent article by Mariano Turzi argues that soy is the most recent of Latin America’s commodity bo…

Reads of the Week: The Latin American Soybean Boom, Mexican Security Spending and U.S. Drug Markets

February 18, 2022

Americas
Governance Must Trump Ideology in Latin America’s Elections

Forget all the talk about the region’s “pink tide” and focus on which candidate is most likely to lift the greatest number of boats.

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo and his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, smile for the camera

February 28, 2012

Economics
The Future of Brazilian Ethanol

I am in Brazil this week, and met today with people from the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA). In Brazil this means they are active energy players, as over half of the crop in Brazil …

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June 1, 2015

Digital Policy
Brazil’s Internet Law, the Marco Civil, One Year Later

Ronaldo Lemos is a professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Technology and Society. He helped draft the Marco Civil. You can foll…

Marco Civil CFR Net Politics Cyber Internet Governance Brazil

June 5, 2014

Brazil
Brazil and the World Cup: Three Things to Know

Poor government oversight and protests in Brazil have expanded the World Cup narrative beyond soccer and into politics, explains CFR’s Julia Sweig.