Category: Brazil

  • Presidential Fracas in Latin America… Should We Care?

    Presidential Fracas in Latin America… Should We Care?

    In Latin America, there seems to be no ideological pattern but rather soloists who are too preoccupied with internal issues to care about diplomatic subtleties.

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  • Brazil Revives Climate Fund, Cote d’Ivoire Embraces Solar, Azerbaijan Greens Everything

    Brazil Revives Climate Fund, Cote d’Ivoire Embraces Solar, Azerbaijan Greens Everything

    This week, our newsletter focuses on countries dedicated to greening their energy environments — or at least saying they are.

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  • Guyana-Venezuela Crisis: Lula the Peacemaker?

    Guyana-Venezuela Crisis: Lula the Peacemaker?

    Just days after Venezuela’s referendum on the contested Essequibo, the Brazilian army deployed 28 armored personnel carriers to Roraima, the state adjacent to Venezuela and Guyana.

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  • Lula’s Plan(s) to Make Brazil Go Green

    Lula’s Plan(s) to Make Brazil Go Green

    Last September, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his administration showcased a number of climate-friendly policies and initiatives to international audiences. Lula has continued to introduce and amend efforts to make Brazil’s economy greener, allocating billions of dollars to expanding biofuels output and building biorefineries to produce sustainable fuel.

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