This is the corner of piauí’s website where you can read a selection of articles translated into English – on topics both Brazilian and international – and get a sense for the magazine’s style and voice. Updated periodically.
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Right flank, march
With an eye on the presidency, Jair Bolsonaro is bringing ultraconservatism to the electoral playing field
Consuelo DieguezThe guarantor
The rise and controversies of the economist Paulo Guedes, the ultraliberal who has entered into a marriage of convenience with Jair Bolsonaro
Malu Gasparmore stories
The oil is theirs*
The story of the multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Petrobras in the United States
Looking for Leff
How an American economist offered an innovative explanation for Brazil’s backwardness – and then disappeared
Adrift
Rifts in the command of Petrobras have paralyzed the company, engulfed in the most serious crisis in its history, and heightened uncertainties as to the future
The coach
Indifferent to the idea of football as art, Luiz Felipe Scolari embodies the figure of the paternal leader who is both exacting and protective of his players, in the name of victory at any cost
Risk contract
How Vale signed a deal to bear all the costs of an obscure multi-billion-dollar mining project in Guinea
The favela and its moment
UPPs and infrastructure investments seem to be the last nail in the coffin for the old sweeping favela-removal projects. While so often seen as problems with no solution, favelas can become part of the solution to the city's problems
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