On 2 January 2019, Paulo Guedes was inaugurated as Brazil’s Finance Minister under the new government of Jair Bolsonaro. Guedes is now facing the herculean task of reviving Latin America’s …

Following a divided and dramatic election, Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain and long-serving right-wing congressman, assumed office on 1 January as Brazil’s next president. To critics, his victory signals …

Political commentators have dubbed Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s President-elect, to be the ‘Trump of the topics’. Superficially there is some merit in this comparison, both men have enjoyed stoking controversy while …