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AQ’s Spring Playlist

Our musical recommendations for a spring spent indoors, from foot-tapping Brazilian soul to a Guatemalan composer’s experiments with classical sound.

As it fights the virus, Brazil needs to keep borrowing costs low and control its debt trajectory.

Brazilian economist Monica de Bolle on where Bolsonaro’s coronavirus response gets it wrong – and how the government can protect both people and jobs

Huge pot-banging protests show how vulnerable Brazil’s president is amid the coronavirus outbreak. Coming days will be critical.

The region spends less on healthcare than the Middle East, and other ailments like cancer have already been on the rise.

From drones to facial recognition, police across the region are adopting digital tools. But some worry about abuse.

The announcement of a new council to oversee Amazon policy might suggest a changing stance toward deforestation.

Brazil’s current Congress has an opportunity to set the country back on track. But reform will not come easy.

Artists say ideology, not economics, is driving Bolsonaro’s overhaul of the creative sector.

The world’s fifth-most populous country is one of the main prizes in a global encounter between Beijing and Washington.

An effort to expose state-sanctioned torture offers tools for stemming further impunity.

The possibility of an encounter between Brazil’s Dom Pedro II and Frederick Douglass in 1876 raises questions about what might have been.

Brazil’s fashion activist is breaking molds on the catwalk.