Brazil is a nation on the up and on the diplomatic stage it is being listened to as never before. Its soft-power push is being masterminded by diplomats working in the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Foreign Ministry in Brasilia…
A fast-expanding embassy network and a clever use of its culture mean Brazil is making friends all around the world. Is this just an attempt to secure a seat on the UN Security Council or an emerging nation trying to…
Monday 20 December
In early 2010 Thomas Shannon, the US ambassador to Brazil, sent a cable to Washington offering his views on Dilma Rousseff, who was preparing to kick-off her campaign for the Brazilian presidency.
Friday 7 December
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer lived to be a centenarian but the buildings and spaces he created will endure and inspire for millenia.
From Israel’s new museum district to Poland’s secret economic hotspot via Armenia’s favourite mountain, Monocle runs the rule over five places you should keep an eye on in 2010.
For edition 86 of the Monocle Weekly we cross over to Brasília and talk to Raul Juste Lores, business and economics editor at Folha de São Paulo, about how President Dilma Rousseff is getting on after just over a month in…
The largest city to be created in the past 100 years is Brazil’s capital. That bold, modernist ideal extends to its military departments, shaped in swathes of creative concrete by architectural icon, Oscar Niemeyer.
Extreme shopping in Japan's Don Quijote stores, and an innovative waste management system from Tel Aviv.
Brazil may be the land of soccer and samba, but its status as a superpower is also fast moving beyond the realms of hypothesis into concrete reality. So will global politics soon be moving to a Latin rhythm?
Wednesday 8 June
Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, is facing her first political crisis since taking office at the start of the year – and her critics believe it has not only highlighted Rousseff’s own weaknesses but also the continuing…
Perhaps unfairly lumped in with Russia, India and China, Brazil has natural assets – sunny disposition, carnival attitude – that are peculiarly unquantifiable. And as Monocle’s trip to the country discovered, the next 10…
Wednesday 21 March
Like many other Brazilians I thought it wouldn’t be an easy task to follow in the steps of one of the most popular presidents Brazil ever had.
Wednesday 6 March
With Venezuela's divisive president having succumbed to long-term illness, implications and opportunities are brought to life.
Do too many diplomats and NGOs spoil a city? Brussels, Ottawa, Canberra and even DC have a lot to answer for in the dull stakes, but what’s a capital city to do? Become both an economic and administrative hub? Or simply…
In an attempt to attract foreign investment and ditch its Soviet-era image, the Georgian president has enlisted Michele De Lucchi to fill the capital’s skies with ambitious architecture. The Italian is clearly succeeding…
Inspired by footage of police killing a bus hijacker, José Padilha’s ‘Elite Squad’ is the most viewed film in Brazil’s history (thanks to the country’s rampant piracy) and won the 2008 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear.…
As Monocle warms up for a health and better living issue, our editor in chief Tyler Brûlé reflects on which Lusophone nations are running ahead of the pack.
An interview with the Geneva-based, football-playing Brazilian permanent representative to the WTO.
We meet ambassador Ido Aharoni, the Consul General of Israel to New York, and bring you the latest from the diplomatic world.
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