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Brian Winter

BRIAN WINTER is Editor in Chief of Americas Quarterly. A former South America correspondent for Reuters, he is a co-author, with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, of The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir.

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Latin America’s Revolution of the Right

The Forces Remaking the Region in the Age of Trump

How Latin America Can Survive an Age of Turmoil

A Conversation With Brian Winter

Podcast April 10, 2025

Latin America Is About to Become a Priority for U.S. Foreign Policy

Trump Will Disrupt Three Decades of “Benign Neglect”

December 10, 2024

How Bolsonaro Might Win—Even If He Loses

The Triumph of Brazil’s Far Right

October 20, 2022

Can Brazil Turn Back the Clock?

Latin America’s Nostalgia Trap and the Return of Lula

Latin America Looks East

As Washington Idles, China Is Cutting Deals

Review Essay February 24, 2022

Has Bolsonaro Truly Gone Green?

The Brazilian President Plays a Complicated Game on Climate Change

April 30, 2021

Messiah Complex

How Brazil Made Bolsonaro

Why Latin America Was Primed to Explode

Economic Malaise, More Than Foreign Meddling, Explains the Outpouring of Rage

Moisés Naím and Brian Winter

October 29, 2019

Trumpism Comes to Brazil

Bolsonaro Salutes the U.S. Flag—and Breaks With a Tradition of Independence

Roberto Simon and Brian Winter

October 28, 2018

Brazil’s Never-Ending Corruption Crisis

Why Radical Transparency Is the Only Fix

Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence

David R. Mares and Harold A. Trinkunas

Reviewed by Brian Winter

Review Nov/Dec 2016

Rousseff on the Ropes

Has the Brazilian Dream Come to an End?

January 20, 2016