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Michael Pooler

Brazil Correspondent

Michael Pooler is a Brazil correspondent with the FT, based in São Paulo. He was previously a reporter on the industry team in London.
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  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    Brazilian football: the next frontier in global sport?

    The country is unrivalled as a talent factory, but its clubs are barely known overseas. International investors hope a new league could change that

    From left, Luis Suarez of Grêmio; Botafogo’s Junior Santos; Flamengo forward Bruno Henrique
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    InterviewOil & Gas industry
    Petrobras plans $100bn in spending to persist through ‘fade-out of oil’

    State-owned Brazilian energy group’s CEO embraces exploration, global expansion and renewables

    Jean Paul Prates, chief executive of Petrobras, speaks to investors in New York
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Nubank
    Nubank sets sights on becoming Latin America’s biggest financial group

    Brazilian fintech is predicted to make $1bn in annual profits as it plans to expand in Mexico and beyond

    David Velez, chairman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nu Holdings
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Inside BusinessIPOs
    Hopes rise of a break in Brazil’s IPO drought

    Domestic stock market has experienced the longest stretch without a new flotation for at least two decades

  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    China’s not so Evergrande

    Indebted property group fails to agree restructuring plan with creditors

  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Vale SA
    BHP and Vale ordered to pay $9.7bn over Brazilian dam collapse

    Disaster at Samarco iron ore mine in 2015 killed 19 people and ranks among country’s worst environmental catastrophes

    The Bento Rodrigues district covered with mud after the dam burst in Mariana, Brazil
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Energy Source
    Green hydrogen: Can Brazil live up to the hype? Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, Shell becomes the latest international operator to agree terms to exit onshore oil in Nigeria

    President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    The Big Read
    Lula’s playbook: Brazil bets on a return to state capitalism

    The president has big plans to kick-start the economy but critics say he is trying to revive a long-discredited strategy

  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Climate change
    Deforestation surges in Brazil’s sensitive Cerrado region

    Surge in destruction of plant life for farming sullies country’s successes in protecting Amazon rainforest

    An aerial view of deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado
  • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
    News in-depthElectric vehicles
    Chinese carmaker BYD held talks with lithium producer in Brazil

    Group is hunting for lithium assets in the country with aim of assembling an integrated supply chain

    BYD is also planning to build an EV factory in Hungary and has been in talks for a plant in Mexico
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    Brazilian politics
    Lula and Bolsonaro trade jibes over rioting that shook Brazil

    Country remains deeply divided a year after rightwingers attacked government buildings

    Security forces stand guard as supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    News in-depthBrazilian society
    São Paulo’s historic centre has fallen into crime-ridden decay. Can it be revived?

    Attempt to transform dangerous central district recalls 20th century regeneration of cities such as New York

    A crowd of people in the central area of São Paulo known as Cracolândia (Crackland)
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Brazil
    Brazil to launch regulated carbon market

    Activists worry that a carve-out for agriculture will limit the scheme’s environmental value

    A wheat plantation on former rainforest in Pará state, Brazil
  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil passes long-awaited tax reform

    Constitutional amendment will simplify one of world’s most complex regimes

    Passage of the bill is a victory for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, left, and his finance minister Fernando Haddad
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    Natura Cosmeticos SA
    Brazil’s Natura explored offloading cosmetics group Avon International

    Beauty group weighed exit for direct-selling brand as it unwinds global expansion plans

    Customers try on Avon lipsticks
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    OutlookBrazil
    Descendants of runaway slave communities still struggle for equality in Brazil

    Despite finally being recognised in the census, quilombolas face poverty, unemployment and discrimination

    Irinéia Rosa Nunes da Silva photographed in her workshop lined with pottery objects
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    Mercosur
    EU and Mercosur trade bloc ramp up talks in bid to close deal in coming weeks

    Negotiations over pact have dragged on for decades

  • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
    News in-depthPetrobras
    Petrobras aims to transform Brazil into global energy power

    South American nation set to join world’s top crude producers by end of decade

    The P-71 floating production unit
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    News in-depthBody Shop International PLC
    How consumers fell out of love with The Body Shop

    UK high street stalwart known for its anti-animal testing campaigns in the 1990s has lost touch with eco-shoppers

    A Body Shop store
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    Private equity
    Natura to sell The Body Shop to private equity firm for £207mn

    Aurelius buys ethical beauty retailer from Brazilian cosmetics group

    A Body Shop store
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil’s sinking city weighs on Latin America’s largest petrochemicals producer

    Despite earlier payouts Braskem still faces legal action over geological disaster that forced tens of thousands to evacuate

    An abandoned dwelling in Pinheiro
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    Deforestation
    Food industry calls for more time to implement EU deforestation rules

    Producers and traders call for more details and say rules will fail to deliver environmental benefits

    This aerial view shows people walking on a deforested and burning area of the Amazon rainforest in Autazes, Brazil
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Terrorism
    Israel says spy agency Mossad helped foil terror plot in Brazil

    Two arrested in São Paulo after Hizbollah cell was alleged to have been planning an attack on Jewish targets

    The logo of the Brazilian Federal Police at its headquarters in Brasilia
  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    Mining
    BHP aims to settle over Brazil dam disaster

    A venture jointly owned by the miner and Vale faces alleged liabilities in the tens of billions of dollars

    A photo taken on November 6 2015 shows a general view where a dam burst in the village of Bento Rodrigues near Mariana in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais
  • Sunday, 8 October, 2023
    The Big Read
    Safra: a family in turmoil over the will of the world’s richest banker

    Joseph Safra helped build a $25bn global empire of banks, property and agribusiness based in Brazil. That inheritance is now the subject of a bitter court battle

    Montage of images. Close-up of Joseph Safra against a green background with a Safra logo and an outline of a family tree of his sons
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