A Quilo: Revolution on a Scale

Born in a mineiro lunch rush, the “a quilo” buffet reshaped Brazil’s urban culture long before New York’s delis stumbled into a parallel version.

Cabo Verde Is Done Waiting for Silicon Valley to Validate It

A new wave of digital thinking centers local context, small businesses, and diaspora feedback loops — not imported tech fantasies.

Sines: The Future Arrives, but the Past Refuses to Leave

Portugal’s quiet coastal town becomes a battleground of global data capitalism — and a mirror of everything the country still hasn’t solved.

Belo Horizonte: The City That Hacked The Beat

How belo horizonte’s bedroom producers, feed-born edits, and street dances turned a regional funk into the most unpredictable force in brazilian music.

The Town That Speaks Four Languages: A Hidden Republic of Resistance

In São Gabriel da Cachoeira, words aren’t decoration — they’re defiance.

From Almada to Broadway: Bráulio’s Beautiful Chaos

From punk zines in Almada to Mac Miller’s posthumous masterpiece, the Portuguese designer turned chaos into a design manifesto — and the Grammys are finally paying attention.

Solimões: When the River Learns to Say No

In Brazil’s tri-border Amazon, the Solimões carries cocaine, fear, and forgotten governance. But what if the same current that feeds the drug war could be hired for something else?

FAQ: How does an AK-47 end up in a favela?

A rifle isn’t bought easily.

Before the Crown, the Headdress: Reframing Brazil's Origin Story

A recent documentary and a new generation of Indigenous leaders are dismantling Brazil’s colonial creation myth — proving that history didn’t begin in 1500, and it certainly didn’t begin with a crown.

LatimLove: A New Barrio in Print

The transborder magazine that turns language into a commons.

Oil, Diamonds, and the Ghost of Freedom: Who Owns Liberation?

Angola’s liberation movement defeated colonial power — only to replicate its architecture of control. What happens when freedom becomes governance, and governance becomes greed?

Welcome to Belém: The COP Where the Global South Takes the Wheel

After years of oil-soaked climate conferences in petro-kingdoms, COP30 lands in the Amazon’s front yard — where the forest is dying, China’s electric cars roll in, and Lula’s Brazil is ready to prove that hope isn’t naïve, it’s political.