Canning Insights

Our Associate Fellow Andrew Thompson looks into a new deal to bring 250 UK-made electric helicopters to São Paulo to create a commercial air-taxi service, with a view to alleviating the city's often enormous traffic jams.

Our third Visiting Fellow at the Canning House Library at King's College London, Elissa Pereira dos Santos, delivered a lecture on the results of her research examining the role of Rio de Janeiro's New Christians in the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.

Bukele sweeps aside final obstacle to indefinite rule in El Salvador

The UK-Brazil Conversa is a dialogue between policy makers and influencers, business leaders, academics, diplomats and governments, to help build closer relations and contacts between Brazil and the UK.

The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the region’s agribusiness sector has shown great resilience. The outlook is positive, but much will depend on how it responds to specific challenges of climate change, shifting global diets, and uncertainties in global trade.

Peru’s Castillo granted confidence…up to a point