Tom Phillips
@tomphillips.bsky.social
Latin America correspondent for the @guardian based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 via London 🇬🇧, Beijing 🇨🇳 and Mexico City 🇲🇽 Say hello: tom.phillips@theguardian.com
The Rio tabloid Meia Hora says Bolsonaro is going to experience social distancing, five years too late! 👀
August 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Rio tabloid Meia Hora says Bolsonaro is going to experience social distancing, five years too late! 👀
Bora lá? Let’s go?
July 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Bora lá? Let’s go?
This Wednesday we will be celebrating Dom’s book here in Rio. Please come!
July 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This Wednesday we will be celebrating Dom’s book here in Rio. Please come!
Amanhã em São Paulo! Tomorrow in São Paulo!
June 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Amanhã em São Paulo! Tomorrow in São Paulo!
Before setting off for the US last May, Arturo left a message for his wife and unborn baby on a whiteboard over their bed in Santiago. “Soon we will be together again,” he wrote. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Before setting off for the US last May, Arturo left a message for his wife and unborn baby on a whiteboard over their bed in Santiago. “Soon we will be together again,” he wrote. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What an image from @oglobo.globo.com's Márcia Foletto
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What an image from @oglobo.globo.com's Márcia Foletto
There were also 400,000 people at this match today 👍🏼
March 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There were also 400,000 people at this match today 👍🏼
Why does this hangover cure being sold at my local Brazilian pharmacy have a Union Jack on it?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Why does this hangover cure being sold at my local Brazilian pharmacy have a Union Jack on it?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
El(on) Presidente
February 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
El(on) Presidente
Venezuelan state media have published this photo of Donald Trump’s special envoy meeting Nicolás Maduro in Caracas today
January 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Venezuelan state media have published this photo of Donald Trump’s special envoy meeting Nicolás Maduro in Caracas today
This was quite scary. Thought I was back in Mexico getting an earthquake alert for a minute!
January 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This was quite scary. Thought I was back in Mexico getting an earthquake alert for a minute!
“This is the plan that is going to apply for the next six years," says Maduro
January 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“This is the plan that is going to apply for the next six years," says Maduro
Nicolás Maduro's inauguration is getting underway in Caracas, despite domestic outrage, a chorus of international condemnation and zero proof that he actually won the election
January 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nicolás Maduro's inauguration is getting underway in Caracas, despite domestic outrage, a chorus of international condemnation and zero proof that he actually won the election
Authoritarian internet jiggery-pokery making it impossible to stream María Corina Machado’s speech to protesters as she sneaks out of hiding after 130+ days lying low to avoid arrest. But the picture she has released sums it up.
January 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Authoritarian internet jiggery-pokery making it impossible to stream María Corina Machado’s speech to protesters as she sneaks out of hiding after 130+ days lying low to avoid arrest. But the picture she has released sums it up.
The lawyer for Bolsonaro’s former righthand man, apparently speaking from either Paris or from Hell, tells Brazilian TV his client has told police the former president was aware of plot to assassinate Lula, his vice president and a Supreme Court judge
November 22, 2024 at 4:54 PM
The lawyer for Bolsonaro’s former righthand man, apparently speaking from either Paris or from Hell, tells Brazilian TV his client has told police the former president was aware of plot to assassinate Lula, his vice president and a Supreme Court judge
A front page a lot of Brazilians have been waiting a long time to see…
November 22, 2024 at 12:18 PM
A front page a lot of Brazilians have been waiting a long time to see…
Tomorrow’s Guardian
November 5, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Tomorrow’s Guardian
They didn’t hijack those buses, says Rio’s governor. ‘The criminals just confiscated the keys’ 👀🙄
October 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
They didn’t hijack those buses, says Rio’s governor. ‘The criminals just confiscated the keys’ 👀🙄
There’s a story in the Brazilian press today about the arrest of a life insurance scammer/ alleged murderer called Hitler da Silva! 👀
October 10, 2024 at 6:02 PM
There’s a story in the Brazilian press today about the arrest of a life insurance scammer/ alleged murderer called Hitler da Silva! 👀