Health workers being prepared to avoid Amazon drought disaster

🛰️ Everybody hates Starlink

A push by Elon Musk’s Starlink to increase its footprint in Brazil. A move to limit the earnings of ride-hailing apps. And Brazil and Chile’s push for sustainable aviation fuel.

Bolsonaro may face legal problems in the U.S., too

Tech Roundup: Brazil wants to lead the Global South in AI regulations

🔌 Don’t look up

The war over electric poles between electric companies and internet providers. Strategic mistakes by the Workers’ Party. And the outlook of soybean exports.

Rio de Janeiro becomes Latin America’s most filmed city

Market Roundup: More time to resolve Eletrobras dispute

Venezuela widens gulf between Lula and the U.S.

The most glaring evidence of Nicolás Maduro’s fraud in Venezuela

😬 Crisis ahead

Changes to congressional budgetary grants could spark clashes between Congress and the Supreme Court. Coal incentives should be kept in wind power bill. And the government ups its system to curb cell phone theft.

Rebeca Andrade and Simone Biles are together at the top

The supposed rivalry between the world’s top two women gymnasts went viral this week, as Simone Biles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade went head to head in the Paris Olympics. But are they really rivals?

Violence against indigenous peoples continues under Lula