🥩 Beefy deal

a major deal between meat giants Marfrig and Minerva. How female athletes were responsible for Brazil’s Paris 2024 success. And what to expect from Brazil’s soybean farms.

Delfim Netto, the architect of Brazil’s failed economic miracle, dies at 96

Kamala Harris needs the Latino vote on path to the White House

Market Roundup: M&As to pick up in 2024

First São Paulo mayoral debate is all bark, no bite

Oil poses mounting threats to Peruvian indigenous groups

🥴 Inflation scares renewed

Brazil’s latest inflation data. How the PIX instant payment system is hurting the debit card industry. Petrobras publishes a shocking earnings report. Brazil retaliates and expels the Nicaraguan ambassador.

Brazil takes on the U.S.

Rebeca Andrade finally beat U.S. gymnastics icon Simone Biles, and the Brazilian flag was raised above the American stars and stripes during a victory ceremony. A happy ending?

Deforestation and soy advance cause big losses in the Amazon

Oropouche fever poses new mosquito-borne threat to Brazil

🚢 Brazil’s busiest port to get busier

The Port of Santos’s expansion plans. What markets expect from the Petrobras Q2 2024 earnings report. And the battle over budgetary grants.

⚡ Energy crises and security concerns

The risks of an energy crisis in Colombia. Maduro’s online and offline crackdowns in Venezuela. And Boric builds a maximum security prison in Chile.