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Feb 21, 2025

🌾 Haddad’s Harvest Plan halt

The government suspends Brazil’s main agricultural credit program over budget delays. Ozempic set to face intense competition in Brazil. And the woes hitting the nuclear energy sector

Gustavo Ribeiro

PodcastPodcast

Feb 21, 2025

Podcast: Bolsonaro indictment, Trump's lawsuit and a shocking shift

Bolsonaro faces criminal charges for coup plotting. Trump’s media group is suing a Brazilian Supreme Court justice. And Brazil’s organized crime groups are expanding far beyond the drug trade

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Brazil ClimateBrazil Climate

Feb 20, 2025

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👋 Contact with the uncontacted

The recent appearance of an uncontacted indigenous person in a riverine Amazon community shows the complex challenges in protecting these “isolated” groups — and how climate changes may be affecting their livelihoods

Euan Marshall

Brazil DailyBrazil Daily

Feb 20, 2025

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💥 Trump v. Brazil’s Supreme Court

A legal move that hints at close ties between Trumpism and Bolsonarism. What weighs against Bolsonaro. And why prosecutors were so soft on the military

Gustavo Ribeiro, +2

Brazil BusinessBrazil Business

Feb 19, 2025

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🧑‍⚖️ Labor lawsuits make a comeback in Brazil

Labor lawsuits are surging in Brazil and have surpassed 2 million a year for the first time since the 2017 labor reform. We explain why

Letícia Arcoverde

OpinionOpinion

Feb 19, 2025

They're Still Here: Brazil's unfinished reckoning with military impunity

The officers who once ran torture chambers never truly left the stage. Their ideological successors resurfaced under Bolsonaro, and when democracy no longer served their interests, they attempted to overthrow it

Bruna Santos

Brazil DailyBrazil Daily

Feb 19, 2025

⚖️ Bolsonaro: from ballot to behind bars?

Brazil’s top prosecutor unveils his accusations against Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil to join OPEC+ forum. And a massive change in the health care industry looms

Gustavo Ribeiro

LatAm ReportLatAm Report

Feb 18, 2025

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💰 Milei’s scamcoin, Honduras protectorate

A pump-and-dump scheme hurts Javier Milei’s credibility in Argentina. And a project to turn Honduras into a US “free associated state” like Puerto Rico

Ignacio Portes, +1

Brazil DailyBrazil Daily

Feb 18, 2025

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🌅 Testing Brazil’s grid limits

Brazilian grid operator warns of “too much of a good thing.” Charges against Bolsonaro should come any day now. And why it is bad to see organized crime moving away from the drug trade

Gustavo Ribeiro, +1

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