📝 Tax reform sprint

The next step for the tax reform. June inflation numbers — the good and the bad. And Lula’s latest popularity numbers.

Fracking debate makes for surprise bedfellows in Brazil

🌱 Not-so-green hydrogen

Why Brazil’s green hydrogen may be dirtier than it seems. More money to the Amazon Fund. And the meteorological causes of the Rio Grande do Sul floods.

Brasília’s status as a world heritage site may be in jeopardy

Tech Roundup: Asper’s new Rockefeller Center office

🇦🇷 Love Thy Neighbor

Milei makes an unorthodox trip to Brazil. A bad year in sight for the country’s auto industry. And Brazil’s country risk grows higher and higher.

Climate change putting Brazil’s highways at risk

Heavy storms spread chaos across Latin America

Brazil’s tax reform is taking a clearer shape

🤷 Thou shalt not steal

The latest charges brought forward against former President Jair Bolsonaro. A new step in the tax reform. And judges are allowed to use AI to write legal opinions.

Government gets a win as environmental workers are ordered to limit strike

Happy 30th birthday, real! Uh, wait... do you take PIX?

The national currency, the Brazilian real, turned 30 years old this week.