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A new standard-bearer for Brazil’s far right?

🌾 Fields and flames

The expected end of the soybean boom in Brazil. And discussions about how to put out the wildfires that have been scorching several biomes.

Drought and wildfires threaten energy supply in the Amazon’s biggest city

The twists and turns in Brazil’s race for House speaker

🥵 Running dry

Worries of an energy crisis. U.S. Republicans parrot Jair Bolsonaro’s rhetoric. And how Brazil’s heated labor market left women behind.

🕯️ Funeral marches, folk songs, and lullabies

Peru after the death of Alberto Fujimori. Extended working hours could be damaging sleep quality across the continent. And the musical style blending Eastern Europe with aboriginal and gaucho culture.

How the private sector can lead Brazil’s climate transformation

Explaining Brazil #308: The climate crisis is here

📈 When they go low, we go high

A rate hike is on the way. Brazil’s UN General Assembly playbook. A matter of faith taken to the Supreme Court.

What’s at stake for Lula in October’s municipal elections

🌍 Climate litigation

The solicitor general files Brazil’s biggest climate-related lawsuit. A bill to protect book vendors from online giants like Amazon. And the failures of Brazil’s electoral debate system.

Brazil’s law enforcement agencies ‘strongly concerned’ about online gambling

Tech Roundup: A bank on WhatsApp is just the first step for Magie

🔥 Desperate times

The Supreme Court calls for extraordinary measures to fight Brazilian wildfires. The surge for VPN demand in Brazil. And Brazil’s reduction in fossil fuel subsidies.

AMLO’s judicial reform could sour Sheinbaum’s honeymoon in Mexico, unnerving global investors

Market Roundup: Peruvian cotton exports to Brazil on the rise