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Explaining Brazil #305: X marks the spat

China’s role in the reconfiguration of Latin America’s peripheries

🪫 Power struggle

Climate issues renew energy concerns in Brazil. And the challenging relationship between the Lula administration and Congress.

Police chiefs face charges for trying to tamper with 2022 election

Brazilian Senate postpones “Future Fuel” bill

🤬 Judicial hell

How Pablo Marçal is changing the São Paulo mayoral race — and facing legal challenges. Older Brazilians are going online more. And how Wikipedia has become a new frontier for electoral disinformation.

Generational floods uncover dinosaur fossil in South Brazil

Tech Roundup: Brazil pushes Big Tech for transparency amid stalled bills

🐦 X leaves the spot

The war of attrition between the government and the Supreme Court. Elon Musk pulls the X ripcord in Brazil. And how inflation has affected different income brackets in Brazil.

Rio hosts Youth 20 as Brazil reclaims global leadership

Brazilian media mogul Silvio Santos dead at 93

Market Roundup: The results of Brazil’s four-day workweek pilot

Lula’s subtle inflection on Venezuela

Fire Day Redux? Amazon fires break records in 2024

🔋 Lithium hotspot

The concerns raised by Brazil’s “Lithium Valley.” A debt relief program to states. And Brazil’s underwhelming education scores.

A Supreme Court justice with several roles: leaks fuel criticism