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The hurdles for Brazil to test its digital currency, DREX

Researchers cross their fingers, hoping to avoid a repeat of Amazon dolphin disaster

🤐 Lula’s Maduro problem

How the crisis in Venezuela can spill over to Lula, as Nicolás Maduro continues to hold onto power. More controversies around a massive soybean railway. And the latest gross public debt figures.

Tech Roundup: Starlink is the top satellite internet provider in Brazil

👺 A fiscal Jekyll and Hyde

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s pledge to fiscal responsibility. What to expect from Congress on its return from vacation. And the rise in sterilization procedures in Brazil.

Venezuelan opposition claims Maduro stole the election

Rio police stage mega operations as the right rushes to woo voters

Market Roundup: Americanas recovery boosted

Is Nicolás Maduro ready to give up power in Venezuela?

A fintech is taking Brazil’s PIX to European markets

🤑 Fintech credit boom

Looser regulations for fintech lenders. The silent suicide epidemic among police officers. And the struggles of Brazil’s chemical industry.

Brazil in Paris 2024: stressed and poorly dressed

Seen as boring, lacking style, and having little link to Brazil, the plain opening ceremony uniform has been the subject of intense discussions online this week.

Elections could be a turning point in Venezuela-Brazil relations

🧳 Flocking to the U.S.

Why Brazilian entrepreneurs are flocking to the U.S. The project to mine for potassium in the heart of the Amazon. And the much anticipated program for cheaper airfares.

🗳️ The Venezuela vote and the Kamala hope

Opposition to Maduro hopes to change Venezuela. Kamala Harris’s nomination puts her Northern Triangle migration work in the spotlight. And Haiti struggles to pay for its trip to the Olympics.

Is Brazilian democracy stronger than we thought?

Bolsonaro attacked institutions several times, but the republic is still standing. Carlos Pereira tells Isabela Cruz why it didn't break, as he and Marcus Melo analyze in their new book.