😬 Crisis ahead

Changes to congressional budgetary grants could spark clashes between Congress and the Supreme Court. Coal incentives should be kept in wind power bill. And the government ups its system to curb cell phone theft.

Rebeca Andrade and Simone Biles are together at the top

The supposed rivalry between the world’s top two women gymnasts went viral this week, as Simone Biles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade went head to head in the Paris Olympics. But are they really rivals?

Violence against indigenous peoples continues under Lula

Renewing the environmental and social catastrophe of Belo Monte

🗄️ Data center potential

Brazil’s potential as a data center hub. A trial on Bolsonaro’s “Kamikaze Bill.” And the rise of bankruptcy protection requests.

Rate cuts remain unlikely in Brazil’s near future

🇻🇪 Outrage in Venezuela, migration in Cuba

Parallel vote count in Venezuela puts Maduro in troubled waters. Cuba sees record migration amid economic crisis. And Panama promises Milei-style austerity.

Why hasn’t Brazil joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative?

Explaining Brazil #302: Venezuela’s vexed vote

⚠️ Caution needed

Investors’ growing perception that Brazil could see interest hikes this year. The Workers’ Party’s (and Lula’s) unforced error. And another decline in Brazilian scientific output.

The hurdles for Brazil to test its digital currency, DREX

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