🇲🇽 Meeting Sheinbaum

What to expect from Lula’s upcoming visit to Mexico. The routes for moving illegal firearms in Brazil. And the state of São Paulo’s real estate industry.

💰 Bases in Ecuador and a bounty for Maduro

Venezuelans crowdfund to hire mercenaries against Maduro. Noboa wants U.S. military bases back in Ecuador. And another environmental activist killed in Honduras.

Explaining Brazil #309: Musk flinches in X standoff

👁️‍🗨️ Privacy on trial

Google's Supreme Court trial raises important privacy questions. China’s major push to avoid an economic downturn could benefit Brazilian businesses. And one Amazonian state launched the biggest carbon credit sale in history.

🇺🇳 A deadline for UN reform?

Lula gets a win ahead of the UN General Assembly debate session. Ban on X could have lasting effects on Brazil’s digital information environment. And the deeply rooted divisions in Brazilian society.

💪 Xandão wins

Elon Musk is backing down in his feud with Brazil’s top court. The tax reform is stalling in the Senate. And how Brazilians would be ready to ditch their cars if they could.

🌾 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.

🥵 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.

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.

🌍 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.