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Explaining Brazil #306: Cutting the Central Bank cord?

🔬 AI deals under scrutiny

Antitrust watchdogs’ investigation of AI deals by tech giants, Congress’s delay in confronting the Supreme Court, and climate issues on all sides.

Brazil’s biomethane program: a risk to decarbonization?

How the 2019 protests changed the worldview of young Chileans

💸 Burning money

The costs of the fire spree. A push for permanently expanding cash transfers. And Vale’s next CEO.

Brazil starts to feel side effects of sports betting boom

Tech Roundup: Going beyond clicks to measure ad success

🔥 Fire Day in São Paulo?

Brazil witnessed a second “Fire Day.” The three branches of government pause their fight and announce a climate change pact. And comparing Brazil’s energy matrix to other G20 countries.

Milei’s push for football privatization faces resistance from clubs

Market Roundup: Crypto exchanges under the microscope

Government fault leaves Itaipu Dam in debt to Brazilian consumers

In Brazil’s countryside, the world’s coffee capital is turning to wine

🔻 Population dip

Brazil’s population is set to shrink, starting in Rio Grande do Sul and Alagoas. The woes of the country’s major airlines. And a scrambled mayoral race in São Paulo.

But it won’t affect us right...?

Most Brazilians live thousands of kilometers from the Amazon, often feeling disconnected from the rainforest as if it were part of another country.

Black candidates face new election barriers in Brazil’s municipal races

Fernando de Noronha, a Brazilian beach paradise, bans B&Bs