Letícia Arcoverde

Letícia Arcoverde is a journalist based in São Paulo. She has worked as a reporter at Valor Econômico and as an editor at Nexo Jornal.

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Brazil Agro

Jan 5, 2026

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11 min read

🛫 Will SAF take off?

Brazil has developed a steady ethanol market and solid biofuel credentials globally. Now it hopes it can do the same for Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

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Brazil Business

Dec 31, 2025

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7 min read

🛍️ Luxury squeeze

Brazilian streets known for luxury retail saw some of the strongest rental price rises in the world, but most of the boost came from real estate development and the corporate office market.

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Brazil Agro

Dec 29, 2025

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7 min read

🥜 Brazilian peanuts

Brazil's peanut output has seen strong growth in past years through exports. Now, farmers want to find the same success with the domestic market.

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Brazil Business

Dec 24, 2025

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7 min read

🚛 From highways to courtrooms

A 2018 law imposing a minimum freight rate for truck drivers is only now approaching full enforcement through increased oversight. But industry groups want the rules to be reviewed.

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Brazil Agro

Dec 22, 2025

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7 min read

🌎 Expanding markets

The Brazilian government has accessed over 500 new agricultural markets in the past three years, in an attempt to diversify its export mix beyond soybeans and China.

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Brazil Business

Dec 17, 2025

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10 min read

🔕 Off the market

Amid an IPO dry spell, the São Paulo stock exchange has seen a steady decline in the number of listed firms.

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Brazil Agro

Dec 15, 2025

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9 min read

🚬 Up in smoke

With smoking rates going down and e-cigarettes encroaching, Brazil launches a new program for tobacco farmers seeking to leave the sector.

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Brazil Business

Dec 10, 2025

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9 min read

💰 Front-loading profits

Brazilian companies are rushing out shareholder dividend payouts in an attempt to avoid the rules of a soon-to-be-enforced income tax reform.

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Brazil Daily

Dec 9, 2025

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17 min read

👵 Pensions tension

Brazilians are living longer. But what does that mean for pensions? One Supreme Court justice’s crusade against opaque earmarks Brazil celebrates historic HIV-AIDS results.

Gustavo Ribeiro, +1

Brazil Agro

Dec 8, 2025

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10 min read

🥩 China’s got beef

China is extending its sweeping review of beef imports, which could be bad news for producers in Brazil.

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Brazil Daily

Dec 5, 2025

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17 min read

🐌 Slowing, not sinking

Analyzing Brazil’s latest Q3 GDP figures. Workweek discussions expose the country’s productivity gaps. Congress approves the blueprint for the 2026 budget.

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Brazil Business

Dec 3, 2025

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9 min read

📦 Brazil’s warehouse race

The continued growth of e-commerce in Brazil is fueling a race for warehouses, pitting Latin America’s Mercado Livre against Asia’s Shopee.

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Brazil Agro

Dec 1, 2025

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9 min read

🫏 Donkey trade

Once a staple of simple rural life, Brazilian donkeys are being slaughtered to feed an international market.

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Brazil Daily

Dec 1, 2025

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16 min read

🔢 Lula’s election bingo card

The president sets out his stall to fight for re-election in 2026. We look at the latest five-year plan from Petrobras. Hiring slows, but unemployment is still dropping.

Gustavo Ribeiro, +1

Brazil Business

Nov 26, 2025

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10 min read

🚢 Taking stock of a trade shock

The US has exempted various products since first imposing steep tariffs on Brazilian goods in August, but the impact on trade could be as much as USD 3 billion a year.

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Brazil Agro

Nov 24, 2025

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9 min read

🐔 The EU’s U-turn on Brazilian poultry

After a seven-year suspension, Brazilian poultry will return to a pre-listing system that streamlines exports to the European Union.

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Brazil Business

Nov 19, 2025

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10 min read

💸 Chronic tax debtors

Large-scale investigations into organized crime’s money-laundering schemes gave momentum to a bill targeting companies that use tax delinquency as a business strategy.

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Brazil Agro

Nov 17, 2025

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9 min read

☔ Sowing risk

Despite its major farming sector, Brazil’s agricultural insurance market never fully developed, and crop coverage is at an all-time low.

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COP30

Nov 14, 2025

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16 min read

🔓 Is WhatsApp oversharing?

Meta under the data protection microscope in Brazil. A negotiating twist puts one of COP30’s key priorities at risk. Opinions are mixed on Brazil’s new streaming bill.

Euan Marshall, +2

Brazil Business

Nov 12, 2025

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9 min read

💼 From São Paulo to Wall Street

As the global IPO market rebounds, could US-based exchanges attract more Brazilian companies?

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Brazil Agro

Nov 10, 2025

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8 min read

🐟 Fishy dilemma

Brazil’s tilapia farming sector is thriving. But the fish isn’t native to the country, and its introduction has caused environmental issues.

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Brazil Daily

Nov 6, 2025

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18 min read

🤞 Unrealistic inflation expectations

An argument in favor of changing Brazil’s inflation target. Bolsonaro closer to serving his sentence. Reforming Brazil’s civil service is no easy task.

Gustavo Ribeiro, +2

Brazil Business

Nov 5, 2025

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9 min read

🏭 Falling behind

Brazil's manufacturing sector is lagging compared to other economies, amid contracting monetary policy and high-tech development abroad.

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Brazil Agro

Nov 3, 2025

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9 min read

🌾 Soybean wars are back

China and the US have struck a trade truce that includes ending the Chinese boycott of American soybeans. What does the new outlook mean for Brazilian farmers?

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Brazil Daily

Oct 30, 2025

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18 min read

⚰️ Necro-politics

The political project behind Tuesday’s bloody police operation in Rio. Brazil is facing a shortage of truck drivers. New defense budget gives Embraer more reasons to smile.

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