# The Brazilian Report

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## Posts
- [🥃 A spirit without the pride](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/cachaca-spirit-without-the-pride): The number of cachaça producers is at an all-time high, but declared output fell by 16%, and exports remain a rounding error in the global spirits market.
- [🏊 Rio's Olympic decade](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/rio-2016-olympics-legacy-10-years-later): Rio de Janeiro marked 10 years since it hosted the Olympics. This week, we looked at what the Games left behind.
- [🔫 Bukele is not the benchmark](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/bukele-is-not-the-benchmark-upp-model-rio-de-janeiro): Rio proved that taking territory back from armed groups can work. Then it proved how fast the gains disappear, writes researcher Thiago Süssekind.
- [🥊 The badge and the robe](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/mendonca-pf-supreme-court-discord-ban-petrobras-profits): The Federal Police's feud with a Supreme Court justice. The government's move to block Discord. Petrobras's blockbuster quarter.
- [💦 Flying rivers, drying up](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/flying-rivers-drying-up-parana-amazon): Amazon deforestation is linked to falling rainfall in the Iguaçu River basin, the hydrological engine of southern Brazil's economy
- [🎫 Flying solo](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/flavio-bolsonaro-vp-alfredo-gaspar-lula-alcolumbre-new-polls): Flávio Bolsonaro unveils an underwhelming running mate. New polls point in different directions. Federal probes rattle Lula and Alcolumbre.
- [⏳ Punting the port](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/punting-the-port-of-santos-tecon-10): Tecon 10 in Santos will massively increase the capacity of Latin America's busiest port. It has also become a proxy fight over antitrust doctrine and presidential authority.
- [🇺🇸 The next escalation](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/us-brazil-ambassador-viotti-argentina-russia-putin): Washington's spat against Brazil continues. Brazil downgrades relations with Argentina. Lula calls Russia.
- [🗳 Election Observatory: Aug. 4](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/election-observatory-aug-4): Candidacies become official, coalitions fall into place and scandals break.
- [☁️ Cloudy terms](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/cloudy-terms-google-celepar): A no-bid deal turned Paraná's IT company into a Google reseller. Investigators are now looking at the arrangement
- [🧲 Joining the queue](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/rare-earths-posco-ai-election-covid-vaccine): Brazil makes another move on rare earths. The far right picks a fight it is likely to lose. The Supreme Court weighs whether to go around the electoral courts.
- [🥩 Still hungry for Brazil](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/mexico-us-beef-hungry-for-brazil): Feeder cattle from Mexico cannot refill American plants that Brazilian boxed beef already supplies.
- [⚔️ The retaliation dilemma](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/us-retaliation-dilemma-flavio-nexus-poll-pt-convention-lula-candidacy): The outlook for Brazil-US relations. Lula lays out his campaign blueprint. A new poll suggests a tightening race.
- [⏪ Remembering the Paraguayan War](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/remembering-the-paraguayan-war): A stray line from Lula about the Paraguayan War led Asunción to summon the Brazilian ambassador. The history behind it is less flattering to both countries than either likes to admit.
- [🏎️ Bearing the load](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/gabriel-bortoleto-audi-formula-1): Gabriel Bortoleto has scored 10 of the 12 points Audi has taken in its debut season as a Formula 1 works team.
- [📡 On the radar](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/thales-omnisys-radar-brazil-defense-market): Thales just made São Bernardo do Campo one of its global radar hubs, lifting output tenfold to 50 units a year
- [🇸🇬 First stop: Singapore](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/trade-deal-mercosur-singapore-economic-data-flavio-lula-election): A trade deal takes effect. What to expect from next week's central bank meeting. Volatility defines the 2026 race.
- [💨 Off-season storm](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/wind-storm-rio-sao-paulo-disaster-brazil): Rare July windstorms killed five people and cut power to half a million properties, days after Brasília unveiled a package built for a slower kind of disaster.
- [📝✨ Big Tech's wish list](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/big-tech-electoral-disinformation-polls-lula-flavio-paraguayan-war): Big Tech gets a looser rulebook on election disinformation. What the latest polls show. Lula angers Paraguay.
- [🏭 Old habits die hard](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/industrial-policy-trump-tariffs-lula-brazil-sovereign): A US tariff shock has Brazil reaching for industrial policy again — the same tool it's used for a century, usually without a deadline attached.
- [📣 The Bolsonaro who wasn't there](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/bolsonaro-ai-election-pix-us-imf-port-bahia-grains): An AI Bolsonaro tests Brazil's campaign rules. ICTSI buys into a Bahia port terminal. The IMF's assessment of Pix.
- [🗳 Election Observatory: Jul. 28](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/election-observatory-convention-flavio-milei-trump): Party conventions, diplomatic clashes, fears of interference.
- [🔐 All bark, no budget](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/brazil-data-protection-law-ahead-regulator-lgpd-anpd): The LGPD gave Brazil a European-grade privacy regime and almost none of the enforcement to go with it.
- [☎️ That's what Xi said](https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula-call-xi-jinping-south-korea-deals-wto-dispute-usa): The Lula-Xi call. Lula meets South Korea's president. Brazil challenges US tariffs at the WTO.