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Podcast: Carnival, cabinet and crisis

Podcast: Carnival, cabinet and crisis

Carnival is here, and it’s big business. Lula pulls the trigger and sacks his health minister. And STEM degrees are becoming less and less common in Brazil.

The Brazilian Report

Feb 28, 2025

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1 min read

Adventuring through the Canadian Rockies

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Keep Reading

Dec 12, 2025

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12 min read

💧 Water debts and dollar loans

The latest strife between Mexico and the US comes from a 1944 water-sharing agreement. And the hype around Argentina’s return to bond markets under Javier Milei.

Ignacio Portes, +1

Dec 12, 2025

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16 min read

🤖📝 Lula’s AI bill

The Brazilian government’s proposal for regulating AI. New tariffs for Brazil: this time from Mexico. One-third of Rio is under criminal control.

Gustavo Ribeiro

Dec 11, 2025

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14 min read

💣 Blowing up a river?

Plans to privatize parts of crucial Amazon tributaries could bring logistics gains, but also involve exploding a riverbed rock formation and casting the livelihoods of local communities into doubt.

Euan Marshall