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Brazil's beef billionaires just bought a missile maker

Avibras's Astros artillery rocket system. Photo: AVB

Joesley and Wesley Batista built one of the world's great fortunes out of slaughterhouses. Their next act involves rocket artillery.

On August 21, Globe Investimentos — the brothers' personal investment vehicle, the same one they used to buy into the steelmaker Usiminas — announced it is acquiring 100% of…

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