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🧠 Lula undergoes emergency head surgery

🧠 Lula undergoes emergency head surgery

Lula rushed to the hospital. Fresh inflation data. The new tax reform draft. A new currency “normal”

Gustavo Ribeiro

Dec 10, 2024

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