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🏥 Morbid markets

Investors get excited as Lula goes back under the knife. The Central Bank’s aggressive rate hike. And a conservative presidential hopeful is convicted of electoral transgressions

Gustavo Ribeiro, Isabela Cruz & Letícia Arcoverde

Dec 12, 2024

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12 min read

Keep Reading

May 30, 2026

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8 min read

💛 More than a shirt

Designed via a newspaper competition, Brazil’s yellow national football team shirt is a global icon. Here’s the history behind the world-famous garment.

Euan Marshall

May 29, 2026

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5 min read

🫰 Colombia’s vote, Noboa’s loans

Abelardo de la Espriella is the favorite to face Iván Cepeda in a runoff in Colombia. And Ecuador returns to international bond markets after painful subsidy cuts.

Ignacio Portes, +1

May 29, 2026

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7 min read

🏷️ Terrorist label, economic landmine

The US will label Brazil’s two biggest criminal organizations as terrorist groups. But what does that really mean for the country? And we analyze the latest GDP figures.

Gustavo Ribeiro

🚜 The ‘unimaginable setback’ of Agro Week

May 28, 2026

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6 min read

🚜 The ‘unimaginable setback’ of Agro Week

Brazil’s agro caucus pushed through a quartet of bills last week, weakening environmental oversight. We take them apart, and explain why the industry may have shot itself in the foot.