#LatAmReport: Audios allege that the US, Israel and Argentina are plotting to build a regional propaganda hub. And more warning signs about Latin America’s aging population. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/honduras-gate-trump-age-pensions-health

Compass, the gas distribution arm of the Cosan conglomerate, completed its initial public offering on Monday on B3, Brazil's only stock exchange — making it the first company to go public in São Paulo since 2021. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/brazil-ends-five-year-ipo-drought

#BrDaily: 🗳️What the Vorcaro leaks could mean for Flávio Bolsonaro’s candidacy going forward.  🚔Out of office for a matter of weeks, Rio’s ex-governor already faces police trouble. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/flavio-bolsonaro-dark-horse-claudio-castro-refit

#BrazilClimate: The extraction of rare earth elements is all the rage in Brazil and around the world. But the country’s urgency to extract these critical minerals leaves large environmental gaps. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/rare-earth-frenzy-risks-brazil

Yesterday's newsletter unpacked the power of incumbency in Brazil: controlling the purse strings gives a re-election candidate ample opportunities to manufacture feel-good economics on demand.  https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula-administration-keeps-electoral-toolbox-open

Far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro asked Banco Master — the fraud-ridden lender liquidated last year — for money to finance "Dark Horse," a hagiographic biopic of his father, according to new revelations. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/dark-horse-jim-caviezel-bolsonaro-propaganda

What you need to know in #Brazil today: 🪢Flávio Bolsonaro gets roped into the Banco Master scandal.  ⛽Lula’s latest fuel prices measure.  📈Brazil’s first IPO in half a decade. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/master-flavio-bolsonaro-fuel-prices-compass-ipo

#BrazilBusiness: Brazil's tax reform promises to simplify how companies pay taxes — with one notable exception: exporters. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/drawback-setback-tax-reform-trade

Consumer prices rose 0.67% in April, taking Brazil's official 12-month inflation gauge to 4.39% — closer and closer to the upper limit of the government's target band. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/cumulative-price-increases-help-explain-lula-popularity-troubles

São Paulo's state government has fined tech retailer Fast Shop BRL 1.04 billion (USD 212 million), the largest penalty ever imposed under Brazil's 2013 Anticorruption Law. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/electronics-retailer-gets-billion-real-fine-in-tax-probe

What you need to know in #Brazil today: 🧰Lula shows the tools that incumbents have at their disposal.  🥩A shock meat ban from the European Union.  📊Breaking down the latest inflation figures. Subscribe now https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula-polls-pandering-eu-beef-brazil-inflation-ipca

🗳 #ElectionObservatory:  The Banco Master scandal gets a new chapter. Lula launches a new initiative. by Paulo Abrão from Washington Brazil Office https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/election-observatory-may-12

Brazilians have been entering China visa-free since mid-2025. And as of this Monday, Chinese visitors have been able to do the same here, for stays of up to 30 days, through Dec. 31, 2026. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/brazil-temporarily-drops-visa-requirements-chinese-tourists

#BrazilAgro: Brazilian farmers are buying fewer homegrown machines as shrinking margins and a wave of cheaper imports from India and China reshape the market. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/farm-machinery-china-india-crops

⚖️Justice Nunes Marques to be sworn in as head of the electoral court.  💰A tax credits probe slaps a billion-real fine on retailer Fast Shop.  🛂China goes visa-free until the end of the year. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/tse-justice-leadership-election-tax-fraud-chinese-tourists-visa

For nearly seven decades, household cleaning product maker Ypê has lived a placid commercial life. But over the past few days, it became the country's newest partisan battleground. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/the-business-of-political-polarization

#BrDaily: 🗳️How Brazilians of varying political views consume information.  🧴Why a cleaning products scare became a political battleground.  🚔Police violence at Brazil’s most prestigious university. Subscribe now! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/political-polarization-social-media-usp-police

#GuideToBrazil: Amid changing geopolitical conditions, Brazil has altered its approach to the defense industry. We explain how. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/defense-policy-war-geopolitics

Editor-in-chief Gustavo Ribeiro sat down with historian James N. Green to unpack Lula's recent meeting with Donald Trump.  https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/podcast-lula-meets-trump-in-washington

#BrazilSports: Congressional aides describe how betting companies used a years-long regulatory gray area to get Brazil “addicted” to gambling — and its sponsorship money. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/betting-lobby-in-brasilia

#LatAmReport: An ethno-nationalist military leader complicates Sánchez’s presidential aspirations in Peru. And Mexico resists extraditing Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya to the United States. Subscribe now! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/inca-supremacy-pandora-ruben-rocha-moya-mexico

Chinese companies invested USD 6.1 billion in Brazil last year across 52 projects, up 45% from 2024 and the highest level in nearly a decade. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/chinese-investments-in-brazil-soar-so-does-soft-power

Anvisa, Brazil's health regulator, authorized local manufacturing of the world's first chikungunya vaccine on Monday, a decision that could bring the shot into the country's SUS universal public health system. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/chikungunya-vaccine-gets-regulatory-nod

What you need to know in #Brazil today: The lowdown from Lula’s meeting with Trump. And Brazil attracted big Chinese investment in 2025. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula-trump-meeting-china-investments-soft-power

#BrazilClimate: Brazil launched its new bioeconomy development plan last month, and the massive pirarucu river fish is at the center of the model’s first steps. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/pirarucu-amazon-bioeconomy

Daniel Vorcaro, the disgraced banker who led Banco Master, has filed a document with the Supreme Court detailing the crimes he is willing to admit and the co-conspirators he is willing to name. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/federal-police-op-turns-up-heat-vorcaro-key-senator

⛏️Lawmakers seek to create a critical minerals policy.  🏛️A prominent senator is targeted by a Banco Master police operation.  💉A step closer to a Chikungunya vaccine on Brazil's public system. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/rare-earths-critical-minerals-ciro-nogueira-master-vaccines

#BrazilBusiness: Brazil's oil-producing states and cities have collected royalties for decades — but after ten years of delays, the Supreme Court may finally weigh in on whether other governments deserve a share. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/oil-and-gas-energy-royalty-dispute

Brazil’s 2026 electoral contest is increasingly overlapping with a broader struggle for control over the country’s institutions.  https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/messias-supreme-court-lula-trump-meeting

#LatAmReport: The Venezuela-Guyana conflict over Essequibo reaches The Hague. And a sophisticated copper-thieving gang is busted in Chile. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/guyana-venezuela-essequibo-oil-chile-stolen-copper

#BrazilDaily Why it is premature to announce the death of “coalitional presidentialism” in Brazil, and what are the problems really facing the Lula government. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/political-system-congress-coalition-presidentialism

🗣️#WorldPortugueseLanguageDay:  Brazil, as with Portugal and seven other countries spread through Africa and Asia, has Portuguese as its official tongue. However, our language is by no means the same as that of our colonizers. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/brazilian-portuguese-language

After the Senate turned down President Lula's Supreme Court nomination, it teamed up with House members to override Lula's veto of a bill softening penalties for those convicted in the coup plot . https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/congress-slashes-coup-plot-sentences

#BrazilAgro: Brazil is on track for one of its smallest wheat harvests in five years, sharply increasing its import needs — and it may not be able to lean entirely on its largest trade partner to fill the gap https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/exports-imports-wheat-hormuz-argentina

What you need to know in #Brazil today: 💸The government has another go at untying the debt knot.  🤝The postponed Lula-Trump meeting is set to go ahead this week. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula-debt-relief-elections-trump-white-house-meeting

After more than 26 years of stop-start negotiations, the Mercosur-European Union trade agreement entered its commercial phase on Friday, May 1, creating one of the world's largest free-trade zones. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/mercosur-eu-trade-deal-begins

A leaked Pentagon memo suggesting that the Donald Trump administration is weighing a review of Washington's support for European “imperial possessions” has reverberated in Buenos Aires. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/milei-pins-malvinas-hopes-trump-clash-with-uk

What you need to know in #Brazil today: 💰More progress for Brazil’s tax reform.  🤝The Mercosur-EU trade deal goes online.  ✂️Congress to benefit Bolsonaro by cutting his coup sentence. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/tax-reform-supreme-court-senate-mercosur-eu

#GuideToBrazil: Brazil’s largest media group is no longer the absolute leader it once was. It is still a gigantic powerhouse. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/globo-hegemony-media-landscape

#BrazilSports: The foundations of Brazil’s top football clubs offer broad insight into how the sport developed in the country over generations. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/brazilian-football-club-origin-stories

#LatAmReport: Away from the consensus-driven COP talks, representatives of countries dead-set on eradicating fossil fuels met in the Colombian city of Santa Marta this week. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/argentine-falklands-malvinas-colombian-bomb-attacks

#BrazilClimate: Away from the consensus-driven COP talks, representatives of countries dead-set on eradicating fossil fuels met in the Colombian city of Santa Marta this week. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/santa-marta-coalition-fossil-fuel-deadlock

The Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) delivered the interest rate cut markets had overwhelmingly priced in — a quarter-percentage-point one, taking the Selic rate to 14.5%.  https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/central-bank-cuts-rate-but-message-hawkish

#BrazilBusiness: After an investment boom, the Brazilian private hospital market is seeing many players dump their assets for cents on the dollar.

What you need to know in #Brazil today: 🏛️The Senate rejects Lula's Supreme Court appointment.  🔮What will happen to Brazil's interest rates from here on out? Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/supreme-court-messias-lula-senate-interest-rates-inflation

Brazil’s 2026 election is becoming more competitive, but not clearer. The race remains in a state of equilibrium between the leading candidates, alongside high rejection rates and widespread voter indecision.  https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/2026-election-state-polls-governor

According to a Federal Police report sent to the Supreme Court, a federal tax auditor at the Catarina Executive Airport in the São Paulo city of São Roque waved through five pieces of luggage without an X-ray scan. https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/legislative-capture-with-caribbean-tan

🎙️#ExplainingBrazil: Why Pix bothers the Trump administration? 🔗Subscribe to our newsletters now and listen to the full podcast here 👉 https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/podcast-troubled-ahead-for-brazil-us-relations

🏦The Brasília government wants Lula to bail out BRB.  ✈️A flight from Sint Maarten encapsulates Brazil’s problem with lobbying.  🚨A customs scandal in Rio de Janeiro. Subscribe now and read more! https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/brb-bank-lula-port-rio-de-janeiro-customs-betting-scandal

Brazil's Workers' Party closed its eighth national congress on Sunday with a manifesto aimed less at its own base, than at the moderate conservatives  https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula-workers-party-trims-sails-calls-introspection