With President Trump on their side, U.S. technology companies now have more leverage in Brazil, where they seek to influence new rules policing their platforms.
The Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order could complicate efforts to negotiate over President Trump’s punishing tariffs, set to go into effect this week.
Former President Jair Bolsonaro, whose case has partly motivated President Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, was ordered to remain under house arrest as he awaited trial.
Latin America’s biggest economy can weather the shock of a high tariff rate. But American coffee lovers and Brazilian ranchers are likely to feel the pain.
Workers stockpiled coffee bean bags in Vila Valerio, northern Espírito Santo, Brazil in July. Brazil is the world’s biggest exporter of coffee beans and a major supplier to the U.S. market.
The White House hit Brazil on Wednesday with a 50 percent tariff and sanctions on a justice overseeing investigations into former President Jair Bolsonaro.
The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution.
A heart-shaped Jacuzzi in one of the luxury suites in the Secreto, a love motel in Belém, Brazil. The motels typically charge by the hour for people who want to use the rooms for romantic assignations.
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