The Long Arm

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! The cast this week: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro face Brazil's voters today, two days after Washington suspended its consular services Toyota gets in where Ford and Renault stayed out Cosco won a judge's ruling on its megaport, and now Washington has come for the judge Havana lets foreign companies do three things that used to need a state middleman Delcy Rodríguez sends an FBI most-wanted suspect to a court in Nebraska Ebanx puts a one-year-old payment system up against Brazil's Pix BTG Pactual wins a license to bank a neighbor's biggest companies Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures back a fintech with BMW and H&M on its client list Plus much more, including a government putting its citizenship up for sale, the startup that buys the used phones Samsung and Falabella take at the register, and a wheat with up to ten times the usual fiber, each story in about half a minute.

Each Sunday issue of the Domingo Brief curates the most important stories shaping Latin America — economics, politics, business, and markets — with original Latinometrics data analysis on every story, plus venture-capital and startup funding updates, a trivia question, and curated reading picks sourced from the best local and international outlets.