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Get ready, Brazil. The ‘good mosquitoes’ are coming : Goats and Soda  NPR Source link

Orange juice prices could rise by 20% to 25%, according to Johanna Foods, a small U.S. business suing the White House over tariffs threatened against Brazil. President Donald Trump said in a July 9 letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that he would apply a 50% tariff to all imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1. Trump said the …

Jeff Yerxa, co-owner of Lost Sock Roasters, shows bags of coffee beans, many from Brazil, at the company’s warehouse in Washington, D.C. The looming threat of a 50% tariff on all goods from Brazil — the world’s largest coffee producer — has sent shock waves through the U.S. coffee industry. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR At a …

Column | Trump’s bullying of Brazil is backfiring  The Washington Post Brazil’s President Lula says Trump was ‘not elected to be emperor of the world,’ as US-Brazil spat escalates  CNN Trump’s tariff threat pushes Lula’s popularity and worsens legal troubles for Brazil’s ex-leader  AP News Trump Administration Initiates Trade Investigation of Brazil  The New York Times Brazil Weighs Measures on US Dividends, Tech Firms, …

Authorities accuse Bolsonaro of working with US to impose Brazil sanctions, as Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs. Federal police have raided the home and headquarters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, with authorities ordering him to wear an ankle monitor amid concerns he may flee the country. Police in a statement on Friday said they had issued search warrants ordered …

CNN  —  Police in Brazil swooped on the home and political headquarters of Jair Bolsonaro early Friday, searching the properties, ordering the former president to wear an electronic ankle tag, barring him from speaking to foreign officials or approaching embassies and prohibiting him from using social media. The restrictions, ordered by Brazil’s Supreme Court, were motivated by concerns that Bolsonaro …

Trump’s Brazil Tariff Threats Rekindle Support for President Lula  The New York Times US launches probe into Brazil’s trade practices  CNN Trump’s Brazil tariffs are ‘grotesquely illegal,’ says Nobel Prize-winning economist  NPR Lula’s approval ticks up in Brazil after Trump threatens tariffs, poll shows  Reuters Brazil matters. Trump is right to interfere in its political, economic business | Opinion  Miami Herald Source link

Lula’s approval ticks up in Brazil after Trump threatens tariffs, poll shows  Reuters Trump Administration Initiates Trade Investigation of Brazil  The New York Times ‘The president is pissed’: Trump’s Brazil tariff threat is part of a bigger geopolitical dispute  Politico Trump’s new political tariff pageantry hits Brazil — and American consumers  The Hill Brazil matters. Trump is right to interfere in its political, economic …

Silvana Marques was one of thousands of Brazilians who flocked to São Paulo’s most famous art museum one afternoon last week. But the 51-year-old teacher wasn’t there to marvel over fog-filled London landscapes at Masp’s new Monet retrospective. She had come to join a protest heaping scorn on Donald Trump. Beneath the museum’s brutalist hulk, Marques spotted a cardboard effigy …

Trump Administration Initiates Trade Investigation of Brazil  The New York Times Trump’s Brazil tariffs are ‘grotesquely illegal,’ says Nobel Prize-winning economist  NPR Brazilian meatpackers rethink beef exports to US after tariffs, industry lobby says  Reuters Head of Trump’s economic council circles around questions on 50 percent tariff on Brazil  Politico Brazil matters. Trump is right to interfere in its political, economic business | Opinion  Miami …