Brazil has made taxing the super-rich its rallying call for this year's G-20. With María Eloísa Capurro bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

To save the planet's poorest citizens, Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo tells the G-20 to slap a climate tax on billionaires.
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Elon Musk has put Brazil's Supreme Court in the global spotlight as it ramps up its fight against online disinformation.

Fascinating look into the powerful institution at the center of just about everything in Brazil these days from Daniel Carvalho:

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Hola Marta Lagos soy un periodista de Bloomberg News. Podias seguirme para mandarte un mensajito? Gracias!

Latin America’s leaders can’t seem to stop insulting each other. Ryan Dube with the A-Hed. wsj.com/world/insults-…

Crime fears that have dominated LatAm politics of late are now voters’ top concern in Brazil, even with homicides on the decline.

Andy Rosati explores why, & why Lula’s worried he’s losing the narrative. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Probably my last story out of Brazil, before focusing on French news from Paris.
A Rio councilwoman's killing was a mystery. An arrest gave a peek at corruption keeping it unsolved. W/ ⁦David Biller⁩ apnews.com/article/e71713…

Crime has surged to the forefront of Brazilians’ minds in recent months, supplanting economic issues as their top concern. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics Andy Rosati Travis Waldron

Brazil tapped Gabriel Zucman, the French economist whose reseach shaped the presidential campaigns of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, to help push a plan for a minimum wealth tax on the world's billionaires. W/ María Eloísa Capurro (Gift link!) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In his first spell as Brazil’s president, Lula managed to keep both low-income voters and Wall Street investors happy. In his first year back in power, he’s pulled off the same rare trick, Andy Rosati María Eloísa Capurro report bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The G-20 searches for its purpose as wars upend global politics bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Andy Rosati Simone Iglesias Arne Delfs

Statements by Brazil's Lula on Israel are a test for G-20, as global conflicts and crises have turned a typically sleepy gathering of foreign ministers taking place in Rio into a high-stakes affair, write Simone Iglesias and Andy Rosati bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg Politics

Rocío San Miguel is one of the most respected and knowledgeable experts on Venezuela. She has stayed in her country through the worst years of depression and political crisis. Very saddened to see that repression has finally reached her.

Technocrats and policymakers are struggling to gauge the digital creator economy. The head of Brazil's stats institute wants new methods to measure one the world's fastest-growing influencer economies, a push that's drawing criticism
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IBGE chief Marcio Pochmann wants to update the methodology used by Brazil's statistics agency to better measure the digital economy. Critics of the heterodox economist say the push may erode IBGE's credibility bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics Andy Rosati Travis Waldron

Well-reported, important story by Eléonore Hughes
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A son of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is among the targets of a police operation in Rio de Janeiro as an investigation widens into the alleged misuse of the country’s spying agency. W/ Andy Rosati bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Bolsonaro family targeted in yet another police operation in Brazil.

Authorities searched home and office of Carlos Bolsonaro, son of the former president, in Rio as part of a probe into alleged misuse of the country’s spy agency. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Bolsonaro's son Flavio tells Daniel Carvalho & Andy Rosati that the Brazilian right 'has to be more center-right' in upcoming elections.

But that raises a big question: Can Bolsonarismo undergo a rebrand while Bolsonaro remains its leader?
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The fiery Brazilian right-wing movement ignited by Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 ascent to the presidency is seeking a rebrand bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics with Andy Rosati Travis Waldron Walter Brandimarte