🦅 Inviting foreign interference
Flávio Bolsonaro’s controversial CPAC speech. The end of the INSS inquiry in Congress. Rio de Janeiro’s governor debacle.
In this issue
Flávio Bolsonaro’s controversial CPAC speech.
The end of the INSS inquiry in Congress.
Rio de Janeiro’s governor debacle.
🔮 What’s ahead this week
Politicians have until the end of the week to switch parties and/or resign from executive office to qualify for October’s elections. By next week, the field of congressional caucuses will have shifted, and the race for the presidency will come into sharper focus.
The Social Democratic Party (PSD) promised to name its presidential candidate by tomorrow. Its original pick, Paraná Governor Ratinho Júnior, withdrew to focus on his state — leaving a choice between the moderate Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite and the hard-right favorite, Goiás Governor Ronaldo Caiado (who polls between 1-3%).
Three companies are competing in an auction to renegotiate the concession for Rio’s Galeão International Airport — Brazil’s third-busiest, after Guarulhos and Congonhas, both in São Paulo. Bidding against the current operator, RIOGaleão, are Spain’s Aena and Switzerland’s Zurich Airport. RIOGaleão is a consortium of Brazilian asset manager Vinci Compass and Singapore’s Changi Airport Group. Bids will be revealed on Monday when envelopes are opened at the São Paulo stock exchange.
Flávio Bolsonaro offers Brazil’s mineral wealth to Trump
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in Texas on Saturday, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro stood before one of the most influential gatherings of the American right and made a seemingly unthinkable request for anyone trying to govern one of the world’s biggest democracies: he asked the United States to apply pressure on Brazilian institutions ahead of the October 2026 presidential election.
His pitch was crafted to strike a chord at the White House. If sycophancy and submission are the coin of the Trump realm, that is precisely what Flávio Bolsonaro offered.
