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☀ Domingo Brief — Peru’s Presidential Prison

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August 24, 2025 • Reading Time: 3 minutes

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! This week, we’re keeping up with Lula’s tariff relief plan, Maduro’s asset seizures, and more.

Trivia of the Week 🎯

A measly 5% of you correctly guessed Argentina as the only Latin American country to have already hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) more than once. Both the 1998 and 2004 sessions (COP4 and COP10) were held in Buenos Aires. Mexico previously hosted COP16 in 2010 in Cancún, while Peru hosted COP20 in 2014 in Lima. After previously being supposed to host in 2019, Brazil will now be hosting the Conference for the first time in November, in the northern Amazon city of Belém.

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🇧🇴 Rodrigo Paz obtained around 32% of the vote in the first round of the country’s presidential election as the candidate of the Christian Democratic Party. The centrist lawmaker, a Bolivian-Spanish dual national whose father served as the 60th President of Bolivia between 1989-1993, will now be advancing towards an October run-off election against conservative ex-president Jorge Quiroga (2001-2002).

Latinometrics: A second round between Paz and Quiroga represents a sharp defeat for Bolivia’s political left, which has been dominant in the country for nearly twenty uninterrupted years. The ruling party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), was hurt by a schism between its leaders (Evo Morales and Luis Arce), a call by Morales to boycott the vote, and the country being in dire economic straits. Both Paz and Quiroga have cited economic recovery as a top priority.

🇧🇷 Brazil will open a Customs and Tax Administration Office in China. This will be the fifth such overseas trade office, designed to facilitate logistics and reduce bureaucratic hurdles, for Brazil, following similar ones in Washington, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Asunción. China has been Brazil’s largest trade partner since 2009, with bilateral trade topping $158B last year. Nearly 30% of all Brazilian exports go to China, while rare-earth mineral exports in particular have tripled in value so far this year.

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