In today’s issue: Escalating tensions at Brazil-Venezuela border a test for Bolsonaro. Initial roadblocks to the pension reform. Embraer could face competition from its own joint venture.
Escalating tensions at Brazil-Venezuela border a test for Bolsonaro
Nicolás Maduro has shut down the Venezuelan border with Brazil in an effort to prevent humanitarian aid to reach his country. The Brazilian government, however, has decided not to pull the plug on its plan to get food and medicine across the border. An Air Force plane is taking 22.8 tons of powdered milk and 500 first-aid kits to the city of Boa Vista. But in order to get the aid, Venezuelans will have to enter Brazil, get the goods, and try to cross the border again.
Mr. Maduro has been adamant against humanitarian aid—despite his country’s full-scale crisis, with food shortages and inflation rates reaching 1,370,000%. As aid missions have been organized by his opposition and financed by the U.S. (due to political disputes, international aid agencies such as the Red Cross have stayed on the sidelines), Venezuela’s anti-democratic leader sees it as a Trojan horse to oust him from power. In response, Mr. Maduro has sent tanks to the Brazilian border.
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