The Neoenergia concession renewal triggered a R$47 billion ($9.5 billion) five-year investment commitment announced on May 8 across four Brazilian electricity distributors as their 30-year concession contracts move toward signature. Coelba in Bahia leads the package with R$25 billion ($5.1 billion) in capital expenditure through 2030, followed by Cosern in Rio Grande do Norte at […]

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Key Points —Peru’s foreign and defence ministers resigned on April 22 after accusing interim president José María Balcázar of lying to the country about whether the US$3.5 billion F-16 contract had been signed. —The first contract phase — twelve F-16 Block 70 aircraft worth US$1.54 billion — had already been signed at Base Aérea Las […]

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Key Points —The Brazilian Navy formally commissions its first Tamandaré-class frigate, the F200, in Rio de Janeiro on April 24 — the first vessel of the program delivered since contracts were signed in 2020. —President Lula signed a Letter of Intent in Hannover on April 20 for a second batch of four additional frigates, with […]

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Key Points — Brazil and the European Union have formalized a critical-minerals task force with four specific projects currently under evaluation, according to Valor Econômico reporting published Wednesday from the Hannover Messe 2026. The structure turns the broader Brazil-EU rare-earths conversation into an operational framework aligned with the Mercosur-EU free-trade agreement entering provisional implementation on […]

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