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Santiago Rodriguez

Santiago Rodriguez covers Altcoins, Sport News and Competitions.

Articles by Santiago Rodriguez

Brazil

Copom cuts Selic to 14.75 percent, opening the easing cycle

Brazil's central bank voted unanimously on March 18 to lower its key rate for the first time since the cycle peak — a cautious 25 basis points after five holds at 15 percent.

Santiago RodriguezSeptember 3, 2026

Brazil

Four-dollar coffee: how Brazil's weather became a global price

Brazil grows about a third of the world's coffee, and when drought and frost hit its arabica belt, futures set records and the world pays more. The mechanics of a market shock.

Santiago RodriguezAugust 22, 2026

Brazil

How Brazil became the world's soybean superpower — and what it costs

Around 170 million tonnes a year, most of it sold to China: the soy complex is Brazil's trade engine and its hardest environmental argument. The system, explained.

Santiago RodriguezJuly 16, 2026

Brazil

What is pre-salt, and why does it make Petrobras a dividend machine?

Beneath two kilometers of salt off Brazil's coast lies the oil that reset the country's economics. The geology, the politics and the payout, explained.

Santiago RodriguezJune 26, 2026

Brazil

The standing forest that pays: açaí and the Amazon's bioeconomy

Pará grows most of the world's açaí in floodplain agroforestry that keeps forest standing. Now the state is trying to scale the model beyond one berry.

Santiago RodriguezJune 14, 2026

Brazil

Sertanejo stadiums, funk charts: Brazilian music's export decade

Brazil is Latin America's largest recorded-music market, and after years streaming only its old canon abroad, its new genres are charting globally. How the business works now.

Santiago RodriguezApril 8, 2026