With 19 days left until the first round of the election, most candidates do not have campaign fund money to invest in, a Millennium Institute survey shows: 59% of eligible candidates still have not received funds. At the same time, about 3.4% of candidates received the equivalent of 90.7% of the allocated funds. In other words, 950 candidates had access to 2.5 billion reais. The study is based on information published by the Supreme Electoral Court.

expensive cargo

Brazil’s roads remain dangerous, according to new figures from the National General Insurance Federation. Cargo Protection Search recorded one of the largest gains in semester 1. The premiums collected from this insurance reached 2.6 billion reais, which is 22.3% more than in the same period in 2021.

spring-cleaning

Charging by @izanio_charges

For many years a fief of parties such as the PTB, MDB and PT, with records tracked in the pages of the police, the Correios were defeated under the command of General Floriano Peixoto, who took over in Bolsonaro’s government. The state-owned company on the privatization list now runs a billion-dollar-a-year surplus. And he began to pay bonuses of 400 reais to directors and about 100 reais to employees. This was not the case 10 years ago.

There are those who pay

The empty VistaJet air taxi ad that has been circulating in WhatsApp groups for several days shows that the market for millionaires is heating up. The company offered a Global 6000 aircraft for the Los Angeles-Guarulhos section on the September 7 holiday for R$667,000. And there were requests.

blue is balance

Maranhão’s parliamentary candidate, singer Manoel Gomes, famous for the song Caneta Azul, proved that the stupidity of the lyrics paid off. The former farm guard, who did not even have his own house, declared a TSE of goods worth 542,000 reais. And he has savings of 211,000 reais in Caixa, the bank he advertised on TV.

Forests on SOS

The forest is screaming for help. A proposal from the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) defining requirements and procedures for fighting forest fires has been approved by the International Organization for Standardization, and an ISO committee will begin deliberations on the standard next month. Brazil saw 1,661 km² of forest cleared in August, an 81% increase over the same period in 2021, according to the National Institute for Space Research.