President Jair Bolsonaro campaigned on a promise to overturn the country’s political patronage, but as his popularity has
slipped he has come to need it. The
latest bids to return to commercial supersonic flight look promisingly quieter, cheaper and perhaps even more sustainable. And our correspondent reflects on the
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