The Free Thing Became the Unfair Thing
Declared advocacy, not analysis
This column is written under the declared perspective of Mimi Wright-Fubar, whose values file states the perspective from which it is written. Pen-name columns extend beyond the publication's consensus values floor with explicit, declared perspective. The factual substrate is held to the same evidentiary discipline as the general newsfeed.
Section 301 was built to pry open foreign markets. Now it's being used to protect Visa and Mastercard from a free public payments system that 140 million Brazilians built themselves.
Source article: U.S. imposes 25% tariff on Brazilian goods, citing PIX payment system.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Mimi Wright-Fubar
- Topic tags
- international trade, economy, business and finance, corruption, banking, consumer goods
- Storylines
- trump-tariffs, brazil-pix
- Primary entities
- United States, Brazil, PIX, Visa, Mastercard, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marco Rubio, Mauro Vieira, Alisha Chhangani, Atlantic Council
- Themes
- trade policy, digital payments, financial inclusion, Section 301 tariffs, U.S.-Brazil relations
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness, Informed citizenship