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Aimlessly wandering Latin America since the 90’s. Stories to be told.

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Off the beaten track. Mato Grosso 🇧🇷🌎

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@rocknrollofall Romeo & Juliet - Dire Straits

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@vxylily A Wolverhampton accent

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@DireStraits77 Amen 🙏

[Drew Crawford @drewcrawford_]

Brazil is the world's largest exporter of unmanufactured tobacco leaf.

The country has held that position for 33 consecutive years, since 1993.

In 2025, Brazil exported a record 561,000 tons of tobacco leaf to 121 countries, generating 3.38 billion U.S. dollars in revenue.

That broke the previous record of 3.27 billion U.S. dollars set in 2012.

The largest buyers in 2025 were Belgium, China, Indonesia, the United States, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.

Europe was the top destination, accounting for 41 percent of export value.

About 95 percent of Brazilian tobacco is grown in three southern states: Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná.

The 2024/2025 harvest was produced by 138,020 family farms with an average size of about 15 hectares each.

The tobacco production chain employs approximately 626,000 people in rural Brazil.

The largest Brazilian tobacco company is BAT Brasil, formerly known as Souza Cruz, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco since 1914.

BAT Brasil operates the largest cigarette manufacturing complex in Latin America, in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, with combined Brazilian production capacity above 100 billion cigarettes per year.

The leaf that fills cigarettes in London, Beijing, Cairo, Jakarta, and Lagos was almost certainly grown by a small family farm in southern Brazil.

The Brazilian tobacco sector generated about 17 billion reais in tax revenue for the federal government in 2024.

The largest tobacco export supply chain on Earth is anchored in 138,000 family farms across three Brazilian states.

The world's most consolidated agricultural export sector has been hiding in plain sight for 33 years.

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@cultra @loganflatt 🤔😆

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@TheLatamGuy Latam

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Brazil are good enough to win the cup btw. The problem with them is always that they are way too emotional. At least 3 players will be bawling their eyes out during the national anthem before a group game against fucking Haiti.

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@wander_investor Pleased you’re ok man. Hell of an ordeal, I’m sure.

[lusso @luusssso]

The Brazilians don’t get enough credit for basically inventing Tropical Brutalism

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@Gringopaisa19 I agree with you. Peru is so underrated. Lima is fantastic!

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@JgSzymon @VintageRockN_85 Correct! The best 🎸

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@vicale UK Barr none

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@iamGermania All the more for the rest of us, then. Yum 😋

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@DeyvisMaltaX Brunette 😋

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@ZGoldenberg

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@MartienBall They can have him

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@PintsO_Guinness England, Germany, Belgium

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@cositamosha_fan Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia.

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@hikingview As a Brit that’s lived here for nearly 30 years, I’ve never seen this view… wow

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@petercrouch Adidas every time