October 2026
7.11 Murky items (continuing after 53)
54. A US-led coalition that Brazil is not in put two Brazilian gangs (PCC, CV) on its 24-group target list. Documented (Al Jazeera); the operational meaning is unclear. 55. USTDA's data-center aid is "available only to American companies", and Nvidia GPU export approvals are bundled in for an aligned state (Paraguay). Documented (USTDA; BNamericas). 56. A 1 GW data center planned for Paracatu (MG) belongs to a BlackRock arm. The council learned of it from reporters, and the town sits in declared water-conflict areas. Documented (Mongabay/Intercept). 57. Brazil's audit court found that the contract for US-run government cloud servers inside Brazil allows foreign orders under laws "como o CLOUD Act". Documented (TCU 1380/2026, para 101). 58. The same state cloud also runs Huawei Cloud Stack (Serpro and Dataprev) alongside AWS, Google and Oracle. Documented (TCU); this is the hedge that a US "trusted stack" policy is designed to end. 59. A presidential candidate pledged, at a Christian Zionist "faith-based diplomacy" summit abroad, to sign the Isaac Accords and move the embassy "já em 2027", "ao lado do presidente Milei" and perhaps of his father, Jair Bolsonaro, whose STF coup conviction (27 years 3 months) became final on 25 Nov 2025 and who has been under humanitarian house arrest since 24 Mar 2026 (v9 §6). Flávio himself is under the Dark Horse inquiry, uncharged. Documented (VEJA full speech). 60. Trump pardoned a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking while his endorsed candidate's count was disputed. Documented (via search extracts; Reuters blocked). 61. Peru's runoff was decided by 49,641 votes, and about six weeks after the inauguration the new government joined the Shield, then signed an MoU to import US AI. Documented (JNE; Wikipedia/Reuters; BNamericas). 62. The headline investment for Pecém differs by nearly three times between the company (R$200bn+) and g1 (R$580bn). Documented discrepancy; unexplained. 63. A viral "data centers are a fraud" testimony came from a vendor of a competing technology, filed in a transmission-line case for landowners. The vendor previously ran voter-roll analyses promoted as exposing "leftist vote fraud". It was amplified by a QAnon-styled account. Documented (PUC filing; American Thinker; X).