Brazil election rules trigger public data blackout

Brazil's electoral blackout period, enforced by Law 9,504/1997, has restricted access to government documents like the 2024-2035 Climate Plan, disrupting research and data retrieval for foreign and domestic analysts. Mexican researcher Adriana Dennise Rodríguez Blanco and environmental analyst Níckolas Castro Santana faced challenges accessing critical documents, relying on colleagues' pre-blackout copies to continue their work.