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Podcast: O Pulo do Gato de 22/12/2025

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Why did Brazil's Supreme Court authorize Jair Bolsonaro's surgery while prosecutors seek to recover R$6.6 billion from pension fraud?

1. O Pulo do Gato on Rádio Bandeirantes aired its 22 December 2025 edition, presenting a morning news roundup in the final days before Christmas. 2. Host Silvânia Alves is joined by traffic reporter Luiz Felipe Nunes, political reporters Leandro Weisland and Afonso Marangoni, Europe correspondent Philip Keeling, weather analyst Jade Ramos of Climatempo, and financial educator Cíntia Sena. 3. The episode's core question is how key political and legal developments around former president Bolsonaro will unfold before the year's end. 4. Luiz Felipe Nunes opens by reporting normal traffic on the Castelo Branco, Anchieta-Imigrantes and Regis Bittencourt highways, and notes that São Paulo's municipal car rodízio is suspended from today until 9 January, resuming on 12 January. 5. STF minister Alexandre de Moraes authorised Bolsonaro to undergo surgery for a bilateral inguinal hernia after the PF's National Criminalistics Institute confirmed the need for the procedure as soon as possible; the Prosecutor-General must still approve the specific schedule. 6. Bolsonaro is currently held at the Federal Police superintendence in Brasília; the authorisation requires a further step from the PGR before he can travel to hospital. 7. The Advocacia-Geral da União filed the fourth and final judicial batch of actions to recover R$135 million from associations involved in illegal INSS discount schemes, bringing total court-sought asset freezes to R$6.6 billion, of which R$4.4 billion was granted but only R$514 million found. 8. The Senate approved the dosimetry bill 48-25 to reduce Bolsonaro's prospective sentence; Lula confirmed to journalists he will veto it before the 12 January deadline, after which Congress can override with 257 deputies and 41 senators. 9. STF minister Flávio Dino suspended an article in a tax-benefits bill that would have allowed resuscitation of cancelled parliamentary amendments, acting even before presidential sanction. 10. US forces intercepted a Panamanian oil-smuggling ship near the Venezuelan coast, the third such operation after two on the prior Saturday and 10 December, with the White House citing anti-narco-terrorism justification and Venezuela calling the actions piracy. 11. A police operation in Salvador, Bahia, killed one suspect and arrested another in connection with the murder of three internet technicians — Ricardo Souza, 44, Jackson Macedo, 41, and Patrick Horta, 28 — found shot with hands and feet bound, with the main motive under investigation as retaliation by a criminal group suspecting them of installing surveillance cameras. 12. Brazil's first commercial rocket launch from the Alcântara base in Maranhão, in partnership with South Korean company InnoSpace and the Brazilian Space Agency, was scheduled for 22 December at 3:45pm, marking Brazil's entry into the global commercial launch market after three prior postponements. 13. President Lula signed a law extending free SUS mammography to all women over 40; the previous Ministry of Health recommendation covered only women aged 50-69 every two years, with 4.4 million mammographies performed in 2024. 14. Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, held talks in Miami with Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umirov and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, describing them as productive around a 20-point plan, though no agreement was announced; Reuters reported Putin still intends territorial expansion beyond Ukraine. 15. Gold reached a session record of US$4,383.76 — over R$24,000 — driven by US labour market weakness raising Fed rate-cut expectations, surpassing the previous October record of US$4,381. 16. Financial educator Cíntia Sena noted the R$369 billion 13th-salary injection into the economy, with 31% of recipients from a 2024 Serasa survey using it to pay debts; she recommended mapping 2026 January expenses first. 17. Polícia Militar found a vehicle in São Paulo's Brooklyn district with an antenna and notebook intercepting telecom signals to send mass phishing SMS mimicking bank alerts; the operator confessed to earning R$1,500 weekly. 18. The programme moves rapidly from political and crime reporting to weather, lifestyle, and listener messages in a festive Christmas pre-holiday atmosphere. 19. The episode suits Portuguese-speaking Brazilian listeners following national politics, legal news around Bolsonaro, consumer-finance tips, and São Paulo local stories. 20. Listeners wanting in-depth geopolitical analysis or sports coverage will find this edition light on those topics given the pre-Christmas news cycle.

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