Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In New York, I'm John Fassman.

And in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Miami isn't just the best place in America to get a Cuban coffee.

It's more of a Latin American commercial hub than any city in Latin America.

A continuing political upheaval further south is only going to make Miami more important

to the region.

And if you're driving through France this summer, you may notice an unusually large number

of bridges under construction.

They're not for cars, or even for people at all.

They're built for wildlife to try to reduce the number of animals killed by drivers.

But first, more than 100 days into the Warren, Ukraine, and the biggest sanctions program

ever imposed on a major economy is still being tightened.

America and Europe have frozen Russia's currency reserves, while global businesses have

left the country.

32 years after the first McDonald's opened in Russia, the franchise has resolved to

a Russian oligarch.

On Sunday, the company began operating under a different name.

On June 3rd, the European Union joined American Britain in placing a partial embargo on Russia's

oil exports.

The EU also cut off Sterebank, Russia's biggest lender from the Swift Interbank messaging

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