Happy New Year!. Dear readers, let´s welcome the new year 2026 with the holy spirit of Christ, a renewed vitality that can help us to rekindle our love for God, our loved ones, and our passion to protect the beauty of our planet.

Today is the first master class of 2026. However, it is simply the continuation of what we have been working on since last year. We promise to conclude this mega saga with clear and robust conclusions by March. But we truly needed to extend. If we want to have a good result with all our studies and analysis, we are obliged to grind as much as we can beforehand.

Our document for the strategic reflections of Monday is shown below. The agenda for today is defined in three subjects: (1) General Discussion about the Primitive Sugar Value Chain; (2) The rise of sugar crops in the West Indies, between 1500 and 1900; and (3) The Brazilian Business Model of sugar plantations. As usual, please, we kindly encourage you to read this material and pursue additional research in each of the slides. Feel free to discuss the content with your friends, professors, colleagues, and family. We are arriving at the essential core of all these 4 previous seasons.

We kindly request that you return next Monday, January 12, 2026, to review our additional strategic reflections on this chapter.
We encourage our readers to familiarize themselves with our Friday master class by reviewing the slides over the weekend. We expect you to create ideas that may or may not be strategic reflections. Every Monday, we upload our strategic inferences below. These will appear in the next paragraph. Only then will you be able to compare your own reflections with our introspection.

Additional strategic reflections on this episode. These will appear in the section below on Monday, January 12th, 2026.

Announcement. This is our first publication of 2026. We are blessed with your attention and presence.
We expect this season to be one of the most thoughtful of all. We will close more than a year of analysis and study, and we can´t take it lightly. Our next publication will focus on the Dutch and British sugar plantation business models.

Closing words.
This chapter marks the beginning of our attention to the production of Sugar in Spanish America. As we stated last year, the production of sugar in the Kingdom of Guatemala was not as relevant as that of Brazil and the Caribbean Islands. For this reason, we have refocused all our attention on comprehending the original 5 sugar business models of the 5 main empires: British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. Today, we started with Brazil. All of them produced the same commodity, but differently.

Musical Section.
During our closing bonus season V, we will return to the symphonic philarmonic or camera orchestra compositions.

We have chosen the Neojiba Orquestra Juvenil da Bahia, interpreting the piece Aquarela do Brasil from Ary Barroso. Enjoy!

Thank you for reading http://www.eleonoraescalantestrategy.com. It is a privilege to learn. Blessings.

Sources of reference and Bibliography utilized today. All are listed in the slide document. Additional material will be added when we upload the strategic reflections.

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