This article (with a lot of ads) describes Monero rather positively. -The Brazilian government expects to preserve the fiat legal expectations on its digital version including the ability to freeze accounts -The use of privacy coins is expected to remain high despite the government’s launch of CBDC to counter digital assets.

privacy-centric digital assets – like Monero, Dash, and Zcash – have been slammed for enabling illegal activities including terrorism, drug and firearm trafficking. Nonetheless, there is a genuine need for privacy-centric digital assets to enable transactions for people who want to protect their personal details from big data exploitations.

The Brazilian public who feel not to use digital Real will always have an option of using privacy-centric crypto assets like Monero (XMR)

See also: https://nitter.net/vinibarbosabr/status/1679458067883098116

CONFIRMED! The Central Bank of Brazil will be able to freeze accounts and arrest values even in the final version of #RealDigital (Brazilian #CBDC).

I would like to hear thoughts about this especially from ordinary Brazilians…

PS (July 21, 2023) Currently Brazilian Real (BRL) is the 4th most popular currency on Bisq - offers by currency (#1 is XMR, #2 is EUR, #3 is USD). I wonder if Haveno is going to support BRL?