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Brazil

  • Wednesday, February 28th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    Uruguay's Labor Minister pledges crackdown on human trafficking

    Workers coming from other countries are at a greater risk of being overexploited, Mieres argued

    Uruguay's Labor Minister Pablo Mieres announced Tuesday that his agency would “increase surprise inspections,” it was reported in Montevideo. The measure was announced after the discovery of a human trafficking network in the mining sector of the department (province) of Artigas bordering both Argentina and Brazil.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

    Brazilian Police to include latest Bolsonaro speech as evidence

    In his speech Sunday, Bolsonaro admitted knowledge of a draft that provided for the decree of a state of siege

    Brazil's Federal Police (PF) will include former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro's speech on Sunday in Sao Paulo into the probe regarding the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising believed to have been an attempted coup d'état, Agencia Brasil reported Monday citing sources linked to the investigation.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2024 - 09:57 UTC

    Sao Paulo's main avenue packed with followers in support of Bolsonaro

    “I seek pacification, to erase the past and find a way for us to live in peace,” Bolsonaro told his followers

    Hundreds of thousands of people clad in Brazilian national team jerseys waving flags of the South American country and also of Israel gathered Sunday at Sao Paulo's Paulista Avenue to support former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro, who has been disenfranchised until 2030 and whose passport has been seized by the Supreme Federal Court (STF), thus banning him from traveling abroad except to neighboring nations where his ID card would be a valid document.

  • Monday, February 26th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Russian FM's plane went through déjà vu of Emtrasur case

    Lavrov's Il-96 had enough fuel to reach Casablanca

    According to aviation website reports, last week's G20 foreign ministers' summit in Rio de Janeiro came incredibly close to repeating the case of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 freighter sold by Iran's Mahan Air to Conviasa's cargo subsidiary Emtrasur, which was seized in Buenos Aires for about a year before being handed over to US authorities earlier this month.

  • Saturday, February 24th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    Hyundai pledges US$ 1.1 billion investment in Brazil until 2032

    The South Korean brand will focus particularly on hybrid, electric, and green hydrogen cars

    South Korean carmakers Hyundai announced this week a US$1.1 billion investment in Brazil during a meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Planalto Palace on Thursday, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, February 23rd 2024 - 11:07 UTC

    Brazil: Dino highlights separation of branches of gov't as he is sworn into the STF

    Dino filled the vacancy left by Rosa Weber, who retired in October last year

    Former Security Minister Flávio Dino said Thursday upon being sworn in as a Justice on the Supreme Federal Court that it was paramount for the country that each branch of government did its bit independently, Agencia Brasil reported. At 55, Dino has 20 years to serve on his bench until reaching the mandatory retirement age.

  • Friday, February 23rd 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Most G-20 FMs agree on two-state solution to Israeli-Palestine conflict

    Two states is “the only possible solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Vieira noted

    Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira G20 insisted Thursday in Rio de Janeiro during a summit of G-20 top diplomats that there seemed to be unanimous consensus as to what solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict should be: Two states. “There was virtual unanimity in support of the two-state solution as the only possible solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Vieira said.

  • Friday, February 23rd 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    No plans for refugees turned down by UK to end up in Paraguay

    Lord David Cameron and Foreign Minister Rubén Ramirez held a meeting on Tuesday.

    The British Embassy in Asunción Thursday denied press reports circulating in the Paraguayan capital according to which the South American country would be welcoming foreign refugees not accepted in the United Kingdom. The diplomatic mission insisted no negotiations in this regard had even been started and underlined that the sources and motives of Paraguayan outlets for publishing these reports were unknown to the legation.

  • Friday, February 23rd 2024 - 10:04 UTC

    Blinken says other issues need to be solved before tackling climate change

    Blinken was to arrive in Buenos Aires later this week for talks with President Javier Milei

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted Thursday in Rio de Janeiro during a press conference at the G-20 convention of Foreign Ministers that multilateral organizations need to solve armed conflicts worldwide before moving on to other agendas such as climate change and social development.

  • Thursday, February 22nd 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Host Vieira criticizes UNSC on first day of G-20 Foreign Ministers Summit

    Vieira said he hoped the meeting would help tackle world hunger

    Brazil's Mauro Vieira launched Wednesday the 2-day summit of G-20 Foreign Ministers in Rio de Janeiro by criticizing the paralysis of the United Nations Security Council in the face of the record number of conflicts in the world.