Brazil

Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 14:53 UTC
Cambridge Analytica partner in Brazil under prosecutor investigation

Brazilian prosecutors on Wednesday said they had opened an investigation into whether London-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica acted illegally in Brazil, as controversy over the firm’s data harvesting practices spreads across the globe.
Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 14:26 UTC
Lula could have to begin serving his 12-year sentence next week

Brazilian federal appeals court will make a final ruling next week on a corruption conviction of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a decision that could see the popular politician ordered to prison shortly afterward, the court’s press office said on Wednesday.
Tuesday, March 20th 2018 - 10:20 UTC
“There is simply no time to lose” to avert the loss of water supplies

The world must race to avert disastrous loss of water supplies, Brazil's President Michel Temer told a conference Monday, after the UN said some 5.7 billion people may run short of drinking water by 2050.
Tuesday, March 20th 2018 - 08:16 UTC
Lula begins tour of south Brazil and meets Mujica, but it was a bad day for both leaders

Protesters interrupted the start on Monday of an election campaign tour by former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, who leads opinion polls but faces a lengthy jail sentence for corruption. Police had to intervene to separate some 150 protesting farmers and Lula's supporters in Bage, where the populist leader was starting a bus tour of southern Brazil ahead of October 7 elections.
Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:45 UTC
Brazil's giant meat packer JBS sells feed-lot assets in several US states

It took about eight months, but Brazil's giant meat packing industry JBS is finally free of its Five Rivers Cattle Feeding operations. The Greeley-based company in Colorado had planned since last June to sell its massive cattle feeding operations, which span six states including Colorado. The deal became final and closed on Friday.
Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:41 UTC
If visiting Brazil get yellow fever shots, recommends CDC, outbreak has spread to urban areas

Travelers to Brazil are being warned to vaccinate themselves against yellow fever due to an outbreak of the disease in urban areas, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned in a press release on Friday.
Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:30 UTC
Lula da Silva “ready” to go to jail and become Brazil's first political prisoner in 21st century

Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva launched a book Friday in which he says he is “ready” to go to jail and serve a 12-year and one-month sentence on a corruption charge conviction.
Friday, March 16th 2018 - 09:36 UTC
Rio's military intervention questioned following the killing of a popular councilor and activist

Crying, chanting and screaming in anger, thousands gathered in front of the Rio de Janeiro state legislature on Thursday to say goodbye to a black city councilwoman shot in the head four times, a brazen murder that shocked Brazil and raised questions about the effectiveness of a military intervention in the country's second biggest city.
Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:25 UTC
Key aide of Temer indicted on corruption charges for illegal funding from Odebrecht

A key aide of Brazil’s President Michel Temer has been indicted on charges of corruption and money-laundering. Senator Romero Juca, one of the major architects of the Temer administration’s reform agenda and an advocate for central bank independence, is being charged with soliciting illegal campaign funding of construction company Odebrecht in return for political favors.
Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:20 UTC
Temer insists with a vote in Congress on pensions' reform next October

Brazilian President Michel Temer said that he could lift the federal military intervention in Rio de Janeiro state by October to allow for a pension reform vote in Congress.