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Montevideo, January 10th 2026 - 08:05 UTC

Brazil

  • Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 07:15 UTC

    Temer's time running out; economic reforms delayed; possible names to succeed the discredited president

    ”This clandestine recording was manipulated and tampered, clearly with devious intentions,” Temer charged.

    Demonstrators marched across Brazil on Sunday calling for the resignation or ouster of President Michel Temer who is implicated in a widening corruption scandal that is undermining his government's fragile efforts to end a historic recession. Protests took place in cities including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where hundreds of demonstrators marched along the shoreline, chanting and waving banners reading “Temer Out!”

  • Sunday, May 21st 2017 - 12:08 UTC

    Temer on the cliff fearful of more tapes. Lula and Rousseff accused of receiving US$ 150 million for campaigns

    Joesley Batista claim that their firm funneled around US$150 million to Lula and Rousseff for their presidential campaigns .

    President Michel Temer faced new pressure to resign Friday, after Brazil’s supreme court said prosecutors are investigating him for obstruction of justice and corruption, and a government witness claimed his company paid US$1.5 million to Temer in bribes. A day after the release of surreptitious audio recordings in which Temer seemed to condone a criminal cover up in the “Car Wash” investigation, the court released testimony accusing him of soliciting illegal payments from meatpacking firm JBS.

  • Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 22:22 UTC

    Temer rejects calls for stepping down: “I will not resign. I repeat, I will not resign”

    “At no time did I authorize the paying of anyone,” Temer said emphatically, raising his voice and pounding his index finger against the podium.

    Brazilian President Michel Temer on Thursday rejected calls for his resignation, saying he will fight allegations that he endorsed the paying of hush money to an ex-lawmaker jailed for corruption. The embattled leader spoke in a national address after Globo newspaper reported Wednesday night that Temer was recorded supporting payments to former Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha.

  • Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 10:56 UTC

    Brazilian ambassador will return to Venezuela next week

    Both countries recalled their ambassadors in August 2016 during a row over the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and her replacement by Michel Temer.

    Brazil's ambassador to Venezuela, withdrawn last year during tensions between the two neighbors, will return to Caracas next week, Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said Wednesday.“Next Monday, the ambassador of Brazil will return to his place in Venezuela as a gesture of goodwill,” Jungmann told journalists in Brasilia.

  • Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 10:36 UTC

    Brazil faces humanitarian crisis in Venezuelan border as thousands spill over

    “Evidently we are worried and our biggest concern is the humanitarian situation,” Brazilisn Defense minister Jungmann told reporters.

    Brazil is concerned about growing numbers of refugees spilling over its border from Venezuela and is creating a plan to deal with a possible mass influx if the crisis in Venezuela worsens, Brazilian Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said on Wednesday.

  • Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 09:03 UTC

    Seism in Brazil: Temer could soon be joining Rousseff at the removed ex presidents' club

    Meatpacking giant JBS, Joesley Batista, met with Temer on March 7, and secretly recorded telling Temer he was paying money to buy the silence of Eduardo Cunha.

    Brazil's President Michel Temer faced calls for his removal Wednesday after a newspaper reported that he had been recorded discussing payments of hush money to a corrupt politician. Temer immediately denied the report in O Globo newspaper.

  • Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 21:15 UTC

    Something smells rotten in Brazilian food companies: probes into bribed inspections

    The investigations have shaken confidence in Brazil's once-solid agricultural sector, leading some countries to suspend imports of Brazilian meat

    Brazilian police on Tuesday opened two separate investigations into whether certain food companies improperly received favorable treatment from the Agriculture Ministry, the latest probe ensnaring the powerful farming sector. The probes into whether inspection procedures were relaxed for meatpacking, dairy and other food companies come two months after industry leaders JBS SA and BRF SA were rocked by allegations of bribing food inspectors.

  • Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 17:44 UTC

    .Brazil seems to be climbing out of the worst recession in history

    Conservative President Michel Temer’s government has been talking up a slow easing of the economic crisis with a return to growth this year.

    Brazil is set to show a return to growth, the Central Bank indicated Monday, raising hopes that Latin America’s biggest economy could be inching out of a two-year recession.

  • Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 15:53 UTC

    Petrobras performance improving: largest quarterly earnings in two years

    Petrobras has benefited in recent quarters from a hands-off approach by the government regarding fuel prices, which it has been forced to subsidize at times.

    Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras reported its largest quarterly earnings in two years as crude prices rose and the government allowed it to sell fuel at a profit in the domestic market. Petrobras posted a 4.5 billion reais net profit (US$ 1.4bn) in the January to March period, reversing a 1.25 billion reais loss (US$ 400 million) in the first three months of 2016.

  • Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

    Amnesty International blasts Brazilian police systematic killings and impunity

    The Inter-American Human Rights Court ruled Brazil must reopen investigations into the killings of 26 people in a Rio de Janeiro favela two decades ago

    Amnesty International lambasted “impunity” for Brazilian police who kill suspects during operations after a regional rights court ruled against Brazil in a spate of slayings in the 1990s. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled last week that Brazil must reopen investigations into the killings of 26 people in a Rio de Janeiro favela two decades ago and should provide compensation.