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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 17:41 UTC

Brazil

  • Saturday, March 2nd 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Lula and Maduro review Venezuelan elections; Essequibo not discussed

    Maduro told Lula that international observers would monitor the elections in Venezuela

    Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela met Friday in Kingstown, (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) to discuss issues concerning both countries, Agencia Brasil reported citing a statement from the Planalto Palace. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 8th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).

  • Friday, March 1st 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    G-20 economy ministers fail to reach consensus due to ongoing wars

    “As far as the financial track is concerned, there was consensus on everything we discussed. We didn't discuss geopolitical conflicts in our meetings,” Haddad explained

    The summit of Economy Ministers of the G-20 in São Paulo failed Thursday to reach a unanimous declaration due to discrepancies over the ongoing armed conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, it was reported. ”We came very close (...) it was almost by a word,“ Brazil's Fernando Haddad said during a press conference. Brazil, which this year holds the rotating presidency of G-20 wanted to ”leave aside” all geopolitical tensions but to no avail.

  • Friday, March 1st 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    Interannual figures highlight contrasting realities in Brazil and Argentina

    In Argentina, mass consumption contracted 3.8% year-on-year while in Brazil it grew 1.2%

    Reports released Thursday showed contrasting realities between South America's two largest countries. While consumption grew 1.2% interannually in January, according to the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (Abras), the situation was quite the opposite in Argentina due to rampant inflation outpacing wage updates.

  • Friday, March 1st 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    Brazil surpasses 1 million probable cases of dengue this year

    Brazil could have twice as many dengue cases this year as in 2023, Trinidade said

    Brazil has recorded 1,017,278 probable cases of dengue and 214 confirmed deaths from the disease so far this year, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. Another 687 fatalities are under investigation.

  • Wednesday, February 28th 2024 - 17:29 UTC

    Brazil promotes manufactured exports with BNDES incentives

    From this week, the reduced spread will be capped at R$150 million per operation, with an additional budget infusion of R$2 billion earmarked for this modality.

    Brazil's Development Bank, BNDES, with a larger annual turnover than the World Bank is propping the country's manufacturing exports with new incentives tailored to support companies engaged in global trade. Under the new conditions the bank is implementing a substantial reduction of up to 60% in the spread of operations within the BNDES Exim Pre-shipment line.

  • Wednesday, February 28th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

    Police raids leave at least 7 dead in Rio favelas

    The operations targeted the infamous Comando Vermelho drug trafficking organization

    A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals, it was reported. Two servicemen were wounded.

  • 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.