Brazil

Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 09:10 UTC
Embraer announces sale of four C-390s to Sweden

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer announced Tuesday at the LAAD Defence & Security 2025 event in Rio de Janeiro that it had clinched a US$ 710 million deal to sell four C-390 Millennium military transport units to Sweden.
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Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 08:58 UTC
Foreign travelers increasingly pouring into Brazil

Brazil's revenues from international tourism hit a record US$ 823 million in February 2025, representing a 22.2% yoy increase, local authorities reported Tuesday.The arrival of over 1.3 million international visitors contributed a total of US$ 1.6 billion in tourism revenue for the first two months of the year, a 10.4% rise compared to 2024.
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Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 20:33 UTC
Bolsonaro sides with convicted French far-right leader Marine LePen

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that France's far-right leader Marine LePen's conviction and five-year disenfranchisement for embezzling public funds was politically motivated after she led all surveys for the 2027 presidential elections.
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Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 19:53 UTC
Argentina starts pumping gas to Brazil through Bolivia

Argentina began exporting natural gas to Brazil for the first time through the infrastructure of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), it was reported Tuesday.
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Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 10:50 UTC
Bolsonaro's Brazil spied on Paraguay on joint Itaipú plant

Paraguay has launched investigations into an alleged cyberattack by Brazil targeting its government systems to obtain sensitive information about the Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric power plant, Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano confirmed. He said national intelligence and the Technologies and Information Ministry (MITIC) were probing the claims, though no evidence of a breach has been found yet.
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Monday, March 31st 2025 - 10:35 UTC
Formal employment up in Brazil last month

The Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recorded a positive balance of 431,995 formal jobs in February 2025, marking the highest monthly figure in the Labor Ministry's New General Register of Employed and Unemployed (New Caged) series since it began in 2020.
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Monday, March 31st 2025 - 09:07 UTC
Lula clinches meat export deal to Vietnam

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced this weekend that he clinched a meat export deal with Vietnam during his meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chinh, thus adding a new notch to bilateral trade, which last year amounted to US$ 7.7 billion with a US$ 415 million surplus for the South American country.
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Saturday, March 29th 2025 - 08:48 UTC
Brazil: Affirmative action reversing white predominance in positions of leadership

Black and indigenous representation in Brazil's Executive branch has risen to 39%, a 17-point increase over 25 years, a study titled ”Black Leadership in the Brazilian State (1995-2024)” (Lideranças Negras no Estado Brasileiro (1995–2024)” released Friday showed.
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Friday, March 28th 2025 - 23:40 UTC
Italy tightens citizenship rules to curb 'commercialization'

Italy’s government has approved a reform to restrict automatic citizenship by descent, citing concerns over the growing number of requests—especially from Latin America—and what officials described as the “commercialization” of Italian nationality.
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Friday, March 28th 2025 - 20:00 UTC
Prosecution wants vax certificate case against Bolsonaro dropped

Brazil's Attorney General Paulo Gonet requested the shelving of an investigation into former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged fraud in his Covid-19 vaccination records. The prosecution concluded there was insufficient evidence to prove Bolsonaro instructed his aide, Mauro Cid, to falsify vaccination data in the Health Ministry's system, despite the former aide-de-camp claims in a plea bargain. As per Brazilian law, corroborating evidence is needed beyond a collaborator’s testimony.
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