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Montevideo, June 14th 2026 - 15:07 UTC

Brazil

  • Friday, April 1st 2022 - 09:17 UTC

    Brazilian bus plunges off cliff leaving at least 10 dead, many injured

    The driver lost control on a sharp bend in the road amid heavy rains

    A bus, which had departed from the city of Tres Lagoas, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul bound for Telemaco Borba, in the State of Paraná fell off a cliff, killing at least 10 people, while 21 others were injured, local authorities said Thursday.

  • Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 20:13 UTC

    New Brazilian ministers sworn in

    “Are you sure about this decision?,” Bolsonaro asked the departing officials who will run for various offices later this year

    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has reshuffled his ministerial cabinet and those appointed took their oaths of office Thursday at Brasilia's Planalto Palace. Those who left their offices will be able to run in the upcoming elections for various posts.

  • Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 10:16 UTC

    Brazil's military brass praise 1964 coup

    The joint declaration of the Minister of Defense and the Armed Forces chiefs is to be read at all military units on the 58th anniversary of the uprising

    Brazil's Defense Minister General Walter Braga Netto, who is most likely to run for the vice-presidency behind Jair Bolsonaro in the Oct. 2 elections, has signed a document together with the Armed Forces chiefs saying the 1964 coup d'état strengthened the country's democracy.

  • Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 09:11 UTC

    Brazil: STF's stance on “green agenda” awaited Thursday

    If the STF rules against the Government, it will have to warn the National Congress

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) is expected to make announcements Thursday on the multi-front environmental case known collectively as the “green agenda.” The STF magistrates are to make their stances known after an opening statement from the Prosecution, Chief Justice Luiz Fux told reporters.

  • Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 22:31 UTC

    French branch of fast-food chain on notice over Brazilian supplies

    Brazilian firms supplying coffee and other inputs were said to be involved in deforestation and even slave labor

    French labor unions CGT, the UGT, and CUT Wednesday put McDonald's France “on notice” that it needs to submit a vigilance plan attesting to its compliance with local laws, while the company's Brazilian suppliers have been placed under scrutiny for their alleged poor social and environmental practices.

  • Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 21:32 UTC

    Brazilian lawmaker hides in Congress to avoid court order

    Silveira was arrested last year after he released a video through social media with serious threats and insults against the STF judges

    Bolsonarist Deputy Daniel Silveira Wednesday tried to avoid a court order by stonewalling law enforcement agents at Brasilia's Parliament building. The officers were there to enforce him wearing a tracking anklet because he is under judiciary probe for threatening democratic institutions and making statements that were construed as an apology for dictatorships.

  • Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 21:26 UTC

    Dilma says Latin America needs to take path of reindustrialization

    Rousseff described the investment fund BlackRock's prediction that there will be a nationalization of value chains amid sanctions against Moscow.

    The Puebla Group has launched an appeal for the reindustrialization of Latin America to counter the region's dependence on global inputs and imports.

  • Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Brazilian soybean crop down 10m tons from last year's record but processing plants anticipate a good year

    If the soybean export estimate is confirmed, the drop in volume from the 2021 record would be almost 10%

    Despite a reduction of 10.5 million tons from the original estimate, leaving total production well off the record of 138.8 million tons from 2021, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industry did not change its processing forecast for this year, which is projected at 48 million tons with healthy margins in the manufacture of bran and oil.

  • Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

    Gas: Bolivia advised to renegotiate with Brazil and sell more to Argentina

    The gas Bolivia should be selling to Argentina is in Brazil at a bargain price stemming from a deal signed by former President Áñez, Balanza explained.

    While the Bolivian state-run YPFB is yet to report on any progress regarding payment conditions with Brazil for gas sales or the signing of the sixth addendum to the export contract with Argentina, hydrocarbon analysts have insisted on the need to roundup these negotiations given the current situation stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

  • Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

    Fertilizers from Iran and expanding the wheat area, priorities of Brazil's agricultural year

    Brazil consumes some 40 million tons of fertilizers annually, 85% of which imported, mainly from Russia (20%) and Eurasia (65%).

    Brazilian fertilizer stocks amount to at least 13 million tons, including the inputs that have been already internalized and the ones that have been ordered. The statement comes from David Roquetti Filho, a former board member of ANDA, Brazil's National Association for Fertilizer Diffusion, and currently an independent business consultant.