Brazil

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  Bolsonaro remains with a 37% approval, shows Datafolha public opinion poll

  

  Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s approval rating remains at its highest level since he took office in 2019, despite the country experiencing the world’s second-deadliest coronavirus outbreak, a poll showed on Sunday.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro's vaccination plan “a murderous stupidity” and a display of “lethal incompetence”

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro faced scathing criticism on Sunday over his government's plan – or lack thereof, opponents said – to vaccinate the population against Covid-19 in Brazil, the country with the second-highest death toll worldwide.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  Brazilian church plays a nativity scene in a burnt deforested Amazon and with a black baby Jesus

  

  Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  British Airways Buenos Aires/London flight will have a stopover in Sao Paulo

  

  British Airways as of next April will cease its direct flight Buenos Aires/London, according to the schedules published on the company’s web. In effect following 28 March 2021, BA will make a stopover in Sao Paulo, Brazil, before continuing to London and likewise when flying to Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  UK and Brazil to boost economic relationship

  

  The UK and Brazil made agreements on financial services, taxation, sustainable growth and Green Finance, helping to boost jobs and investments for UK companies. The fourth Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) between the UK and Brazil on 10 December 2020 saw the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, and the Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, meeting to build further economic ties between the two countries. They were joined by central bank Governors and heads of financial sector regulators.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Argentina takes over the Mercosur chair for six months next 16 December

  

  Uruguay will hand to Argentina next 16 December the pro tempore chair of the South American trade bloc Mercosur. The ceremony as happened six months before with Paraguay will be virtual given the coronavirus pandemic, according to a release from the Uruguayan Executive Office.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:41 UTC

  Guedes confident Brazil can help the vulnerable and ensure the spending cap

  

  The Brazilian government has the financial tools to support some of the country’s most vulnerable people next year without threatening the spending cap, its most important fiscal anchor, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Friday.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

  China suspends meat imports from two Brazilian companies

  

  China has temporarily suspended meat imports from two Brazilian companies, Brazil's agriculture ministry said late on Friday.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazilian federal prosecutors file lawsuit against Maersk for alleged corruption involving Petrobras

  

  Federal prosecutors in Brazil filed a civil lawsuit against Danish shipping company Maersk and former executives representing the firm for alleged corruption involving shipping contracts with state-run oil firm Petrobras, they said on Friday.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro certain Brazil is at the “tail end” of the pandemic

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday Brazil was at the “tail end” of the coronavirus pandemic, despite a surge in infections and deaths that many experts are calling a second wave.