Brazil

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro supports Trump and combating terrorism; Teheran summons Brazilian ambassador

  

  Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro offered his support to US counterpart Donald Trump on Monday amidst widespread criticism for the killing of a top Iranian commander.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro will submit to Congress bill reducing the size of government

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro told journalists on Monday that his administration will likely submit to the Congress in February a reform to reduce the size of the government, aiming to cut public spending.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Brazil: mining company agrees to compensation for 17.000 relocations in a capital city

  

  Brazilian petrochemical producer Braskem SA has agreed to a 2.7 billion reais (US$ 667 million) settlement with federal and state authorities in the northeastern state of Alagoas to cover damage caused by a salt mining project there.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  “Fernandez will be received with full honors of head of state”, Bolsonaro

  

  If Argentine president Alberto Fernandez visits Brazil, “he will be received with all the honors of head of State, which he deserves”, according to his peer Jair Bolosonaro, which has been interpreted as an easing of tensions between both leaders following the initial stormy clashes.

• Saturday, January 4th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil's Bolsonaro suffering from a hernia, result of the stomach stabbing in 2018

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro says he is suffering from a hernia, apparently, as a result of being stabbed in the stomach in 2018, local media reported on Friday. “I'm pregnant,” the far-right leader joked with journalists at a hospital in Brasilia on Thursday night. “There's a protraction, and maybe in February I'll have a health check.”

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Brazil's 2019 trade surplus shrinks 20%, lowest since recession year 2015

  

  Brazil’s trade surplus shrank 20% to US$ 46.67 billion last year, official data showed on Thursday, as upwardly revised exports in recent months failed to mask a widespread slump in overseas demand for Brazilian goods over the course of 2019.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Challenging second year ahead for Brazilian president Bolsonaro

  

  Beginning his second year as Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro has held firm to his combative culture-warrior policies while feuding with critics at home and abroad — an approach that has thrilled many supporters while eroding his efforts to win allies and lift the world’s ninth-largest economy out of its doldrums.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:25 UTC

  Swiss tourist in critical condition after mistakenly entering a favela

  

  A septuagenarian tourist to Rio de Janeiro is in critical condition from a gunshot wound after mistakenly entering one of the city's favelas. Police said in a statement that they rescued two Swiss tourists injured in a mugging on Sunday night.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:20 UTC

  Brazil fines Facebook for breach of privacy involving some 443.000 users

  

  Brazil's government imposed a 6.6 million real (US$ 1.5 million) fine on Facebook and its local unit for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The fine is tied to Facebook's unlawful sharing of data from its users in Brazil, Brazil's justice ministry said in a statement posted on its website Monday.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Ex judge Moro chosen as one of the decade's personalities by the Financial Times

  

  Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro was chosen as one of the fifty personalities of the decade by the Financial Times, a list which includes activists, politicians, business people and sports persons from all over the world.