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Montevideo, June 23rd 2026 - 01:58 UTC

Brazil

  • Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

    CNN Brazil will dispute a place in Latin America's largest TV market

    CNN Brazil will share the branding of the US-based network, but will in fact be a licensed separate domestic channel operated and staffed by Brazilians

    With the launch of CNN Brazil, Latin America's biggest TV market is set to be roiled by the entry of a powerful new player looking to challenge the dominance of current leader Globo News. Its arrival, announced this month, comes at a high-voltage time for Brazil as it undergoes an abrupt swerve to the right under President Jair Bolsonaro, a pro-business ultraconservative who took office at the beginning of January.

  • Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

    Foggy burial for Bolsonaro's promises of a transparency era

    Handed down as Bolsonaro declared a new era of transparency at Davos, the decree is likely to put more public records out of reach of civic groups, journalists

    Brazil's new far-right government on Thursday gave hundreds more public servants the power to keep official records from the public for decades by labeling them “secret” and “ultra-secret.” Vice President Hamilton Mourao, standing in while President Jair Bolsonaro was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, signed the decree expanding exceptions within the 2011 transparency law.

  • Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

    Brazil eliminates Mercosur symbol from new passports

    The current Brazilian passport with the Mercosur symbol identification

    Brazilian new passports will no longer have the symbol of Mercosur as currently they do together with those from the other member states, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The announcement was made by cabinet chief Onyx Lorenzoni, during a press conference in which he anticipated the targets for the first hundred days of president Jair Bolsonaro's administration.

  • Thursday, January 24th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

    Sao Paulo state willing to support automaker GM with tax incentives

    GM’s top executives attended the meeting along with union representatives and mayors of the two cities where the automaker’s Sao Paolo state plants are based

    General Motors Brazil unit is in advanced talks with Sao Paulo state to receive tax incentives, the company told public officials and union representatives at a meeting on Tuesday, a few days after telling workers in a memo that it was losing money in the country.

  • Thursday, January 24th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

    Saudi Arabia limits imports from a number of Brazilian chicken processing plants

    Some 58 Brazilian plants are currently authorized to export to Saudi Arabia, ABPA said, but only 30 of those are effectively shipping products to the kingdom.

    Saudi Arabia has barred five Brazilian chicken processing plants from exporting to the Middle Eastern country, leaving 25 with valid export permits, Brazil’s meat trade association ABPA said, citing “technical” reasons. The Saudi move threw up a fresh hurdle for top exporter BRF SA and its rivals just a day after an anti-dumping dispute with China was resolved.

  • Wednesday, January 23rd 2019 - 07:58 UTC

    Bolsonaro tells Davos he plans to make the “new Brazil” an investment-friendly country

    “Brazil's economy is still relatively closed to foreign trade and to change that situation is one of my administration's major commitments,” Bolsonaro said

    Brazil's newly-elected populist President Jair Bolsonaro addressed the world's business elite in Davos on Tuesday, vowing to transform Latin America's largest economy into a more investment-friendly country. On his first international trip since becoming president, Bolsonaro delivered the keynote speech at the World Economic Forum.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:13 UTC

    Brazil plans to privatize airports and railways; Chinese investment would be “well received”

    Adalberto Vasconcelos, head of PPI program, said that the Ferrograo and FIOL railway projects serving the central grain belt would be ready for bidding this year

    Brazil’s government will announce the privatization of southern airports, including Curitiba, in the second quarter of this year, according to Adalberto Vasconcelos, head of the PPI government program tasked with luring private investment in the country’s infrastructure.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:11 UTC

    Brazilian government trying to recover control over its overloaded prison system

    More than 400 elite federal troops have been sent to the city of Fortaleza and the rest of Ceara state to reinforce overwhelmed local cops

    Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops have been sent to the city of Fortaleza and the rest of Ceara state to reinforce overwhelmed local cops, who face a dramatic rash of attacks on government buildings, buses, police stations, banks and bridges by well-armed gang members.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:09 UTC

    Brazilian 2019 coffee production forecasted to decline 11.5/18%

    Arabica production is estimated between 36.12 and 38.16 million bags, presenting a comparative reduction to the last harvest from 23.9 to 19.6%.

    Brazilian food supply and statistics agency Conab has reported that Brazil’s coffee production is expected to decline in 2019 to between 50.48 and 54.48 million bags. Conab attributes the 11.5 to 18% drop from the 61.65 million bags the agency reported for the year prior to Brazil’s coffee plants recovering from an increased output in 2018, which is affecting Arabica in particular.

  • Monday, January 21st 2019 - 09:17 UTC

    Former minister and advisor confirms payments of bribes in hand to Lula da Silva

    Palocci confirmed the payment of bribes of up to 80,000 reais (about 22,000 dollars) to Lula

    Antonio Palocci, who was minister during the governments of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, affirmed that he gave the former president, in “several opportunities”, cash proceeds of bribes from the construction companies Odebrecht and Andrade Gutierrez, according to the Globo Group.