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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 20:57 UTC

Brazil

  • Thursday, January 26th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

    Yanomami people crisis to be treated as genocide

    Dino also said that the government was to evict the non-indigenous people occupying the land of the native communities, but that requires multi-sector planning

    Brazil's Federal Police is to investigate the sanitary crisis among the Yanomami people as a crime of genocide, Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 18:58 UTC

    Lula in favor of Mercosur-China FTA

    “Despite the fact that Brazil is a great trade ally of China we want to talk about Mercosur discussing with our Chinese friends a Mercosur-China agreement,” Lula said

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva said Wednesday in Montevideo that he agreed to open up Mercosur and pursue a free trade agreement (FTA) with China.

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 18:55 UTC

    Argentina wants to buy Brazilian armored vehicles

    Parts of the Guaraní 6x6 are manufactured at Iveco's factory in Córdoba, Argentina

    Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana undertook negotiations earlier this week with Brazil for the purchase of 156 Iveco Guarani 6x6 armored vehicles, it was reported. South America's largest country already has 500 units of the same model.

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 18:45 UTC

    Bolsonaro needs another operation for his abdominal wound

    Doctor Macedo did not mention when Bolsonaro might come back from the United States

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is to be operated on again when he returns to his country from the United States due to new complications from the stabbing he received in the city of Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais, during the 2018 campaign, it was reported Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 09:25 UTC

    Joint Brazil Federal and State funds to build a much needed tunnel in the Santos port

    A tunnel between Santos and Guarujá, is a project that should cost around some three billion Reais equivalent to US$ 500 million.

    Brazilian Minister of Ports and Airports, Márcio França, anticipated that the federal government may help fund the construction of a tunnel between Santos and Guarujá, a project that should cost around some three billion Reais equivalent to some US$ 500 million.

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 08:51 UTC

    Chilean FM denigrates Ambassador Bielsa in private meeting audio

    Lacalle warns Celac about “ideological temptation”

    Chilean Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola's denigration of Argentine Ambassador Rafael Bielsa sparked additional controversy to the case that shook Santiago's diplomatic circles last week. An audio was leaked of Urrejola using foul language to describe the foreign diplomat.

  • Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 21:39 UTC

    Former Brazilian Navy carrier poses environmental threat

    Brazilian groups fear the old Sao Paulo might be sunk under a false excuse, which would amount to state-sponsored environmental crime

    Brazilian Navy's former flagship, the French-built aircraft carrier Sao Paulo, is somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with no port to welcome her after being decommissioned. The old hull, full of asbestos, paint, and other toxic waste, has been anchored 315 kilometers off the Brazilian coast, to prevent drifting, but the possibility that it might sink has not been ruled out. It would be a major environmental disaster, it was reported.

  • Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 18:13 UTC

    Brazil welcomed back into Celac as Summit starts in Buenos Aires

    “We live in the most unequal continent in the world,” President Fernández said in his opening speech

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday opened the VII Summit of Heads of State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in Buenos Aires by welcoming Brazil's return to the forum after a hiatus under former President Jair Bolsonaro. Fernández said that “without Brazil, it was an empty Celac.”

  • Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

    Lula promises continued support for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands

    Lula and Fernandez at the Cooperation Declaration signing ceremony. Photo: Casa Rosada

    The Falkland Islands Question was not absent from the long joint cooperation declaration signed in Buenos Aires by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his host Alberto Fernandez, as pointed out in Article 81. The two leaders met in the Argentine capital in the context of the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), starting Monday.

  • Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:52 UTC

    Lula's busy agenda in Buenos Aires

    Lula and Fernández shared a gathering with human rights leaders at Casa Rosada and were joined for a concert later in the day by Evo Morales

    After their bilateral encounter at Casa Rosada, Presidents Alberto Fernández of Argentina and Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of Brazil met with representatives of human rights organizations, who insisted on getting together with the visiting leader, according to Fernández.