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  • Saturday, April 8th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Ukraine tells Lula “thanks but no thanks”

    “The full and entire sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the UN charter,” must be respected, Nikolenko insisted

    Despite Brazilian President Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva's efforts to come up with a peace plan for the ongoing war in Europe, Ukraine replied Friday that it will not give up Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, in exchange for the end of the conflict, something which the South American leader had suggested as a possible course of action.

  • Saturday, April 8th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

    Brazil's return to Unasur announced

    Lula's decree will become effective May 6

    Brazil's government announced the return of South America's largest country to the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) through a Presidential Decree from President Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva published Friday in the Official Gazette to become effective in 30 days.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Brazil's gov't sets up task force against school violence

    It is our responsibility to confront school violence, said Alencar

    Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Safety (MJSP) Thursday launched “Operation Safe School” to carry out preventive and repressive actions against attacks in schools nationwide, Agencia Brasil reported. The operation relies on the participation of the cybercrime offices of the main Brazilian regions, it was also explained.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    School violence in Brazil tied to neo-Nazi movements?

    “The proliferation of hatred in society [is] due to an unregulated Internet and irresponsible companies,” Dino said

    Brazil's Federal Police is following the lead of “Nazi and neo-Nazi” groups possibly involved in the attack on a daycare center in Blumenau in which four schoolchildren were killed.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Brazilian gov't's website not enough against fake news, Pimenta says

    Many deaths “could have been avoided if it weren't for the misinformation campaigns,” Pimenta said about a drop in vaccination ratese

    Brazil's Chief Minister of the Presidential Secretariat of Social Communication Paulo Pimenta insisted this week that a website launched last week by the authorities to fight fake news does not replace the importance of private sites. The platform does not intend to replace professional agencies for checking the news, Pimenta said in an interview.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 16:12 UTC

    Lula, 100 days of government in Brazil

    Lula managed to “normalize Brazil's relations” with certain countries, which had been degraded during Bolsonaro's administration. Photo: Government of Brazil

    In the first 100 days of his government, President Lula da Silva did not exactly live a “honeymoon” with Brazilians, but a period with ups and downs, thirteen years after leaving power with record popularity.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 14:33 UTC

    Brazil resumes fresh beef exports to China, 124,400 tons in March

    Brazil automatically suspended beef exports to the Chinese market as of February 23 due to the discovery of an atypical case of BSE, better known as “mad cow disease.”

    Brazilian exports of fresh beef reached 124,440 tons in March, a drop of 26.4% year-on-year, amid the self-imposed suspension of protein shipments to China that was only lifted at the end of last month, according to data from the federal government this month.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 14:28 UTC

    Reversing Latin America’s Democratic Decay, the proliferation of “hybrid regimes”

    Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay, these are the only three Latin American countries that the EIU does not label “hybrid regimes,” “authoritarian regimes,” or “flawed democracies.”

    By Jorge G Castañeda and Carlos Ominami (*), NEW YORK – The best way to safeguard democracy in Latin America is to build strong welfare states. But since this is a medium- to long-term project, meeting the short-term threat of authoritarian populism will require more immediate solutions.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 14:21 UTC

    Lula's administration announces orthodox fiscal goals, to help combat inflation expectations

    The fiscal framework proposed by Fernando Haddad combines a looser spending cap with primary budget targets. First reactions of markets have been positive

    The Brazilian administration of President Lula da Silva finally unveiled new fiscal rules to try and balance limits on spending growth, which have collided with promises of higher social programs, government investment, and independent central bank high-interest rates, all of which have created uncertainty about his commitment to combat inflation.

  • Wednesday, April 5th 2023 - 15:20 UTC

    A man took an axe to a daycare center in Brazil and killed four children

    According to the Police, the event occurred early in the morning when the 25-year-old man jumped over the wall of the daycare center and attacked the children with an axe.

    Four children were killed and at least four injured Wednesday in an attack on a daycare center in southern Brazil.