Brazil

• Tuesday, November 15th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Brazil's navy ex-flagship, carrier Sao Paulo has become a roaming “ghost ship”

  

  A Federal Court in Pernambuco, northeast of Brazil issued an emergency injunction ordering the country's Navy to immediately suspend the forced berthing of the tugboat transporting scrap metal from the “São Paulo” aircraft carrier. The convoy has been on the coast of Pernambuco since early October and has been identified as “ghost ship.”

• Tuesday, November 15th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  World's largest meat producer slowdown begins to reflect in Mercosur cattle prices

  

  Brazil’s JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer reported last Friday that quarterly profit plunged 47.1%, with results still beating analysts’ estimates as higher revenues helped offset shrinking margins in its U.S. beef division.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 18:05 UTC

  Former Brazilian lawmaker gets 50-year jail term

  

  Former Brazilian federal Congresswoman Flordelis dos Santos has been sentenced to 50 years and 28 days in prison for the June 16, 2019, murder of her husband, Pastor Anderson do Carmo.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits record highs

  

  Brazil's Amazon lost 903.8 square kilometers of forest during the month of October of 2022, which is tantamount to 3% more than in the same period last year, the National Institute of Special Research (INPE) reported during the weekend.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Leftwing newspaper HQs in Brazil attacked

  

  An unidentified assailant has fired several shots with a handgun at the headquarters of the leftwing leaning Rondoniaovivo newspaper in the city of Porto Velho, in the Brazilian State of Rondônia.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Brazil's auto industry production and exports in solid recovery

  

  In the first ten months of 2022, Brazil exported 406 thousand car units, representing an increase of 32.4% compared to the same period in 2021. In this context, exports to countries such as Chile, Colombia, and Mexico stood out as the main export destinations for the Brazilian automotive industry.

• Saturday, November 12th 2022 - 12:58 UTC

  Race plays a key role in personal development, Brazil's IBGE finds

  

  A study released Friday by Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that the average income of white workers was 75.7% higher than that of Afrodescendant people. White individuals have also been less affected by unemployment, the report pointed out.

• Saturday, November 12th 2022 - 10:21 UTC

  Brazil's Armed Forces to abide by Constitution during transition

  

  Brazil's Armed Forces have issued a statement underlining their rejection of President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters, who gathered in front of military barracks after the Oct. 30 runoff demanding a military uprising allegedly in defense of the Constitution since they claimed Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's victory had been through fraud.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 20:16 UTC

  COP27 told Brazil in a hurry to start producing green hydrogen

  

  Brazilian dignitaries to the Conference of Parties 27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian Red Sea por of Sharm El-Sheikh announced that their country was in a hurry to start producing green hydrogen and electricity from wind turbines to be installed offshore.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 20:13 UTC

  COVID-19 cases in Brazil on the rise

  

  The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has warned of an alarming increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Brazilian States of Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Rio Grande do Sul.