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Montevideo, December 30th 2025 - 00:58 UTC

Brazil

  • Saturday, July 29th 2023 - 10:29 UTC

    Brazilian gov't ready to create National Guard

    “It will be an institution dedicated to the security of civic areas, but it can act in border areas, indigenous territories, and conservation units,” Dino explained

    Brazil's Justice Minister Flávio Dino said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Government was to launch a proposal for the creation of a permanent National Guard to protect federal public buildings in Brasilia and participate in special operations in indigenous lands, border areas, conservation units and support for state security, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Brazil's Security Minister explains the future of shooting ranges

    Some uncontrolled shooting ranges resulted in weapons diverted to the black market, Dino argued

    Brazil's Security and Justice Minister Flávio Dino Wednesday elaborated on the scope of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's instructions to him regarding the closing of almost all shooting ranges.

  • Wednesday, July 26th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Brazil working on satellite partnership with NASA

    “This is a proposal that the NASA administrator brought on the visit to President Lula,” Santos explained

    Brazilian Science Minister Luciana Santos Tuesday launched a proposition to United States Space Agency (NASA) Administrator Bill Nelson for both countries to develop together new satellites and aerospace technologies to monitor deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, July 26th 2023 - 10:03 UTC

    Brazil planning 390 million tons of grain and oilseed during the next decade

    The study projects that Brazil will increase its soybean production by 20.6%, to 186.7 million tons, in the next ten years

    While Argentina struggles to recover from decades of merciless populism, Brazil plans to produce 390 million tons of grain in the next decade, according to a study released on July 20 by the Ministry of Agriculture.

  • Tuesday, July 25th 2023 - 11:40 UTC

    Lula expects the Central Bank to lower the benchmark interest rate next week

    Lula has long called on the bank to cut the key Selic rate from its current six-year high of 13.75%, a level the government views as hindering economic growth

    Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his economic team in their ongoing battle with the independent Central Bank, have anticipated they expect a cut in the benchmark interest rate, of at least 25 points, pressuring bank policymakers to lower borrowing costs given a dramatic fall in inflation.

  • Tuesday, July 25th 2023 - 11:32 UTC

    Latin-Americas' largest utilities company plans to invest US$ 17bn. in clean energy

    Brazil boasts 84% of its power generation coming from renewable sources, as the country is the second-largest hydropower producer after the United States

    Electrobras, Brazil's main electricity complex has plans to invest some US$ 17 billion in the next five years through mergers and acquisitions. The company said that investments in electricity generation would come in at around US$3.6 billion over the period as it moves to comply with its goal of a clean energy complex.

  • Tuesday, July 25th 2023 - 11:25 UTC

    Brazil: Marielle Franco's murder closer to being solved

    Dino insisted Monday that the “participation of other people” in the crime was “indisputable.”

    The 2018 murder of Carioca activist and councilwoman Marielle Franco is closer to being solved, Security Minister Flávio Dino said Monday after one of the two suspects reached a plea agreement and confessed. “New evidence” confirmed the involvement of the two people arrested for the case, ex-cops Ronnie Lessa and Elcio de Queiroz, said Dino, at a press conference in Brasília.

  • Tuesday, July 25th 2023 - 08:25 UTC

    Brazilian plant to manufacture flying cars

    Eve Air Mobility is a subsidiary of Embraer

    Electric horizontal vertical takeoff and landing vehicles with room for up to five people are to be manufactured by Ever Air Mobility's plant 145 kilometers from the city of São Paulo, Embraer announced. The first deliveries of the so-called “flying cars” are due in 2026.

  • Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Women's World Cup, flexible working hours for Brazilian civil servants to support the Canarinhas

    The Brazilian government has announced civil servants can turn up to work four hours late when the national side – who go by the nickname As Canarinhas — contests the Women's World Cup tournament, co hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

  • Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:32 UTC

    Lula underscores importance of labor unions in Brazil

    Lula insisted that before him and the Workers' Party boosted by the unions, a worker president was unthinkable

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday recalled his origins as a labor union leader. During the inauguration of the ABC Metalworkers Union (SMABC) board of directors, the head of state addressed how this organization and others of its kind had helped create the Workers' Party (PT) which eventually led him to his office, “something, until then, impossible.”