Brazil

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Rosa Weber voted to become Brazilian STF's next Chief Justice

  

  Judge Rosa Weber is to take over as Brazil's new Supreme Federal Court (STF) Chief Justice on September 12 after Wednesday's voting when the incumbent Luiz Fux completes his two-year term.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 20:45 UTC

  Google sets eyes on Las Toninas for transoceanic internet cable

  

  Argentina's National Communications Agency (Enacom) has authorized Google Infraestructura Argentina SRL to install a fiber optic system called Firmina through Argentine Sea waters, which “will be the longest in the world” providing internet connectivity.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Retail sales drop but use of credit cards grows in Brazil

  

  While according to Brazil's Insitute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), retail sales fell below expectations in June, payments with credit and debit cards were on the rise, it was reported Wednesday.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Cyclone causes havoc in southern Brazil

  

  A subtropical cyclone has left substantial damage and many people injured in the Brazilian southern state of Santa Catarina, where the seaside resorts have been placed under alert amid landslides.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 19:38 UTC

  Brazil and Paraguay cut down energy prices at Itaipu

  

  Authorities from Brazil and Paraguay have announced a reduction in the price of energy from the binational Itaipu power plant from US$ 22.60 to US$20.75 per kilowatt.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 19:00 UTC

  Facial biometric boarding operational at Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo air shuttle

  

  Brazil Tuesday started using the facial biometric passenger boarding system for air shuttle (Ponte Aereo) passengers between Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo and the Santos Dumont terminal in downtown Rio de Janeiro.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 14:22 UTC

  Brazil's national herd free of free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination, government's target

  

  Unfounded animal health risk assessments continue to hamper the global meat trade, the director of institutional affairs at Brazilian beef processor Minerva BEEF3.SA, Joao Sampaio, said. He mentioned Turkey, which refuses to import beef from Brazil but does buy live cattle from the country.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  Brazil's inflation for July 2022 best in 42 years

  

  Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics Tuesday released its monthly price index report for the month of July, which returned negative figures, in line with Central Bank projections that inflation was slowing down.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:32 UTC

  Bolsonaro says voting for Lula is like hiring traffickers to fight drug dealing

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro likened his predecessor and electoral rival Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and the latter's running mate to notorious local drug traffickers.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  Brazil's cities have more poor people

  

  The number of people below the line of poverty in Brazil's 22 largest cities has reached 19.8 million in 2021, it was reported Monday by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), the Metropolis Observatory, and the Network of Observatories of Social Debt in Latin America (RedODSAL).