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Brazil

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 11:07 UTC

    Lula in Beijing to meet Xi Jinping; both want to prop their countries international standings

    Lula da Silva and Xi Jinping are expected to address the implications for the BRICS Group of the ongoing Ukraine conflict

    Brazilian president Lula da Silva begins today a four day official visit to China, (April 11/14), hosted by Xi Jinping at a time when both leaders have great foreign policy plans: Lula wants Brazil back in the grand chessboard and Xi is intent in trying to present his country as a global power that can rival (defy) the US.

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazilian President announces alliance with Indonesia and Congo

    With his previous experience as president, Lula said that “we will do more in four years -proportionally more- than we did in eight years.”

    In an exclusive TV interview marking his first 100 days in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on Monday (10) that he will meet in June with his colleagues from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia to launch an alliance between the countries that hold the largest rainforests on the planet, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Brazil: Operation Safe Schools targets 270 Twitter accounts

    Operation Safe School is coordinated by the Justice Ministry in partnership with State and other federal agencies

    Brazil's Justice Ministry (MJSP) requested the deletion of 270 Twitter accounts conveying hashtags related to attacks against schools nationwide, Agencia Brasil reported Sunday.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 09:45 UTC

    Lula reviews cities hit by floods

    Lula said he lived through floods in his younger days and therefore he knows what the victims are going through

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday flew over 53 cities declared under emergency due to rains. The head of state also called for the speedy approval of popular housing plans to assist the victims. Joining Lula were Ministers Flávio Dino (Justice) and Paulo Pimenta (Secom).

  • 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.