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Brazil

  • Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 08:38 UTC

    Tebet to head Brazil's future Planning Ministry

    It was reported that Senator Tebet would have preferred Social Development or Environment

    Former Presidential candidate and Senator Simone Tebet, who endorsed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Oct. 30 runoff against the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, has reportedly accepted to become Brazil's next Planning Ministry, according to press reports published Tuesday in Brasilia. The official announcement is to be made Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 01:33 UTC

    Brazil sets gradual caps on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels

    Liquid fuel distributors have a mandatory target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro approved the resolution of the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) defining the annual mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the commercialization of fuels over the next ten years, under the National Policy for Biofuels (Renovabio), Agencia Brasil reported Tuesday after the measure was published in the Diário Oficial da União (Federal Official Gazette).

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 19:24 UTC

    Brazil makes large payments to international organizations

    This week's payment improves Brazil's position before most global agencies for when President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva takes office on Jan. 1.

    Brazil has paid off “almost all” of its debts with international bodies such as the United Nations (UN) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the South American country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 10:48 UTC

    President elect Lula da Silva's foreign policy strategy

    Future minister Vieira said that besides climate change, the Lula da Silva government will strengthen relations and mechanisms with Mercosur and Brics

    Foreign policy is among the priorities of the incoming Brazilian administration of president Lula da Silva, who will be taking office next January first. Designated foreign minister, Ambassador Mauro Vieira said Brazil will have a leading role in combating climate change.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Lula plans to rebuild bridges with South America

    Lula's first trip after his inauguration will be to Argentina

    Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will seek to rebuild ties with its South American neighbors and regain a leading role in the fight against climate change under future Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, Agencia Brasil reported Monday.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    State of Sao Paulo insists in privatization of the Port of Santos

    Under the Tarciso de Freitas plan, the state-owned Santos Port Authority (SPA), would be fully privatized. This is what the PT administration does not want.

    Governor-elect of São Paulo state, Tarcísio de Freitas, is hoping to have a direct conversation with president-elect Lula da Silva and the future Minister of Ports, Márcio França, to try to convince the new federal administration to move forward with the auction of the Port of Santos, the largest and busiest in Latin America.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

    Bolsonaro supporter arrested for pushing for military coup in Brazil

    “The fight against terrorists and troublemakers will be intensified. Democracy has won and will win,” Dino also pointed out on social media

    A President Jair Bolsonaro follower was arrested during the weekend for planning an attack to prevent President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva from taking office on Jan. 1.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

    Solar energy use grows at a record pace in Brazil

    With the reduction in monthly bills, the investment is recovered in a few years, it was explained

    Monetary savings when compared to electricity stemming from other sources reaches up to 90%, Agencia Brasil reported Sunday about the increasing use of solar energy in South America's largest country.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

    Brazilian airline pilots' strike over

    The airline workers voted virtually between 6 am Saturday and noon Sunday to accept the offer and return to their posts

    Brazil's National Union of Aeronauts (SNA) Sunday agreed by 70.11% of the 5,834 votes to accept the airlines' offer and lift the two-hour daily strike that had been going on for about a week, but which had been lifted temporarily for Christmas weekend and was to resume Monday. Meanwhile, 28.8% of the SNA members rejected the proposal and abstentions reached 1.09%.

  • Saturday, December 24th 2022 - 10:28 UTC

    Lula da Silva administration to decide on Port of Santos internal spaces bidding processes

    One of the areas focuses is moving containers, located in the Saboó region, and the other focuses on fertilizer operations, based in Outerinhos.

    The bidding processes of areas within the Port of Santos in Brazil (the largest terminal in South America) was delayed until next year, since it will be up to the new government to define how they will unfold. One of the areas focuses is moving containers, located in the Saboó region, and the other focuses on fertilizer operations, based in Outerinhos.