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Montevideo, October 25th 2025 - 04:03 UTC

Brazil

  • Monday, July 14th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Peruaçu Caves in Brazil recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site

    Despite its value, the park only received 14,600 visitors in 2024

    The Peruaçu Caves in Brazil's Minas Gerais State have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognized for their “exceptional natural beauty,” geological significance, and rich prehistoric rock art.

  • Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:33 UTC

    Flávio Bolsonaro agrees US tariffs are unfair, says solution is broad amnesty

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro insisted a blanket amnesty would reverse Trump's measure

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, has acknowledged that the 50% tariffs imposed by the US Republican Government of Donald Trump on Brazilian exports were “unfair” to his country's productive sector. However, in an interview with Globonews, he argued that the solution was a return to “normality,” which he defined as granting a broad amnesty for those involved in the Jan. 8, 2023, riots in Brasilia.

  • Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Brazil resuming local production of insulin after 20 years

    “This is BRICS in action,” said Padilha in reference to the agreement with an Indian pharmaceutical company providing the technology

    Brazil's Health Ministry took delivery on Friday of the first batch of insulin produced through the Partnerships for Productive Development (PDP) program. The initiative is part of the National Strategy for the Development of the Health Economic-Industrial Complex and aims to resume manufacturing the drug entirely in the country.

  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:37 UTC

    Brazil maneuvering to resume chicken exports to Europe

    Brazil reportedly stopped exporting about 123,000 tons of chicken due to the avian flu detection

    Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Fávaro held a videoconference with EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, this week to discuss lifting restrictions on the Brazilian chicken meat exports imposed after an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial farm in Montenegro, Río Grande do Sul, in May.

  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Brazil to look elsewhere in light of Trump's tariffs

    Fávaro said alternatives were being sought for profuts that would become unaffordable to US consumers

    Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) has been entrusted with seeking new markets to replace placements that may be affected by US President Donald Trump's 50% tariffs, in a move to minimize the measure's impact, Minister Carlos Fávaro confirmed Thursday.

  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    Bolsonaro respects and admires Trump's government

    Bolsonaro claimed that such a measure would not have occurred under his administration

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro expressed his “respect and admiration for the United States Government” after Wednesday's announcement that all Brazilian exports would be slapped with a 50% tariff. The retired Army captain insisted that he took the news “with a sense of responsibility.”

  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 10:12 UTC

    Nobel laureate claims Trump's tariffs on Brazil politically motivated

    In Krugman's opinion, the measures unveiled by Trump are also arguments for opening impeachment proceedings against him

    American Economist Paul Krugman, a New Keynesian expert who once received the Nobel Prize, has been heavily critical of President Donald Trump, saying that the Republican leader was “evil and megalomaniacal” after the 50% tariffs imposed on all Brazilian products and insisted the measure reverberated in his own country.

  • Thursday, July 10th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Lula publishes strong reply to Trump's statements

    Any unilateral tariff increases will be addressed in accordance with Brazil's Economic Reciprocity Law, Lula replied

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva did not remain silent after Wednesday's letter from his US colleague Donald Trump and published an open reply on X, both in Portuguese and in English:

  • Thursday, July 10th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

    Orsi's participation at BRICS Summit a success

    During the event, Orsi held bilateral talks with several international leaders

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi returned Wednesday from the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, achieving significant diplomatic successes. Notably, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa extended a formal invitation for Uruguay to attend the upcoming G-20 summit. Additionally, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed plans to establish an Indian embassy in Uruguay.

  • Wednesday, July 9th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Progressive leaders' Summit in Santiago announced

    The gathering at La Moneda is expected to last about four hours

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font will host a “High-Level Meeting Democracy Forever” Summit on July 21 at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago with fellow progressive Presidents Yamandú Orsi (Uruguay), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), and Gustavo Petro (Colombia), in addition to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.