Brazil

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 08:25 UTC

  Brazilian health authorities report increase in number of cases of monkeypox

  

  Brazilian health authorities said this weekend that the State of São Paulo had recorded over 500 cases of monkeypox, most of them in the City of São Paulo (442 of the total 538). The first infection was registered in the state on June 9.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:33 UTC

  Brazil and Paraguay team up against trans-border crime

  

  Authorities from Brazil and Paraguay have launched Operation Ágata and Operation Basalto in a coordinated manner to tackle cross-border organized crime, it was reported this week.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:29 UTC

  Anvisa still waiting for Pfizer's reply regarding their covid-19 vaccine

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has requested some additional information from Wyeth/Pfizer regarding booster doses of their COVID-19 vaccine for children and adolescents and is still waiting for a reply, Agencia Brasil reported Friday.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Police raid leaves at least 18 dead in Rio de Janeiro favela

  

  At least 18 people died Thursday following a police raid in the Alemao favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's Civil Police authorities confirmed. It was the third deadliest operation in Rio de Janeiro in less than 14 months.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:27 UTC

  Brazil of Hope alliance makes Lula's candidacy official

  

  A coalition including the Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil Thursday launched the presidential ticket of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin for the October 2 elections, where incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro is the man to beat samwichxdsf

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

  Uruguay refuses to sign Mercosur Summit's joint statement

  

  The Government of Uruguay Thursday refrained from signing the joint document penned at the Mercosur Summit in Asunción, on the grounds that it lacked any mention of flexibilization, which the Luis Lacalle Pou administration needs to broker one-on-one deals with other blocs or countries or blocs of the block.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Brazilian prosecution begins accusation against gang that shipped cocaine to Europe in fruit containers

  

  Brazil's Federal Prosecution Service formally accused eighteen of belonging to criminal gangs involved in sending cocaine in fruit containers to Europe through the port of Salvador, north of the country. With Operation Decontamination, twelve search and seizure warrants were ordered plus eight preventive arrests last April in several cities of the states of Bahia and São Paulo.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Bolivian railroad seeks to boost region's global trade capabilities

  

  Bolivia's Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta Wednesday highlighted his country's Bioceanic Integration Railway Corridor (CFBI), which seeks to link the Brazilian port of Santos with Ilo in Peru to further develop the region's trade capabilities.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Brazilian conservatives want Temer to join presidential race

  

  While the upcoming presidential elections seemed an inevitable clash between the incumbent rightwing Jair Bolsonaro and the former PT Lula Da Silva, Brazilian media rocked the political stage Wednesday with rumors that former President Michel Temer might join the race on behalf of the conservative Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazilians will again eat three meals a day, vowed Lula

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Dda Silva Wednesday said during a visit to his native state of Pernambuco that people in his country will go back to eating at least three meals a day if he beats the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the Oct. 2 elections.