Brazil

• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 00:20 UTC

  Brazil: Inflation and GDP projections up from March figures

  

  Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) Thursday announced it projected a 1.7% increase in the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by the end of 2022, thus improving a previous forecast released in March, which mentioned merely 1%.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 08:35 UTC

  Aerolíneas Argentinas, GOL announce SAO-BUE air shuttle

  

  Argentina's flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas and Brazil's GOL have announced a Buenos Aires-São Paulo air shuttle between Aeroparque Jorge Newbery and Guarulhos, in addition to increasing their codeshare operations linking the two countries, starting in August.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 08:12 UTC

  Lula's team releases government plan

  

  Brazil's opposition presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva has released his government plan, which includes international cooperation, new labor legislation, and differentiated taxation on the wealthiest.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  The “communist” map that irked nationalists because Malvinas are Falklands and don't figure as Argentine

  

  When it's not the father, president Jair Bolsonaro, it's one of his sons, in this case Eduardo Bolsonaro, federal lawmaker who is involved in a controversy over his interpretation of South America's political mood and trend, which he described as mostly pure red communist.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Bolsonarists looking for strategies to halt fuel price increases

  

  While Brazil's Energy Minister Adolfo Sachsida appeared Tuesday before the Lower House to answer questions about the current situation regarding the state-owned oil company Petrobras, the Government of President Jair Bolsonaro is concocting other strategies to curb the neverending increases in the price of fuel.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Phillips's boat found in Amazonia river

  

  The boat British reporter Dom Phillips and local indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira were riding when they were ambushed and killed on June 5 has been retrieved from the bottom of a river, Amazonas Civil Police announced Monday.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  Brazil confirms 8th case of monkeypox in man with no travel record

  

  Brazil's Health Ministry Monday confirmed the 8th case of monkeypox nationwide. The patient is a 25-year-old man from Maricá, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, who does not have a travel record but has been in contact with foreigners.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Petrobras CEO Coelho bows to pressure and resigns

  

  After barely 40 days on the job, José Mauro Coelho resigned as CEO of Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras due to pressure from President Jair Bolsonaro and other politicians over a recent increase in the price of fuel, which drives inflation upwards ahead of the Oct. 2 elections. Bolsonaro had dubbed the price hike a “betrayal” of the Brazilian people.

• Monday, June 20th 2022 - 20:42 UTC

  Third suspect arrested, five others at large in Phillips/Araújo murder

  

  Brazilian authorities have confirmed that following scientific assessments, British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist expert Bruno Araújo Pereira were killed in Amazonia “with typical hunting ammunition.” Forensic experts also completed the identification of Pereira's body.

• Saturday, June 18th 2022 - 11:54 UTC

  Bolsonaro lashes out at Petrobras for new fuel price increase

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Friday said the state-run oil company Petrobras' profits were “irrational” in the current global scenario following a 14% increase in the price of diesel fuel and 5% in naphtha.