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Montevideo, November 21st 2025 - 03:42 UTC

Brazil

  • Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Bolsonaro insists Judiciary wants him to lose reelection

    Bolsonaro has been consistently narrowing the gap with Lula. Photo: REUTERS / ADRIANO MACHADO

    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro of the rightwing Liberal Party (PL) Monday insisted the country's Judiciary wanted him to lose this year's elections, following Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes' decision to ban Telegram unless some content was removed.

  • Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:51 UTC

    Brazilian environmentalists write to EU asking for strict ban of products from deforestation regions

    The environmental groups say that the EU draft proposal is “necessary and positive,” but needs “improvements” to effectively combat deforestation

    A letter from 34 Brazilian environmental organizations addressed to the European Union called for more effective legislation banning imports from countries involved in deforestation. On Thursday EU ministers are scheduled to meet in Brussels to discuss a proposal banning the purchase of products that fuel deforestation, such as soy, beef, palm oil, cocoa, and coffee.

  • Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:43 UTC

    Brazil planning to become a net exporter of wheat, harvesting a volume similar to that of Argentina

    Brazil normally imports more than 50% of the wheat it consumes, mainly from Argentina

    Brazil is working to reduce its dependence on foreign produce and hopes to take advantage of recent record exports to increase crops this year. In effect from December 2021 to March 2022, Brazil exported some 2.5 million tons of wheat, an unprecedented volume that benefited from a historically large harvest and, more recently, from additional demand generated by the war between wheat exporters Ukraine and Russia.

  • Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

    STF Judge reverses Telegram ban after app fully abides by Brazilian law

    “Considering the full compliance of the decisions issued” last week, De Moraes allowed Telegram to stay in Brazil

    Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes Sunday reversed his previous decision to terminate the smartphone application Telegram nationwide for its alleged involvement in the dissemination of fake news.

  • Sunday, March 20th 2022 - 14:32 UTC

    Brazil strongly campaigning to have fertilizers delisted from sanctions

    Minister Tereza Cristina Costa Dias also presides over the Inter-American Board of Agriculture Sciences.

    Brazil has called for fertilizers to be excluded from the list of sanctions currently imposed as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and ongoing fighting. Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Costa Dias addressing a virtual meeting of peers from countries of the Americas, including the United States, pointed out limiting or banning fertilizer trade has a direct impact on farming productivity, food availability, boosts food prices and threatens food security, mainly among the most vulnerable countries.

  • Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

    Bolsonaro's popularity coming around ahead of presidential elections

    It remains an enigma whether Bolsonaro will manage to bring Lula to a runoff after Oct. 30

    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro sees his chances of reelection in October improve after a drop in unemployment announced Friday helped him narrow the gap against the former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.

  • Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

    Brazilian judge bans Telegram app nationwide

    Bolsonaro was using Telegram after some of his posts on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook were deleted due to alleged false information

    Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes Friday ordered the smart telephone application Telegram banned nationwide, claiming it did not help authorities fight the so-called spread of “fake news.”

  • Thursday, March 17th 2022 - 20:53 UTC

    Increase in fuel price, a crime against Brazilians, says Bolsonaro

    “Whatever I can do, I do,” to avoid increases in the price of fuel, Bolsonaro said

    Brazil's oil company Petrobras came under heavy criticism Wednesday from President Jair Bolsonaro, who claimed the decision to raise the price of fuel at pumps was both “absurd” and “a crime against the population.”

  • Thursday, March 17th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

    Bolsonaro awarded medal for “indigenist merit”

    The President has been in favor of economic exploitation of native Brazilian community lands

    Brazil's Justice Ministry Wednesday awarded President Jair Bolsonaro the medal for “indigenist merit,” a distinction which is granted to outstanding personalities who stand for the good of the native communities. The head of state was deemed worthy of such an accolade “in recognition of the relevant services of altruistic character, related to the welfare, protection, and defense of the indigenous communities” despite his notorious actions regarding the economic exploitation of the native ancestral lands.

  • Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 22:55 UTC

    Brazil's Central Bank raises interest rate to 11.75%, highest since 2017

    Brazil's inflation for the year 2021 has reached 10.06%, which was the country's highest in the past six years

    Brazil's central bank (BCB) on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by 1 percentage point to 11.75%, a high in nearly five years, in a bid to curb inflation that “continued to surprise” amid pressures exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. Last time with such a high inflation was last April, 2017.