Brazil

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 04:06 UTC

  Brazilian telemarketers have identification prefix added to their lines

  

  Brazilian telemarketing companies have been forced to add a prefix to their telephone numbers since March 10, which allows recipients to decide whether they want to take incoming calls.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Native Brazilians to tell UN violence, illegal mining on the rise

  

  Groups of native Brazilians are to appear before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) to condemn the increase of illegal mining and violence in their communities, including death threats, raids, and forced displacements, the Missionary Indigenous Council (CIMI) announced this week.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil outlines 30-year plan to cut fertilizer overseas dependency

  

  Agricultural power Brazil faced with an insufficient stable supply of fertilizers for its farmers, and given the current volatility of international prices because of the war in Ukraine has made public the goals of its National Fertilizer Plan, which includes some sharing with Mercosur partners.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 08:41 UTC

  Petrobras increases price of fuel for distributors after 57 days

  

  Brazil's Petrobras has increased the price of refined gasoline and diesel for distributors as of March 11. The average price has gone up to R$3.86 (US$ 0.77) for regular fuel and R$4.51 (US$ 0.9) for diesel.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 21:41 UTC

  Alitalia's successor to start serving Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires in June

  

  Italy's new airline ITA, which was founded to replace the extinct Alitalia, has announced it would start flying to Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires from Rome and back in the coming month of June.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Brazilian economy expanded 4,6% in 2021, despite a 0,2% contraction of agriculture

  

  Contrary to foreign forecasts from multilateral organizations forecasts, Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ended 2021 with a 4.6% growth, totaling 8.7 trillion (about US$ 1,7 trillion at the current rate). The country managed to recover from the slowdown of 2020 when the Brazilian economy shrank 3.9% because of the pandemic.

• Friday, March 4th 2022 - 18:40 UTC

  Fertilizer emergency in Brazil: plan to cur dependency and promote production

  

  Brazil will be launching this month an ambitious national plan to stimulate investment in the country's fertilizer industry, cutting on foreign dependency now worsened by the Ukrainian war and shipping difficulties.

• Friday, March 4th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Brazil's President, British PM in favor of ceasefire in Ukraine

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Thursday held a telephone conversation during which both heads of government agreed on the need for a ceasefire in Ukraine, it was reported.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2022 - 22:09 UTC

  Brazil to resume cruise season shortly

  

  One day after reports from Rio de Janeiro heralded wearing facemasks indoors may soon be over, the Brazilian Cruise Association (Clia) Thursday announced the resumption of the 2021/2022 cruise season as of this coming Saturday, March 5.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2022 - 20:09 UTC

  Rio city officials about to lift mandatory face masks indoors

  

  Rio de Janeiro local authorities are considering the possibility of scrapping the mandatory use of facemasks given the decreasing number of COVID-19 infections reported over the past few weeks.