Brazil

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina/Brazil bilateral trade in eight months was 20,5% down, year on year

  

  Argentina's bilateral trade with Brazil resulted in a US$ 107 million deficit in August, which more than doubled the US$ 42 million of the same month a year ago, according to data released by the Brazilian foreign trade office.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  A quarter of Brazilian population not convinced about having the Covid-19 vaccine

  

  Five percent of Brazilians would refuse under any circumstances to take a vaccine against coronavirus and a further 20% indicated they might not take it, according to a survey published in newspaper O Estado de S Paulo on Sunday.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Bolsonaro slams environmental NGOs who accuse him “of setting fire to the Amazon”

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has slammed environmental NGOs as a 'cancer' and denounced what he said was an international conspiracy accusing him of being responsible for devastating Amazon wildfires.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Brazil industrial output rose 8% in July, much stronger than expected

  

  Industrial output in Brazil rose 8% in July, figures released this week showed, much stronger than economists had expected as the sector continued to pick up after shuddering to a standstill early this year due to strict coronavirus-linked lockdowns.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 07:39 UTC

  Indigenous communities in Brazil equipped with a “Covid-19 Alert” to keep track of the pandemic

  

  Indigenous and environmental organizations in Brazil launched an app on Friday aimed at alerting indigenous communities to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in their lands.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil surpasses four million coronavirus cases and almost 125,000 deaths

  

  Brazil surpassed four million coronavirus cases on Thursday, as an international panel looking into the global response to the pandemic vowed to uncover how it was able to spread worldwide.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazilian court annuls one of Lula da Silva's nine criminal cases for alleged corruption

  

  A Brazilian court annulled one of nine criminal cases opened for alleged corruption against former President Lula da Silva because there was “insufficient evidence” to continue the process.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Brazil tightens safety demands for dams in the mining industry

  

  Brazil's Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that tightens the safety rules and inspection for dams in the mining industry, setting fines of up to 1 billion reais (US$ 200 million) for failure to comply.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil reiterates that Covid-19 vaccines will not be obligatory

  

  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reiterated on Thursday that COVID-19 vaccinations will not be obligatory when they become available.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Experimental deliveries with drones approved in Brazil

  

  Latin American drone delivery company, Speedbird Aero, announced it has received regulatory approval from Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency, also known as ANAC, to operate two experimental drone delivery routes in Brazil.