Brazil

• Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 10:06 UTC

  Brazil: FM heralds softer approach to Venezuelan crisis

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira insisted Wednesday that it was time to appease the diplomatic differences with Venezuela and not “repeat the mistakes we made with Guaidó's self-proclamation.” He was referring to the arguably illegal appointment of then-Congressman as interim head of state between Jan. 23 2019 and Jan. 25 2023 after not recognizing the elections' outcome. In the end, President Nicolás Maduro was never removed from the Miraflores Palace and Guaidó's legitimacy eventually faded away, with only some countries recognizing him.

• Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 08:51 UTC

  Suicide bomber attacks Brasilia's key square

  

  Police have cordoned off Brasilia's Three Powers Square after two explosives were detonated 20 seconds apart near the Supreme Federal Court's (STF) headquarters and next to the House of Deputies respectively. The sole perpetrator of both attacks was killed in the incident. The devices were apparently homemade, the authorities said.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 12:23 UTC

  Macron adding Buenos Aires and Santiago to G20 South American tour

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron will be making state visits to Argentina and Chile as part of his South American tour to attend the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it was confirmed in diplomatic circles. Macron will first get together with his Argentine colleague Javier Milei to discuss climate change and other bilateral issues between Nov. 16 and 17. Then, he will head for Brazil's gathering of world leaders on Nov. 18 and 19. And then he will travel to Santiago for talks with Gabriel Boric Font.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Lula says Maduro not Brazil's problem

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview with RedeTV that Nicolás Maduro was “Venezuela's problem,” not his country's. “It seems to me that it was a wise reflection by Lula,” Maduro replied after recent incidents between the two Latin American nations resulting in Caracas being excluded from the BRICS associate membership granted to Bolivia and Cuba, among others.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 09:38 UTC

  Brazil has its own space at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan

  

  As the Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, this week, Brazil assumed a leading position at the event by opening its Pathways to Ecological Transformation space to discuss the South American country's initiatives to tackle climate change, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, November 11th 2024 - 22:07 UTC

  Sweden picks Embraer C-390 for military logistics

  

  Sweden's Defense Ministry announced it has chosen the Brazilian-built Embraer C-390 Millennium as the country's new tactical transport aircraft. “Embraer is honored by Sweden's choice. After several countries belonging to the European Union and NATO selected the C-390, this decision confirms the fact that our multi-mission aircraft represents a tremendous advance in operational capability over previous generation tactical transport aircraft,” Embraer's CEO of Defense and Security Bosco da Costa Junior said.

• Monday, November 11th 2024 - 09:56 UTC

  Lula may resume air travel after last month's domestic accident

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva went Sunday to the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in Brasília for a checkup on his domestic accident from days ago, after which he was cleared to resume air travel. According to a medical bulletin, he was found symptom-free from the incident he suffered on October 19th. He also showed an improvement from previous tests and was thus pronounced fit to carry on with his usual activities.

• Saturday, November 9th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

  Falklands MPC Typhoons ‘take over’ military airport in Rio do Janeiro

  

  Brazilian media reports that on Friday, Rio de Janeiro’s airspace experienced an unusual day with the arrival of British fighters and temporary airport closures. A Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft declared an emergency near the Brazilian coast while flying over the Atlantic.

• Saturday, November 9th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  BCP President says inflation no longer a problem

  

  Paraguayan Central Bank (BCP) President Carlos Carvallo said Friday in Luque at the Expo Paraguay Brazil convention that inflation in his country was no longer a concern. He made those remarks during his appearance at a panel titled “Inflation, currency, and macroeconomic challenges, and the BCP's strategic vision” at the event held at the South American Football Confederation's (Conmebol) headquarters.

• Saturday, November 9th 2024 - 10:34 UTC

  Car sales skyrocket in Brazil

  

  Car sales in Brazil went up 21.6% interannually last month, the best performance since 2014, according to a National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers (Anfavea) report released this week. The document mentioned 264,949 units sold last month alone, a 12.1% growth from September and also the highest monthly sales volume since December 2014.