Brazil

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Brazil's top prosecutor keeps active anti corruption task force that jailed ex-president Lula da Silva

  

  The office of Brazil’s top prosecutor has decided to keep the country’s famed Car Wash anti-corruption task force active through Jan. 31, it said in a statement on Wednesday, in an at least temporary victory for the embattled group of prosecutors.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Head of Brazilian Army intelligence apparently dies of coronavirus

  

  The head of Brazil's Army Intelligence Center (CIE), Gen. Carlos Sydriao, has apparently died from the coronavirus after 10 days of hospitalization.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil's supermarkets “committed” to lowering food prices announced Bolsonaro

  

  Brazil’s supermarkets are “committed” to lowering the prices of basic foodstuffs, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday, hours after the Justice Ministry said it would ask supermarkets to explain recent price increases for some products.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil Health minister announces the Covid-19 vaccine for next January

  

  Brazil's acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday that a Covid-19 vaccine would be rolled out for all Brazilians in January 2021.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  NASA pictures show the world's largest wetland lost to fires sweeping across Brazil

  

  A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.

• 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.