Brazil

• Sunday, June 7th 2020 - 10:16 UTC

  Brazil: producers of hydrated ethanol fuel can sell directly to gas station owners

  

  Brazil’s CNPE national energy council approved a resolution that establishes rules allowing producers of hydrated ethanol fuel to sell directly to gas station owners, according to a statement. Oil regulator ANP will now be able to take steps to put the new rules into practice, the statement said.

• Sunday, June 7th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Brazilian Real rebounding strongly after months of erosion; central bank forecasted to further cut Selic rate

  

  The Brazilian Real and Mexican peso have both rebounded strongly in recent weeks, but their rallies are starting to diverge with the peso running out of steam and the Real gaining momentum.

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 14:33 UTC

  Pirralha blasts Bolsonaro for failing to manage the coronavirus pandemic

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has failed in managing the coronavirus crisis, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday, a day after a record rise in deaths in the South American nation.

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 14:20 UTC

  Bolsonaro threatens to pull Brazil out of WHO, a “partisan political organization”

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Foreign investment returns to Brazil in May, first since July 2019

  

  Brazil posted a net foreign exchange inflow of US$ 3.1 billion in May, central bank figures showed on Wednesday, its first net inflow since July last year.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 18:45 UTC

  Brazil's second consecutive record number of Covid-19 daily deaths

  

  Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday, even as city and state authorities move aggressively to open commerce back up.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 11:52 UTC

  Workers at the largest open cast iron ore mine in the world threatened by Covid-19 outbreak

  

  The Brazilian municipality of Parauapebas, in the state of Pará, which houses part of the Serra dos Carajás, where the largest open-cast iron ore mine in the world is located, will carry out mass testing for Covid-19, reaching about half the population.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 11:52 UTC

  Brazilian May exports reached US$ 18bn with a trade surplus of US$ 4,5bn

  

  Last month, Brazilian exports totaled US$17.94 billion and imports, US$13.392 billion, which generated a trade surplus of US$4.548 billion. On the export side, there was a 4.2% decline in the daily export average from US$936.02 million in May 2019, to US$896.98 million in May 2020. In relation to imports, there was a 1.6% decline in the daily average over the same comparison period, from US$680.37 million to US$669.58 million.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Brazil surpasses 30,000 coronavirus deaths; in Sao Paulo City partial lifting of the lockdown delayed

  

  Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America's worst-hit country. Figures released by the health ministry showed a new record 1,262 deaths in the previous 24 hours, as well as 28,936 new infections.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  “I can't breathe” chant favela residents in Rio protesting crimes committed by police against black people

  

  Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the square in front of the Rio de Janeiro state government palace Sunday, protesting crimes committed by the police against black people in the Brazilian city’s poor neighborhoods, known as favelas.