Brazil

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Inmates of Brazilian prison riots transferred to other jails; drug gangs rivalry and fighting out of control

  

  Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Bolsonaro questions credibility of a truth commission that investigated human rights abuses under the military dictatorship

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday questioned the credibility of a truth commission that investigated human rights abuses under the country's military dictatorship, suggesting it was politically influenced by the left. 

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  Sao Paulo airport major gold heist: police have arrested three suspects

  

  Brazilian Police have arrested three people suspected of having participated in the theft of 718.9 kilos of gold committed in the cargo terminal of Guarulhos international airport, the largest in the country, according to official sources. These are three workers from the airport itself, located in Sao Paulo metropolitan region, according to news sources confirmed the case.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 10:13 UTC

  Brazil's efforts to improve ties with the US, “need not worry China, we never had a problem with China”

  

  Brazil’s efforts to build better ties with the United States need not worry China, the South American economy top trade partner, because it had never had a problem with China, the Brazilian foreign minister stated. At issue in the past has been how previous Brazilian administrations handled relations with China, Ernesto Araujo said.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro says no “strong evidence” that a tribal chief found dead in the Amazon was murdered

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday there is no “strong evidence” that a tribal chief found dead in the Amazon was murdered, as police probe the killing in the remote region.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Killing of Brazilian indigenous leader under federal investigation

  

  Brazilian federal authorities are investigating the alleged murder of a leader from the aboriginal Waiãpi tribe at Mariry, a village in the Amapá region as conflicts between explorers and indigenous communities are on the rise.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian prison gangs' rivalry leave at least 57 inmates killed, many decapitated

  

  At least 57 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the second major eruption of violence to rock the country's severely overpopulated and deadly prison system in as many months.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Ex Barcelona and 2002 World champion with Brazil, in deep financial trouble

  

  A court in southern Brazil has forbidden ex-Barcelona striker Ronaldinho from selling 57 of his real estate properties due to an unpaid environmental fine and other debts, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Monday.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 11:58 UTC

  Brazil gold miners invade remote reserve in the Amazon and kill a tribal leader

  

  Heavily armed gold miners have invaded a remote indigenous reserve in northern Brazil and stabbed to death one of its leaders, officials say. Residents of the village in Amapá state fled in fear and there were concerns violent clashes could erupt if they tried to reclaim the gold-rich land. Police have arrived in the area.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro clashes with US/Brazilian journalist, whom he describes as “aligned with criminal hackers”

  

  Brazil's president renewed his attacks on journalist Glenn Greenwald over the weekend, raising the possibility of jail a few days after members of his party said the American's Brazil-based internet publication was “aligned with criminal hackers” for reporting the contents of hacked phone conversations involving the current justice minister.