Brazil

• Friday, March 15th 2024 - 20:46 UTC

  Brazilian State bordering Paraguay and Argentine under dengue emergency

  

  Authorities in the Brazilian State of Paraná bordering Argentina and Paraguay have decreed a health emergency given the increasing number of cases of dengue fever in recent weeks as new deaths have been confirmed, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, March 15th 2024 - 19:56 UTC

  Unidentified Brazilian woman dies after 24 years in a coma

  

  A mysterious woman who spent the last 24 years in a coma after a hit-and-run car accident in downtown Vitória, in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, has died of bronchial aspiration, it was reported Friday.

• Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 19:52 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina agree on reciprocal open skies policy

  

  The governments of Brazil and Argentina agreed this week to a reciprocal open skies policy, Itamaraty Palace sources in Brasilia confirmed. Under the new legal frame, there will be no restrictions to carriers -both passenger and cargo- to open as many routes as they wish.

• Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 19:01 UTC

  Israel's actions in Gaza violate international humanitarian law, Brazil's FM says

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira told his country's Senate Thursday that Israel's “blockade of humanitarian aid in the current context of famine and lack of medical supplies in Gaza is a violation of international law,” Agencia Brasil reported. The administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “continues to systematically hinder the entry of trucks with humanitarian aid at the borders with Gaza,” Vieira denounced.

• Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

  Brazil: Non-pregnant mothers in same-sex unions entitled to “paternity” leave

  

  Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) ruled that non-pregnant women in same-sex unions are entitled to “paternity” leave, Agencia Brasil reported Wednesday. The rationale is to be applied to all similar cases, it was also determined.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 19:51 UTC

  Brazil: Lula launches 100 new educational training centers

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched 100 new campuses of Federal Institutes of Education, Science, and Technology (IFS) this week nationwide because “it is through education that we will become a first-world country.”

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 09:08 UTC

  Drug trafficking gangs: Brazil's PCC operating in Chile

  

  Following a confession from a Chilean prison inmate, it was determined that São Paulo's notorious First Capital Command (PCC) had expanded its operations, it was reported in Santiago. In addition, raids in correctional facilities in Brazil detected communications further corroborated the news since proof of communications between the two countries was detected.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 06:19 UTC

  Brazil's massive goods foreign trade is in US dollars but there are incipient deals in Euros and Reais

  

  Brazil's foreign trade in goods, some US$ 640bn annually is done mostly in US dollars, some 95%, but there are some inroads to other currencies such as the Euro and its own Brazilian Reais. These figure come from an annual report on trade operations’ currency statements compiled by Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services (Secex-MDIC), and revealed last week.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2024 - 10:38 UTC

  Brazil to build memorial site for Covid-19 victims

  

  Brazilian authorities will build a memorial in Rio de Janeiro to honor the some 710,000 people who died of COVID-19 during the international crisis, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Saturday, March 9th 2024 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentina picks Raimondi for embassy in Brasilia

  

  Following former Vice President Daniel Scioli's departure from Argentina's embassy in Brasilia, Guillermo Daniel Raimondi will be his successor, it was reported after the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greenlighted his appointment.