Brazil

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Maduro says barracks assailants are refuging in Brazil and asks Bolsonaro to return the stolen weapons

  

  The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said Monday that 11 people have been arrested in connection with an assault early Sunday at a military post in the south of the country and said that some of those involved were in Brazil along with the stolen weapons of the installation.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:30 UTC

  Approval rating of Bolsonaro steadily dropping and negative rating climbing

  

  The approval rating of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's government is dropping steadily and its negative rating is climbing, a CNI/Ibope poll showed on December 20, as his combative political style and a weak recovery weigh on his popularity.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Bolsonaro back steps after telling a journalist he had “the face of a homosexual”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that it was wrong for him to tell a journalist a day earlier that he had “the face of a homosexual.”

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:48 UTC

  Falklands patrol HMS Clyde decommissioned in Portsmouth before its future life with the Brazilian Navy

  

  A Royal Naval patrol vessel has returned to its home base in Portsmouth for the final time after spending 12 years on patrol around the Falkland Islands. Sailors and crew of the HMS Clyde have taken part in a decommissioning ceremony for the 13-year-old vessel before it is turned back over the BAE Systems for its future life in Brazil.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:31 UTC

  Trump will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum, Bolsonaro says

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that US President Donald Trump told him in a phone conversation that his administration will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum as threatened earlier this month.

• Friday, December 20th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Bill authorizing mining in Brazilian protected indigenous reserves is ready, said Bolsonaro

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that a bill authorizing mining on protected indigenous reserves was ready and only needed to be sent to Congress for consideration.

• Friday, December 20th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil mining regulator dismisses a Vale dam is in danger of collapse: “structurally sound”

  

  A dam owned by iron ore company Vale SA that was the subject of an investigative report by a TV program last week is structurally sound and there is no reason for concern, Brazil’s national mining regulator said this week.

• Friday, December 20th 2019 - 08:56 UTC

  Brazil central bank raises 2020 growth forecast to 2.2%

  

  Brazil’s central bank on Thursday raised its 2020 gross domestic product growth forecast to 2.2% in its quarterly inflation report from 1.8% previously but cautioned it was conditional on continued progress on economic reforms.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil/China finalizing sanitary protocol for soy-meal exports to the Asian giant

  

  Brazilian and Chinese government authorities are finalizing a protocol setting health standards for domestic processors to export soy-meal to the Asian country, André Nassar, president of oilseeds industry group Abiove, announced.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Chinese consortium wins contract to build and operate Brazil's second longest bridge

  

  A consortium of state-owned Chinese companies was awarded the contract to build and operate what will be the second-longest bridge in Brazil. Under the project, a bridge will be built spanning the famed Bay of All Saints, which connects Salvador, the capital of the northeastern Bahia state, with Itaparica Island. The project also involves the construction of related roads.