Brazil

• Wednesday, October 30th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Oil spills on Brazil's northeast beaches, “the worst environmental attack”

  

  Oil spills washing up on beaches along more than 2,000 kilometers of Brazil’s northeast coastline could be the worst environmental “attack” in the country’s history, the CEO of Petrobras said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2019 - 08:36 UTC

  Brazil has become a beacon for Big Oil foreign investment in the energy sector

  

  When oil executives arrive in Rio de Janeiro this week for Brazil’s biennial Offshore Technology Conference, they will find themselves in Latin America’s most promising market for Big Oil by far. This signals a dramatic change from only a year ago.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 19:04 UTC

  Start date for new flights between the Falkland Islands and São Paulo

  

  LATAM Airlines Brazil’s new weekly flight between the Falkland Islands and São Paulo will begin operating on 20 November 2019. This service will allow passengers to make onward connections to multiple destinations in South and North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez and Bolsonaro on collision course over Lula and Mercosur

  

  Argentine elected president Alberto Fernandez on Sunday called for ex-president Lula da Silva to be freed from prison, which most certainly puts him on a collision course with Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 08:09 UTC

  Bolsonaro in Arab countries: signs agreements in Abu Dhabi and will address economic forum in Riyadh

  

  The United Arab Emirates and Brazil signed several agreements on Sunday during President Jair Bolsonaro's visit to Abu Dhabi, which marks his first official trip to the Arab world. He arrived in the UAE on Saturday and is set to head to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, where he will take part in the Future Investment Initiative.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 07:36 UTC

  Brazil, expectations of new lows for inflation and interest rates

  

  Brazilian inflation and interest rate expectations for next year have fallen to new lows, according to a central bank survey of economists published on Monday, strengthening the view that monetary policy will be loosened further in the months ahead.

• Monday, October 28th 2019 - 16:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro hints Argentine might need to leave Mercosur

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said late Sunday upon departing from Abu Dhabi after a two-day state visit that if the policies of Argentina's next president affect Mercosur's agreement with the European Union (EU), a solution may be to remove the southern neighbours from the bloc.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Controversy over Bolsonaro's possible attendance in Chile of the Libertadores Copa final

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, an admirer of Latin America's military dictatorships, courted controversy on Friday when he said he might go to next month's Copa Libertadores final in the Chilean stadium once used as a detention centre.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Bolsonaro begins tour of Gulf states to mend relations with Arab nations

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrived in Abu Dhabi on Saturday for a tour of three Gulf states, hoping to turn the page on a diplomatic storm last year with Arab nations over a proposal to move Brazil's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  AFP Photo of Brazilian boy with body smeared in oil goes viral

  

  A boy walks ashore in Brazil in filthy waist-high water with a look of exasperation and his body smeared in oil, a photographer takes a shot, and the image goes viral.