Brazil

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 10:20 UTC

  Floating bookstore 'Logos Hope' opens in Rio

  

  The world's largest floating bookstore - the Logos Hope - with a crew of 400 volunteers from 60 nations Thursday opened its doors to the public to offer books on a large assortment of subjects. The vessel has visited over 1,400 ports in 150 countries worldwide. Most recently, she stopped at Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in Argentina.

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro: Petrobras behind fuel price increase, not government

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday explained that his government had nothing to do with the rise in the price of gasoline and diesel fuel, which followed the raid on Saudi Arabian facilities over the weekend.

• Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 17:48 UTC

  Ex Odebrecht corrupt VP found dead in Rio de Janeiro

  

  Former Odebrecht Vicepresident Henrique Valladares, one of the main informants in the megacorruption scandal which links the Brazilian building firm with bribes involving top tier officials from governments all over Latin America, has been found lifeless in his Rio de Janeiro flat, it was reported. The cause of death is yet to be determined.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2019 - 20:57 UTC

  Angry Embraer workers threaten to go on strike in Brazil

  

  Unions representing workers at Brazil's aircraft factory Embraer are ready to go on strike indefinitely strike as salary bargaining seems to be deadlocked. The measure could start as early as next Monday, sources at the company's commercial aircraft plant in São José dos Campos confirmed on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2019 - 10:15 UTC

  Brazil’s ex president Temer admits that Rousseff's impeachment was a “coup”

  

  Brazil former president, Michel Temer, described for the first time the dismissal of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff as a “coup”, as the left marks the political trial that removed the ex-president of the Workers Party from power.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 10:55 UTC

  Bolsonaro leaves hospital to continue recovery at home; he will not retake office yet

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left hospital on Monday eight days after another operation on his stomach following his stabbing at a campaign rally last year.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazil preparing fiscal reform and considers new value added tax at federal level

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro telephoned Economy Minister Paulo Guedes from hospital this week to express his opposition to the creation of a new “CPMF” financial transactions tax, Guedes said on Friday.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Chinese mining group plans to build an US$ 2.2bn complex in Brazil

  

  The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has signed a protocol of intent with Sul Americana de Metais, a unit of Chinese miner Honbridge Holdings, for the construction of a 9.1 billion reais (US$ 2.2 billion) mining complex, newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo reported.

• Monday, September 16th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro's recovery “visibly impresses” doctors but release from hospital still unconfirmed

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro continues to improve after surgery, but there is as yet no date scheduled for his release from the hospital, according to the presidential spokesman. Speaking to journalists in Sao Paulo, Otavio Rego Barros said that the doctors left Bolsonaro’s room “visibly impressed” with his progress on Sunday morning.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 21:32 UTC

  US and Brazil on first high-level strategic dialogue in seven years: trade and biodiversity in the agenda

  

  The United States and Brazil are deepening a new era of closer cooperation with their first high-level strategic dialogue in seven years.