Brazil

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Growing concerns in Brazil about a power vacuum and cabinet bickering

  

  Brazil is going through a rudderless period as President Jair Bolsonaro lies in a hospital bed following stomach surgery, with high-priority political issues such as pension reform on the backburner until he recovers, analysts and observers say. The limbo, which has lasted more than two weeks, might finally be coming to an end this week, according to reports.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Yellow scorpion infestation has become a major challenge for Sao Paulo residents

  

  The mega-polis Sao Paulo, Brazil, home to tens of millions of people who live in the city and its sprawling outskirts, has a major scorpion problem that isn’t going away anytime soon.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Brazilian minister blasted for ignoring as “irrelevant” an icon of Amazon environmentalist

  

  Brazilian environmental groups on Tuesday blasted President Jair Bolsonaro's environment minister after he dismissed the murdered Amazon rain forest defender Chico Mendes as “irrelevant.”

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  NGOs demand Brazilian miner Vale be excluded from UN's corporate responsibility pact

  

  A group of international non-governmental organizations on Tuesday demanded that Brazilian miner Vale SA be excluded from the United Nations' corporate responsibility pact, after a mining dam burst that killed an estimated 300 people.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 08:13 UTC

  Family of Falklands Fisheries officer killed in Brazil donate £50,000

  

  Cash raised for a Falkland Islands' biker injured in a crash in Brazil was given away to help others after his death, an inquest heard. Christopher Peck, 34, originally from Workington, but who was working in the Islands was two weeks into an 18-week Uruguay to Canada trip when he was hit by a lorry.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 07:41 UTC

  Hot and dry weather impacts on Brazil's 2018/19 soybean crop

  

  The Brazilian 2018-19 soybean crop will fall to 115.34 million tons, as the effects of hot and dry weather in December and January are gradually taken into account, national crop agency Conab said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 10:25 UTC

  Growing evidence shows Vale was made aware of dam's rupture risk

  

  Vale SA, the world’s largest iron ore miner, knew last year that the dam in Brazil that collapsed in January and killed at least 165 people had a heightened risk of rupturing, according to an internal document, Reuters reported on Monday

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 10:05 UTC

  Award winning Brazilian television news anchor dies in helicopter crash

  

  An award-winning Brazilian television news anchor died on Monday when a helicopter carrying him crashed on one of Sao Paulo's main highways. Ricardo Boechat, a father of six, was returning from a university in the city of Campinas when the helicopter crashed onto a truck.

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Brazil ready to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuela through Roraima

  

  Venezuelan opposition envoy Maria Teresa Belandria was received as her country’s official ambassador in Brazil on Monday and said Brazil’s government would provide all possible support to get humanitarian aid to the border.

• Monday, February 11th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Hundreds attend funeral of Flamengo 15 year old footballer killed in a fire at the training ground

  

  Hundreds of grief-stricken people on Sunday attended the funeral of 15-year-old Christian Esmerio Candido, one of the ten young soccer players killed in a fire at the training ground of Brazilian soccer club Flamengo.