Brazil

• Tuesday, January 29th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Investors confident of Brazil: Net FDI flows equaled 4.7% of GDP in 2018

  

  Brazil’s current account deficit doubled last year as economic growth fueled demand for foreign goods and services, while foreign investment reached its highest share of GDP since 2001, the central bank said on Monday.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Brazilian prosecutors looking into expanding the case against mining companies

  

  The Brazilian prosecutor running talks to settle a lawsuit over a 2015 tailings dam rupture at the Samarco mine says the deadly dam burst at the mine run by Vale in Brumadinho could scramble those sensitive negotiations.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  Brazilians furious with mining company and regulators: 58 dead confirmed and 300 missing

  

  Grief over the hundreds of Brazilians feared lost in a mining disaster on Friday has quickly hardened into anger as victims' families and politicians say iron ore miner Vale SA and regulators have learned nothing from the recent past.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 08:32 UTC

  Brazil's corn and soybeans January exports booming

  

  Brazil is poised to export more corn than soybeans for the first time in a year this January, although sales of the oilseed remain high for the period, according to government and shipping data.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 08:16 UTC

  Bolsonaro undergoes surgery on Monday and will spend ten days in hospital

  

  Brazil's new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro will undergo surgery on Monday in Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital to remove a colostomy bag he has had since he was stabbed on the campaign trail last year, his spokesman said on Friday.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Dam collapses in Brazil: mud sludge leaves over 200 miners missing

  

  Brazilian rescuers were searching for some 200 missing people after a tailings dam burst on Friday at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, the second major dam disaster involving the company in just over three years.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 20:45 UTC

  Brazil's First lady will be examined for suspicious transaction

  

  Michelle Bolsonaro, first lady of Brazil, will be subjected to an examination of the Brazilian treasury within an investigation into a series of suspicious transactions involving the president's eldest son, Valor newspaper reported Friday.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  CNN Brazil will dispute a place in Latin America's largest TV market

  

  With the launch of CNN Brazil, Latin America's biggest TV market is set to be roiled by the entry of a powerful new player looking to challenge the dominance of current leader Globo News. Its arrival, announced this month, comes at a high-voltage time for Brazil as it undergoes an abrupt swerve to the right under President Jair Bolsonaro, a pro-business ultraconservative who took office at the beginning of January.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Foggy burial for Bolsonaro's promises of a transparency era

  

  Brazil's new far-right government on Thursday gave hundreds more public servants the power to keep official records from the public for decades by labeling them “secret” and “ultra-secret.” Vice President Hamilton Mourao, standing in while President Jair Bolsonaro was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, signed the decree expanding exceptions within the 2011 transparency law.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Brazil eliminates Mercosur symbol from new passports

  

  Brazilian new passports will no longer have the symbol of Mercosur as currently they do together with those from the other member states, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The announcement was made by cabinet chief Onyx Lorenzoni, during a press conference in which he anticipated the targets for the first hundred days of president Jair Bolsonaro's administration.