Brazil

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.
Thursday, January 24th 2019 - 09:33 UTC
Sao Paulo state willing to support automaker GM with tax incentives

General Motors Brazil unit is in advanced talks with Sao Paulo state to receive tax incentives, the company told public officials and union representatives at a meeting on Tuesday, a few days after telling workers in a memo that it was losing money in the country.
Thursday, January 24th 2019 - 09:12 UTC
Saudi Arabia limits imports from a number of Brazilian chicken processing plants

Saudi Arabia has barred five Brazilian chicken processing plants from exporting to the Middle Eastern country, leaving 25 with valid export permits, Brazil’s meat trade association ABPA said, citing “technical” reasons. The Saudi move threw up a fresh hurdle for top exporter BRF SA and its rivals just a day after an anti-dumping dispute with China was resolved.