Brazil

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil Supreme Court to decide on freight rates imposed by government

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court will rule as soon as possible on several challenges to the constitutionality of a law imposing minimum freight prices, but no ruling will come on Monday, Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux said.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 07:32 UTC

  Brazil's Supreme Court will rule on Lula's presidential candidacy in September

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court will weigh in September an appeal by jailed former president Lula da Silva to be set free so he can join the presidential campaign already under way, a court spokesperson said on Monday.

• Monday, August 27th 2018 - 08:27 UTC

  Brazilian minister apologizes: injunction on glyphosate still on appeal

  

  Brazil’s Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi tweeted on Friday that he had incorrectly stated a day earlier that a court had lifted an injunction on products containing the widely used herbicide glyphosate and that a ruling was still pending.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 18:50 UTC

  Tankers with US diesel diverted to Brazil following a fire in a Sao Paulo refinery

  

  At least four tankers loaded with ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) en route from the U.S Gulf Coast to Europe abruptly changed course this week to Brazil, following a fire at a 415,000-bpd refinery of state oil firm Petrobras on Monday, S&P Global Platts trade flow data showed on Friday.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 18:14 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil agree to merge car production regulations

  

  Argentine and Brazilian representatives on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding to begin merging vehicle production regulations of both countries.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 16:48 UTC

  Massive arrests in Brazil in a coordinated crackdown on murders and femicides

  

  More than 200 people were arrested on murder charges in a single day across Brazil on Friday in a coordinated sweep that emphasized the fight against femicide and other killings, the government said.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 03:05 UTC

  Norwegian Air planning to operate domestic flights in Brazil

  

  Low-cost Norwegian Air is interested in operating domestic flights within Brazil, a government official said, as it plans its debut in Latin America’s largest economy in March with a flight between Sao Paulo and England.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 01:05 UTC

  Brazilian politics, football and bribes, so closely interlinked

  

  When the former boss of Brazilian football was arrested in Zurich in a 2015 graft case that would see him sentenced to prison, his successor in the job didn't lose a minute - he got on the first plane to Rio de Janeiro and didn't look back.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Latin American growth lowered to 1.5% this year, in a “complex global scenario”

  

  Latin America's economic growth is set to come in lower than expected this year, as US protectionism and widespread wariness of emerging markets put a drag on the region, a UN panel said Thursday. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) slashed its growth forecast for the region by 0.7 point to 1.5%, saying the “complex global scenario” had dimmed the outlook since its last report in April.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Disaster contained: Brazilian court lifts ban on products containing glyphosate

  

  A Brazilian court has lifted an injunction that had suspended registration in the country of products containing the agrochemical glyphosate, Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said on Thursday on his official Twitter account.