Brazil

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Brazilian ex Justice and only black member of the high court, considers running for president

  

  Members of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) celebrated on Thursday their newest member, potential presidential candidate and former Supreme Court Justice Joaquim Barbosa, whose debut in a national poll stoked hopes for his potential.

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  EU bans chicken imports from several suppliers in Brazil

  

  Europe’s decision to ban meat imports from several Brazilian suppliers affects 30 to 35% of the country’s exports to the bloc and will force companies to find new markets while officials work to reverse the measure, Brazil’s Agriculture Minister said.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Lula's party preparing Plan B: a united left front for October elections

  

  The most likely political heir to jailed former President Lula da Silva insists the leftist leader is still the Workers Party’s candidate for the October elections, but he is preparing to step into the role. Fernando Haddad told the Brazilian media that he was talking with other left-wing parties about forging a united leftist front for the elections if Lula is barred from running by a corruption conviction.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

  Brazil allows processors to resume chicken exports but EU considering a ban

  

  Brazil’s largest chicken processor BRF SA has been allowed to resume production at nine plants that export to the European Union, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Wednesday, a day before a potential EU ban related to a food safety scandal. The ministry clarified that one more plant had been cleared, referring to a firm appearing in the document as SHB Comércio e Indústria de Alimentos SA, which is also controlled by BRF.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazilian court turns down Lula da Silva's latest appeal

  

  A Brazilian court on Wednesday turned down ex-president Lula da Silva's latest appeal against his 12-year sentence for corruption, seemingly putting his bid for a political comeback even farther out of reach. The court in Porto Alegre tweeted that it had unanimously turned down the appeal, which was of a technical nature and, even if successful, would not have changed Lula's guilty verdict.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Drilling near the mouth of the Amazon banned by Brazil's environmental regulator

  

  The public prosecutor’s office in the northern state of Amapá recommended on Wednesday that Brazil’s environmental regulator Ibama deny French major Total a license to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 18:16 UTC

  Brazilian ex presidential candidate charged with passive corruption and obstruction of justice

  

  Justices from the First Panel of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) voted, on Tuesday (17), accepting the charges filed by the Prosecutor General's Office against senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG), and former presidential candidate, accused of passive corruption and obstruction of justice.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Brazil wants rules for internet data flows and takes the case to the WTO

  

  Brazil is pushing for the establishment of rules around Internet data flows and has presented a document on the subject to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to stress the urgency of starting a more objective debate. Amid concerns over Facebook's use of tracking users with pixels, Brazil joins the Netherlands, France, and EC in legal moves.

• Tuesday, April 17th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Homeless activists occupy seaside apartment at the heart of Lula da Silva's imprisonment

  

  A group of homelessness activists briefly occupied on Monday the seaside apartment at the heart of the corruption case that saw ex-president Lula da Silva imprisoned earlier this month. About 30 members of the Homeless Workers' Movement and other leftist activists got into the triplex apartment in Guaruja, near Sao Paulo, hanging placards from the balcony in support of Lula.

• Tuesday, April 17th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  Death of Brazilian black woman activist and councillor remains unsolved

  

  Shadowy criminal gangs operating in Rio de Janeiro are the chief suspects in last month's murder of Marielle Franco, a prominent black rights activist and city councilor, a government minister said on Monday.