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Montevideo, July 15th 2025 - 03:54 UTC

Brazil

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:43 UTC

    Brazil's unemployment stubbornly remains above 12%

    The unemployment rate in Brazil was at 12.2% in the quarter ended in January and at 12.0% in the last quarter of 2017.

    Despite official announcements that Brazil's recession was turning into a mild recovery, the unemployment rate rose to 12.6% in the quarter ended in February, reaching the highest level since mid-2017 and surpassing market expectations of a 12.5% rate, according to the national statistics office.

  • Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:57 UTC

    Rousseff and Lula furious with Netflix series “The Mechanism” on corruption

    Rousseff assailed the series as a travesty of history aimed at her Workers’ Party and its founder Lula, who has been convicted of corruption

    Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has accused Netflix of political bias and character assassination in its series based on the massive Car Wash corruption investigation that rocked Brazil’s political establishment. Since its debut last week, the series called “The Mechanism” has enthralled Brazilians with its dramatization of the political scandal that contributed to Rousseff’s downfall and impeachment in 2016.

  • Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 06:01 UTC

    Brazil Finance minister Meirelles expected to announce this week his presidential bid

    Under Brazil's electoral laws, if Meirelles plans to be a presidential candidate, he has to resign from the government post by April 7.

    Brazil's Finance Minister, Henrique Meirelles, will step down from the government this week and join the ranks of the ruling Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, senior government officials said. The news of Meirelles' move was broken by the government's chief of staff, Eliseu Padilha.

  • Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 19:12 UTC

    Trump doesn't care about Latin America, Lula tells Correa

    “It's becoming more and more clear each day that the US doesn't want Latin America to be strong,” Lula claimed.

    Former Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, better or simply known as Lula, said Donald Trump “doesn't care about Latin America in the least and added that ”Bush and Condoleezza Rice pursued a much more democratic policy towards Brazil than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.” In his view, Obama could give magnificent speeches, but never actually delivered.

  • Saturday, March 31st 2018 - 21:33 UTC

    Members of Temer's entourage arrested in bribe probe

    The arrest warrants were issued by Supreme Court (STF) Justice Luiz Roberto Barroso

    Three people linked to Brazi's President Michel Temer were arrested Thursday in the investigation of a decree the head of state allegedly signed to benefit a port company in exchange for bribes.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 07:04 UTC

    The Economist: Uruguay less dependent on Argentina, Brazil

    Jesko Hentschel, regional director of the World Bank, recalled that Uruguay, unlike Argentina, had won over the confidence of investors

    The British publication The Economist praised Uruguay's progress and underlined its decreasing dependency from giant neighbours Brazil and Argentina.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 02:28 UTC

    Facebook ordered to scrap fake news regarding slain Brazilian activist

    Marielle Franco was murdered March 14 and quickly hailed as an inspiring example of a black woman who had broken barriers by getting elected to Rio's white-dominated city council.

    Brazilian Judge Jorge Jansen Counago Novelle on Wednesday gave the US-based social media giant Facebook 24 hours to remove fake news posted about slain black rights' activist Marielle Franco.

  • Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 22:26 UTC

    Temer, presidential hopefuls condemn attacks on Lula in Parana

    Police chief Hélder Lauria said on Wednesday that the attack on Lula's caravan buses was being investigated as a case of use of firearms causing material damages and not as attempted murder.

    Incumbent president Michel Temer and candidates for this year's elections Henrique Meirelles (PSD), Manuela d'Avila (PCdoB), Marina Silva (Rede), Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) and Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) Wednesday condemned the attack against the caravan of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) in the south of the country.

  • Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 14:18 UTC

    Measles spreads again in the Americas

    The region had finally been declared free of the disease by an International Committee of Experts in 2016 after 22 years of mass vaccination.

    After being the first continent in the world declared free of measles in 2016, nine countries in the region have registered cases last year. With almost 900 cases, Venezuela was the most affected. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warns that the countries of the region should intensify their efforts to immunize the population and stop the spread of the disease.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 16:00 UTC

    Brazil instructs federal communications agencies to reduce coverage of the murder of Marielle Franco

    The deaths of Marielle Franco and her chauffer Gomes have prompted a series of protests throughout Brazil and in other countries

    Journalists and radio broadcasters at Empresa Brasileira de Comunicação (Brazil Communication Company, or EBC), a federal public agency, protested on March 20 against direction given by company managers to reduce coverage of the murders of Marielle Franco, a city councilor for Rio de Janeiro, and her driver Anderson Gomes, both killed in a March 4 shooting.