Brazil

Wednesday, February 21st 2018 - 08:48 UTC
Brazil forecasts record 2027/28 soybean crop of 115.6 million tons

Brazil's 2017/18 soybean crop is expected to reach 115.6 million tons, a record volume, 1.2% above the previous record last year of 114.2 million tons, according to an updated forecast from consultancy Safras & Mercado.
Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:48 UTC
Brazilian Army law and order experience in Rio, is tempting other states

Brazilian leaders said on Monday that the use of the military to combat rising violence in Rio de Janeiro could serve as a model for other violent areas of Brazil. The armed forces officially took over Rio’s police on Friday under a decree signed by president Michel Temer. The measure still requires congressional approval, and the lower house was to debate it late Monday.
Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:43 UTC
Brazilian government admits crucial pensions' reform will be hard to pass Congress

Brazil’s political affairs minister Carlos Marun said on Monday that passage of a bill to overhaul the country’s costly social security system has effectively ground to a halt in Congress and would become a campaign issue in this year’s election.
Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:29 UTC
Yellow fever in Brazil: extended vaccine fractionation because of lack of supplies

$Preliminary data from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo shows that 3.95 million people were vaccinated, 3.6 million with fractional doses and 356,800 with standard doses.$

The Brazilian Ministry of Health has reported that from July 1, 2017 to February 15 of this year, 409 cases of yellow fever were confirmed in the country, 183 in São Paulo, 157 in Minas Gerais, 68 in Rio de Janeiro and 1 in the Federal District. There were also 118 deaths throughout the country, 44 in Minas Gerais, 46 in São Paulo, 27 in Rio de Janeiro and one death in the Federal District.
Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:25 UTC
Temer announces the creation of a public security ministry

Brazilian President Michel Temer has announced the creation of a public security ministry after giving the military full control over security in crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro. Temer came to the city to meet Governor Luiz Fernando Pezao, several ministers and General Walter Souza Braga Netto, who will lead the operation and who was in charge of coordinating security when the city hosted the 2016 Olympic Games.
Saturday, February 17th 2018 - 09:42 UTC
Temer has Rio do Janeiro under full military control to combat gang violence

Brazil's President Michel Temer on Friday handed the military full control of security in Rio de Janeiro in an increasingly desperate fight to tame runaway gang violence. Army patrols are already used in Rio's gang-ruled favelas, but a decree signed by Temer will now give the military full control of security operations in Rio state, which the president said had virtually been seized by organized crime gangs.
Saturday, February 17th 2018 - 02:06 UTC
Falklands' second weekly commercial air link talks take off, and should crystallize by next October

The United Kingdom and Argentina, following on the September 2016 joint communiqué to establish additional air links with the Falkland Islands, jointly announced on Friday that third country airlines interested in such operations will be contacted. It is expected that by the end of February the commercial process will be initiated, led by the Falkland Islands, and sometime next October the new weekly air link, with a monthly call in Argentina, will become operational.
Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 09:54 UTC
Temer said that Brazil will continue to receive Venezuelan refugees

Brazil will not block Venezuelans from entering the country through the border in the northern state of Roraima, but has launched a task force to organize the flow and provide resources for cities and states dealing with the refugees.
Monday, February 12th 2018 - 16:01 UTC
Temer talks of “diplomatic confrontation” with Maduro over exodus of Venezuelans

Brazilian President Michel Temer criticized the government of neighboring Venezuela for leading that country into a crisis that is causing an exodus of refugees into northern Brazil. Brasilia has called for democratic reforms by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has consolidated power as his country’s economic crisis deepens with shortages of food and medicine.
Monday, February 12th 2018 - 15:56 UTC
Federal Police chief questioned for comments denying alleged bribery involving president Temer

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Barroso asked for the head of the Federal Police to clarify comments he made in a Reuters interview published a day earlier regarding an investigation of President Michel Temer.