Brazil

• Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Yerba mate producers from Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil join forces

  

  Growers from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay Tuesday launched the South American Federation of Yerba Mate Producers “to protect and promote” their activity and work toward its “worldwide dissemination,” it was announced in Buenos Aires. The founders of the new guild highlighted mate's value as a natural and healthy food in the global market.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 08:31 UTC

  Lula picks Rosa Weber for Mercosur Court

  

  Former Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Chief Justice Rosa Weber has accepted President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's proposal to become a member of Mercosur's Asunción-based Review Court which handles disputes among member countries, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2024 - 18:35 UTC

  Police indict Bolsonaro in vaccine certification fraud probe

  

  Brazil's Federal Police (PF) Tuesday indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly forging his Covid-19 vaccination records. The case now goes to the Public Prosecutor's Office for a final decision on whether or not to press formal charges against the former head of state, his then aide-de-camps Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, and Congressman Gutemberg Reis as well as 14 other people listed in the investigation.

• Monday, March 18th 2024 - 18:57 UTC

  Lula says Brazil was “abandoned” under Bolsonaro

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Monday that his country was “abandoned” by the government before his and, therefore, “much remains to be done,” Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, March 18th 2024 - 07:56 UTC

  Rio de Janeiro under unprecedented heat wave

  

  Wind chill factor included, Rio de Janeiro Sunday recorded for the second day in a row temperatures above 60º Celsius, Agencia Brasil reported. The Rio Alert System recorded 62.3ºC at the Guaratiba station, on the city's west side, at 9.55 am, the former Brazilian capital's City Council said.

• Saturday, March 16th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Former military chief admits Bolsonaro approached him to stage a coup d'état

  

  Former Brazilian Army Chief Marco Antonio Freire Gomes admitted Friday before Federal Police investigators that he had been approached by then-President Jair Bolsonaro to explore the possibility of overturning the outcome of the 2022 elections through military actions.

• Friday, March 15th 2024 - 20:46 UTC

  Brazilian State bordering Paraguay and Argentine under dengue emergency

  

  Authorities in the Brazilian State of Paraná bordering Argentina and Paraguay have decreed a health emergency given the increasing number of cases of dengue fever in recent weeks as new deaths have been confirmed, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, March 15th 2024 - 19:56 UTC

  Unidentified Brazilian woman dies after 24 years in a coma

  

  A mysterious woman who spent the last 24 years in a coma after a hit-and-run car accident in downtown Vitória, in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, has died of bronchial aspiration, it was reported Friday.

• Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 19:52 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina agree on reciprocal open skies policy

  

  The governments of Brazil and Argentina agreed this week to a reciprocal open skies policy, Itamaraty Palace sources in Brasilia confirmed. Under the new legal frame, there will be no restrictions to carriers -both passenger and cargo- to open as many routes as they wish.

• Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 19:01 UTC

  Israel's actions in Gaza violate international humanitarian law, Brazil's FM says

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira told his country's Senate Thursday that Israel's “blockade of humanitarian aid in the current context of famine and lack of medical supplies in Gaza is a violation of international law,” Agencia Brasil reported. The administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “continues to systematically hinder the entry of trucks with humanitarian aid at the borders with Gaza,” Vieira denounced.