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Montevideo, December 16th 2025 - 02:06 UTC

Brazil

  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:51 UTC

    Azerbaijan Airlines E-190's back boxes sent to Brazil

    Kazakhstan authorities decided to send the black boxes to Brazil's Cenipa for analysis

    Authorities said that the black boxes of the Brazilian-built Embraer 190 Azerbaijan Airlines jet that crashed on Wednesday in Kazakhstan will be sent to the manufacturing country's aviation watchdog to further investigate the causes of the accident near Aktau, a port on the Caspian Sea in western Kazakhstan, far from the aircraft's planned route.

  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    BYD EV manufacturer clashes and apologizes to one of its main markets due to slavery-like conditions

    The factory is a symbol of China's growing influence in Brazil's close relationship

    The Chinese BYD electric car factory construction in northern Brazil has turned out into a dispute between Chinese investors and Brazilian authorities who accused the Chinese contractor of having Brazilian labor working in slavery-like conditions that allegedly entered the country with temporary labor visas.

  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

    Another virus mosquito-transmitted disease, ‘oropouche,’ extending in Brazil

    The orthobunyavirus oropoucheense (OROV), is transmitted to humans mainly through the Culicoides paraensis mosqutoe, better known in Brazil as the “maruim” or “mosquito-pólvora”.

    A new virus, oropouche, is extending in Brazil and has become of concern to the country’s Public Health Ministry, since it was circumscribed to the Amazon Region but has now been reported in at least 22 states and 11.000 cases during the first half of December.

  • Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 09:48 UTC

    Brazil: Unemployment in November hits lowest figures since 2014

    IBGE's Beringuy highlighted “the expansion of employment through various economic activities”

    Unemployment in South America's largest country reached 6.1% in the quarter ending last month, Agencia Brasil reported Friday citing figures from Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). It was the lowest rate in this time series dating back to the first quarter of 2012.

  • Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 09:05 UTC

    Rousseff offers Uruguay NDB financing opportunities

    “Uruguay is used to working with other historical entities, and this is very new,” Orsi said after meeting with Rousseff

    Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who now chairs the BRICS' New Development Bank (NDB) said Friday after meeting with Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi at the latter's transition headquarters that the South American country was “best positioned” to access financing at lower rates for digital, social infrastructure, and education developments.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Brazil granting ID to household pets

    Animals used in agricultural production need not be registered

    While the United States still debates whether to implement a voter ID mechanism, Brazilian household pets will soon be eligible for the Animal ID card free of charge as the National Register of Domestic Animals is entering its final testing phase, Agencia Brasil reported this week. The Environment Ministry said the tool can be accessed through the Gov.br website.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 09:38 UTC

    Argentina's YPF sells lubricants subsidiary in Brazil

    YPF's brands in Brazil will remain under the new owner

    Argentina's State-owned oil company YPF agreed this week to sell its stake in its Brazilian lubricants subsidiary to the local Usiquimica to achieve “greater focus and profitability” in its operations, it was reported in Buenos Aires. The buyer has been producing and trading chemical products for 80 years.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 09:56 UTC

    Fur seal sighted in Rio de Janeiro

    The migration of this species is unusual at this time of the year

    The City Council of Niteroi, in the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro, said Civil Defense agents and biologists were monitoring a fur seal spotted on Itaipuaçu beach, in Maricá, last Sunday, Agência Brasil reported. The area was cordoned off by local authorities, it was also explained.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 09:20 UTC

    Brazilian authorities close car manufacturing plant due to “forced labor”

    Production of BYD vehicles may not resume until the situation is straightened out

    Brazilian authorities reported this week that some 163 workers had been rescued from slave-like conditions at the BYD plant in Camaçari, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Salvador, in the state of Bahia.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 08:45 UTC

    Brazil aerospace industry receives strong loans to promote manufacturing and exports

    Uruguay has ordered six A29 Super Tucano fighters

    Uruguay has received a small transport aircraft, Brasilia, from Embraer, the big neighbor’s aircraft manufacturer, and also has an order for six A29 Super Tucanos fighters. Brasilia is a small communal transport of up to thirty passengers, but that can also be used for ambulance and rescue operations.