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Montevideo, October 25th 2025 - 17:40 UTC

Brazil

  • Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 - 11:50 UTC

    Growing concern of Brazil' rotten meat scandal on the Mercosur/EU trade talks

    Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said the EU’s agricultural representative had called him by telephone and that they are due to meet to discuss the issue.

    European Union has insisted Brazilian representatives attend an emergency meeting to explain themselves regarding a scandal involving rotten meat and the country’s two largest exporters, JBS and BRF. Brazil has already announced that the 22 plants (out of over 4.000) allegedly involved in the scam have been closed.

  • Tuesday, March 21st 2017 - 10:15 UTC

    China, EU, Korea, Chile suspend beef and poultry imports from Brazil

    A charm offensive by President Temer, who even invited foreign ambassadors to a traditional meat restaurant in Brasilia late Sunday, failed to calm importers.

    The fallout from Brazil's rotten meat scandal accelerated Monday when China, a huge market, suspended imports and the European Union and South Korea demanded a partial ban. Another ban on Brazilian meat imposed by Chile sparked fears of a trade spat between the two South American partners.

  • Tuesday, March 21st 2017 - 09:51 UTC

    Another RAF Falklands/Sao Paulo flight “surprises” Argentine and Brazilian diplomacy

    “We know it was a military supply trip, as all previous flights from the Islands to Brazil”, Dinatale quotes an Argentine government official

    An RAF transport aircraft last week allegedly made a two-day return trip to Sao Paulo from MPA in the Falkland Islands, according to a report from columnist Martin Dinatale, based on sources from the Argentine Defense ministry. The aircraft was an Airbus 330 which left MPA on Sunday 12 March at 22:44, and landed in Sao Paulo at 2:47 early Monday March 13. On 14 March at 23:47 the Airbus returned to the Falklands.

  • Monday, March 20th 2017 - 08:12 UTC

    Brazil desperate to minimize extent of “Weak Flesh”, exposing bribes and poor controls in meat industry

    Ambassadors from EU, US and China were invited to share a barbeque. Temer said his government remained confident about the quality of Brazilian meat.

    Brazil's President Michel Temer has sought to reassure foreign trade partners that the corruption scandal engulfing the country's meat industry does not mean its products are unsafe. Meeting ambassadors from Europe, the United States and China to share a barbeque, Temer said his government remained confident about the quality of Brazilian meat.

  • Friday, March 17th 2017 - 22:02 UTC

    Trade and protectionism in the G20 Brazil/US ministerial agenda

    “Brazil actually has experience of closing down its economy,” Meirelles said. Productivity came down and the bottom line was less growth, more inflation.

    Brazil's finance minister has said that he is ready to listen to the U.S. policies on trade at this weekend's G-20 meeting but speaks from experience when he says he believes a free economy is better for everyone. “Brazil actually has experience of closing down its economy,” Henrique Meirelles said on Thursday.

  • Friday, March 17th 2017 - 07:26 UTC

    Brazil awards European groups 30 year concession of four airports

    “We have won back international credibility,” Temer said on Twitter, celebrating “success in the airport auction.”

    Brazil awarded three European groups on Thursday the rights to operate four airports, drawing nearly double the minimum bids at an auction that underscored investors' appetite for a new wave of privatizations under President Michel Temer. German airport operator Fraport AG, French group Vinci SA and Zurich Airport bid a combined 1.46 billion reais (US$470 million) for the rights to run airports in Porto Alegre, Salvador, Fortaleza and Florianopolis.

  • Friday, March 17th 2017 - 06:51 UTC

    Brazil reports 424 cases of yellow fever, 127 dead and 900 under investigation

    Much of Brazil is considered at risk for yellow fever, and people in those areas are supposed to be vaccinated.

    Brazil’s Health Ministry says 424 people have been infected with yellow fever in the largest outbreak the country has seen in years. Of those, 137 have died. An update published Thursday said that more than 900 other cases are under investigation.

  • Thursday, March 16th 2017 - 12:12 UTC

    Temer coalition determined to pass major pension reform despite street protests

    Political momentum is still in President Temer's favor as he pushes head with the austerity agenda that has drawn opposition into the streets

    Brazil's president Michel Temer and senior lawmakers were unwavering in their support for a major pension reform on Wednesday despite nationwide protests against the proposal and the dramatic expansion of a graft probe threatening the ruling coalition.

  • Thursday, March 16th 2017 - 04:56 UTC

    Political seism in Brazil: prosecutor asks Supreme Court to open 83 new graft investigations

    Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot also requested that the Court send 211 other requests to lower courts based on testimony by executives of Odebrecht

    Brazil's top public prosecutor seismically expanded a corruption probe of the country's political establishment on Tuesday, asking the Supreme Court to open 83 new investigations of politicians named in explosive plea bargain testimony. Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot also requested that the Court send 211 other requests to lower courts based on much-anticipated testimony by executives of engineering group Odebrecht implicated in Brazil's biggest-ever graft scandal.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 08:04 UTC

    Lula da Silva denies all charges in court; “I have been a victim for three years”

    ”I have absolutely no reason to have any problem with the testimony of Cervero, no reason at all. I don't know (him),” Lula said, according to a video from the court.

    Brazil's former president has appeared in court to deny allegations he was part of a plot to obstruct a massive corruption probe by keeping a former Petrobras executive from revealing what he knew. News media websites in Brazil published Tuesday's testimony by Lula da Silva, who told a federal court in Brasilia that he didn't even know Nestor Cervero, a former director of the State oil company.