Brazil

Tuesday, August 2nd 2016 - 06:43 UTC
As Olympics opening Day approaches, Brazilians take to the streets to protest

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Brazil on Sunday, some calling for the permanent ouster of suspended President Dilma Rousseff and others demanding her return to office.Rousseff was impeached and suspended in May for allegedly violating budget laws. A Senate trial on permanently removing her is expected in late August.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2016 - 06:35 UTC
Temer hails beef agreement with the US; expects sales to reach US$ 1b next year

Brazil's acting president, Michel Temer, on Monday hailed the opening of the U.S. market to Brazilian beef, saying that it will help create new jobs and will expand trade for Latin America's largest economy.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2016 - 06:24 UTC
UBS optimistic about evolution of Brazilian economic activity in second half of 2016

Things are looking up for the Brazilian economy - but it won't be due to the Olympic games starting this week, according to a UBS report published last Friday.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2016 - 06:19 UTC
US and Brazil agree to open each others' beef market

The United States and Brazil have agreed to allow access to each other's beef markets after more than a decade of negotiations. Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply has agreed to imports of U.S. beef for the first time in 13 years, USDA announced today. And the U.S. will accept Brazilian beef for the first time since 1999.
Monday, August 1st 2016 - 13:52 UTC
Temer inaugurates much delayed metro line in Rio to the Olympic events

Brazilian interim President Michel Temer on Saturday inaugurated a new Rio de Janeiro metro line that runs from Barra da Tijuca, the neighborhood that is home to most of the Olympic venues, to the city's southern tourist zone.
Monday, August 1st 2016 - 13:27 UTC
Ecclestone's mother-in-law freed by Brazilian special anti-kidnapping division

Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law has been freed without ransom after being kidnapped in Brazil last week, say police. Aparecida Schunk , 67, the mother of Ecclestone's Brazilian wife Fabiana Flosi, was snatched last Saturday near her home in Sao Paulo.
Monday, August 1st 2016 - 12:41 UTC
Roussseff's impeachment should be resolved by end of August, says Temer

Brazil's political uncertainty must be resolved by the end of August -- its Olympic-hosting month -- by reaching a verdict in the impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff, her interim replacement has said. Michel Temer, the vice president who has been acting head of state since May, said he expected Rousseff would be definitively booted from office. That would make him president until the next elections in 2018.
Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 08:38 UTC
Olympics equestrian sports have to live with glanders scare in Rio

Brazil's summer Olympics, scheduled to be opened in less than a week, have added another challenge to the long list of complaints and disease-scares, such as Zika, but this time the culprits are not mosquitoes but an alleged outbreak of glanders disease, a deadly equine respiratory condition. And this has surfaced when the world's top riders and their mounts prepare to compete in Rio de Janeiro events.
Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 08:15 UTC
“Keep mouths closed” aquatic athletes competing at Rio Olympics have been told

Aquatic athletes competing in the forthcoming Rio Olympics Games have been advised to keep their mouths shut while competing because they will “literally be swimming in human crap” and could pick up heavy duty illnesses from the contaminated water.
Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 07:58 UTC
Lula appeals to UN claiming he is victim of abuse of power by a judge and media in a corruption investigation

Lawyers for Brazil's former President Lula da Silva petitioned the United Nations on Thursday with allegations that his human rights had been violated in a corruption investigation.