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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 21:09 UTC

Brazil

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 21:40 UTC

    Almost half of the migrants welcomed in Brazil were Venezuelan

    Operation Welcome was halted after Trump cut all funding to the United Nations agency handling the process

    Brazilian authorities confirmed that a total of 194,331 migrants arrived in South America's largest country last year, according to the 8th edition of the Migration Bulletin, published by the National Justice Secretariat (Senajus) Monday. Venezuelans topped the list with 94,726 people. As for refugees, ”Venezuela remains the main country of origin of recognized refugees (12,726), followed by Afghanistan (283) and Colombia (121),” the bulletin stated.

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 09:03 UTC

    Lula warns Trump he was not elected to rule the world

    You don't build a riviera on top of thousands of dead women and children, Lula stressed about Trump's announcements

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was harshly critical of his US colleague Donald Trump's announcement that his country would take over the Gaza Strip and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East. “Nobody is going to make a beautiful place on top of thousands of dead bodies of women and children,” said Lula during a radio interview in Bahia State.

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 19:38 UTC

    Brazil’s interest rate raised to 13.25% and further increases forecasted

    Copom, lifted the Selic policy rate to 13.25% in a unanimous decision, the first under new central bank Chief Gabriel Galipolo,appointed by President Lula da Silva

    Brazil's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate, Selic, by 100 basis points for the second straight meeting last Wednesday and anticipated another similar hike in March, concerned about mounting inflationary pressures.

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:46 UTC

    Brazil’s industry posts 3.1% output increase in 2024

    The annual increase was achieved despite three straight months of decline, IBGE's report showed

    According to a report released by Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) this week, South America's largest country's industrial production closed out 2024 with a 3.1% from 2023's figures. These results, driven by rising employment and income, were the third-highest annually in the last 15 years.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 19:44 UTC

    Two killed as small airplane crashes into São Paulo streets

    The Beechcraft F-90's two occupants died in the crash

    Two people were reported dead and six others injured after a light private aircraft crashed into a bus on Avenida Marquês de São Vicente, in the West Zone of São Paulo, around 7.20 am Friday. First responders were summoned to the spot and Brazil's Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Centre (Cenipa) was entrusted with the investigation into the causes of the accident.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 08:32 UTC

    Covid 19: Milei wants WHO Chief tried for human rights violations

    “We will never forget” what the WHO under Tedros did, Milei warned

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Thursday that he intends to hold World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accountable “for crimes against humanity” given the measures recommended and adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, the South American country left the WHO, thus following in on US President Donald Trump's steps.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 07:13 UTC

    Brazil needs to purchase 3,5 million tons of wheat, despite higher yields in domestic production, says CEPEA

    Argentina is Brazil’s largest wheat supplier, and the President Milei government has reduced export taxes which should help sales to its Mercosur partner

    Wheat production 2024/2025 in Brazil fell by 2.6% compared to the previous year, with the National Supply Company (Conab) forecasting a harvest of 7.89 million tons in 2024. This also represents an 11.9% reduction in the cultivated area, which shrank to 3.06 million hectares.

  • Thursday, February 6th 2025 - 10:07 UTC

    Brazil: Coffee price expected to remain high

    On the New York Stock Exchange, the main contracts for Arabica coffee reached all-time highs

    The Brazilian Coffee Industry Association (ABIC) said it expects prices to continue rising in the coming weeks, at least until this year's harvest, which begins around April or May, due to recent adverse weather coupled with increasing global consumption boosted by exports to the newest customer: China.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 18:52 UTC

    Trump's idea on Gaza makes no sense to Lula

    “The United States is isolating itself from the world,” Lula insisted

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that his US colleague Donald Trump's idea to take over the Gaza Strip made no sense. He also found the idea of relocating the local population to other countries hard to swallow. The Republican leader made these announcements Tuesday after meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 07:54 UTC

    Brazilian court rules no such thing as “reverse racism” against white people

    The theory of “reverse racism” does not pertain to Brazilian law, which seeks to protect the black minority from the oppressing white majority, the STJ ruled

    The Sixth Circuit (Turma) of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) found Tuesday that racial discrimination applies criminally only to whites acting against blacks but not vice versa, Agencia Brasil reported. The ruling thus discarded the so-called “reverse racism” theory invoked in the “European white-headed slaver” case in the State of Alagoas that reached Brasilia for clarification.