Brazil

• Wednesday, April 5th 2023 - 09:45 UTC

  New rules for demonstrations in Brasilia following Jan. 8 riots

  

  Authorities in the Brazilian capital (Federal District) announced the creation of a special security area in downtown Brasília, Agencia Brasil reported Tuesday. The measure provides rules for demonstrations in the federal capital and comes after the Jan. 8 riots for which hundreds of protesters are under investigation for allegedly seeking a military coup d'état to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 21:56 UTC

  European and Brazilian police bust a cocaine ring in South America involving Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazilian ports

  

  Law enforcement in Latin America and Europe have taken down one of Brazil’s most active drug trafficking organizations inundating Europe with multi-tons shipments of cocaine. On 30 March, simultaneous actions were carried out in Brazil with Europol’s support to dismantle the criminal group that reached from Paraguay to Europe.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 21:30 UTC

  Brazil ready to supply Argentina with soybeans for the its crushing industry

  

  Brazil has enough potential to supply up to half of the soybeans that Argentina will import to keep its industrial park running in the face of the historic drought that ravaged the 2022/23 crop in the country, which is usually the largest exporter of soy oil and soy meal in the world.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazil launches platform to spot climate vulnerable terrain

  

  Brazil's Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR) and Microsoft do Brasil Monday launched the ClimaAdapt platform, a tool that uses public data from different environmental agencies to identify regions nationwide particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:13 UTC

  No statute of limitations wanted for Brazilian enslavers

  

  Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras Monday filed a request before the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to make the crime of “labor analogous to slavery” uneligible for a statute of limitations, which is a constitutional guarantee for defendants, but it is not absolute.

• Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 09:57 UTC

  Brazil: 4 Argentine workers rescued from slavery conditions

  

  Four Argentines working in slavery conditions were rescued by Brazil's Federal Police Saturday in Nova Petrópolis, 90 kilometers from Porto Alegre, according to an O Globo report which also mentioned that the group had been abandoned by their employers in a rural property without resources or food. Among the victims was a 14-year-old minor. A suspect was arrested.

• Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 09:24 UTC

  China and Brazil reach accord to trade with their own currencies, avoiding the US dollar

  

  China and Brazil have reached a deal to trade in their own currencies, ditching the US dollar as a common currency, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, March 29. China has become Brazil's main trading partner.

• Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 11:43 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff elected head of BRICS New Development Bank seated in Shanghai

  

  Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was “unanimously” elected as the head of the New Development Bank (NDB), a multilateral financial institution set up by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. Rousseff, 75, succeeds her fellow Brazilian Marcos Troyjo, at the Shanghai-headquartered bank.

• Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Bolsonaro given 2 days to reply to TSE, faces disenfranchisement

  

  Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Benedito Gonçalves gave former President Jair Bolsonaro two working days to submit his closing arguments in a case that may render him ineligible for public office, Agencia Brasil reported Saturday.

• Saturday, April 1st 2023 - 09:36 UTC

  Brazilian President's trip to China rescheduled for April 11

  

  After Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva canceled his trip to China last weekend due to health issues, the South American country's authorities confirmed Friday that a new date had been set: April 11, Agencia Brasil reported. Also in April, Lula will travel to Portugal.