Brazil

• Friday, March 31st 2023 - 08:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro returns to Brazil despite being under investigation

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro landed in Brasilia on a Gol Airlines flight from Orlando at 6.37 am local time Thursday after having left the country while he was still head of state in late December to skip Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's inauguration.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Boom year for Brazilian farmers with record soybean crop and drought punishing Argentine production

  

  Brazil’s soybean output and exports in 2023 will be higher than expected, Brazilian oilseed lobby Abiove announced this week, as local farmers harvest a bumper crop. Abiove now estimates Brazil’s soy production at a record 153.6 million tons, one million more than the last projection last January.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Brazil leading exports depend on China: 70% of soybeans and 63% of iron ore

  

  Brazil’s main trading partner, China, is the destination for over a quarter of total Brazilian exports, involving more than US$90 billion in 2022 in transactions of commodities such as soy, crude oil, and iron ore – products that dominate the bilateral agenda between the two nations.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2023 - 15:41 UTC

  Jair Bolsonaro: “it never crossed our mind” to stage a coup d'état

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stated that he “never” considered staging a coup. The former president is currently being investigated by the Brazilian Supreme Court for “inciting” his followers to violently invade the headquarters of the three branches of government on January 8th.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 19:32 UTC

  Brazil: Teenager kills teacher and injures four people at school

  

  On Monday, a 13-year-old teenager killed a teacher with a knife and injured four others inside a school in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, the regional government informed.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  China reopens market for Brazilian beef exports, following a mad cow case scare

  

  China reopened its market for beef exports from Brazil las week, Thursday (3/23). The information was passed on to the Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, and to the Brazilian delegation in Beijing by the country’s General Administration of Customs (GACC).

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

  Brazilian Gov't eyes permanent climate emergency for over 1,000 cities

  

  Brazil's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva Sunday admitted that President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's administration was considering the possibility of declaring a state of climate emergency in 1,038 municipalities mapped as most vulnerable, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Lula postpones visit to China because of pneumonia, but huge Brazilian delegation in business negotiations

  

  Brazil informed Beijing that president Lula da Silva'a official visit to China had to be postponed because the Brazilian leader had contracted influenza and pneumonia. This however has not prevented a major business and investment summit between the two countries to continue in Beijing with the participation of a Brazilian delegation of some 240 members.

• Sunday, March 26th 2023 - 14:24 UTC

  Lula cancels trip to China due to health problems

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Saturday that he was canceling his trip to China due to health reasons. The South American leader, who skipped the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo to visit the Asian country instead, was to leave on Saturday and then on Sunday after a rescheduling that failed to meet Lula's recovery.

• Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  XXVIII Ibero-American Summit focused on economic recovery

  

  Heads of State and Government convened in Santo Domingo for the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit which is focused on post Covid-19 pandemic economic recovery in a world hit by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.