MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2026, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[A Brazilian Supreme Court justice lifts secrecy on a banker's messages to another judge]]> The report contains only what the banker sent. Forensic examiners recovered 52 files saved automatically by his phone, but not the judge's replies Brazilian Supreme Court justice André Mendonça, rapporteur in the Banco Master case, on Tuesday lifted the secrecy order on a Federal Police report of more than two hundred pages containing messages sent by businessman Daniel Vorcaro, the bank's owner and currently in pre-trial detention, to his fellow justice Alexandre de Moraes.

]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:56:00 GMT <![CDATA[Brazil: Flávio Bolsonaro promises 500,000 prison places inspired by the Salvadoran model]]> “There are few prisoners in Brazil, there should be more; there are not more only because the legislation is weak,” the senator said after the meeting Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's main rival in October's elections, met on Sunday in São Paulo with El Salvador's justice and public security minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and announced he will incorporate into his programme measures inspired by President Nayib Bukele's security policy.

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:13:00 GMT <![CDATA[Royal Navy turns to amphibious ships; sells HMS Bulwark to Brazilian Navy]]> Based at HMNB Devonport, Based at HMNB Devonport, HMS Bulwark served as the Royal Navy’s Fleet Flagship between 2011 and 2015served as the Royal Navy’s Fleet Flagship between 2011 and 2015 HMS Bulwark is to be sold to the Brazilian Navy, ending more than two decades of service with the Royal Navy, as UK focus turns to the future of amphibious assault ships.

]]> Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:01:00 GMT <![CDATA[The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay]]> For Brazil, the largest beef supplier to the US market, the measure removes for three months the out-of-quota duty of 26.4% it has paid since mid-January US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 temporarily waiving tariffs on imports of up to 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings, a measure that excludes countries already holding their own quotas in the US market, among them Argentina and Uruguay. The main beneficiaries will be Brazil and Paraguay.

]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:35:00 GMT <![CDATA[Argentine lawmakers travel to Brasília to repair relations with Brazil]]> Among the Argentine interests he considers to be at stake, Massot cited the functioning of Mercosur and Brazil's backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falklands. A delegation of Argentine deputies and senators from opposition parties will travel to Brasília next Wednesday with the aim of repairing bilateral relations, strained since President Javier Milei referred to his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in offensive terms. The group is due to meet the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee, the foreign ministry and representatives of the presidency.

]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:09:00 GMT <![CDATA[Argentine trips abroad fall 21.2% as Brazil and Uruguay lead arrivals]]> Among tourists arriving in Argentina, 36.1% came from Brazil and 16% from Uruguay The number of Argentine residents leaving the country in July fell 21.2% year on year, to 1.22 million people, according to the international tourism statistics report released on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. In the opposite direction, 830,200 foreign visitors entered the country, 17.9% more than a year earlier.

]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:39:00 GMT <![CDATA[Petrobras confirms oil off the Amapá coast but cannot yet estimate the volume]]> Lula, who attended the event, highlighted the significance of the find for the country's future oil production but said it does not alter Brazil's strategy on renewable energy Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras confirmed on Monday the presence of oil in the Morpho exploratory well, located in ultra-deep waters off the northern state of Amapá, in the Foz do Amazonas basin. The company cautioned that it cannot yet estimate the volume found or the viability of commercial production.

]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:56:00 GMT <![CDATA[Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro open Brazil's campaign in their respective political birthplaces]]> The Quaest poll released on Friday gives Lula 43% against Flávio Bolsonaro's 40% in a potential runoff Brazil's two leading presidential candidates launched their campaigns for the October 4 elections on Sunday with rallies at the venues associated with their political trajectories. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva drew more than 10,000 supporters to the Vila Euclides stadium in São Bernardo do Campo, in São Paulo's industrial belt, while Senator Flávio Bolsonaro gathered his backers on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.

]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:46:00 GMT <![CDATA[Rejection of Flávio Bolsonaro exceeds Lula's despite his gains in voting intention]]> The figure coincides with an improvement for the Liberal Party candidate in voting intention. In a potential runoff he would take 40% against the president's 43% Senator Flávio Bolsonaro registers a 54% rejection rate among Brazilian voters, two points above the 52% recorded by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to the Quaest poll released on Friday, two days before campaigning officially opens for the October 4 elections.

]]> Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:01:00 GMT <![CDATA[Peña says the Milei-Lula crisis has not affected how Mercosur functions]]> Peña said Lula and Milei now hold “irreconcilable differences,” though he argued both understand that the relationship between their countries is greater than the relationship between them. Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday that the differences between his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had no consequences for Mercosur, despite the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

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