Tag: Brazil

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 16:37 UTC

  Embraer is awarded Brazilian certification for the Praetor 500

  

  Embraer has announced that the company’s new Praetor 500 midsize business jet was granted its Type Certificate by Brazil’s Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC—Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil), having been announced in October 2018 at NBAA-BACE.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:20 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists Argentina is heading for “Venezuelan chaos” with the “leftist bandits”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that Argentina was heading for chaos as “leftist bandits” who performed well in the primary election will follow the path of Venezuela, which is mired in a deep economic crisis. Argentina's Merval stock index was down 34.47% since the start of the week.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:16 UTC

  Massive women's protests in Brasilia against Bolsonaro's policies

  

  Tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Brazil's capital on Wednesday to denounce President Jair Bolsonaro, in the third anti-government protest in the city in two days.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 18:33 UTC

  Brazil: court injunction to prevent Bolsonaro's son appointment as ambassador in US

  

  Brazilian federal prosecutors filed a court injunction on Tuesday seeking to bar the appointment of conservative president Jair Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo as ambassador to the United States due to his lack of experience as a diplomat.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 18:17 UTC

  Brazil's mining industry given more time to close dangerous tailings dams

  

  Brazil’s mining regulator on Monday extended the deadlines by up to four years for the closing of many dangerous mine tailings dams like the one that collapsed in January at a Vale SA facility, killing more than 240 people.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  FBI seeks to question Al-Qaeda suspect living in Brazil as legal resident

  

  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking to question an alleged Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative believed to be living in Brazil, and the South American country has pledged to cooperate with the United States in any way it can.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Regulator opens Rio/Sao Paulo air bridge to third carrier, Azul

  

  Brazil’s No. 3 airline, Azul SA, said on Monday it would start operating 17 flights per day between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the country’s most transited route, currently dominated by the country’s No. 1 and 2 carriers.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 21:13 UTC

  Feeble domestic demand linked to Brazilian economy's performance on the verge of recession

  

  Brazil likely fell into recession in the second quarter according to a key gauge of economic activity that comes as policymakers grapple with high unemployment and weak investments as well as a global slowdown.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 07:16 UTC

  Brazil does not need German funds to sustain Amazon forests, claims Bolsonaro

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed the importance of Germany's funding of sustainability projects in the country's forests, as the European nation weighed withdrawing from the region.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 06:38 UTC

  Bolsonaro warns of Argentine exodus into Brazil if the “leftist scoundrel” Cristina Fernandez returns to office

  

  Conservative president Jair Bolsonaro warned on Monday that Brazil could see a wave of migrants fleeing Argentina if a presidential election in that country returns leftist politicians to power, after their strong showing in a Sunday primary vote.