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Tag: Paulo Pimenta

  • Thursday, September 7th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    More rain forecast in southeastern Brazil as cyclone death toll rises

    Pimenta admitted he had found “a sad and desolate scenario”

    Brazil's National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) said on Wednesday that more rain was to be expected in parts of the State of Rio Grande do Sul throughout the September 7 holiday as the death toll from the recent extratropical cyclone rose to 37 (including one victim in the neighboring State of Santa Catarina), Agência Brasil reported. Rio Grande do Sul's government was to declare a state of public calamity.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Brazilian gov't's website not enough against fake news, Pimenta says

    Many deaths “could have been avoided if it weren't for the misinformation campaigns,” Pimenta said about a drop in vaccination ratese

    Brazil's Chief Minister of the Presidential Secretariat of Social Communication Paulo Pimenta insisted this week that a website launched last week by the authorities to fight fake news does not replace the importance of private sites. The platform does not intend to replace professional agencies for checking the news, Pimenta said in an interview.

  • Saturday, May 14th 2016 - 09:09 UTC

    Temer's team confident it has the political support to implement tough measures

    “We have enough support to pass urgent measures through Congress,” said chief of staff Eliseu Padilha

    Brazil's interim government said on Friday it has the political support for tough measures needed to return the economy to growth and can secure a permanent mandate once populist President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment trial is over. Presidential Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha said the incoming government understood it was only provisional for now and had ordered portraits of Rousseff to be left hanging in federal buildings.