Tag: Pernambuco

• Monday, July 10th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  Brazilian States of Pernambuco and Alagoas under weather emergency

  

  The Governors of the Brazilian States of Pernambuco and Alagoas issued separate emergency decrees during the weekend due to heavy rains affecting 12 and 29 cities respectively, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:51 UTC

  Six new bodies rise Pernambuco death toll to 106

  

  Brazilian rescue agents have retrieved six more bodies of people who lost their lives during last week's severe rainstorms in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, thus rising to death toll to 106, Agencia Brasil reported Tuesday. Ten others remain listed as “missing.”

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Bolsonaro going to Pernambuco as death toll from storms keeps rising

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday announced he would be traveling first thing Monday to Recife to see for himself the devastation caused by yet another rainstorm in the country's northeast, which has left at least 84 dead, and over 50 missing as figures are updated constantly.

• Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 21:23 UTC

  Brazilian presidential hopeful steps down from Rousseff’s coalition

  

  Eduardo Campos, one of Brazil's most popular state governors, came one step closer to a presidential bid this week when his party withdrew from President Dilma Rousseff's seventeen parties’ coalition government. The Brazilian Socialist Party decided to pull its two ministers from Rousseff's cabinet to give Campos freedom to run in elections in October 2014.