Brazil Elections Brazil annual inflation rate rises to 11.89% 11-07-2022 17:01 June brings accelerated inflation to Brazil, driven mainly by increased food costs, as Jair Bolsonaro’s re-election looms.
BRAZIL ELECTION 2022 Brazilian pro-gun protesters march 'for freedom' in capital 11-07-2022 16:37 Pro-arms demonstrators took to the streets of Brasilia to demand easier access to guns. Jair Bolsonaro, who is campaigning for reelection, has already loosened regulations.
CRICKET... IN BRAZIL! Step aside football: women's cricket booms in Brazil 07-06-2022 15:02 In a city nestled high in the mountains in football-mad Brazil, children are running excitedly around a sports field under a bright morning sun, indifferent to the goalposts behind them: they are swinging cricket bats instead.
CONCERNS AFTER THREATS British journalist, indigenous expert missing in Brazil 06-06-2022 21:17 A British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert have gone missing in a remote region of the Amazon rainforest after receiving threats, authorities and indigenous-rights groups said Monday, raising fears for their safety.
SPECIAL REPORT Damaged Amazon rainforest teetering on the brink 11-11-2021 13:40 The Amazon, the world's biggest rainforest is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs. Its destruction has accelerated, especially in Brazil, where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro pushes to open protected lands and indigenous reservations to agribusiness and mining.
BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO Bolsonaro takes dig at Biden's 'obsession' with Amazon 30-08-2021 22:03 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accuses Joe Biden's administration of having "almost an obsession" with environmental issues.
BLOOMBERG Bolsonaro government’s message to Biden: Trumpism lives on in Brazil 16-01-2021 04:04 Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo wants Joe Biden to know that it’s not about to reverse course in response to the change of US leadership.
AUTO-MANUFACTURER Ford to close factories, end manufacturing in Brazil 11-01-2021 18:13 Carmaker Ford said Monday it would close its factories in Brazil this year as the impacts of the coronavirus epidemic hammered sales in Latin America.
BLOOMBERG - OPINION Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Trump’s biggest orphan 09-11-2020 17:54 Bolsonaro is now Trump’s most prominent orphan in the Americas, and his politics by tantrum may ring hollow absent the hemisphere’s alpha provocateur. by Mac Margolis
EU-MERCOSUR DEAL France says opposes EU-Mercosur trade deal over deforestation concerns 18-09-2020 10:38 France opposed to free-trade deal in its current form due to "major" concerns about deforestation in the region, the government said on Friday.
Lava Jato Brazil extends 'Lava Jato' corruption probe 10-09-2020 08:59 Brazilian attorney general's office extends country's biggest-ever corruption probe, Operação Lava Jato, until January 31, granting the increasingly controversial investigation a new lease of life.