Updated on 03/15/2022 09:48 am The Brazilian Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, confirmed this Tuesday that the country has registered the first two cases of the new variant of coronavirus known as deltacron, the result of a merger between delta and omicron. Queiroga told reporters that both cases have been registered in the north of […]
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Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon reach their highest level for the month in February
Updated on 03/11/2022 12:32 pm Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon reached their highest level for the month in February since the beginning of the historical series, which began in 2016, according to the alerts registered by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe). Inpe recorded a total of 199 square kilometers of deforestation last […]
The war aggravates the food emergency that plagues the world
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means that the food inflation that has been plaguing consumers around the world is turning into a widespread crisis, one that could exceed even the impact of the pandemic and leave millions more suffering. hunger. Together, Russia and Ukraine they represent a huge part of the world’s agricultural supplies, exporting so […]
Mr. BRIC: Fighting inflation must be a high priority for Brazil
Jim O’Neill, the prominent economist who coined the well-known acronym BRIC to refer to the biggest emerging markets, urges Brazil to fight inflation, while warning that the Federal Reserve should be cautious in its tightening. With the Ukraine war spurring a rebound in oil prices, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economist said fighting inflation […]
Disillusioned and “betrayed”, Brazil sees its children join an unprecedented exodus
Never before have so many Brazilians lived outside their country. Overwhelmed by insecurity and economic difficulties, each year tens of thousands of young people and retirees, rich and poor, pack their bags to rebuild their lives far from Latin America’s largest economy. Brazil, historically a land of welcome for Asians, Africans and Europeans, now sees […]
Brazil prepares national fertilizer plan before international escalation of agricultural input
Tereza Cristina Dias, Minister of Agriculture of Brazilannounced this week the interest of the South American giant in investing and increasing the sources of domestic supply of fertilizers, in the face of the serious international crisis that is plaguing the world due to the cutback in economic activity and the war in Ukraine and Russia, […]
Intel sees Mexico and Brazil as “technological superpowers”
Some Latin American countries, particularly Mexico and Brazil, “can become technological superpowers,” assured the new director of Intel for the Americas, Greg Ernst, who sees growing opportunities in the region. “Our vision at Intel is, first, that Latin America and its countries can become technological superpowers and within the technology sector. When we at Intel […]
Brazil will ask Canada to supply part of the fertilizers it bought from Russia
Brazil, one of the largest food producers in the world and also one of the largest importers of fertilizers, will negotiate an increase in purchases of these products from Canada to supply part of those that will stop arriving from Russia due to the current crisis. The Ministry of Agriculture reported in a statement that […]
Brazil: Bolsonaro refuses to condemn Russia’s actions for fear of losing fertilizers
Jair BolsonaroPresident of Brazil, refused this Sunday to condemn the invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin, while departing from the official position of his Government in the United Nations and saying that Brazil would remain neutral, largely for fear of losing their main supply of fertilizer. As reported by Reuters, the far-right leader […]
For expats, Brazil is the country of the past
By David Wainer President Jair Bolsonaro’s retrograde policies have accelerated the brain drain from Latin America’s largest economy. As an immigrant from Brazil, I am often asked if I still have family in my country. After we first moved to the United States in 1999, we would go back every summer and alternate between Vovó […]