Brazilian health authorities announced Sunday that they would investigate reports of protocol violations COVID-19 by cruise ships, after outbreaks affected three ships sailing along its coast. “Failure to comply with health protocols and disobedience to restrictive measures imposed by the authorities constitute health offenses that, if confirmed, will result in fines and the suspension of […]
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Bolsonaro celebrates three years in power with the polls and Lula on the horizon
President Brazilian, Jair Bolsonaro, this January 1 meets three years in power, but begins 2022 worn out and with the October elections on a horizon for which the former president is emerging as the favorite Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Brazil will return to the polls on October 2 and the polls unanimously say that […]
Brazil suspends permits to explore for gold in preserved areas of the Amazon
The Brazilian government suspended on Monday the seven authorizations it had granted for mining companies to explore possible mines or gold veins in a highly preserved region of the Amazon rainforest, close to the border with Colombia and Venezuela. The government of the president Jair Bolsonaro, which defends mining exploitation even in indigenous reserves in […]
La Niña fears rise among Brazilian soy producers
The impact of the La Niña weather pattern, which is expected to shake up global food markets in the coming months, is already showing up in parts of Brazil, the world’s largest soybean exporter. In 20 years as a soybean farmer, Adriano Marco Vivian I had never seen its fields so dry, with leaves scorched […]
Mercosur presidents agree to review common external tariff, without accession of Uruguay
Updated on 12/17/2021 03:23 pm Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay pledged this Friday to “continue the modernization” of Mercosur and to advance in the revision of the common external tariff, without the accession of Uruguay, in a virtual summit amid tensions in the bloc. In a joint statement issued at the end of the meeting of […]
US sanctions drug trafficking networks in Brazil, Mexico and China
The US government imposed sanctions on Wednesday against international drug trafficking networks in Brazil, Mexico and China at the same time that it announced the creation of a Council on Transnational Organized Crime with which it seeks to more agilely pursue this type of activity. Among the new sanctions, released through separate statements from the […]
WTO rules in favor of Brazil and Guatemala in sugar dispute with India
Updated 12/14/2021 01:55 pm A special group of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled today in favor of Guatemala, Brazil and Australia in the dispute they had with India over their domestic subsidies for the production and export of sugar cane. The group determined that India provided between 2014 and 2018 production aid that violated […]
Brazil auctions reserves that could elevate it to fifth largest producer of crude oil
Brazil will hold an auction next week for the rights to exploit oil reserves that have some 12,000 million barrels of crude oil, equivalent to the country’s current proven reserves, and whose extraction could make it the fifth largest oil producer in the world. The winners of the auction on December 17, for which ten […]
In Brazil, fish heads replace meat by stagflation
Signs of the pain caused by inflation are everywhere in the favelas surrounding the metropolises of Brazil. There is the collected firewood that replaces the gas for cooking; and fish heads and spines are poured into stews instead of beef and chicken; and the intricate alarm tags that grocers wrap around cuts of meat to […]
Petrobras will lower fuel prices in Brazil, says Bolsonaro
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, anticipated this Sunday that the state oil company Petrobras will begin to reduce, starting this week, the price of fuels, which this year have soared between 65% and 73%. “Petrobras begins this week to announce a reduction in the price of fuel”, advanced the far-right president in statements to […]