Updated on 05/12/2021 03:07 am For years, this maze of narrow alleys and block houses of concrete Precariously stacked, it was forbidden to Brazilian e-commerce delivery companies, considering it impassable and dangerous. Even when online ordering skyrocketed during the pandemic, residents of Paraisópolis, a poor community of 100,000 people in the heart of São Paulo, […]
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Pandemic denialism begins to take its toll on Bolsonaro
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, will be investigated in the Supreme Court for linking the anti-void vaccine to AIDS, another example of his denial in the face of the pandemic, which is already beginning to take its toll on the justice system and from which his new political party has distanced itself. The far-right […]
Ómicron: Peruvian who carried the new variant passed through Brazil before arriving in Japan
Updated on 12/01/2021 03:16 pm The Peruvian traveler who has been detected today in Japan with the omicron variant of the coronavirus had previously passed through Brazil before reaching Japanese territory, according to the director of the National Epidemiology Center of the Ministry of Health of Peru, César Munayco. The epidemiologist explained to Radio Exitosa […]
Eight countries aspire to have regional UNWTO offices, including Brazil and Argentina
Eight countries, five of them African (Cape Verde, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa) and three Latin American (Brazil, Argentina and the Dominican Republic) aspire to have a regional office of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), an issue that is going away to be addressed at the XXIV General Assembly that begins this Wednesday in […]
Brazil is about to shake the markets
By David Fickling You might think that the most important factors driving commodity markets right now are the rate at which the U.S. Federal Reserve reduces stimulus, the state of China’s real estate industry, or geopolitical clashes within the economy. OPEC. But let’s not discount the importance of Brazil’s social benefits. The Brazilian currency, the […]
Gold Rush Draws Hundreds of Dredge Rafts to Amazon Tributary
A fever of oro has collected hundreds of dredging ponds from illegal miners on the Madeira River, a major tributary of the Amazon, as state and federal authorities debate who is responsible for stopping them. The pump-equipped rafts are moored together in lines that stretch across the vast Madeira, and a Reuters witness saw slag-dropping […]
Sergio Moro, the former Lava Jato judge who grows up as an alternative to Lula and Bolsonaro
Updated on 11/26/2021 03:41 am Former judge Sergio Moro is consolidating his position as an alternative to the right-left polarization that so far is expected to control Brazil’s presidential elections next year, should he make it to the second round. The man who became famous for imprisoning Brazil’s political and business elite during the so-called […]
Brazil to harvest its smallest sugarcane crop in ten years due to bad weather
Brazil, the world’s largest producer and exporter of sugar and ethanol, will collect 568.4 million tons of sugarcane in the 2021-2022 harvest, a volume 13.2% lower than that of the 2020-2021 season and the lowest in the last ten years. official sources reported this Tuesday. According to the projection released today by the National Supply […]
Brazil: Lula wants to be a candidate and will decide “between February and March”
Updated on 11/20/2021 11:25 am The ex-president Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has assured this Saturday in Madrid that he wants to be a candidate for president again, but has added that he will decide between February and March “because there is much to decide.” Lula, 76, has regained his political rights this year […]
Former judge Sergio Moro seeks to close the right-left gap in Brazil’s election
Just as he did in his capacity as a judge in jailing dozens of politicians and business leaders during Brazil’s explosive Lava Jato corruption investigation, Sergio Moro now seeks to alter the political order once again. Moro had kept a low profile for more than a year since his resignation as justice minister amid a […]