The Brazilian Government announced this Wednesday that the minimum salary As of January 1, the country will have an increase of 6.8%, a rate that exceeds the inflation year-on-year recorded until November, which was 3.8%. With this increase, the minimum wage in Brazil will reach 1,412 reais (US$294)the same value to which the retirement and […]
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Brazil grows and curbs inflation, but its deficit skyrockets in Lula’s first year
The president of BrazilLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva, completes the first year of his mandate with a economic growth much higher than expected, the low inflation control and unemployment in single digits, but with the public deficit on the rise. All the forecasts at the beginning of the year gave the largest economy of Latin […]
Sao Paulo sells the right to the name of its stadium to multinational Mondelez
Sao Paulochampion of the Copa do Brasil and the Copa Libertadores, announced this Tuesday an agreement by which it sold for three years the right to use the name of its stadium, Morumbí, to the multinational Mondeleza giant chocolate and candy producer with operations in 150 countries. “It is with great pride that we announce […]
Lula will celebrate his first year in office on a beach in Rio de Janeiro
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvadisembarked this Tuesday at the Restinga de Marambaia, a Navy base on the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro with paradisiacal beaches exclusively for the military, where he intends to spend a week of rest. The stay of Lula, his wife, Rosángela ‘Janja’ da Silva, and […]
Oil company Petrobras begins drilling in the controversial Equatorial Margin
The Brazilian state Petrobras announced this Saturday that it began drilling in the new oil horizon known as the Equatorial Margin, a region located in the north of the country and whose exploitation has caused controversy due to its proximity to the mouth of the Amazon. The company began work in search of oil and […]
“Green Nobel” will recognize environmental work in the Amazon rainforest
Alfred Nobel’s great-grandnephew offers a prize “Green Nobel”outside the Nobel Foundation, to the environmental defenders of the Amazon jungle. Marcus Nobel, a Swedish-American businessman based in Portland, Oregon, has established this annual environmental award to highlight projects that help preserve and sustain the rainforest and protect its biodiversity. The United Earth Amazonia Award will be […]
Brazil trusts that the Mercosur-EU agreement can be closed in February
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of BrazilMauro Vieira, insisted this Wednesday that the negotiation between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) remains open and said that the trade agreement between both blocks could be concluded in February 2024. “We are still talking to find a solution” and ““negotiations continue,” declared the chancellor during an appearance […]
Increase in immigrants from Asia and Africa turns the Amazon rainforest into a corridor
People from 69 countries were arrested in the framework of a recent operation against illicit trafficking of migrants and human trafficking carried out throughout the American continent, indicating the rise in the number of Asians and Africans crossing oceans and continents to reach USA. The fifth edition of Operation Turquoise, coordinated by Interpol, brought together […]
In the Amazon, indigenous women rescue a small tribe from the brink of extinction
At night, in this small village near the Assua River in Brazilthe jungle tropical reverberation. The sound of the generators at times competes with that of the forest, a sign that there are people here. Until recently, the Juma people seemed destined to disappear like countless other amazon tribes decimated by the European invasion. In […]
Main development banks in Latin America join together to finance integration
The main banks promoting the development of Latin America announced this Thursday within the framework of the summit of the Mercosur an agreement to jointly finance the works necessary to guarantee the physical integration of the countries of South America. A total of US$10 billion was made available by financial entities to promote the initiative. […]