Brazil
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:53:00 GMTBrazilian Amazon shows signs of increasing deforestation despite promises
Despite announcements from the Government of President Jair Bolsonaro that action would be taken to reverse the trend, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reached new highs in January of 2022, it was reported Frid...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:53:00 GMTBrazilian Senators bring case against Bolsonaro before ICC
The International Criminal Court (ICC) based in the Dutch city of The Hague, has received a complaint from Brazil's Senate against President Jair Bolsonaro for negligence, incompetence, and anti-scientific denialism in handling...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:08:00 GMTBolsonaro speaks of "dictatorship of the pen"
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday said "dictatorship of the pen" ruled in his country but failed to elaborate on his comments, which were construed as aimed at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) with which the head of sta...
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:20:00 GMTBrazilian House passes bill to speed up use of controversial agrochemicals
Brazil's Lower House passed a bill late Wednesday whereby requirements for the certification of chemicals used in agriculture would be eased. The measure was supported by the agribusiness sector and criticized by environmentali...
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:25:00 GMTBrazil aquaculture exports totaled 9,900 tons in 2021
Brazilian farmed fish exports totaled 9,900 tons last year, 49% more than in 2020, according to Embrapa data in partnership with the Brazilian Fish Farming Association (PeixeBR). Revenue from shipments increased 78% to US$20.7 ...
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:59:00 GMTBrazil supports Argentine Malvinas claim but since UK is an 'important partner', authorizes RAF landings
Brazil on Tuesday defended its decision to allow British military aircraft flying to the Falkland Island to call at Brazilian airports, landings that annoyed Argentina. The complaint is not new, and Brazilian policy under diffe...
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:24:00 GMTBrazil reports first two cases of Omicron subvariant
Brazil's Fiocruz Institute Monday announced the first two cases of the BA.2 sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant had been detected in the country: one in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the other in the State of Santa C...
Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:08:00 GMTBrazilians eligible to enter US through speedier process
Brazil's Foreign Ministry Monday announced citizens from that South American countries have become eligible to enter the United States through a speedier admissions program.
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:49:00 GMTCastillo embraces Conservative values, Bolsonaro says after meeting
Despite mounting opposition against each one of them in their own countries, Presidents Jair Bolsonaro and his Peruvian colleague Pedro Castillo Terrones met last week (Thursday) at the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondonia, af...
Sat, 05 Feb 2022 04:52:00 GMTBrazil's Electoral Court CJ says Dilma's impeachment was a coup
Brazilian magistrate Luiz Roberto Barroso, who is at the same time a member of the Superior Federal Court (STF) and the Chief Justice at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), said the impeachment of former President Dilma Roussef...