Brazil
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:26:00 GMTCheaper gasoline and diesel fuel prices in Brazil
Brazil's oil and gas giant Petrobras started implementing a reduction in fuel prices at its refineries gates, effective this week. Gasoline price with being reduced 6,1% from R$ 3,28 to R$ 3,08, while A diesel on average will b...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:53:00 GMTBrazil behind in contributions to global agencies
The transition team leading Brazil from the current Jair Bolsonaro administration to the one headed by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva due to take office on Jan. 1 Wednesday announced that the South American country...
Tue, 06 Dec 2022 10:15:00 GMTBolsonaro will not participate in Lula's taking office ceremony; who will deliver the presidential sash?
Outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has informed his immediate advisors and followers that he will not be participating in the January first taking office ceremony of president-elect Lula da Silva. "It has been 100% dec...
Tue, 06 Dec 2022 09:48:00 GMTBrazil's Central Bank adjusts 2022 inflation projections by 0.01%
Brazil's yearly inflation has been projected to reach 5.92% by the end of 2022, a 0.01% increase from last week's estimates, according to the Central Bank's (BCB) bulletin released Monday, while the Gross Domestic Product is ex...
Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:21:00 GMTSouth Korea no match for Brazil at Qatar 2022
Five-time champions Brazil Monday advanced to the quarterfinals of the Qatar 2022 football World Cup with a 4-1 rout of South Korea giving Uruguay some comfort that had they not been eliminated earlier they would have most like...
Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:32:00 GMTBrazil’s football shirt was a Bolsonaro symbol, but the World Cup is changing that
By Felipe Tirado (*) – Like many extremist and authoritarian leaders before him, outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro seized on national symbols during his rise to power and tried to make them his own. The national foo...
Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:17:00 GMTFans mount vigil at Pele's São Paulo hospital
Fans of the club where Brazilian football legend Pele started his career convened Sunday at the Albert Einstein Hospital, in the western Morumbi area, to show their solidarity for Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pe...
Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:02:00 GMTBrazil bilateral trade with Qatar has leaped in the buildup to the World Cup
Despite a last shock surprise defeat against Cameroon, Brazil is in the Round of 16 and still standing as one of the favorites to reach the final round of Qatar 2022 World Soccer Cup. And despite its sporting performance, Brazi...
Sat, 03 Dec 2022 09:40:00 GMTLula to give free rein to economic team, but not too loose
Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday said that whoever is appointed economy minister under him will have the necessary autonomy so long as he or she does not forget who was the one elected for the people t...
Sat, 03 Dec 2022 07:45:00 GMTBiden wants to talk to president elect Lula; US officials on Monday travel to Brazil to arrange a White House meeting
Sometime this month, probably after 12 December Brazilian president-elect Lula da Silva will be meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House. The news was confirmed in Washington and in Lula's headquarters.