Brazil

Fri, 29 May 2026 23:32:00 GMT
Trump labels PCC and Comando Vermelho as terrorist organizations and Brazil fears intervention
Brazil's government on Friday issued an official note rejecting the decision adopted by the administration of US President Donald Trump to designate Brazil's two main organized crime groups, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC...

Fri, 29 May 2026 06:31:00 GMT
Capricorn Bioceanic Corridor advances to final stretch to connect Atlantic with Pacific
The Capricorn Bioceanic Corridor, one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects underway in South America, is moving through its final stretch on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, with just twenty-one metres remaining...

Thu, 28 May 2026 07:26:00 GMT
UK’s Royal College of Defense visited Brazil, Argentina and Chile
A delegation from the United Kingdom’s Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) visited Chile the week of 18 May as part of its annual tour of Latin America, aimed at strengthening strategic analysis and global understanding o...

Tue, 26 May 2026 08:29:00 GMT
“I can take him as a slave”: Argentine tourist arrested in Brazil over messages about 7-year-old
A 63-year-old Argentine tourist, identified as Eduardo Ignacio, was arrested on Sunday in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on racial discrimination charges after photographing and filming a 7-year-old Black boy aboard a tour...

Mon, 25 May 2026 21:39:00 GMT
Lula receives preventive radiotherapy against skin cancer four months before Brazilian elections
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday began a preventive radiotherapy treatment following the removal of a cancerous lesion from his scalp, in a medical intervention that places the spotlight on the health of...

Fri, 22 May 2026 11:48:00 GMT
Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 Rio-Paris crash
The Paris Court of Appeals on Thursday found Air France and Airbus guilty of manslaughter in connection with the crash of flight AF447, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009 on the Rio de Janeiro–Paris route wi...

Wed, 20 May 2026 23:49:00 GMT
Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office asks not to renew license of country's sole uranium mine
Brazil's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday recommended that the Brazilian Institute of Environment (Ibama) not renew the environmental license of the country's only uranium mine, in operation since 1999, until the...

Tue, 19 May 2026 01:42:00 GMT
Chilean executive detained in Brazil for racist and homophobic insults to Latam flight attendant
Chilean executive Germán Naranjo Maldini has been held since Friday 15 May at the Guarulhos prison on the outskirts of São Paulo, charged with racial slur after directing racist and homophobic insults at a flight attendant of...

Sun, 17 May 2026 13:48:00 GMT
Brazil leads South America's military spending and Uruguay posts one of the largest relative rises, SIPRI says
Brazil consolidated its position as South America's leading defense spender during 2025, with a military budget of approximately USD 23.9 billion and a 13% year-on-year increase, while Uruguay recorded one of the steepest relat...

Tue, 12 May 2026 23:32:00 GMT
Lula seeks his own security recipe to counter Brazilian right wing's tough-on-crime narrative
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday unveiled in Brasília a public security plan worth around USD 2.25 billion aimed at weakening the finances of organized crime, regaining control of prisons, curbing arms...

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