BRASILIA – Brazil’s government will announce the privatization of southern airports, including Curitiba, in the second quarter of this year, according to Adalberto Vasconcelos, head of the PPI government program tasked with luring private investment […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – A massive fire has gutted the National Museum of Brazil, the oldest scientific institution in the country, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items. The fire began after […]
SAO PAULO – Brazil’s President Michel Temer announced late on Sunday new measures to reduce operating costs for truckers in a bid to end a week-long protest that has severely hampered the flow of food, […]
SAO PAULO – A truckers protest over diesel prices that has crippled key sectors of Latin America’s biggest economy dragged into Friday night, putting drivers in a standoff with Brazilian President Michel Temer who authorized […]
BRASILIA – Brazil’s senator and former football star Romario de Souza has announced he will run for election as governor of Rio de Janeiro in October. The 1994 World Cup winner – known simply as […]
BRASILIA – Brazilian President Michel Temer has announced the creation of a public security ministry after giving the military full control over security in crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro. Temer came to the city to meet […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil has launched a mass immunization campaign that will deliver fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine to residents of 69 municipalities in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. […]
BRASILIA – Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva and right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro would make it to a second round of voting in the 2018 presidential elections if they were held on Sunday, an Ibope […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean capital has been ranked 76th on the list of least stressful cities to live in the Americas region, according to the World’s Least and Most Stressful Cities index prepared by British […]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended its Brazilian arm amid an investigation into corruption and money laundering allegations. The head of Brazil’s Olympic committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, has also been suspended […]
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