The state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, documented an 18-percent drop in homicides in the first three months of 2022 compared to the same timeframe a year ago, reports revealed Wednesday, resulting in the lowest numbers since 1991.
Conservatives in Brazil have announced a large rally for free speech and individual liberty in Sao Paulo scheduled for May 1, a holiday typically celebrated by Marxists known as “International Workers’ Day.”
Brazil’s O Globo newspaper reported on Monday that leftists in the nation’s Congress are planning to seek ways to limit conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s pardon powers after he used them to free lawmaker Daniel Silveira, who the nation’s top court sentenced to eight years in prison last week for political comments broadcast on Youtube.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil issued a presidential pardon late Thursday for Congressman Daniel Silveira, who the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s top court, had sentenced to eight years in prison for criticizing the court in a YouTube video.
The Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil, the nation’s top court, ousted a democratically elected Congressman and sentenced him to eight years and nine months in prison on Wednesday for publishing a video on YouTube criticizing the STF.
Reuters on Monday cited shipping data showing at least 24 ships filled with 678,000 tonnes of Russian fertilizer are en route to Brazil, despite heavy sanctions imposed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
A Brazilian lawmaker’s information request to the military revealed the purchase of 35,000 Viagra pills and over half a million dollars’ worth of penile implants, the lawmaker said on Wednesday, demanding the Armed Forces explain the use of taxpayers’ funding for those purposes.
The Catholic bishops of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have urged “special attention so that climatic events do not continue to cause disasters and suffering” in a preparatory document for next October’s national elections.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned during a Congressional hearing on Thursday that China is moving to capitalize on a severe “economic downturn” in Latin America partially fueled by Chinese coronavirus lockdowns to expand its influence there.
Brazilian Congressman Daniel Silveira slept in his office on Wednesday night in defiance of a Supreme Tribunal Federal (STF) order that he wear an ankle monitor. Silveira was arrested last year for making a YouTube video criticizing the STF; the ankle monitor was a requirement of his tentative release.
Left-wing Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff said Wednesday that for the past nine years Pope Francis “has been receiving furious attacks from traditionalist Christians and white supremacists, almost all from the North of the world, the U.S. and Europe.”
Hundreds of people in Brazil have allegedly expressed interest in traveling to Ukraine to help the nation’s army fight its latest war against Russia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would “continue being neutral” on the issue of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Brazilian players for two Ukraine soccer teams posted a video asking for help from the public to get them out of Ukraine.
At least 117 people died this week in floods and landslides that swept through the historic mountain city of Petropolis north of Rio de Janeiro, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, praising Putin as a “friend” with “values in common” with whom he shared “solidarity.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will visit Moscow on February 16 to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported on Wednesday.
The number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil surged by 66 percent from 2019 to 2021, which is a time period coinciding with prolonged school closures across Brazil due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday proposed passing laws in Brazil to “combat” communism, Latin America’s Infobae news website reported on Thursday.
Two Latin American presidents, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, weighed in on the ongoing campaign against American podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday, condemning attacks on Rogan as an attempt to stifle freedom of speech and of the press.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remains in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon after experiencing severe abdominal pain that indicated a necessary intervention as a result of a socialist attempting to stab him to death in 2018.
As the world prepares for the departure of an especially tumultuous year in global politics, some of the world’s most influential countries are preparing for elections that may dramatically shift domestic politics and foreign policy, depending on how voters swing.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso ruled on Saturday Brazil’s federal government must require all foreign travelers to present proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus before they are allowed entry into the country, Brazil’s Folha Press agency reported on
Santiago Abascal, leader of Spanish populist party VOX, met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss a common front against communism, saying patriots across the Atlantic should be united.
A year into a global human rights campaign urging world leaders to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in protest of genocide and other atrocities under the Chinese government, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has evaded the topic entirely.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday invited Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to visit Russia at an unspecified time in the future, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.
The National Commission of Research Ethics of Brazil is accusing medical researcher Flavio Cadegiani of treating coronavirus patients in the Amazon with unproven, and potentially dangerous, testosterone blocker therapy without properly informing patients of their rights, the outlet UOL reported on Wednesday.
Struck with grief, tens of thousands of fans gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil’s most popular singers who was killed a day earlier in an airplane crash at age 26.
The Minister of Labor of Brazil issued an ordinance on Monday prohibiting employers in the country from requiring proof of coronavirus vaccination from their workers for the purposes of “hiring or maintaining employment,” O Globo reported.
Globo, the biggest news outlet in Brazil, published an op-ed on Wednesday calling for America’s Big Tech platforms to ban President Jair Bolsonaro from social media, much as they banned Donald Trump when he was the sitting president of the United States.
The Brazilian Senate committee investigating President Jair Boslonaro’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic voted 7-4 on Tuesday to recommend criminal charges against him, including crimes against humanity.
Leftist opposition senators in Brazil reportedly penned a draft report recommending charging President Jair Bolsonaro with homicide, and even genocide, for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic; the accusations disappeared from the report Wednesday.
Those who watched the Biden administration’s destruction of our southern border earlier this year were appalled by the images of lawlessness, overcrowding and mismanagement.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to touting his country’s business environment and talking up progress on Amazon deforestation, but for much of the media, it was difficult to hear Bolsonaro over the sound of him not being vaccinated.
Brazil’s Health Ministry on Thursday urged states across the country to stop administering Chinese coronavirus vaccines to healthy adolescents aged 12-17 years old, citing an ongoing investigation into the recent death of a teenager in São Paulo state after she received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
Commercial truck drivers in Brazil blocked highways in at least 16 states on Thursday for the second straight day as part of demonstrations supporting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in his current battle with the country’s judiciary and federal election authorities, Brazil’s Globo News site reported.
Brazilian health officials on Sunday halted a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Sao Paulo between Brazil and Argentina minutes after it started, accusing four Argentine players of violating Brazil’s Chinese coronavirus quarantine rules, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree Monday restricting the powers of social media companies to “arbitrarily remove” accounts, profiles, and content they deem unworthy of their platforms, Brazil’s Jornal da Cidade online newspaper reported.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s “obsession with the environment” has “hindered” Brazil’s attempts to form a stronger diplomatic relationship with Washington, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said this week.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he believes his future holds three options: prison, death, or victory in Brazil’s 2022 presidential election.
