Tag: Brazil

Argentina’s Milei to shun Lula for Bolsonaro in first Brazil trip

BUENOS AIRES/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Argentine President Javier Milei will travel this weekend to Brazil for the first time since taking office, his spokesman said on Monday, but plans to meet with the neighboring nation’s former right-wing leader instead of the current president. Outspoken libertarian Milei and leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have […]

Brazil regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models

Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. Meta’s updated privacy policy enables the company to feed people’s public posts into its AI systems. That practice will not be permitted in Brazil, however. The […]

Brazil Is Seeing a Record Number of Wildfires This Year

In the Amazon, Brazil has made huge gains in its battle against deforesters, but it is increasingly losing ground to another threat — climate change. Amid pervasive drought this year, the number of wildfires has hit a 20-year high, official figures show. From January through June, Brazil recorded 13,489 wildfires in the Amazon, according to […]

Dozens injured by turbulence on flight diverted to Brazil

An Air Europa flight bound for Uruguay made an emergency landing in Brazil on Monday after at least 30 people were injured by “strong turbulence.” Flight UX045 was flying from Madrid to Montevideo when it hit turbulence over the Atlantic close to the Brazilian coast. It was then diverted to the city of Natal in […]

‘We are offering our mines in Brazil as a testing ground’

Brazilian mining juggernaut Vale is bringing in giant trucks from Caterpillar with a surprising twist: They are all electric. Vale is a $4.5 billion operation that mines a variety of elements, including nickel, copper, and manganese needed for modern technology, according to data collector Statista. In 2021, the company announced that it sold its coal […]

Woman firefighter on Brazil frontline after 2020 flames took her baby

Debora dos Santos Avila used to resent firefighters for the death of her five-month-old baby in 2020, when she says he succumbed to smoke inhalation from worst-ever flames in Brazil’s Pantanal. But this year, as the world’s largest tropical wetlands sees new record infernos, the bereaved mother is on the frontline fighting back the flames […]

Brazil creates fewer formal jobs than expected in May

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s economy created a net 131,811 formal jobs in May, Labor Ministry data released on Thursday showed, falling short of the 200,000 forecast in a Reuters poll of economists. The figure accounts for 2,116,326 admissions and 1,984,515 jobs closed, and was the worst for any May since 2020, when a net 398,294 […]

Potential China action against EU pork may be double-edged sword for Brazil

By Roberto Samora and Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) – China’s potential imposition of anti-dumping measures on European Union pork imports, a disastrous scenario for the bloc, could benefit Brazil’s exporters but also affect the country’s ability to compete elsewhere, analysts and industry sources said. Chinese companies have asked for an anti-dumping probe into pork […]

‘Out of control fires’ in Brazil wetlands spark state of emergency

Regional authorities in Brazil on Monday declared a state of emergency as the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, faces “out of control fires,” according to a decree. The surge of fires before the peak of the dry season has raised alarm for the Pantanal, which extends into Bolivia and Paraguay and is home to […]

Brazil Is Oil Market Wildcard After Near-Million-Barrel Plunge

(Bloomberg) — Brazil’s rebound from a stunning collapse in oil production promises to complicate OPEC efforts to micromanage global supplies and prices. Most Read from Bloomberg Daily crude output in the South American powerhouse kicked off the year at 3.73 million barrels, then plummeted nearly 25% as roustabouts crawled all over mammoth offshore platforms to […]