Sources: Huffington Post
The National Congress of Brazil approves an $8 billion spending package to help deal with the second wave of the pandemic in the country. 2021-03-11
Spain reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant in a 44-year-old man who travelled from Brazil to Madrid on January 29 and later tested positive for COVID-19. 2021-02-5
Argentina surpasses one million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth country to do so after the United States, India, Brazil, and Russia. 2020-10-19
The total number of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil surpasses 100,000. 2020-08-8
Brazil re-opens its northern border with Venezuela which was briefly closed in response to refugees from Venezuela. 2018-08-7
Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas is sentenced to six years imprisonment for financial corruption involving the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. The decision will not be enforced until the court confirms the ruling. The court's decision can be appealed. [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-latin-america-42346881 (BBC News)] [https:--www.eluniverso.com-noticias-2017-12-13-nota-6525058-jorge-glas-sentenciado-como-culpable-6-anos-prision-caso-odebrecht ("El Universo")] es2017-12-13
A Brazilian federal judge blocks the appointment of Lula as chief of staff, arguing that the appointment would derail a federal judicial investigation against him. The government said it would appeal against the decision. 2016-03-17
Papal conclave, 2013: The Brazilian Conference of Bishops (the largest such conference in the world) officially advises the cardinals of Brazil in the conclave explicitly to ask the mass media to print supportive articles on the Archbishop of São Paulo, Cardinal Odilo Scherer. 2013-03-6
Police in Brazil arrest almost the entire council in the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, on suspicion of fraud and corruption, leaving the city without a government. 2010-09-2