Sources: Huffington Post
Twenty percent of the Brasília National Forest in Brazil is destroyed by a wildfire that investigators suspect was started deliberately. 2024-09-4
Thousands of women march in São Paulo, Brazil, in protest of a bill that would equate late abortions after 22 weeks to homicide with sentences of six to 20 years in prison. 2024-06-15
The death toll from ongoing heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, increases to 56, with 67 people still missing and nearly 25,000 displaced. The airport in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, suspends all flights until further notice. 2024-05-4
One person is killed and five others are injured in a mass stabbing at a school in São Paulo, Brazil. 2023-03-27
Peru surpasses 200,000 deaths from COVID-19, which is the second Latin American country to do so after Brazil. 2021-10-22
Greece reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant that originated in Brazil. 2021-06-11
Nelson Teich resigns as Brazil's Minister of Health less than a month into office amid disagreements with President Jair Bolsonaro over the federal government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020-05-15
Brazil's Ministry of Health reports 6,935 new cases of COVID-19 and 600 more deaths, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing the country's death toll to 7,921 and 114,715 total cases. 2020-05-5
More than 5,000 workers at a General Motors plant in Brazil joins in a strike against the dismissal of proposal for another 800 factory employees. 2015-02-21