Sources: BBC
The death toll from the floods across Minas Gerais, Brazil, rises to 54 people, with fourteen more still missing. 2026-02-26
A court in Lima, Peru, sentences former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to 15 years in prison for laundering funds from Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns. 2025-04-15
At least two people are killed and 20 others are injured when a roof of a church that was used for food distribution collapses in Recife, Brazil. 2024-08-30
The death toll from ongoing flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, increases to 13. 2024-05-2
A Brazilian man, identified as 35-year-old Fernando Montiel, is arrested by the Argentine Federal Police shortly after attempting to shoot Vice President Cristina Kirchner. Montiel pointed a loaded pistol at Kirchner's head and apparently pulled the trigger, but the weapon did not fire. 2022-09-1
Virginia reports its first two cases of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. 2021-04-16
Brazil reports a record 1,972 new deaths in the past 24 hours amid slow vaccination rollout and overwhelmed hospitals, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 268,370. 2021-03-9
Denmark reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a person from the Capital Region. 2021-03-3
A fire at Flamengo sports club's youth training camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leaves ten people dead and three injured. 2019-02-8
Five unnamed Western European security sources say that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports in order to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s. 2018-02-27