Sources: BBC
Forty-eight cities in Brazil issue red alerts for prolonged heavy and hazardous smog originating from extensive wildfires. 2024-08-27
Fourteen people are killed when a boat capsizes in Pará, Brazil. 2022-09-8
At midnight, Argentina and Brazil reopen their borders for tourists with a mandatory proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. 2021-12-18
Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms the closure of five of its embassies, the ones in Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis and Dominica. Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had opened more than 65 embassies in countries throughout the Global South in a bid to enhance political and economic ties with Brazil. 2019-06-4
After an emergency summit, eleven nations of Latin America (including Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru) announce that they will all admit Venezuelan migrants without the required travel documents. 2018-09-5
Public school teachers in the Brazilian state of São Paulo vote to return to work after three months of strike action. [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-latin-america-33120843 (BBC)]|2015-06-12
Edward Snowden offers Brazil information over the NSA spying of its citizens. 2013-12-17
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launches TV Brasil Internacional, an international television station currently broadcasting to African nations. 2010-05-25
At least 19 people are dead and five are injured as mudslide hits an island resort near Angra dos Reis, Ilha Grande. Large numbers also killed elsewhere in Brazil. 2010-01-1