Sources: Los Angeles Times
The United States Treasury Department lifts sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, citing a shift in U.S. foreign policy. 2025-12-12
Brazilian social security minister Carlos Lupi resigns after police announce a corruption scandal which alleges he defrauded pensioners of $1.1 billion. Federal police say that the National Social Security Institute made unauthorised deductions from payments made to millions of pensioners over the past decade. 2025-05-3
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy strongly denounces a Brazilian–Chinese peace initiative, stating that both nations are effectively siding with Russia for allowing the Russian army to take Ukrainian territory as a means to "de-escalate" the war instead of assisting Ukraine in resisting the invasion. 2024-09-12
A study by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation finds thirteen Brazilian sharpnose sharks off the coast of Brazil with high levels of cocaine in their muscles and livers. Experts believe that the cocaine is making its way into the waters via illegal labs where the drug is manufactured or through the excrement of drug users. 2024-07-23
It is reported that wildfires have burned around 32000 ha of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal so far this year, a 935% increase in the number of fires that occurred in the same period last year. 2024-06-10
A Piper PA-46 crashes in the rural area of Itapeva, Minas Gerais, Brazil, killing all seven people on board. 2024-01-28
Brazil and Venezuela will reopen their border after a two year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022-02-25
The Ministry of Economy announces a measure to decrease the price of importation tariffs by 10%, amid an increase in inflation, which reached two digits in Brazil. The government also argued that the COVID-19 pandemic in the country has increased the prices of food. 2021-11-5
Exxon Mobil, BP and BG decline to take part in the upcoming international bidding for rights to explore Brazil's deep-water Libra oil field, one of the largest pre-salt fields yet to be explored in that country. 2013-09-21
Brazilian land reform activist Pedro Alcantara de Souza is fatally shot five times in the head by two men on motorcycles as he tries to ride his own bicycle in Pará. 2010-04-2