Sources: Los Angeles Times
Brazil returns responsibility to Argentina for its diplomatic representation and custody of the Argentine embassy in Venezuela after overseeing the mission in Caracas since 2024 following the expulsion of Argentine diplomats under the Nicolás Maduro administration. 2026-01-10
A panel of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court upholds an order to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in police custody after he allegedly tampered with his ankle monitor while appealing a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup. 2025-11-24
At least ten people are killed in a fire at a guesthouse in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 2024-04-26
A police officer, a civilian, and 16 suspected gang members are killed during an operation against organized crime in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2022-07-21
Ontario reports Canada's first case of the Lineage P.1 variant in a person who travelled from Brazil to Toronto. 2021-02-7
A group of gunmen attack a bank and block roads in Cametá, Brazil, taking several hostages and stealing money. The attackers kill a hostage with a gunshot to the head, while a security guard and a policeman are injured. Several shots and explosions were also reported. It appears that the target of the attack was a branch of Banco do Brasil, the same bank robbed in Criciúma the previous night. 2020-12-1
Mexico exceeds 100,000 deaths, becoming the fourth country to do so after Brazil, the United States, and India. 2020-11-19
In Brazil, a helicopter crashes in São Paulo's north zone, leaving one pilot dead and four more people injured. 2013-01-21
In Brazil, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, speaks to a group of World Youth Day delegates from 75 countries and 40 movements. He hopes World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro will have a lasting effect on the hundreds of thousands of young people slated to attend. 2012-12-3
Association Mutual Aid and Solidarity AF447 seeks equal compensation for Air France Flight 447's French famiiles after Brazilian judge Mauro Nicolau Junior awards NZ$1.6 million for dead state prosecutor Marcelle Valpacos Fonseca; French insurer Axa will appeal. 2010-03-13