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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

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

Brazil surpasses 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the second country to do so after the United States.
2021-04-29

Alaska reports their first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a person from Anchorage with no known travel history.
2021-02-24

The Brazilian Ministry of Health reports 17,408 new confirmed cases and 1,179 more deaths from COVID-19, their highest daily death toll to date, bringing Brazil's death toll to 17,971 and 271,628 total cases.
2020-05-19

The first case in Latin America is confirmed by the Ministry of Health of Brazil in São Paulo.
2020-02-26

Hundreds of thousands of students, schoolteachers and university professors hold demonstrations across Brazil against sweeping cuts in the education budget. Protestors also voice opposition to the government's plan to delegate the administrative and financial management of federal universities and institutes to a privately-held fund.
2019-08-13

A massive blackout hits Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil, leaving millions without power.
2019-06-16

Footage of the isolated and previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is recorded for the first time in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil.
2013-08-13

Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa attend a BRICS summit in Sanya in China's Hainan Province.
2011-04-14