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The Justice Ministry and Ibram, Brazil’s main mining lobby, signed an agreement on Friday to join forces in the fight against crimes related to mining operations. Ibram has about 130 members responsible for 85 percent of Brazil’s mineral production. The list includes the Brazilian offices of major foreign companies such as Alcoa, AngloAmerican, AngloGold Ashanti, […]

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Compiled data from the real-time monitoring system Deter shows that Brazil managed to reduce deforestation in the Amazon biome by an astonishing 50 percent during the first year of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s third non-consecutive term as president. Lula came into office in January last year, promising major reductions in Amazon destruction and setting […]

Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court has published a draft resolution proposing new rules for the use of AI in electoral campaigns. The rules will be discussed in public hearings scheduled for January 23-25. Brazil will hold elections in its 5,568 municipalities in October, when voters will elect mayors and city councilors for four-year terms. The draft […]

Brazil announced Thursday that it had paid off its debts to major international institutions, including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the World Trade Organization, and the World Health Organization. In a joint statement issued by the Foreign Affairs and Planning ministries, Brazil said it had repaid BRL 4.6 billion (USD 937 million) […]

On the 191st anniversary of the British takeover of the Islas Malvinas (as Argentina calls the Falkland Islands), the recently sworn-in government of Javier Milei renewed Buenos Aires’s desire to re-engage in bilateral talks on who should control the islands. On the same day, Brazil issued an official statement supporting “Argentina’s legitimate rights in the […]