Новости за 04.04.2024

The two men who carried out the first-ever successful prison break from a federal maximum security penitentiary in Brazil were captured on Thursday, after spending 50 days on the run.  The prison break was an embarrassment for federal law enforcement and underlined citizens’ perceptions of a security crisis in the country, as crime has risen […]

Lula has been criticized for his government's decision not to hold remembrance for the 1964 coup, which led to a decades-long dictatorship

A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Thursday sent a public letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for the declassification of 13 documents related to the beginning of Brazil’s 1964-1985 dictatorship. The letter was sent days after the 60th anniversary of the March 31, 1964 coup led by Army […]

Brazil lost 36 percent less primary forest in 2023 than in 2022, according to new data from the University of Maryland’s Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) lab, published on Thursday. The decline meant that last year saw Brazil hit its lowest level of primary forest loss since 2015. The Amazon experienced the largest decline, […]

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Brazil surpassed the mark of 1,000 deaths by dengue fever in 2024 on Wednesday, a number close to last year’s all-time record. The Health Ministry’s online dashboard monitoring the dengue emergency registered 1,020 deaths by this afternoon, compared to 1,094 deaths in the entirety of 2023. Another 1,531 deaths were under investigation. Brazil has already […]