Category: Brazil
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Trump Administration Says “Ready to Assist” to Support Rio Police
The administration of US President Donald Trump issued a statement from its drug enforcement department offering to support Rio de Janeiro’s security forces in confronting criminal factions, one week after the police massacre that killed 121 people in the state. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, in English acronym), signed by James Sparks and disclosed…
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For the first time, consensual unions surpass civil and religious marriages
For the first time, the proportion of Brazilians living in consensual conjugal unions surpasses the proportion of religious and civil marriages. In 2022, 38.9% of conjugal unions were consensual, meaning the spouses did not marry. There are 35.1 million people in situations such as stable unions, for example. This proportion was 28.6% in 2000 and…
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See the most common names and surnames in Brazil, according to IBGE
Brazil continues to be a country of Marias, Josés, Silvas, and Santos. The finding comes from the new edition of the Nomes no Brasil survey, released this Monday (4) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The study, based on the 2022 Demographic Census, updates and expands the previous research, conducted in 2016…
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Planalto confirms capital shift to Belém during COP30
The federal government confirmed that Belém (PA) will symbolically assume the role of Brazil’s capital during COP30, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 2025. The measure was sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and announced by the Casa Civil on Tuesday (4). The symbolic transfer of the capital was approved by…
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How I Met Lô Borges on a Street Corner
I had just turned 15. Music festivals were the big new thing, and our crew (like every young person, really) was all about chasing novelties. We jumped into the adventure of composing music and entered the city’s festival. Unpretentiously, just to imitate what was going on in the big cities. To our total surprise, we…
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Lô Borges, one of the founders of Clube da Esquina, dies at 73
Lô Borges, Salomão Borges Filho, one of the greatest names in MPB and a member of the famous Clube da Esquina, died on the night of this Sunday (2) at 8:50 PM, at the age of 73. The cause was multiple organ failure, according to a bulletin released by Hospital Unimed in Belo Horizonte, where…
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10th CNMA Establishes Itself as the Largest Global Congress Dedicated to Women in Agribusiness
The National Congress of Women in Agribusiness (CNMA), held on October 22 and 23 at the Transamerica Expo Center in São Paulo (SP), concluded its 10th edition reaching the milestone of 3,000 attendees from all Brazilian states, including the Federal District, plus a delegation of 20 women from Paraguay. The number positions the commemorative edition of the…
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Argentina Sends Army Troops to the Border with Brazil in Operation Against Comando Vermelho (Comando Vermelho)
The Argentine government declared a maximum alert status at border crossings with Brazil and ordered the deployment of the Army to reinforce security in the region. According to RFI, the decision was made following Operation Contenção, carried out by Rio de Janeiro security forces against the Comando Vermelho faction in Rio de Janeiro. The mega-operation,…
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Argentina deploys Army troops to the border with Brazil in action against Comando Vermelho
The Argentine government has declared maximum alert at border posts with Brazil and ordered the deployment of the Army to reinforce security in the region. The decision, according to RFI, was taken following Operation Contenção, carried out by Rio de Janeiro’s security forces against Comando Vermelho in Rio de Janeiro. The mega-operation, which involved 2,500…
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Lula Signs Law to Strengthen Fight Against Organized Crime
Law No. 15.245, which strengthens the fight against organized crime, was published on Thursday (Oct. 30) in the Official Gazette of the Union. Signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the legislation amends the Penal Code (Law 2.848/1940), introducing new criminal offenses and expanding protections for public agents. According to the text, hiring a…