Category: Brazil
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Home Office has gained space in the home routine
They say we are going to conquer the world. We are born with the legacy of transforming lives, even if this incredible plan is built in countless ways, by various women with different realities, anywhere in the world, there is always someone asking for our help. We wake up and guess who drives the day’s…
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Do you know Afuá?
Afuá is a municipality in Pará that is located in Marajó, quite close to Amapá. In the city of Afuá, there is no solid ground. The entire Afuá has been built on floodplain land, all on stilts. Additionally, Afuá is known for pitu, a shrimp that resembles a lobster. And let’s not forget about açaí,…
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Brazil’s Steel Exports to the U.S.
The U.S. government announced a reduction in the quota for Brazil’s semi-finished steel exports. The measure maintains the tariff exemption on intra-quota bilateral trade of the product, similar to what occurred in 2019 as a result of contact between Presidents Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump. The Brazilian government maintains a strong expectation that the recovery…
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Fapesc supports rapid testing for Covid-19
Student Rahisa Scussel began her doctorate in 2020 with a significant challenge: to develop a safer rapid test for detecting Covid-19, a disease that has impacted the entire world. The young researcher leaves home every day, from Monday to Friday, to go to the laboratory at the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (Unesc). She conducts…
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Blended in the Crowd
“The man of the twentieth century does the following: Isolates himself in the midst of the crowd. Feels loneliness. Living with others around. How? I don’t know, he only knows one word by heart: ‘I’ And in his building Full of residents….a hundred, two hundred He finds it difficult To leave his apartment And say:…
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The Specific App for Organizing Events and Meetings
The Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro), the largest public company in Brazil in the field of Information Technology services, has developed an app that facilitates the organization and management of events. The Serpro Check-in was initially aimed only at public managers, but Serpro concluded that the tool is useful not only for the government but…
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Uçá Crabs Rescued by ICMBio
Between January 15 and 18, the inspection carried out by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) rescued more than 2,000 uçá crabs. During the inspection, conducted by four environmental analysts from the Extractive Reserve (Resex) of Acaú-Goiana, located between Paraíba and Pernambuco, the species were released into the mangrove, and the responsible parties…
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Workers in Conditions Analogous to Slavery
Brazil ended 2019 with 1,054 people rescued from situations analogous to slave labor, a result of inspections of 267 establishments. The data is in the latest update from the Radar of the Subsecretariat of Labor Inspection (SIT) of the Special Secretariat for Social Security and Labor of the Ministry of Economy. In total, the existence…
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After all, who are we, the Brazilians?
At first glance, the answer to this question seems easy: we are the product of the miscegenation between Portuguese colonizers, the indigenous people who lived in Brazil, and Africans brought as slave labor, in addition to immigrants who arrived between the 19th and 20th centuries – such as Germans, Italians, and Japanese. So far, so…
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Support for Venezuelans in Brazil
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced the Economic Integration Program for Vulnerable Nationals from Venezuela in Brazil. The Program includes approximately $4 million in funding, with $2 million previously unannounced. USAID’s Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean John Barsa, Deputy Assistant Secretary of…