Category: Brazil

The federal government transferred R$ 14 million to the Ministry of Defense to support and continue emergency assistance and reception actions for immigrants coming from Venezuela. The measure that authorized the extraordinary credit was published in the Diário Oficial da União (DOU). In Roraima, 13 shelters currently house more than 5,700 Venezuelans. In recent months,…

During a ceremony held on the Rebocador Laurindo Pitta, at the Port of Rio de Janeiro, federal and state government agencies, along with civil society organizations, signed a letter of intent for the de-pollution of Guanabara Bay. The agreement was signed between the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), the Brazilian Navy, the State Secretariat for…

Brazil has finalized a donation of R$ 792,000.00 for the restoration of the Basilica of the Nativity of Jesus, in Bethlehem, the Holy Land. It is one of the most important monuments of Christian pilgrimage in the world, with immense historical, cultural, and tourist significance. The Basilica of the Nativity was built during the reign…

The Ministry of Education announced that the minimum salary for teaching will be adjusted to R$ 2,557.74. The increase is 4.17% and is effective from January 1st for public basic education teachers with a high school degree, normal modality, and a 40-hour weekly workload. Since 2009, the adjustment occurs in the first month of the…

With the approval of the Brazilian government, the Board of Directors of Embraer ratified the approval of the terms of the merger negotiations between the Brazilian company and the American company Boeing. Since July 2018, the two companies have been negotiating a merger agreement, which provides for the creation of a commercial aviation company and…

On January 1st, at 4:50 PM, the newly elected president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, ascended the ramp of the Palácio do Planalto to receive the presidential sash from his predecessor, Michel Temer. He then proceeded to the Parlatório, where he delivered his official speech to the nation. In his speech, Bolsonaro promised to reduce the…

Brazil’s efforts to reduce the incidence of diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito have yielded positive results.

The Brazilian government will invest R$ 35.25 million in the production and commercialization of electronic games and an additional R$ 10 million in accelerators.

The treatment guaranteed by the public health system has helped reduce HIV infections by 16% across Brazil in the last four years. Additionally, the country recorded the largest drop in mortality in 2017, following the introduction of the so-called “AIDS cocktail” in 1995. The figures are part of the new Epidemiological Bulletin released by former…

The land demarcation policy will undergo some changes and is already on the government’s agenda. The topic was discussed in a meeting between the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Tereza Cristina, and the heads of the Environment, Ricardo Salles; Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves; and the Institutional Security Office, Augusto Heleno. The…