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by Marc BURLEIGH Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Nearly a week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with nearly 350 killed or missing, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated. Authorities fear the mineral-laced slurry released by the collapse could eventually pollute the Sao Francisco River, the second-longest in Brazil, which hosts various species of fish and has many towns on […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was in hospital in Sao Paulo on Sunday for surgery to remove a colostomy bag put in after he was attacked by a man with a knife during his election campaign. His spokesman, General Otavio Santana do Rego Barros, said Saturday that Bolsonaro would be operated on Monday, after which he would be on strict bed rest for two days. Vice President Hamilton Mourao will assume […]
BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AFP) — The number of people killed by the collapse of a dam at a Brazilian mining complex rose to 58, with those still missing rising to 305, civil defense officials said Sunday. After search operations, “the number has increased to 305 people missing and 58 dead,” Minas Gerais state civil defense spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Flavio Godinho told reporters. He said rescuers had found a bus filled with human bodies. © Agence France-Presse
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian judicial authorities have frozen $3 billion in assets of the Vale mining company after a dam collapse at one of its sites left at least 37 dead and more than 250 missing. The public prosecutor’s office of the state of Minas Gerais announced late Saturday that it had frozen a total of 11 billion reales — about $3 billion — in Vale assets. The dam break Friday at the […]
by Pascale Trouillaud Agence France Presse BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AFP) — Rescuers worked overnight into Saturday searching for around 300 people missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil killed at least nine, but the local governor said “odds are minimal” that they would be found alive. Seven bodies were recovered Friday hours after the disaster, which saw a torrent of mud break through the disused dam at the iron-ore mine close […]
by Paula RAMON Agence France Presse SAN PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Silvana Tavares, a long-time sports shooter who is a vendor in a firearms store in Sao Paulo, says she has never brandished a weapon at anyone, and she does not want to kill anyone. But she is determined to keep a gun at home. “Nobody goes into a gun shop thinking they’re going to kill,” said Tavares, who is a supporter of President Jair […]
by Louis GENOT, with Marc BURLEIGH in Rio de Janeiro Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro declared a crusade against crime, corruption and leftwing ideology as he took office Tuesday for a four-year term at the helm of Latin America’s biggest nation. In his first public speech wearing the presidential sash, Boslonaro said Brazil will “start to free itself of socialism” and “political correctness,” breaking with policies brought […]
by Marie Hospital and Marc Burleigh Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio’s rundown city center. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they’ve walked into a movie fantasy set. “In ‘Harry Potter’ we’ve seen libraries like this!” exclaimed Didier Margouet, a 57-year-old French tourist, looking around at the shelves of leather bound books climbing […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — The chief judge of Brazil’s supreme court suspended Wednesday an order by another justice on the tribunal that could have freed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison, where he is serving time for graft. Chief Justice Jose Antonio Dias Toffoli said he had approved an objection by public prosecutors against the provisional order issued just hours earlier by the top court’s Justice Marco Aurelio Mello. Mello had ruled […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he would give more than $400,000 in leftover campaign funds to the hospital that treated him after he was stabbed in the abdomen at a rally. The former army captain, who won Sunday’s election with 55 percent of the vote, said his campaign had cost about 1.5 million reals, or $400,000. But that was “less than half the funds that were raised through […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump called Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday to congratulate the far-right candidate on winning Brazil’s presidency, the White House said. “President Trump called President-elect Bolsonaro of Brazil this evening to congratulate him and the Brazilian people on today’s elections,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “Both expressed a strong commitment to work side-by-side to improve the lives of the people of the United States and […]
by Jorge SVARTZMAN Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro promised in his victory speech Sunday to “change Brazil’s destiny,” after campaigning on a hardline law-and-order platform. The former army captain, 63, campaigned under the slogan “Brazil above all, God above everyone.” Here is a glance at his key policy proposals: Economy – Reduce public debt by 20 percent through a raft of privatizations and the sale of state […]
