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PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP) — Panama’s government on Tuesday said it was barring the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht from future public tenders after the US Justice Department accused the company of bribes to secure business in Latin America. In a statement read by the minister of the presidency, Alvaro Aleman, the government said it has decided to “adopt the actions necessary to prohibit the Odebrecht Group being awarded and attributed any future contract from public […]
by Sonia Vivas, with Esteban Rojas in Caracas Agence France Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Thousands of Venezuelans crossed into Colombia on Tuesday to buy food and medicine after their government partially reopened the border following a messy crackdown on what it called currency hoarders. The border with Brazil was also partially reopened, officials in Brasilia said. “Thank God the border is open again,” one 29-year-old, Christian Sanchez, told AFP. “A lot of people have […]
by Eugenia LOGIURATTO Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday approved a 20-year government spending freeze billed as the centerpiece of austerity reforms aimed at restoring economic health to the troubled Latin American giant. The upper house voted 53 to 16 to lock in the spending ceiling. Center-right President Michel Temer says tough measures are needed to get Brazil’s finances back under control, but his austerity policies have prompted violent protests […]
by Rosa SULLEIRO CHAPECO, Brazil (AFP) — Fans of Brazil’s Chapecoense football club whose team was wiped out in a Colombian air crash crammed into the home stadium late Wednesday for tearful prayers around the empty pitch. The stadium in Chapeco, southern Brazil, was a solid wall of green as fans and mourners dressed in the team shirt stood shoulder to shoulder. They gathered at exactly the hour their team, which just a few years […]
MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) — Brazil’s chancellor, Jose Serra, said authorities should withhold any premature conclusion on what caused the plane crash in Colombia which virtually wiped out a Brazilian soccer team among 71 victims on Monday night. Serra spoke alongside his Colombian counterpart, Maria Angela Holguin, on Wednesday (November 30) on arriving in the western Colombian city of Medellin near to where the crash took place. “With respect to subjective analyses of the accident, we […]
by Rodrigo Almonacid Agence France Presse LA UNION, Colombia (AFP) — A plane that crashed in the mountains of Colombia, killing 71 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, may have run out of fuel, a Colombian military source told AFP. “It is very suspicious that despite the impact there was no explosion. That reinforces the theory of the lack of fuel,” the source said Tuesday. Six people miraculously survived the crash Monday […]
SAO PAOLO, Brazil (Reuters) — Thousands took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday (November 27) to protest against a proposed constitutional amendment which would set caps on public spending over the next 20 years. Demonstrators also chanted slogans against President Michel Temer as they marched through Sao Paulo’s central Paulista Avenue. The proposal, which passed the lower house of Congress as PEC 241 in October and now sits before the Senate as […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) – Rio de Janeiro riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades Wednesday into an angry crowd protesting proposed austerity measures. More than 2,000 people, ranging from teachers to off duty police officers, faced off against elite Shock Battalion police outside the state legislature in the center of Rio. They blew whistles and chanted calls for the resignation of Rio state Governor […]
by Claire DE OLIVEIRA NETO RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Rioting inmates beheaded rivals and burned others alive in an explosion of violence in two Brazilian jails that left at least 18 people dead on Monday, the authorities said. Prisoners also took women visitors hostage, officials said, blaming the violence on a rift between the country’s two largest gangs. It was the latest eruption of gruesome violence to hit Brazil’s underfunded and overcrowded prisons. […]
by Natalia Ramos SAO PAULO, Brazil | AFP | — At least 25 inmates died Sunday in clashes between two rival factions in a prison in far northern Brazil, the latest episode of violence shaking the country’s underfunded and overcrowded prison system. Seven of the dead were beheaded and six burned to death in fighting at a prison in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, the news site G1 reported, citing local police. […]
by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil just found its biggest ever dinosaur — in a storage cupboard. In its prime, more than 66 million years ago, this long necked herbivore was 25 meters (82 feet) long — longer than an articulated bus — and could chomp through trees at a terrifying rate. By the time the creature was found by renowned Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1953, only a few […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — The world should prepare for a “global epidemic” of microcephaly, a condition which restricts head growth in fetuses, as the Zika virus takes root in new countries, researchers said Friday. Scientists from Brazil and Britain said they had found additional evidence that Zika is what causes the often debilitating disorder, a link already widely accepted in medical circles. In a study conducted among newborns in Brazil — hardest hit […]
