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• Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro hospitalised with pneumonia

  08-02-2019 01:32 via theguardian.com
  Bolsonaro was recently admitted to hospital for the removal of a colostomy bag after he was stabbed during a campaign rallyBrazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is being treated for pneumonia, after coming down with a fever on Wednesday, the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo has said.Bolsonaro recently had a follow-up operation to remove a colostomy bag that was put in place after he was stabbed while campaigning ahead of Brazil’s election last year. Related: Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil presid
  
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• He led Brazil’s Black sailors in resisting abuse. A hundred years later he may get justice

  15-04-2024 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  João Cândido and other navy sailors radicalised in England held Rio de Janeiro hostage in a revolt over corporal punishmentHe was a Black Brazilian sailor who led an unprecedented mutiny against abuse by white officers, and helped end flogging in the country’s navy – only to be imprisoned, persecuted and die in poverty.For five days in 1910, João Cândido Felisberto held Rio de Janeiro hostage under the guns of the Brazilian fleet, in an uprising known as the
  
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• He led Brazil’s Black sailors in mutiny to resist abuse. A hundred years later he may get justice

  15-04-2024 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  João Cândido and other navy sailors radicalised in England held Rio de Janeiro hostage in a revolt over corporal punishmentHe was a Black Brazilian sailor who led an unprecedented mutiny against abuse by white officers, and helped end flogging in the country’s navy – only to be imprisoned, persecuted and die in poverty.For five days in 1910, João Cândido Felisberto held Rio de Janeiro hostage under the guns of the Brazilian fleet, in an uprising known as the
  
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• At last G20 is showing how to finance an assault on poverty | Larry Elliott

  14-04-2024 12:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazilian president Lula’s proposals have the backing of the World Bank. Now we need action All things considered, the world’s richest countries have emerged from the global pandemic in better shape than they could have imagined when Covid-19 first appeared just over four years ago.To be sure, the impact of lockdown and its aftermath has been painful, but the effects on poor countries have been far more severe. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘War, refugees, destruction’: colonialism and conflict key themes of Venice Biennale

  12-04-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This year’s ‘Olympics of the art world’ features many artists wrestling with ideas of colonialism and its lingering influence This year’s Venice Biennale is being billed as an event rooted in the now, in a world of conflict and division – or, as one newspaper put it, the celebration of global art will be full of “war, refugees, destruction”.Another theme that runs through many of the pavilions is colonialism: both its legacy in the form of restitution de
  
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• Weeks-long manhunt in Brazil shows dramatic expansion of two main gangs into Amazon

  11-04-2024 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Two fugitives eluded law enforcement for 51 days, indicating a widening network for crime factions CV and PCCAfter nearly two months on the run, the Amazon outlaws nicknamed Hammerhead and Armadillo might have felt they were nearing the home straight – albeit a long and muddy one.Just ahead over the Tocantins River lay the Trans-Amazonian highway, a rundown and poorly patrolled jungle track that cuts more than 1,200 miles east-west across the largest rainforest on Earth. After completing t
  
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• Packers and Eagles to play NFL season opener at Brazil club with ‘ban’ on green

  10-04-2024 17:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Teams play in colors of Corinthians’ bitter rivalsNFL to play its first regular-season game in BrazilThe Green Bay Packers will play the Philadelphia Eagles when the NFL holds its first regular-season game in Brazil.The 6 September matchup in Sao Paulo will mark the first time since 1970 that the NFL has played a Friday night game on the season’s opening weekend.NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had said in February that the Eagles would be the home team for the game. The NFL announced
  
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• Lula is styling himself as the new leader of the global south – and shifting attention away from the west | Jordana Timerman

  09-04-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Through the G20, Brazil’s president is challenging the dominance of the richest countries. This year will be a huge test of his strategyThe world stage often seems sepia-toned, dominated by the dusty international structures of the post-second world war era, favouring the world’s richest countries. However, it is increasingly clear that this setup isn’t sufficient to respond to the interests of the global south, including combating climate breakdown and expanding economic devel
  
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• Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill

  09-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Advocates fear situation could escalate in Javari valley, a region plagued by violence and poor healthcareMore than 100 Indigenous people in Brazil’s Javari valley have been diagnosed with flu-like symptoms, raising fears that the situation could escalate into an epidemic.The valley, where Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips were killed in 2022, is home to the largest population of Indigenous people in voluntary isolation and of recent contact worldwide. The Korub
  
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• Elon Musk faces Brazil inquiry after defying X court order

  08-04-2024 12:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Multibillionaire called for resignation of judge who ordered platform to block far-right usersElon Musk faces a legal investigation in Brazil after becoming embroiled in a public row with a supreme court judge over an order requiring the social network X to take down some far-right accounts.Justice Alexandre de Moraes had issued a court order forcing the site formerly known as Twitter to block several users as part of his investigation into former president Jair Bolsonaro’s attempts to sta
  
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• Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute

  04-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland The destruction of the world’s most pristine rainforests continued at a relentless rate in 2023, despite dramatic falls in forest loss in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon, new figures show.An area nearly the size of Switzerland was cleared from previously undisturbed rainforests last year, totalling 37,000 sq km (14,200 sq miles), according to figures compiled by
  
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• Two local staff at Hungary embassy fired after Bolsonaro video leak – report

  03-04-2024 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Footage showing former president spent two nights apparently hiding from potential arrest at mission was leaked to mediaThe Hungarian embassy in Brasília has reportedly fired two Brazilian employees after the leaking of security footage that revealed how Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro had spent two nights “hiding” inside the mission.According to the network CNN Brasil, the sackings were punishment for the embarrassing leak to the New York Times which prompted a
  
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• Brazil apologizes to Indigenous people for persecution during dictatorship

  03-04-2024 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  President of amnesty commission investigating crimes of 1964-85 regime makes first-ever apology to Indigenous leaderBrazil has issued its first-ever apology for the torture and persecution of Indigenous people during the military dictatorship, including the incarceration of victims in an infamous detention centre known as an “Indigenous concentration camp”.The apology was made on Tuesday by an amnesty commission attached to the human rights ministry that is tasked with investigating
  
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• ‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home

  29-03-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slumPhotographs by Nicola ZolinAt 4pm, the sound of sirens is fading. On the pavement, a teenage girl – her eyes darting back and forth to monitor police presence – starts smoking crack. She is across the street from “Hotel 583”, a makeshift shelter in a dangerous part of downtown Manaus, the capital of Amazonas in Brazil.On the second floor of the building, in the Cidad
  
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• Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

  29-03-2024 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 electionRelatives of the victims of Brazil’s brutal two-decade dictatorship have voiced anger and dismay over President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reported decision to block official remembrance events marking the 60th anniversary of the 1964 military coup d’état.Acti
  
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• Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit

  28-03-2024 21:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Photos of French president’s three-day trip to Brazil to reaffirm countries’ partnership delight internet observersIf the official photos are anything to go by, Emmanuel Macron’s three-day trip to Brazil has been more romantic getaway than international diplomacy.The French president, who ended his tour of the South American country on Thursday with a state visit to the capital, Brasília, prompted online hilarity after the publication of photos showing him being particul
  
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• Macron calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments

  28-03-2024 02:16 via theguardian.com
  
  French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be ‘much stronger’ on biodiversity and climateEmmanuel Macron has called a proposed trade agreement between the EU and South America’s Mercosur bloc a “very bad deal” that lacks proper climate considerations.“As it is negotiated today, it is a very bad deal, for you and for us,” the French president told Brazilian businessmen in São Paulo on Wednesday while on a three-day trip to Brazil, Lat
  
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• Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate

  26-03-2024 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  South American neighbours respond to blocking of Corina Yoris, who was favoured to beat strongman Nicolás Maduro in electionsA chorus of Latin American nations, including Brazil and Colombia, have voiced concern over the deteriorating political situation in Venezuela after the opposition politician best-positioned to challenge its strongman leader, Nicolás Maduro, in July’s presidential election was prevented from registering for the vote.Corina Yoris, an 80-year-old philosop
  
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• Brazil and Colombia outraged over Venezuela’s bids to block opposition

  26-03-2024 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Nations respond to strongman Nicolás Maduro blocking María Corina Machado and now Corina Yoris from running against himA chorus of Latin American nations, including Brazil and Colombia, have voiced concern over the deteriorating political situation in Venezuela after the opposition politician best-positioned to challenge its strongman leader, Nicolás Maduro, in July’s presidential election was prevented from registering for the vote.Corina Yoris, an 80-year-old philoso
  
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• Who killed Marielle Franco? Arrests lay bare nexus of politicians, police and paramilitaries

  26-03-2024 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazilians shocked to find the man charged with investigating the city councillor’s assassination was one of its alleged engineersMore than a decade has passed since Rio’s homicide chief sat down for an interview with the city’s bestselling magazine to boast of a dramatic drop in murders.“There’s no such thing as a perfect crime,” proclaimed Rivaldo Barbosa, who the publication described as an industrious, church-going former air force sergeant who had instruc
  
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• Brazil summons Hungarian envoy to explain why Bolsonaro hid in embassy

  25-03-2024 22:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Brazil president spent two nights at legation after two close aides were detained in February over alleged coup plotBrazil’s foreign ministry has summoned the Hungarian ambassador to explain why the South American country’s embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights “hiding” at Hungary’s embassy in Brasília last month as federal police investigators closed in on some of his closest allies.Security footage obtained by the New York Times
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro reportedly ‘hid’ in Hungarian embassy after allies arrested

  25-03-2024 20:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Brazil president spent two nights at legation after two close aides were detained in February over alleged coup plotBrazil’s embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights “hiding” at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília last month as federal police investigators closed in on some of his closest allies, the New York Times has claimed.Security footage obtained by the US newspaper appeared to show that in early February – four days after two Bolsonaro
  
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• Dani Alves leaves Spanish jail after paying €1m bail

  25-03-2024 17:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-Barcelona footballer on provisional release from prison term while he appeals against rape convictionThe former Brazil international footballer Dani Alves has been allowed out on bail having served 14 months of a four-and-a-half-year sentence for rape.One of the world’s most decorated footballers, Alves, 40, was found guilty last month of raping a young woman in the VIP bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub in the early hours of 31 December 2022. Continue reading...
  
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• Weather tracker: Flood fallout claims at least 20 lives in Brazil

  25-03-2024 10:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Heavy rainfall brings landslides to country’s south-east. Elsewhere, a wild temperature fluctuation in IberiaBrazil was hit by devastating floods over the weekend that have so far claimed 20 lives in the resultant landslides and mudslides. There was heavy rainfall in parts of the south-east, including Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis and the larger Espírito Santo region, with hourly rainfall totals of about 20mm recorded in places. Cumulative totals from Friday through Sunday were
  
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• Marielle Franco: Two powerful politicians arrested over Brazil murder

  24-03-2024 12:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Rio de Janeiro councillor and her driver were assassinated in 2018 causing an international outcryTwo powerful politicians and Rio de Janeiro’s former chief of police have been arrested as part of a federal police operation targeting the suspected masterminds of the 2018 assassination of Rio councillor Marielle Franco.The operation – named Murder, Inc – was launched at the crack of dawn on Sunday and came just over six years after the shooting of Franco and her driver, Ande
  
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• Marielle Franco: two politicians and ex-police chief arrested over Brazil murder

  24-03-2024 12:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Rio de Janeiro councillor and her driver were assassinated in 2018 causing an international outcryTwo powerful politicians and Rio de Janeiro’s former chief of police have been arrested as part of a federal police operation targeting the suspected masterminds of the 2018 assassination of Rio councillor Marielle Franco.The operation – named Murder, Inc – was launched at the crack of dawn on Sunday and came just over six years after the shooting of Franco and her driver, Ande
  
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• Brazilian footballer Robinho arrested after rape conviction

  22-03-2024 01:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Manchester City striker taken into custody after court in Brazil ruled he should serve a nine-year sentence for offence committed in ItalyThe former Brazil and Manchester City striker Robinho has been arrested by federal police at his home in the city of Santos after a Brazilian court ruled he should serve a nine-year prison sentence for a rape he was convicted of committing in Italy.The 40-year-old footballer, whose full name is Robson de Souza, was taken into custody on Thursday night a
  
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• British para-cycling trio’s world silver medals stolen in Rio de Janeiro robbery

  21-03-2024 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Neil and Lora Fachie targeted along with pilot Corinne HallCyclists ‘shaken up’ by incident on opening day of worldsThree members of the British para-cycling track team were robbed of their silver medals and other possessions in a mugging after the opening day of the world championships in Rio de Janeiro.Lora and Neil Fachie, who are both double Paralympic champions, and pilot Corinne Hall were left shaken but otherwise unharmed by the incident, which occurred as they made their way
  
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• Football player Robinho to serve rape sentence in Brazil, court rules

  21-03-2024 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Brazilian court has decided to uphold an Italian court’s rape conviction and nine-year prison sentence for the former Milan strikerA Brazilian court in has court decided to uphold an Italian court’s rape conviction for the former Milan and Brazil striker Robinho, and that the former star player must serve his nine-year prison sentence in Brazil.The trial in Brazil’s superior court of justice (STJ), the country’s top court for non-constitutional matters, had a majority
  
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• Brazil police indict Bolsonaro over alleged falsification of vaccination data

  19-03-2024 15:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Former president allegedly inserted false information into public health database to make it appear he received Covid vaccineBrazil’s federal police have accused Jair Bolsonaro of criminal association and falsifying his own Covid-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader with others potentially in store.The supreme court on Tuesday released the police’s indictment which alleges Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted false information into the publ
  
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