Brazil

Brazil’s jobless rate fell in the latest three-month period, data showed on Friday, but the number of people who gave up looking for work hit a record high as the economy totters on the edge of...

Transparency International Brazil presents new information for tracking the progress of grand corruption cases in Latin America involving Brazilian civil construction company Odebrecht. The data was compiled in a joint project between Transparency International Brazil, Proética...

Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday cast a vote to approve conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement to patch up the executive branch, deflecting a potential emergency that had sown uncertainty about his capacity to get the congressional backing...

Clashes between inmates killed 15 people at a jail in Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Sunday, the regional prison authority said. The clashes broke out around 11:00 am (1500 GMT) during visiting hours at the...

A Brazilian victory in Cannes has sent a message of hope at a difficult time for the country’s movie industry, director Karim Ainouz said on Friday after winning an award at one of the film festival’s...

Standing among sacks of used supermarket shopping bags, soft drink bottles and detergent containers, Evelin Marcele is scornful of Brazil’s efforts to recycle plastic waste. “Almost nothing,” said the 40-year-old director of CoopFuturo, a sorting center...

A decision by Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) to demand the suppression of a media report concerning one of the court’s sitting judges violates the freedom of the press, warns Transparency International Brazil. The demand to...

Floods caused by torrential rain in and around Brazil’s financial hub Sao Paulo killed 12 people and hurt six others overnight, firefighters said Monday. In the town of Ribeirão Pires on the periphery of the country’s...

Ford has said it will close a factory in Brazil after more than 50 years as it stops selling heavy commercial trucks in South America. The US carmaker said it saw “no viable path to profitability”...

The official death toll from a dam burst in the Brazilian town of Brumadinho rose to 169, authorities in the state of Minas Gerais said on Sunday night. In addition, 141 people have yet to be...