Over 70 Percent of Brazilian Workers Fear Job Loss
Seven in ten formal and casual workers (71 percent) are ''somewhat afraid'' of losing the occupation from where they make...
July 17, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Escaping Bolsonaro’s Brazil to Portugal
"Rio is beautiful, Brazil is beautiful, but the violence is totally out of control," laments Janette Ferreira Santos, a 43-year-old...
July 16, 2020
Analysis: How Evangelical Churches in Brazil Are Using the Coronavirus Crisis
The evangelical world must be at the heart of the public debate as well as the coronavirus epidemic in Brazil....
July 16, 2020
Lacking ICU Beds and Tests, Minas Gerais Pays Price for Underestimating Pandemic
The trip to the Caribbean occurred smoothly. Although Brazil had started issuing shy warnings about the coronavirus pandemic in early...
July 16, 2020
Almost 70 Percent of São Paulo Inmates’ Relatives Have No News During Pandemic
The majority of relatives of people imprisoned in the state of São Paulo have had no news during the novel...
July 16, 2020
Rate Drops Slightly, Yet Brazil Still Has 11 Million Illiterate People
The Brazilian illiteracy rate fell from 6.8 percent in 2018 to 6.6 percent in 2019, according to data from the...
July 16, 2020
Study: Brazil Will Experience Population Peak in 2043, Then Shrink Until 2100
The Brazilian population will reach its peak in the year 2043, according to a study by the University of Washington...
July 16, 2020
Brazil’s Covid-19 Deaths Total 74,445 (July 15th), Cases Near 2 Million
Since 8 PM on Tuesday, Brazil recorded 7,963 new cases of infection by Covid-19, bringing the total figure to 1,939,167,...
July 16, 2020
Gringo View Opinion: The Bananas in Brazil Are So Good
It has certainly been easy to trash Brazil lately. It seems like it has become a mini-industry for the world’s...
July 15, 2020