Brazil: Manaus water company to invest US$678 million to universalize basic sanitation
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bathed by the largest hydrographic basin in the world, Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state,...
May 10, 2022Topic
Amazonas state
Amazonas state capital Manaus records over 40 attacks by criminal gang in one day
At least 29 vehicles, 7 bank branches and 8 public buildings had been targeted in attacks ordered by a criminal...
June 9, 2021
Level of Brazil’s Amazon rivers continues to rise, affecting the population
The Amazon River has exceeded the historical mark of 9,38 meters.
May 18, 2021
Indigenous leaders in Brazil warn of missionaries turning Amazon villages against vaccines
Medical teams working to immunize Brazil’s remote indigenous villages against the coronavirus have encountered fierce resistance in some communities where...
February 12, 2021
Investment Insights: Brazil and Mexico Contrast in Latin America’s Pandemic Experience
By Stéphane Monier, Lombard Odier Group, Geneva RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Images of green oxygen cylinders have come to...
February 2, 2021
In-depth: New, More Contagious, More Deadly Covid-19 Strain Likely Source of Surge in Amazonas
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A new variety of Covid-19 which seems to have developed in far-western Amazonas state is...
January 20, 2021
Brazilian Plane Will Fly Oxygen to Beleaguered Manaus after India Denies Vaccine Access
The Brazilian flight that would pick up the two million doses of the Oxford vaccine in India was cancelled and...
January 16, 2021
Pandemic-struck Amazonas Is Warning for Rest of Brazil, Says Fiocruz Infectologist
Fiocruz infectologist Marcus Lacerda attends to at least 40 cases of Covid-19 in Manaus, capital city of the Brazilian Amazonas...
January 16, 2021
Venezuela Provides Oxygen to Brazil´s Amazonas State; Brazil to Deploy Six FAB Planes
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Thursday, January 14th, that he spoke with Amazonas Governor Wilson Lima and offered...
January 15, 2021