Big Food Companies Urge Soy Traders to Help Save Brazil Savanna
A group of international companies including Tesco, Walmart, Unilever and McDonald’s on Tuesday urged major commodities traders to stop supplying...
December 15, 2020Topic
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Arab Countries Offer Opportunities for Brazilian Startups
UAE and Saudi Arabia invest in game and innovation startups, while countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, Sudan and Algeria offer...
December 15, 2020
Jetblue Launches Flights between New York and Guyana
Jetblue has launched flights between New York and Guyana, with the first round trip flight arriving back in JFK earlier...
December 15, 2020
Machu Picchu Closed Down for Security Reasons After Protests from Local Villages
The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, the crown jewel of Peru's tourist sites, closed its doors Monday, December 14th, for...
December 15, 2020
Brazil Pursues Criminal Probe of Top Trafigura Executives – Sources
Brazilian investigators are pursuing the first criminal probe of current executives at commodities trading firm Trafigura on allegations they approved...
December 15, 2020
As Brazil’s Middle Class Exit from Quarantine, Private Hospitals Grow Crowded
She has been almost six months locked inside her home in Brasilia. Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic,...
December 15, 2020
Police Killed Over 2,000 Children and Adolescents in Brazil in Past Three Years
Some make newspaper pages and headlines, like João Pedro Mattos, 14, killed inside his home in São Gonçalo, in Baixada...
December 15, 2020
Christmas and New Year’s Eve Parties Could Trigger Second Pandemic Wave in Brazil
After the relaxation of restriction measures to curb the pandemic, the case and death figures caused by the novel coronavirus...
December 15, 2020
Productivity is Only Path to Economic Growth, Economists Say
With the end of the demographic dividend in Brazil, the only means of generating economic growth will be through productivity...
December 15, 2020