Northeast Brazil Wins New Beef Plants and Shoe Factories
Northeast Brazil secures R$175.5M in new factories: a 700-cattle/day beef plant in Pernambuco and footwear units in Ceará creating 2,900...
July 28, 2026Topic
Pernambuco
Brazilian Favela Music Project Turns 20 with Global Concert
A Recife social project marks 20 years of transforming lives through music with a global concert.
July 27, 2026
Recife July 2025: Samba Star Mumuzinho, Reggae & Theatre
Recife's cultural agenda features Marco Nanini and Gregorio Duvivier on stage, plus shows by Mumuzinho, Edson Gomes and Carol Levy....
July 24, 2026
Alceu Valença Brings His 80th-Birthday Musical to Rio’s Revitalised Downtown
Alceu Valença's Anunciação musical premieres in Rio July 23–Aug 16, 2026, for his 80th. Tickets from R$40 at Teatro Carlos...
July 18, 2026
Structural risks identified in more than 100 buildings in the greater Recife area
A recent building collapse in Paulista, Pernambuco state, has drawn attention to the significant number of structurally unsound buildings in...
July 17, 2023
Brazil: change of government affects dispute over Fernando de Noronha
The climate on the Fernando de Noronha archipelago is tropical hot all year round, and the archipelago's beaches are among
January 18, 2023
Brazil’s 10 largest economies
Brazil's GDP in 2021 was R$8.7 trillion (US$1.7 trillion), according to data from the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and...
July 11, 2022
2022 accounts for 27% of all rain-related deaths in the last ten years
The number of deaths caused by excessive rainfall in Brazil in 2022 is the highest in the last ten years...
June 2, 2022
Brazil: More than 40 cities in Pernambuco state are in an emergency
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - More than 40 cities in Pernambuco have declared or are declaring a state of emergency...
June 1, 2022