As dengue fever cases rise across the country, Brazil is preparing to launch a public vaccination program. Brazil’s Health Ministry reports that in the first five weeks of this year, the number of cases has increased by about five times compared to the same period in 2023.
Indigenous people in Brazil demonstrated against a measure that opponents say will limit their land rights and safeguard the environment, and that was approved by the lower house of Congress.
Transparency International reports that due to increased violence and insecurity, there hasn’t been much progress made against global corruption in the past year.
Brazilian national security forces have intervened to restore order after an estimated 4,000 supporters of the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, who reject results of the elections in October, took over and vandalised the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the President’s Palace in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia.
Amnesty International calls for the relevant authorities to conduct prompt, impartial and effective investigations so that the acts of this Sunday, 8 January, are appropriately investigated and sanctioned.
Brazilians will cast their votes on Sunday in what is anticipated to be the final contest between incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right populist, and former President and leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Brazil, which was once a small player in the drug trade, is now one of the world’s major cocaine suppliers and the main location for the transshipment of drugs to Europe.The illegal drug trade has also turned entire neighborhoods in Sao Paulo, the largest city in South America, into wastelands
Thousands of Brazilians have lost everything since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the streets of Sao Paulo have become their home
According to a survey released on Wednesday, Tel Aviv is the most expensive city in the world to live in, as increasing inflation has driven up living costs worldwide
Despite global efforts to control deforestation and reduce air pollution, the Brazilian government claims that at least one-fourth of the country’s 214 million people have returned to cooking with firewood. This is occurring not only in Brazil’s vast forests and rural areas, but also in the country’s largest cities
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