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On 8 January 2023, following the defeat of then-president Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a mob of Bolsonaro's supporters attacked Brazil's federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília.
The National Department of Transport Infrastructure said the central span of the 533-meter (0.3-mile) bridge, linking the cities of Estreito in Maranhao state and Aguiarnopolis in Tocantins state ...
At least 85 people have died in Rio Grande do Sul state and 150,000 have had to flee their homes.
BRASILIA (Reuters) -The presidents of Brazil and Colombia discussed options for negotiating an end to the Venezuelan crisis in a phone call on Wednesday, Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...
9 July – 2024 Brazil wildfires: Wildfires burn 760,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of the Pantanal, destroying over 4% of Brazil's largest wetland. [ 23 ] 17 July – A massive fishkill suspected to have been caused by the dumping of industrial waste from a sugar and ethanol plant results in the deaths of between 10-20 tons of fish in the ...
Along with the problem of poverty, Brazil is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) of Brazil. Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear.
Brazil’s extreme drought is continuing to fuel arid conditions that have resulted in record wildfires in the Amazon.. The flames of tens of thousands of fires have torn over millions of acres ...
Brazil is a federal presidential constitutional republic, based on representative democracy. The federal government has three independent branches : executive, legislative, and judicial. Executive power is exercised by the executive branch, headed by the President , advised by a Cabinet .