‘A court in Brazil has confirmed the freezing of around US$78 million Thursday from the accounts of Samarco, the operator of an iron ore mine that sparked a major environmental disaster earlier this month. The funds will be held by Brazil’s central bank and may be used to provide compensation to victims of the disaster, […]
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‘A New York company managing the retirement savings of workers in Sweden, the US and Canada is evading Brazilian laws on foreign investment to acquire farmlands from a businessman accused of violently displacing local communities, according to a new report, released today by Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, GRAIN, Inter Pares, and Solidarity […]
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‘To kick out Big Money from politics is a tough job. Only a few countries have managed to curb corporate interference in politics and policy making. But now Brazil, an emerging economy like India, has banned corporate funding of all political campaigns – from municipal to federal elections. In a landmark judgment on Thursday, the […]
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‘Exactly two weeks after conceding that a primary surplus was no longer in the cards after budget data in July came in meaningfully worse than expected, Brazil is scrambling to restore some semblance of confidence in the government’s ability to close a yawning budget gap by implementing austerity even as political turmoil has made embattled […]
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‘In a unanimous ruling hailed as “a major victory for human rights and corporate accountability,” the Canadian Supreme Court declared on Friday that a group of Ecuadorian villagers can pursue a multi-billion pollution lawsuit against oil giant Chevron in the province of Ontario. “The law has finally caught up with Chevron,” the nonprofit Amazon Watch […]
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‘Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Brazil to demand the removal of President Dilma Rousseff from power. The protesters blame the president and her leftist Workers’ Party for economic problems in the country.’
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‘Here’s a scenario that seems plausible enough: The Brazilian megacity of São Paulo, currently dealing with Brazil’s largest water crisis in 40 years, continues to experience severe drought over the next several months. The crisis deepens, and soon, some residents lose access to water altogether. The next step: a riot or crowd-driven attack on Sabesp, […]
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‘Police in Brazil have arrested former presidential chief of staff Jose Dirceu, the most senior member of the ruling Workers’ Party to be taken into custody in connection with corruption at the state-owned oil company Petrobras. Dirceu served as former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s chief of staff between 2003 and 2005. He was […]
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‘Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC, has sold its business in Brazil to Banco Bradesco SA. The UK-headquartered bank’s decision came after years of disappointing results in the world’s second-biggest emerging market. Entering the Brazilian market in the 1990s, HSBC failed to overcome the challenge posed by the country’s biggest banks: Itau, Bradesco and Banco do Brasil. […]
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‘Before the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and, to a lesser extent, the Silk Road Fund became international symbols for the end of Western economic hegemony, there was the BRICS Bank. Or at least there was the idea of the BRICS bank. The supranational lender imagined by Russia, China, Brazil, India, and South Africa is, like […]
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‘While some agencies in Brazil have been busy giving 3 new GMO crops green lights, the country’s public prosecutor has written the Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) asking it to urgently re-evaluate their stance […]
‘Brazil’s government has excluded an Israeli “security” company from working at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro following a campaign by Palestine solidarity activists. In October 2014, the Israeli firm International Security and Defence […]
‘Field trials in Bentong, a town in the state of Pahang, Malaysia, were conducted to determine if GM mosquitoes could help keep dengue at bay, with a final determination that such an attempt does not […]
‘Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Brazil to protest against alleged government corruption, calling for the resignation of President Dilma Rouseff. Authorities said some 682,000 people marched in 195 cities […]