On social media, videos are circulating with members of the Green and Yellow Movement in front of the hotel where Ancelotti will stay, in Barra da Tijuca, and where the call-up will be announced. "Olê lê lê,

One of our greatest potentials is precisely the fact that we've mapped out our clean energy,” says Fernando Haddad.

Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said that the increase in the IOF tax on financial transactions "was debated at the president's (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva) table, who summons the ministers he considers pertinent",

Thirty-eight years after the brutal killing of Spanish-born Jesuit missionary Vicente Cañas in the Amazonian State of Mato Grosso, the Brazilian judiciary finally issued an arrest warrant against one of the murderers.

Brazil’s currency sold off Thursday as the government announced higher taxes on financial transactions along with a widely anticipated plan to shore up its deteriorating finances.

Brazil's Finance Ministry on Friday said it had scrapped a higher transaction tax on funds invested abroad after critics inside and outside the government blasted the move as backsliding toward the return of capital controls.

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip them into the registry as if they were from the 1980s and ’90s.

Brazil went back on a plan to tax transfers to offshore funds after the announcement sparked a currency selloff, with Finance Minister Fernando Haddad saying Friday morning that there was an understanding that it was worth reviewing the idea to avoid speculation.

The Brazilian Agriculture Ministry on Friday updated the list of countries that have placed restrictions on chicken trade with Brazil, the world's largest exporter, after it confirmed its first case of bird flu on a commercial farm.

By Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Mankind has no right to leave 733 million people to the scourge of hunger. In a world that annually produces almost 6 billion tons of food,