Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro may need emergency surgery

BRASILIA (REUTERS) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will travel to Sao Paulo to undergo tests for an obstructed intestine, and could receive emergency surgery, the president’s office said on Wednesday (July 14), in his latest health complication from a 2018

In Brazil, graveyard shift reveals staggering cost of pandemic

SAO PAULO (AFP) – In almost three decades of working in Sao Paulo’s largest cemetery, the oldest gravediggers can’t remember performing more than 10 night burials. But since the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic swept across Brazil, that exception

President Bolsonaro further relaxes gun laws in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – President Jair Bolsonaro has issued a series of decrees further relaxing gun control laws in Brazil, one of the far-right leader’s signature issues. The four decrees, issued late on Friday (Feb 12), increase the number