By Jack Nicas and Dado Galdieri Once a semipro baseball player in Japan, Yukihiro Shimura has now become a baseball missionary. Source: The Japanese Sensei Bringing Baseball to Brazil Category: Baseball, Brazil, Japan
Tag: Brazil
French President Emmanuel Macron blasted the long-stalled free trade agreement between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc Wednesday during a visit to Brazil. The deal “as it is negotiated today is a really bad agreement, for you and for us,” Macron told an economic forum in Sao Paulo. “Let’s build a new agreement… […]
By Jack Nicas The Brazilian Supreme Court and the federal police are demanding answers from former President Jair Bolsonaro after a New York Times investigation. Source: Bolsonaro Faces New Legal Jeopardy After Stay at Hungarian Embassy Category: Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates, Politics and Government, Supreme Federal Court (Brazil), Bolsonaro, Jair (1955- ), Moraes, Alexandre […]