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Drug manufacturer Gilead has questioned the findings, from a clinical study by the WHO. 2008 May - Environment minister Marina Silva resigns, after conflicts with the government over Amazon development. 2016 November - Violent anti-austerity protests take place outside the Brazilian Congress. Notable players that came through the ranks and went on to play for the senior team include Ronaldinho, Kaká, Rivaldo, Romário, Marcos, Roberto Carlos, César Sampaio, Cláudio Taffarel, Bebeto, Dida, Neymar, Dani Alves, Maicon, Adriano, Júlio Baptista, Luisão, Alex, Giovane Élber, Leonardo, Müller, Silas, Marcelo, David Luiz, Willian, Jô and Lucas Moura, among others. Michel Temer is sworn in to serve the rest of her term to 1 January 2019. The Brazil national under-20 football team, also known as Brazil Sub-20 or Seleção Sub-20, represents Brazil in association football at this age level and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).. Brazil produces 65% of world's coffee by 1902. 2004 October - Brazil launches its first space rocket. 2016 December - Senate approves 20-year government spending freeze billed as the centrepiece of the government austerity reforms aimed at restoring economic health to Brazil. 2003 August - Space rocket explodes on the ground at the Alcantara launch base, killing 21 people. 2005 February - Murder of US-born missionary and campaigner for Amazon peasant farmers Dorothy Stang throws conflict over land and resources in Amazon into spotlight. He distributes land among the poor, but causes controversy over allowing indigenous land claims to be challenged.

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The following article presents a summary of the 2020 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which is the 119th season of competitive football in the country.

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2013 June - A wave of protests sweeps the country. Large influx of European immigrants over the next decade.

2006 October - President Lula is re-elected. Replaced by vice-president Itamar Franco. 2012 August - Parliament approves affirmative action law for universities that requires them to reserve 50% of their places for state school students, and increases the number of spaces allotted to black, mixed-race and indigenous students. The team has won the South American Youth Championship a record eleven times and is the second most successful nation in the FIFA U-20 World Cup, having won the competition five times. 2004 April - Wave of land invasions, dubbed "Red April" by landless campaigners.
The following players were called up for training sessions in October 2020. 2016 August - Olympic Games are held in Rio de Janeiro. IMF provides rescue package after economy hit by collapse of Asian stock markets. New constitution returns power to states. His vice-president Jose Sarney becomes president, and struggles to cope with inflation. © 2020 BBC. 1985 - Tancredo Neves chosen as first civilian president in 21 years under military-run electoral college, but dies before he can be inaugurated. 03/09/20 8:20am 2015 March - Petrobras state oil company implicated in massive corruption scandal that brings hundreds of thousands onto the streets in protest at President Rousseff, who was company chairperson during the period in question. 1822 - Son of Portuguese king declares independence from Portugal and crowns himself Peter I, Emperor of Brazil. 2005 June-August - Corruption allegations rock the governing Workers' Party. 2012 October - Brazil enacts controversial law meant to protect forests and force farmers to replant trees on scattered swathes of illegally cleared land. Military rule associated with repression but also with rapid economic growth based on state-ownership of key sectors.

2010 October - Dilma Rousseff, of President Lula's Workers' Party, wins second round run-off to become Brazil's first female president. 1994 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president after helping to bring inflation under control as finance minister. Weekly quiz: What do you recall about the honours list? 1939-45 - Brazil initially declares itself neutral but in 1943 joins Allies in World War II. VideoPortugal's radical decision to decriminalise all drugs, From End Sars to End Swat, Nigeria protests explained. 2016 February - World Health Organisation declares a global public health emergency following an outbreak of the Zika virus centred on Brazil. It also plays in unofficial under-19 and under-21 tournaments, such as the Toulon Tournament, of which Brazil is an eight-time winner. 1960 - Janio Quadros elected president, but resigns after several months, plunging country into constitutional crisis.