Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> recently met with the country’s Tourism Minister Marcelo \u00c1lvaro Ant\u00f4nio, where he reportedly said he would support legalizing casinos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nFederal legislation resides in the National Congress that would authorize casino resorts, online gambling, and sports betting. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro \u2013 Brazil’s tourism destination headliner \u2013 also wants to bring a casino destination to town.<\/p>\n
“We are fighting now so that the Brazilian Congress will allow us to have casinos here, something that the modern world already enjoys and that we want to have in Rio,” Mayor Marcelo Crivella said in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scientific Games and IGT have partnered to successfully win the operational rights to Brazil’s instant lottery. Two of the world’s largest gaming manufacturers and lottery services providers, Las Vegas-based Scientific Games and UK-headquartered IGT, will pay the Brazilian government a total of $200 million in exchange for the 15-year lottery deal. The arrangement additionally requires […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":118004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13699,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Scientific Games and IGT Win Brazil Lottery Contract<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n