Tag: Brazil

• Wednesday, October 29th 2014 - 05:27 UTC

  Argentina hopes to renew air power following Brazil's deal to manufacture Gripen fighter jets

  

  Brazilian media has confirmed that Argentina is probing to join with Brazil in the procurement of 24 Saab Gripen NG fighters, following the recently signed bilateral cooperation agreement under the heading of “Aeronautic industry strategic alliance” (AEIA), which was discussed this month by the two countries defense ministers.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2014 - 15:27 UTC

  Brazilian economy remains in recession; Central bank survey indicates 0.27% growth this year

  

  Private sector analysts are maintaining their 2014 growth forecast for Brazil's economy at 0.27%, the Central Bank said on Monday. GDP estimate was included in the Focus review, a weekly Central Bank survey of analysts from about 100 private financial institutions on the state of the national economy.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2014 - 06:18 UTC

  Reelected Dilma and Cristina Fernandez will discuss “strengthening Mercosur”

  

  The reelected President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff called President Cristina Fernandez on Monday to thank her Argentine counterpart for her message of congratulations following victory at the polls, as well as organizing a bilateral meeting in Australia during the G20 summit.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  Praise for reelected Dilma and Brazilian election from OAS Insulza

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, congratulated Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, on her victory in Sunday´s election, and highlighted the exemplary character of the electoral process as well as wishing the Brazilian leader success in her new administration.

• Monday, October 27th 2014 - 02:08 UTC

  Dilma with Lula da Silva's magic, re-elected in rich-poor divided Brazil

  

  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff supported by the decisive campaigning of Lula da Silva, narrowly won re-election on Sunday after convincing voters that the record on poverty reduction in the last twelve years was more important than a recent economic slump.

• Thursday, October 23rd 2014 - 06:31 UTC

  Dilma numerically ahead of Neves, in the fourth poll in three days

  

  Incumbent President Dilma Rousseff pulled ahead again in a new poll ahead of Brazil's presidential election and she appears to be the favorite to win Sunday's runoff although the vote is still too close to call.

• Thursday, October 23rd 2014 - 05:52 UTC

  Neves wants Brazil to have the Pacific Alliance as an integration reference

  

  Brazilian presidential opposition candidate Aecio Neves insisted that if elected he will review Mercosur rules and make them “more flexible” so that the country can reach bilateral agreements with third parties and not limited by the consensus clause of the trade block. He also mentioned the Pacific Alliance as a pragmatic integration reference.

• Tuesday, October 21st 2014 - 07:14 UTC

  Brazil's Dilma slightly ahead show two opinion polls released on Monday

  

  President Dilma Rousseff is gaining momentum but remains locked in a dead heat with challenger Aecio Neves ahead of Sunday's runoff to Brazil's presidential election, according to two surveys released on Monday.

• Monday, October 20th 2014 - 08:17 UTC

  Dilma admits Petrobras funds were illegally diverted to finance political parties

  

  Brazilian President and candidate for reelection Dilma Rousseff admitted that funds were illegally diverted at the state-run oil firm Petrobras, allegedly to benefit political parties allied with the government, and she promised to seek reimbursement of that money.

• Monday, October 20th 2014 - 07:25 UTC

  Number of homicides in Argentina again on the rise, indicate Healthcare stats

  

  The number of homicides per year in Argentina dropped from a peak of 4.630 back in 2002, but this did not impede that in the following decade that figure totaled, 31.992, according to official stats from the country's Healthcare ministry.