Brazil issued a tourist visa to a dissident Cuban blogger a few days before President Dilma Rousseff is scheduled to travel to the Castro family island in a visit being dominated by human rights concerns.
Thousands of trade unionists, students and activists for indigenous and environmental causes gathered Tuesday in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre to kick off debate in the anti-capitalist World Social Forum.
Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva currently undergoing treatment for larynx cancer, returned on Tuesday to the political stage after three months of absence, for the inauguration ceremony of two new ministers from the cabinet of President Dilma Rousseff
The Brazilian Army and Navy have not handed over documents dating back to the years of the military dictatorship (1964/1985), in spite of an official request from former president Lula da Silva five years ago.
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will be meeting her US peer Barack Obma next March when she is also scheduled to hold talks with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and attend a BRIC group summit.
Brazil’s economy grew at its fastest pace in 19 months in November, reversing a three-month contraction, as a recovery in consumer spending helped Latin America’s largest economy shrug off a global slowdown. Yields on interest rate futures rose.
Brazil is moving into an ‘era of prosperity’ characterized by ‘income distribution and a notorious drop in inequalities” said President Dilma Rousseff in her first 2012 radio edition of ‘Enjoying coffee with the President’, where she also dared to use the word ‘protection’ in reference to jobs and the domestic market.
Brazil's government may cut as much as much 60 billion Reais (32 billion dollars) from spending in 2012 in an effort to control its deficit and inflation, the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported, citing unnamed Finance Ministry officials.
Brazil's government faces as much as 74 billion Reais (40 billion dollars) of unbudgeted expenses in 2012 stemming from lawsuits awaiting judgement at the country's Supreme Court, the Correio Brasilense newspaper reported on Sunday.
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will be celebrating on Sunday her first of four years in office with a record public opinion support of 72%, based on a sober and firm style in running what has become the world’s sixth largest economy.