Tag: Lula da Silva

• Thursday, November 4th 2010 - 05:23 UTC

  Brazil warns more Fed liquidity could lead to protectionist policies

  

  Brazil said on Wednesday it was worried by the US Federal Reserve's plan to buy billions more dollars in bonds, saying the US policy of easy money could lead countries to enact protectionist policies.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 - 00:18 UTC

  Austerity and tough spending cuts in Lula da Silva’s last two months

  

  Brazil’s Lula da Silva could implement a series of austerity measures and spending cuts during the last two months of his presidential period in order to leave an easier scenario for president-elect Dilma Rousseff, reported Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.

• Saturday, October 30th 2010 - 06:39 UTC

  Lula da Silva’s name sounds strongly as next Unasur secretary general

  

  Following the death of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, the Union of South American Nations, Unasur must find a new consensus leader and the outstanding figure and possible candidate is Brazilian president Lula da Silva recognized as a great promoter of regional integration.

• Monday, October 25th 2010 - 02:33 UTC

  Serra promises “substantial” changes to relations with Mercosur if elected president

  

  Brazil’s presidential opposition candidate Jose Serra promised substantial changes to the country’s foreign policy if elected next Sunday. He specifically mentioned Brazil’s lobbying for a seat at the UN Security Council, the functioning of Mercosur and relations with Cuba and Iran.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 05:26 UTC

  Woman power in Brazil: Dilma could still win and Marina holds key of run-off

  

  Brazilian political analysts are trying to explain way Sunday’s electoral party went sour for Dilma Rousseff and her mentor Lula da Silva, the most popular president of the country in the last six decades.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 03:06 UTC

  Brazil’s Greens confident they hold the key to Lula da Silva’s successor

  

  Brazil’s Green party considers that their presidential candidate Marina Silva and her demands in support of an environmental policy will be decisive in the run off between the ruling Workers Party Dilma Rousseff and runner up Jose Serra from the Social Democracy of Brazil (PSDB).

• Friday, October 1st 2010 - 04:27 UTC

  Brazil, a rising power, but beware of excessive triumphalism

  

  Opinion polls indicate that the candidate from the ruling Workers Party Dilma Rousseff, hand picked by Lula da Silva, will win Brazil’s presidency next Sunday. A run off is scheduled for a month later if no candidate gets 50% of the ballot, but in any of the two options Ms Rousseff is forecasted to take office next January first .

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:46 UTC

  Lula da Silva again furious with the press for exposing government corruption

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva again attached the media on Tuesday claiming that freedom of expression does not imply “inventing stories and news”. He added that the media instead of helping public opinion preach “hatred” and are only interested in “failures of his government”.

• Monday, September 20th 2010 - 02:23 UTC

  Brazilian star calls Lula da Silva “coup-monger” and Serra, “an idiot”

  

  Caetano Veloso, one of Brazil’s most exquisite poet-singers has called President Lula da Silva a “coup monger” and the opposition presidential candidate Jose Serra, a “moron” and an “idiot”.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:53 UTC

  Santos invites Brazil to list the FARC guerrilla as a “terrorist group”

  

  Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said the best way Brazil can help to find a solution to the internal conflict of Colombia is by declaring the FARC guerrilla a “terrorist group”.