Brazil

• Thursday, October 16th 2014 - 07:45 UTC

  Brazilian presidential runoff in a neck to neck technical tie

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and her challenger Senator Aecio Neves for the 26 October runoff, are technically tied according to the latest public opinion poll released by Datafolha, which so far has shown to be one of the most reliable pollsters.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 23:44 UTC

  Much mud-slinging but no definitive KO in Dilma/Neves first round of debates

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and rival presidential candidate Aecio Neves have clashed over corruption and the state of the economy in the first of a series of televised debates ahead of the second round of presidential elections. 26 October.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 23:36 UTC

  Brazil will rise fuel prices to help government managed debt-laden Petrobras

  

  Brazil will maintain plans to raise domestic fuel prices this year, despite a sharp drop in international crude oil prices, to help debt-laden state-run oil company Petrobras, a government source said this week.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 23:32 UTC

  Petrobras sets a new oil and gas production record during September

  

  Petrobras announced a new oil output record in Brazil, during September with an average of 2.23 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) production in the country, including in this total the fields operated by the state-owned company for its partners. The volume is 0.3% higher than breaks August record.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 08:53 UTC

  Chile convinced of the Mercosur/Pacific Alliance 'convergence' led by Brazil

  

  Chile is confident that in coming months there will be 'significant' advances in a convergence of the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur, said Andres Rebolledo, Chile's Deputy Trade minister during a visit to Brazil.

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 11:54 UTC

  First BMW rolls out from Brazilian plant; annual production goal: 30.000

  

  Germany's BMW Group celebrated last week the first car to be assembled in its new Brazilian automobile plant in Araquari, Santa Catarina State, where over the course of the next few years, more than 200 million Euros will be invested in the plant, resulting in a production capacity of more than 30,000 vehicles annually.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 06:38 UTC

  Environmentalist Marina Silva “will vote and support” Aecio Neves

  

  Business-friendly opposition candidate Aecio Neves received a crucial boost in Brazil's presidential election race on Sunday with the endorsement of popular environmentalist Marina Silva two weeks before his runoff against incumbent Dilma Rousseff.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 00:20 UTC

  Neves pledges a deep reform of Mercosur and opening to the world, if he wins

  

  Deep reforms and opening Mercosur to the world will be proposed by opposition candidate Aecio Neves to the other full members, if finally he is elected to lead Brazil in the 26 October runoff against president Dilma Rousseff, said Rubens Barbosa a trade expert, former ambassador in the US and currently coordinator of the opposition government program.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 06:04 UTC

  Brazil testing patient suspected of Ebola infection; another 64 in quarantine

  

  Brazilian Health Minister Arthur Chioro said on Friday the results of tests on a patient suspected of Ebola infection would take 24 hours. At a press conference in Brasilia, the minister assured the situation was under control and that proper precautions had been taken to isolate the patient.

• Friday, October 10th 2014 - 05:18 UTC

  Rousseff and Neves in 'statistical tie' according to the latest opinion polls

  

  Pro-business candidate Aecio Neves has a slight lead of 2 percentage points over President Dilma Rousseff ahead of the October 26 runoff in Brazil's presidential elections, according to two new polls released on Thursday.