Brazil

Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 15:14 UTC
Brazil auctions Rio and Belo Horizonte airports; five international consortia registered

Airports in Rio and Belo Horizonte, two host cities of the 2014 World Cup, are to be privatized at an auction this week, Brazilian civil aviation authorities said this week. Press reports said five consortia, each with at least one foreign partner, are to take part in Friday's auction at the Sao Paulo stock exchange.
Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 15:06 UTC
Brazil's unemployment drops to 5.2% in October unaffected by weak economic performance

Brazil's jobless rate fell to 5.2% in October from 5.4% the previous month, despite sluggish economic growth, official statistics released Thursday showed. In October of 2012, the rate stood at 5.3%, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Brazil experienced record low unemployment of 4.6% last December.
Wednesday, November 20th 2013 - 05:06 UTC
Brazil agriculture in state of emergency following infestations of Helicoverpa caterpillar

Infestations of the Helicoverpa caterpillar in Brazil's grain belt prompted the agriculture ministry this week to declare a state of emergency in the leading soy state of Mato Grosso, highlighting the potential risk to large parts of the crop.
Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:15 UTC
Brazil has a new Miss Bum Bum: Dai Macedo and her 107 cm behind

The Miss Bum Bum 2013 winner is 25-year-old Dai Macedo of Brazil. Dai Macedo, who was the representative for the state of Goias in central Brazil, was one of fifteen finalists that participated in the competition in Sao Paolo last week.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 06:58 UTC
Brazil's ex-president Jango Goulart remains receive full military honors 27 years later

Brazil on Thursday paid homage to Joao Goulart, ousted as Brazilian president ahead of the 1964-85 military dictatorship, after his remains were exhumed to determine if he was poisoned. The exhumation took place at the Sao Borja cemetery near the Uruguayan and Argentine border, and flown to the capital Brasilia.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 06:54 UTC
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon increased by a third over the past year

Deforestation in the Amazon increased by nearly a third over the past year, according to Brazilian government figures released this week, confirming a feared reversal in what had been steady progress over the past decade against destruction of the world's largest rainforest.
Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:30 UTC
Business climate in Latam receives 'unfavorable' assessment from Brazil's leading foundation

The business climate (ICE) in Uruguay was down in the third quarter of the year, which means the country dropped from position 5 to 7 in the ranking of the eleven economies contemplated in the index elaborated by the Brazilian Getulio Vargas Foundation and Germany's respected IFO.
Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:25 UTC
Brazilian former president Goulart remains exhume for toxicological tests

The remains of former Brazilian President Joao Goulart (1961/1964) were exhumed Wednesday due to suspicions that he may have been murdered on orders of the military regime that once ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.
Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:17 UTC
Brazil politics fat cats to jail confirms the Supreme Court in landmark judgment

In a landmark judgment, Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld more than a dozen jail terms handed down in a political corruption scandal which broke in 2005.
Tuesday, November 12th 2013 - 23:54 UTC
Brazil and Peru seal strong integration and cooperation alliance

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and Brazil's Dilma Rousseff agreed on Monday to promote regional integration and trade as they marked the 10th anniversary of the bilateral strategic alliance. Rousseff arrived Monday in Lima on her fourth visit to Peru since Humala took power.