Brazil

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 19:38 UTC

  Lula da Silva praises protests in Brazil as something 'healthy' for democracy

  

  Former president Lula da Silva described the street protests that have shaken Brazil as something 'good and healthy' and said demands reveal that the Brazilian people have discovered that it is possible to aspire for more, although when as a union leader he marched “I didn't destroy public or private property”.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 19:32 UTC

  Uruguay and Brazil agree Mercosur will make a joint trade proposal to EU next December

  

  Uruguay and Brazil have concluded their proposals to present to the European Union and are waiting for Argentina and Paraguay, in the framework of current negotiations, delayed for years, to reach a free trade and cooperation agreement between the two blocs.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 23:45 UTC

  Brazil and UK intensify scientific research cooperation and exchanges

  

  The British Science and Innovation Network and the Confederation of Brazilian Funding Agencies (Confap) have taken nine funding agencies to the United Kingdom for a week long of meetings with their counterparts and other scientific organizations and universities.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 21:41 UTC

  Brazil auctions 35-year production rights to giant offshore Libra oil area

  

  Brazil sold production rights to develop the giant offshore Libra oil area to a consortium led by Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA in an auction with a single bid on Monday. The auction in Rio do Janeiro took place amid strict security measures with hundreds of police forces clashing with protestors.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 07:39 UTC

  Brazil's development bank to target infrastructure and less on corporations

  

  Brazil will inject less money next year into the country's development bank BNDES, (National economic and social development bank), its leading source of long-term corporate loans, to focus more on infrastructure financing as concerns mount over public debt.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 05:30 UTC

  Brazil confident Paraguay will be returning to Mercosur before the end of the year

  

  Brazil trusts Paraguay will fully return to Mercosur before the end of the year, said Brazil's Executive foreign policy advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia in a Sunday edition interview with the influential Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  Brazil will not return Bolivian Senator who is wanted by the government of President Morales

  

  Brazil will not return opposition Senator Roger Pinto to Bolivia, who last August fled the country with the help from Brazilian diplomats, said President Dilma Rousseff advisor on foreign affairs Marco Aurelio Garcia.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 18:04 UTC

  Rousseff stimuli policies and government intervention in the economy questioned

  

  Brazil's economic debate is heating up after three former central bankers this week criticized the economic policies of President Dilma Rousseff, saying she is making Latin America's biggest economy less efficient and more sluggish.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 15:40 UTC

  Fire ravages Brazil’s main sugar terminal paralyzing operations and boosting prices to a year high

  

  A fire in Santos ravaged Copersucar's sugar terminal in Brazil, paralyzing operations of the world's biggest sugar trader and putting 10 million tons of export capacity offline for six months or more.

• Thursday, October 17th 2013 - 21:09 UTC

  New highway in clogged-Brazil opens more possibilities for grain exports

  

  A highway, decades in the making, will finally open in Brazil offering a shortcut through the Amazon jungle to north-eastern waterways for the growing corn and soybean trade. The BR-163 highway connecting Mato Grosso state's soy belt to two key river ports will boost grain exports by some 3 million tons next year, offering a bit of relief to congested ports in the southeast, where most shipments originate.