Brazil

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  Delta Air moves into the Brazilian market with a stake in Gol

  

  US Delta Air Lines Inc. agreed to buy a 100 million dollar stake in Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, Brazil's second-largest airline by market value, and begin booking passengers on each other's jets.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 06:28 UTC

  Ford invests 446m dollars in Brazil to build a new global model

  

  Ford Motor Company announced that it will invest 800 million Reais (446 million dollars) to build a new global model in its Sao Bernardo do Campo plant, the heart of Brazil’s auto industry.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  EU cuts Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay from development aid

  

  The European Commission decided to cut aid from its 2014-2020 budget to 19 emerging economies including Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and seven other Latin American countries, the EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 20:20 UTC

  Brazil slowdown faster than expected: negative growth in the third quarter

  

  Brazil’s economy shrank in the third quarter, prompting the government to slash its growth forecast for the year, one week after announcing stimulus measures to contain the spillover from Europe’s debt crisis.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 18:49 UTC

  Boom of the wind power energy in north-east Brazil: 11.2 MW by 2014

  

  Brazil is going through a wind power boom as production prices fall and government incentives attract a growing number of foreign suppliers. The wind power sector has a current capacity of around 1,400 megawatts, and is expected to grow nearly eight-fold by 2014, according to the Brazilian Association of Wind Energy ABEEolica.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 15:20 UTC

  Uruguay prepares to combat leishmaniasis, which threatens to spread from Argentina

  

  The advance of the mosquito transmitted leishmaniasis in South America, (Uruguay and Chile are the only countries with no registered cases) motivated a recent symposium to address the challenge in Punta del Este.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 22:00 UTC

  With summer rainfall dengue outbreak threatens fifty major Brazilian cities

  

  Some fifty Brazilian cities are exposed to serious outbreaks of dengue during the austral summer and another 236 are on ‘alert’ for the same reason, according to a paper presented Monday by Brazil’s Health minister Alexandre Padhilla.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 21:30 UTC

  Uruguay’s prospects entangled in Mercosur senior members’ policies, says EIU

  

  Uruguay will have to learn to live with Argentina’s ‘unpredictable policies” and its growing tendency to protectionism, both from President Cristina Fernandez as from Brazil in a context where both economies growth is slowing down.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Top Republican claims Obama is losing the Brazil battle to China

  

  The US top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said President Barack Obama is missing opportunities to strike closer ties with Brazil, allowing China to steal market share from US companies in Latin America’s biggest economy.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Havelange, 95, again beats his detractors: he resigns from IOC and end ethics inquiry

  

  Former FIFA president Joao Havelange resigned from the International Olympic Committee on Sunday, just days before he was to face an ethics inquiry it was reported by the Sao Paulo press.