Brazil

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 06:39 UTC

  Sixth member of Rousseff’s cabinet resigns amid corruption allegations

  

  Brazil’s Labor and Employment Minister Carlos Lupi resigned Sunday, the sixth Cabinet member to leave President Dilma Rousseff’s government since June amid corruption allegations.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 05:29 UTC

  Brazilian press name President Dilma Rousseff “Woman of the Year”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was elected “Woman of the Year” by one of Brazil’s leading magazines, Istoé, which describes the leader as “one of the most influential persons in the world” who also conducted the country to “a superior level”.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil agree greater ‘productive integration mechanism”

  

  Argentine and Brazilian presidents Cristina Fernandez and Dilma Rousseff agreed in Caracas the creation of a Productive Integration Mechanism, MIP, to deepen bilateral relations.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil counters bad press: “we can be ready to organize the World Cup in two months”

  

  Brazil, plagued by delays and in-fighting in its preparations for the 2014 World Cup, could stage the event in two months' time if necessary, the country's sports minister said on Friday.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 19:41 UTC

  Brazil ready to support IMF but demands greater power for BRICS countries

  

  Brazil conditioned the disbursement of more funds for the IMF to help countries in crisis to a greater say in the multilateral organization and the advance of European initiatives to solve the current Euro and debt crisis.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 18:58 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay less corrupt in Latam; other Mercosur members not so clean

  

  Chile and Uruguay are the least corrupt countries in Latinamerica, while Paraguay and Venezuela are at the other extreme, according to the latest ‘Corruption Perceptions’ Index’ from Transparency International released this week.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 15:41 UTC

  Brazilian biologists manage to picture rare example of albino dolphin

  

  Brazilian biologists have found an extremely rare example of an albino dolphin among an endangered species that lives off the southern coast of South America.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 01:26 UTC

  Buenos Aires launched 2011/12 season with the Italian cruise ‘Opera’

  

  The 2011/12 cruise season was officially inaugurated this week in Buenos Aires with the arrival from Venice of ‘Opera’ with 1.900 passengers. The cruise vessel belongs to the Italian company MSC and most tourists are Argentines, as well as French, Italian, German and Brazilians.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 00:04 UTC

  Brazil announces measures to stimulate economy and domestic consumption

  

  Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega announced Thursday a package of measures aimed at stimulating the economy and domestic consumption, amid an international crisis mainly affecting developed nations as a consequence of the Euro situation.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 06:02 UTC

  Brazil has the highest real interest rate among 40 leading economies

  

  The Brazilian Central bank latest decision to lower the basic interest rate by half a percentage point to 11%, confirms Brazil leadership as the country with the highest real interest rates in the world. An honour it has held interruptedly for the last 23 months.