Brazil

• Saturday, October 2nd 2010 - 06:24 UTC

  Brazil: Next Sunday General Elections

  

  Though less than a week has passed since the crucial Venezuelan National Assembly elections, all eyes have already turned to Brazil, as it heads into general elections on October 3rd.

• Saturday, October 2nd 2010 - 01:38 UTC

  Lula da Silva’s last appeal: If you trust me and my government, vote for Dilma

  

  President Lula da Silva called on fellow Brazilians to vote for his successor Dilma Rousseff next Sunday, during the closing program of the electoral campaign free television time.

• Friday, October 1st 2010 - 04:27 UTC

  Brazil, a rising power, but beware of excessive triumphalism

  

  Opinion polls indicate that the candidate from the ruling Workers Party Dilma Rousseff, hand picked by Lula da Silva, will win Brazil’s presidency next Sunday. A run off is scheduled for a month later if no candidate gets 50% of the ballot, but in any of the two options Ms Rousseff is forecasted to take office next January first .

• Friday, October 1st 2010 - 02:16 UTC

  Brazil’s September inflation up 1.15% pushed by food and raw materials prices

  

  Brazil’s broadest measure of inflation rose the fastest since May in September. Construction, consumer and wholesale prices, as measured by the IGP-M index, rose 1.15% this month.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 01:48 UTC

  Rousseff forecasted to increase integration with Mercosur and BRIC

  

  Brazilian and Argentine international relations experts anticipate that if as all opinion polls indicate Dilma Rousseff will be elected next Sunday as the first woman president in the history of Brazil, the country’s foreign policy will continue the model implemented by President Lula da Silva.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 21:38 UTC

  Brazil claims “global currency war” has broken out, but we have an ‘arsenal’

  

  Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega claimed that an “international currency war” has broken out but the government will buy all “excess dollars” in the market to curb the appreciation of the local currency Real.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 01:52 UTC

  Brazil main daily blasts Lula da Silva; supports opposition presidential candidate

  

  One of Brazil’s leading and influential newspapers, O Estado de Sao Paulo announced its support for opposition presidential candidate Jose Serra for the coming Sunday election and described current president Lula da Silva as a “bad example” for Brazilian politics.

• Saturday, September 25th 2010 - 03:01 UTC

  Brazil’s oil prospects break all records of share placing: 70 billion US dollars

  

  Brazil's government managed oil and gas company raised 70 billion US in the world's biggest-ever share offering Thursday. The success of Petrobras issue showed the extent of investor interest in Brazil's massive offshore oil reserves, one of the world's fastest-growing regions for energy production.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 00:44 UTC

  Lula’s attacks on the press “dangerous” and has him “on track with Chavez”

  

  President Lula da Silva’s comments on freedom of the press are “something dangerous” and put him on the tracks of “Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez” said the president of the Inter-American Press Association (SIP), Alejandro Aguirre in an interview published in Brazilian newspaper O'Globo.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 16:16 UTC

  Russia bars beef imports from four Brazilian and one Argentine plants

  

  Brazil’s JBS S.A., one of the world’s leading exporters of beef said late Wednesday that Russian authorities told the company that several of its meat plants have been barred from exporting product to Russia.