Brazil

• Friday, September 26th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  Marina Silva pledges economic stability and a “fiscal responsibility council”

  

  Former Environment Minister Marina Silva, one of the two main contenders in Brazil's Oct. 5 presidential election, said on Thursday that, if elected, she will not embark on any “adventure” in economic policies.

• Thursday, September 25th 2014 - 06:44 UTC

  Brazil calls for 'true reform' of Security Council and the 're-launching' of global economy

  

  Following the opening remarks by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff was the first head of state to address the General Assembly on Wednesday. She called for a “re-launching of global economy” and a “true reform” of the UN Security Council.

• Thursday, September 25th 2014 - 03:14 UTC

  Brazil scrambles to support the Real; as Dilma recovers in the polls the currency falls

  

  Brazil’s Real advanced from a seven-month low as the central bank signaled it will maintain support for the currency when it increased the number of foreign-exchange swap contracts offered in a rollover.

• Wednesday, September 24th 2014 - 15:44 UTC

  Marina blasts Dilma Rousseff for not supporting UN deforestation dead line initiative

  

  Environmentalist and presidential opposition candidate Marina Silva blasted Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff for not supporting an initiative to put a deadline on deforestation supported by 32 countries this Tuesday during the Climate summit in New York.

• Wednesday, September 24th 2014 - 15:42 UTC

  Deforestation deadline initiative watered down by lack of support from Brazil

  

  More than 30 countries set the first-ever deadline on Tuesday to end deforestation by 2030, but the feasibility of such a goal was eroded when a key player, Brazil, said it would not join.

• Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 - 11:11 UTC

  Rousseff's government denies Brazil has any 'imperial' intentions

  

  President Dilma Rousseff's main foreign affairs' advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia denied Brazil has any “imperial intentions” in reply to claims relative to Cuba from presidential opposition candidate Marina Silva.

• Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 - 10:57 UTC

  Rousseff's television campaign gradually eroding Marina Silva's lead

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff effective television campaign has started to erode Marina Silva's lead in the polls that the opposition candidate enjoyed two weeks ago and turned the race into a dead heat. The ads remind tens of millions of voters who have been lifted from poverty by social welfare programs that they could still slip backward.

• Saturday, September 20th 2014 - 09:34 UTC

  Pioneer initiative to triple Brazil's marine protected areas project

  

  A pioneer initiative will more than triple the ocean area under environmental protection in Brazil, from 5.5 million hectares to over 17.5 million, an area larger than Greece.

• Friday, September 19th 2014 - 07:19 UTC

  Brazilian 2013/14 grains and oilseeds crop reached a record 195.46 million tons

  

  The Brazilian production of grains in 2013/2014 has reached 195.46 million tons, according to the country’s National Supply Company, Conab. The number is a 3.6% (6.8 million tons) increase compared to the previous season.

• Thursday, September 18th 2014 - 06:25 UTC

  Developing oil field Libra off Brazil will cost 80bn dollars said France's Total

  

  Brazil's biggest oil field, Libra, will cost 80 billion dollars to develop, according to a senior executive with France's Total, one of five consortium members participating in the project. Total's vice president of exploration and production for the Americas, Ladislas Paszkiewicz, made the estimate at the Rio Oil & Gas conference, which began Monday and runs through Thursday.