Brazil

• Wednesday, August 14th 2013 - 19:41 UTC

  Brazil now admits construction pace of five stadiums for World Cup 2014 ‘must be accelerated’

  

  Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo has said he is worried about delays at five stadiums still being built for next year's football World Cup. Rebelo said the pace of construction must be accelerated if the venues are to be ready by this December.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2013 - 02:58 UTC

  Brazilian Navy incorporates third UK built Amazonas class ocean patrol vessel

  

  The newest ship in the Brazilian navy's fleet has left the UK on a journey of more than 16.100km to Brazil. “Araguari” which sailed from Portsmouth is the third of three Amazonas class ocean patrol vessels delivered to the Brazilian navy by BAE Systems.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2013 - 02:53 UTC

  US intelligence in 1988 considered links of Latam guerrilla groups and drug lords a short term issue

  

  US military believed that the links between the Colombian guerrilla groups and the drug lords at the end of the eighties was a matter of concern but a short term issue, according to declassified minutes of a meeting of US and Brazilian military officers, published by O Estado de Sao Paulo.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2013 - 02:49 UTC

  Brazil tells Ferry failure to address electronic spying could cast ‘shadow of mistrust’

  

  Brazil warned US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday that failure to resolve the row over Washington's electronic spying could sow a shadow of mistrust between the countries.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2013 - 02:02 UTC

  Brazil military regime wanted the ‘bomb’ fearing an armed conflict with Argentina

  

  The military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 was planning to develop an atomic bomb according to secret documents from the Armed Forces Chief of Staff to which the influential newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo had access and released details.

• Monday, August 12th 2013 - 18:10 UTC

  Brazil and Uruguay want a “two speeds” Mercosur agreement with the EU

  

  Brazil and Uruguay want to speed a trade agreement with the European Union but without abandoning Mercosur, and making it clear that they are willing to advance at “a different speed” than the rest of the group’s members, revealed a reliable source from the government of President Jose Mujica in Montevideo.

• Monday, August 12th 2013 - 18:03 UTC

  Brazil urged for agreement with EU, since next year it will lose trade preferences

  

  Brazil, Latin America‘s biggest economy, is planning to try to negotiate a separate trade deal with the European Union, Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said in remarks published Monday.

• Monday, August 12th 2013 - 01:09 UTC

  Brazil to auction Rio do Janeiro and Belo Horizonte airports concessions

  

  An auction to privatize airports in Rio and Belo Horizonte, two host cities for the 2014 World Cup, will be held on October 31, Brazilian authorities have announced.

• Sunday, August 11th 2013 - 22:06 UTC

  Port facilities in Santos and the state of Para will be auctioned next November

  

  Brazil's government is expecting 3 billion Brazilian Reais (1.3 billion dollars) in new investments with the leasing of facilities at its ports in the states of Para and Santos, Sao Paulo, said government officials.

• Sunday, August 11th 2013 - 21:53 UTC

  Changes ahead for Brazil’s benchmark Bovespa stock index BVSP

  

  Brazil's 45-year-old benchmark Bovespa stock index BVSP could be subject to changes in its structure for the first time to better reflect new trends facing the country's economy, financial bourse BM&FBovespa SA announced last week.