Brazil

Thursday, December 20th 2012 - 05:38 UTC
Brazil to investigate corruption allegations involving Lula da Silva

Brazil’s Attorney General said the country’s judiciary will investigate allegations that former President Lula da Silva took part in the cash-for-votes scheme that toppled several of his closest aides.
Wednesday, December 19th 2012 - 06:50 UTC
Brazil wants closer links with Mexico; Rousseff plans to travel next March

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is planning to visit Mexico in early 2013 taking advantage of the good chemistry with the new leader Enrique Peña Nieto, and with the purpose of re-launching the deteriorated relations between the two main economies of Latinamerica.
Wednesday, December 19th 2012 - 06:23 UTC
Brazil plans large-scale anti crime border operation ahead of soccer Cups

Brazil said on Tuesday its armed forces would launch a large-scale anti-crime border operation next year ahead of the Confederations Cup and the World Cup in 2014.
Wednesday, December 19th 2012 - 01:59 UTC
Brazil loosening capital controls imposed in the past two years to prop the Real

The Brazilian central bank reduced reserve requirements on short dollar positions held by local banks as it steps up efforts to buoy the Real, the worst performing major currency this year.
Wednesday, December 19th 2012 - 01:46 UTC
Brazilians say Venezuelan leader condition stable and with positive developments

Brazil’s Foreign minister says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seems to be improving after cancer surgery.
Brazil’s state-run news agency Agencia Brasil cites Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota as saying that Brazilian officials are monitoring daily the health of Chavez.
Wednesday, December 19th 2012 - 01:38 UTC
Saudi Arabia joins Japan and China, suspends imports of Brazilian beef

Saudi Arabia has suspended imports of Brazilian beef, Brazil’s agriculture ministry said Tuesday, and became the largest country to stop purchases after confirmation of a 2010 case of atypical mad cow disease.
Tuesday, December 18th 2012 - 03:20 UTC
Divorce rate soars in Brazil as new legislation makes it easier and faster

Brazil had a record-setting 351.153 divorces in 2011, 45.6% more than in 2010 and the most since the annual statistic began to be kept in 1984, the government said Monday.
Monday, December 17th 2012 - 21:15 UTC
Brazil and Argentina bottom of the list in terms of competitiveness

Brazil ranks near the bottom among fourteen emerging powers in terms of competitiveness, due to high capital and labor costs as well as inadequate infrastructure, according to a study commissioned by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and published by the Folha de Sao Paulo daily.
Monday, December 17th 2012 - 05:53 UTC
Blatter warns Brazil about security in football fields and the coming World Cup

The abandonment of last Wednesday's South American Cup final following shocking accusations police had pulled guns on players should serve as a warning for Brazil's World Cup organizers, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said this weekend.
Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 20:59 UTC
Petrobras selling its assets in Argentina; YPF one of the interested companies

Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras is putting its Argentine assets up for sale and will start accepting bids from interested buyers as early as this week, Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion reported Friday.