Brazil

• 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.

• Sunday, August 11th 2013 - 21:36 UTC

  Honda to build a second assembly plant in Sao Paulo operational by 2015

  

  Japanese automaker Honda plans to build a new assembly plant in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo with an annual capacity of 120,000 units, the company said.

• Sunday, August 11th 2013 - 21:19 UTC

  Brazil’s Rousseff approval rating bouncing back; support for economic team remains ‘soft’

  

  President Dilma Rousseff’s approval rating gained six percentage points after diving in the wake of massive protests in Brazil, a poll published on yesterday showed. The number of Brazilians who consider Rousseff’s administration “great” or “good” was 36%, up from an all-time low 30% in late June.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 16:18 UTC

  France’s Alstom paid millions in bribes to secure contracts in Brazil

  

  French power company Alstom paid millions of dollars in bribes to secure lucrative contracts in Sao Paulo state in 1998, a Brazilian newspaper reported this week. The Estado de Sao Paulo cited federal police documents as saying Alstom executives were among 10 people facing charges in connection with the scandal.