Brazil

• 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.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 07:36 UTC

  Banco do Brasil expects to open its first commercial branch in China early 2013

  

  Government owned and the largest in the country in assets, Banco do Brasil received this week approval from China’s regulator to open a commercial branch in the country which is Brazil’s main trading partner.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 07:07 UTC

  Brazil outbound travel, preferably Europe and US one of the fastest growing

  

  In terms of outbound travel South Americans are ahead of everyone else in the Americas. In 2012, they undertook 12% more trips abroad than last year, marking a new record. The country clearly driving growth is Brazil.