Brazil

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  Strong message from Lula da Silva to victorious Chavez: prepare your succession

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva said he believes it is time for Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, recently re-elected for another six years, “to begin preparing his succession”

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 15:56 UTC

  Brazil plans to double natural gas output by 2020; 21 new rigs in 2018

  

  Brazil natural gas output could nearly double by 2020, reaching up to 120 million cubic-meters a day, as Latin America's largest economy increases the number of offshore platforms to take advantage of huge deep-sea oil reserves, the general director of the National Petroleum Authority, ANP, said this week.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 10:41 UTC

  Brazil-FAO sign agreement for cotton expertise transfer to small farmers in Africa

  

  A 20 million dollars agreement signed Wednesday by the United Nations and Brazil will seek to transfer the expertise of the South American country to support cotton farmers in developing economies.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 10:33 UTC

  Monsanto suspends collection of royalties in Brazil following state court ruling

  

  Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company, suspended collection of royalties for its Roundup Ready soybeans in Brazil while it appeals a state court ruling on intellectual property rights.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 06:52 UTC

  Lula da Silva calls for Argentine/Brazilian business corporations

  

  Brazil's former President Lula Da Silva blasted the “protectionist” measures of the developed countries and called for the alliance between businessmen from his country and Argentina's, as he highlighted that Brazil “grows, but with a controlled inflation rate”.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 01:26 UTC

  Venezuela’s air carrier Conviasa expands schedules with Brazilian aircraft

  

  Venezuelan flag air-carrier Conviasa plans this year to expand the number of destinations from four to ten with the three, out of an order of twenty aircraft purchased to Brazil, announced on Wednesday the president of the company General César Martínez.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 20:34 UTC

  Brazil’s slowdown impacts on neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay says Fitch

  

  Brazil's deeper-than-expected economic slowdown is amplifying the deceleration already being experienced by Argentina and Uruguay as a result of the global slowdown, according to a new Fitch Ratings report.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 15:16 UTC

  Is Brazil the reservoir of future agriculture productive capacity?

  

  The following piece was published by Dorvers, CattleNnetwork and refers to the agriculture potential of Latinamerica and Mercosur largest economy. The column sources are Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  Investors are falling in love with Mexico while Brazil loses its ‘darling’ status

  

  The following article was published by Canada’s The Globe and Mail and gives an insight to investors thinking from the north regarding Latinamerica’s two largest economies, Brazil and Mexico.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 07:37 UTC

  Brazil implements racial and income affirmative action at federal universities

  

  The law which forces Brazilian federal universities to leave 50% of higher education seats to students from government schools and minorities such as blacks and indigenous became effective on Monday.