Brazil

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Mujica changes his mind and will be present for CFK taking office ceremony

  

  Uruguayan President José Mujica changed his mind and will attend Argentine President Cristina Fernández inauguration ceremony next Saturday, official sources confirmed.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Brazilean minister, very close to President Rousseff on the corruption limelight

  

  Brazil's Trade and Industry minister faced pressure Thursday to explain his personal wealth, becoming the latest and one of the most high-profile members of President Dilma Rousseff's cabinet to be targeted by the media over alleged ethics breaches.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 20:39 UTC

  OIE puts Paraguay in FMD list; Brazil reopens market to mature boneless beef

  

  The World Animal Health Organization, OIE, dependent from FAO, informed Paraguay that its territory had lost the condition of free of foot and mouth disease with vaccine, following an outbreak of the disease reported September 18.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  Delta Air moves into the Brazilian market with a stake in Gol

  

  US Delta Air Lines Inc. agreed to buy a 100 million dollar stake in Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, Brazil's second-largest airline by market value, and begin booking passengers on each other's jets.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 06:28 UTC

  Ford invests 446m dollars in Brazil to build a new global model

  

  Ford Motor Company announced that it will invest 800 million Reais (446 million dollars) to build a new global model in its Sao Bernardo do Campo plant, the heart of Brazil’s auto industry.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  EU cuts Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay from development aid

  

  The European Commission decided to cut aid from its 2014-2020 budget to 19 emerging economies including Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and seven other Latin American countries, the EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 20:20 UTC

  Brazil slowdown faster than expected: negative growth in the third quarter

  

  Brazil’s economy shrank in the third quarter, prompting the government to slash its growth forecast for the year, one week after announcing stimulus measures to contain the spillover from Europe’s debt crisis.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 18:49 UTC

  Boom of the wind power energy in north-east Brazil: 11.2 MW by 2014

  

  Brazil is going through a wind power boom as production prices fall and government incentives attract a growing number of foreign suppliers. The wind power sector has a current capacity of around 1,400 megawatts, and is expected to grow nearly eight-fold by 2014, according to the Brazilian Association of Wind Energy ABEEolica.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 15:20 UTC

  Uruguay prepares to combat leishmaniasis, which threatens to spread from Argentina

  

  The advance of the mosquito transmitted leishmaniasis in South America, (Uruguay and Chile are the only countries with no registered cases) motivated a recent symposium to address the challenge in Punta del Este.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 22:00 UTC

  With summer rainfall dengue outbreak threatens fifty major Brazilian cities

  

  Some fifty Brazilian cities are exposed to serious outbreaks of dengue during the austral summer and another 236 are on ‘alert’ for the same reason, according to a paper presented Monday by Brazil’s Health minister Alexandre Padhilla.