Brazil

Thursday, December 22nd 2011 - 05:13 UTC
Brazil’s President Rousseff ends her first year with a popularity of 73%

Brazil’s first woman president Dilma Rousseff popularity climbed in December to reach 72%, almost the same level, 73%, when she took office January first 2011, according to a public opinion poll from Ibope released earlier this week.
Thursday, December 22nd 2011 - 05:06 UTC
Brazilian leading meat processors exchange assets to comply with anti-trust body

Brazilian meat processors BRF Brasil Foods and Marfrig announced a deal on Thursday to trade assets, including a block of properties that Brazilian anti-trust body CADE mandated to be sold as part of the Sadia and Perdigao approval in July.
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 19:09 UTC
Foreign Office says economic blockade and intimidation of the Falklands’ people is “unacceptable”

“It is unacceptable to engage in an economic blockade of the Falklands, there can be no justification, legal, moral or political, for efforts to intimidate the people of the Falkland Islands”, said Foreign Officer Minister Jeremy Browne on Wednesday.
Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 19:28 UTC
Mercosur summit suspended following suicide of a top Argentine official

The Mercosur presidential summit in Montevideo has been temporarily suspended following the news that a member of the Argentine delegation had committed suicide which left delegation members in a state of shock.
Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 07:21 UTC
Argentina/Brazil propose higher external tariffs for Mercosur

Argentina supported by Brazil has proposed increasing Mercosur Foreign External Tariff to better defend the group when country members are being flooded with cheap imports.
Monday, December 19th 2011 - 07:29 UTC
Mercosur summit to deal with Venezuela inclusion and obstacles to trade

A two day Mercosur summit begins Monday in Montevideo with Foreign Affairs ministers meeting Monday and the presidents on Tuesday when the rotating chair will be passed from Uruguay to Argentina for the next six month.
Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:30 UTC
FDI in Brazil jumped four times since 2005 totalling 661bn; US main investor

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Brazil expanded fourfold between 2005 and last year, from 162.8 billion to 660.5 billion dollars, the country’s central bank said on Thursday.
Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:26 UTC
Disclosed documents reveal Brazilian strong support for the Pinochet regime in Chile

Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo published a report on this week revealing a series of 266 telegrams from the Brazilian embassy in Santiago that unveiled strong economic and diplomatic ties between the nations’ military regimes in the early 1970s.
Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:23 UTC
French PM from Brazil admits new “jolts” can be expected in the Euro zone

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said his country is likely to face new “jolts” from the Euro zone debt crisis amid rumors it could lose its triple-A credit rating.
Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:16 UTC
Brazil joins the club of countries with strict no smoking legislation

President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday signed a law banning smoking in all enclosed public spaces in Brazil. The new text will make Brazil, which has a population of more than 191 million, the largest country in the world to go smoke-free.