Brazil

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 07:14 UTC

  FIFA warns Brazil about 2014 World Cup delays: “not a day to lose”

  

  Brazil must hurry up and pass a package of new laws if the 2014 World Cup is to go ahead, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke told the country's Congress on Tuesday, adding there was “not a day to lose.”

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 07:06 UTC

  Brazilian Labour minister embattled in corruption claims says he won’t resign

  

  Brazil's labour minister vowed on Tuesday not to become the sixth minister to quit over corruption allegations this year, saying he has the support of President Dilma Rousseff and his own party.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 07:02 UTC

  Brazil's credit growth slowing to a “sustainable pace”, says Central bank

  

  Brazil’s credit growth is slowing to a sustainable pace and sufficient to feed domestic demand, said on Tuesday Luiz Pereira, the central bank’s director of international affairs.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 06:59 UTC

  US consulates flooded with visa requests from Brazilian tourists: 90.000 in October

  

  The US is struggling to keep up with surging demand for visas in Brazil and China, as the growing middle class in the world’s two biggest emerging markets flock to US shopping malls and tourist resorts.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:41 UTC

  Mujica says Argentina was not involved in the “tax haven” claim incident

  

  Uruguay’s President, José Mujica said on Monday that Argentina had nothing to do with the comment made by France’s leader Nicolas Sarkozy indicating that Uruguay was a “tax haven.”

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina names trade expert as next ambassador in Brazil

  

  Luis Maria Kreckler currently Argentina’s Foreign Ministry’s Trade and Economic Affairs secretary and who was also considered a strong candidate to be the Foreign Minister in the next presidential cabinet, was appointed as Argentina’s Ambassador to Brazil.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 07:58 UTC

  Rousseff warns about global unemployment; calls for plans to generate jobs

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff addressing the results of the G20 summit in Cannes, where Brazil was one of the countries represented said that job creation is a way to tackle economic crises.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Rousseff could see another minister out: Labour accused of corruption

  

  Advisers to Brazil’s Labor Minister Carlos Lupi demanded kickbacks from non-government organizations with government contracts, newsmagazine Veja reported Sunday, citing unnamed lawmakers and officials.

• Friday, November 4th 2011 - 08:14 UTC

  October car sales in Brazil drop 10% surprising dealers and the auto industry

  

  Car sales in Brazil dropped 10% in October compared to the previous month according to the country’s dealers association, Fenabrave turning warning lights on for the global auto industry. This follows September’s decline that affected all of Brazilian industrial production.

• Friday, November 4th 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  Brazil must balance trade relation and avoid ‘anti-China feeling’

  

  Brazil must balance its trade relation with China, (leading commercial partner) and not allow an anti-Chinese feeling among manufacturers to spoil relations with Beijing said economists in Sao Paulo.