Brazil

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 - 15:28 UTC

  Brazil greens claim 300.000 sharks have been killed for their fins

  

  Demand for shark fin soup in Asia has been blamed for the illegal killing of nearly 300,000 sharks off Brazil, an environmental group has alleged. The Environmental Justice Institute in Brazil has accused a seafood exporter (Siglo do Brasil Comercio) of illegally killing nearly 300,000 sharks.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:51 UTC

  Brazil’s incumbent presidential candidate takes the lead over main rival

  

  Brazil's ruling Workers' Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff, has a five percentage-point lead over her main rival Jose Serra, according to the latest opinion poll released Friday.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:47 UTC

  Uribe most probably will have Lula da Silva at his table in next Friday’s banquet

  

  The Brazilian Executive spokesman Marcelo Baumbach said on Saturday that President Lula da Silva had a long conversation on the phone with Colombian president-elect Juan Manuel Santos and they talked about the diplomatic crisis with Venezuela.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 18:56 UTC

  Mujica and Lula da Silva reiterate commitment to Mercosur and Unasur

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Uruguay’s Jose Mujica on Friday defended South America’s integration as a peace zone and reiterated the two countries commitment to Mercosur and Unasur.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:30 UTC

  World’s leading iron-ore producer and exporter moves into the copper business

  

  Brazilian mining conglomerate Vale Rio Doce announced this week that it will make a public offer to acquire Paranapanema, the country’s largest copper smelter, as part of a bid to become one of the world’s leading producers of the red metal.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Lula da Silva will continue to openly support Dilma’s presidential campaign

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva who insists in campaigning for the incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff, in spite of electoral regulations, revealed that the country’s ‘coup elite’ tried to remove him from office.

• Wednesday, July 28th 2010 - 17:48 UTC

  Brazilian military exercise to protect nuclear plants and vast offshore oil deposits

  

  Brazil is holding military exercises along its Atlantic coast with the deployment of 10.000 troops from the three services to ensure the country can protect its nuclear plants and massive offshore oil industry.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2010 - 20:04 UTC

  Paraguay downplays derogatory references from Brazilian politicians

  

  Paraguayan officials downplayed statements by Brazil’s main opposition presidential candidate Jose Serra who said that Brazil is doing “philanthropy with Paraguay and Bolivia”.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2010 - 04:42 UTC

  Brazilian Indians protesting construction of Amazon dam release hostages

  

  The Brazilian Indians who occupied the construction site of a hydroelectric dam and took more than 150 workers hostage in the far southern portion of the country’s Amazon region on Monday have released the last five people they were holding, a government spokesman said.

• Monday, July 26th 2010 - 22:38 UTC

  Indians seize controversial dam under construction in Brazil’s Amazon jungle

  

  A group of about 300 Indians from 11 different groups on Sunday seized a controversial dam that is under construction in Brazil’s Amazon jungle and took about 100 workers hostage, officials said.