Brazil

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 13:32 UTC

  Mujica to meet with Lula da Silva next week in Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan president-elect Jose Mujica is scheduled to meet next Tuesday with Brazilian president Lula da Silva on the sidelines of the Mercosur summit to be held in Montevideo, according to diplomatic sources.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 00:55 UTC

  Brazil to reconsider the latest events in Honduras

  

  Brasilia runs the risk of “isolation” if it does not recognize Honduras presidential elections according to Brazilian member of Congress Raul Jungmann, the only representative from his country to be part of an observers’ international committee on Sunday’s ballot.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 - 12:26 UTC

  Brazil's powerhouse bank

  

  With his slicked-back hair, neatly trimmed, close-cropped beard, and impeccably pressed suits, Luciano Coutinho looks like any other obscure Brazilian banker.
  But he is anything but an average banking man.

• Monday, November 30th 2009 - 12:37 UTC

  Lucky strike: Brazil supports England’s bid to host World Cup in 2018

  

  The world's most successful football country has delivered a fresh lifeline to England's under-fire bid to host the World Cup in 2018. Brazilian President Lula da Silva said the time was right for the tournament to come back to Britain for the first time since 1966.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 07:23 UTC

  Mujica supports Lula da Silva government style and his Iran policy

  

  Uruguay’s incumbent presidential candidate Jose “Pepe” Mujica again supported Brazilian president Lula da Silva’s administration and policies, describing as a “genius move” the decision to receive this week in Brasilia the controversial Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 06:02 UTC

  Brazilian banker says that Dubai effect is “alert signal” for market euphoria

  

  A possible debt default by a Dubai state-owned conglomerate is an “alert signal” to avoid market euphoria, Brazil central bank chief Henrique Meirelles said on Friday.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:54 UTC

  Brazilian economy forecasted to grow 6.1% in 2010 says Bradesco

  

  Brazil’s economy is forecasted to grow 6.1% in 2010, bolstered by rising domestic demand, increasing exports and higher investment, according to Banco Bradesco, the country’s second-largest bank by market value.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:19 UTC

  Coconut ban in Rio beaches, but what about cans and bottles?

  

  One of the enduring images of Rio's beaches -- coconuts opened to yield their milk -- is about to become a thing of the past. The environment secretariat of the host city of the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games says the big green fruit is an unhygienic eyesore and is banning its sale from December first.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:15 UTC

  Brazil still recovering from major outage, suffers blackout in Olympic city Rio

  

  Brazil has endured another major blackout and officials remain unclear what is causing the problem. Higher-scale Rio de Janeiro beach neighbourhood earlier in the week suffered an outage forcing employees to be sent home as restaurants and other businesses disposed of spoiled food.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:39 UTC

  Amazon region call on rich nations to fund preservation of forests

  

  Nine nations in the Amazon region have called on rich countries to provide poorer nations with the funds to preserve forests. The nations, meeting in Manaus, Brazil, also discussed supporting a 40% reduction in global emissions by 2020.