Brazil

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:36 UTC

  Brazil and the US confirm differences over Honduras Sunday elections

  

  Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the opening of the Amazon basin countries and France Summit on climate change in Manaus, Brazil.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 08:47 UTC

  Full support for Brazilian incumbent presidential pre-candidate

  

  Brazilian cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff, and presidential hopeful for next year’s election, said that very soon she would no longer need to use a wig, forced on her since she had to undergo chemotherapy treatment.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 08:40 UTC

  Volkswagen plans to invest 3.5 billion USD in next five years

  

  Volkswagen do Brasil said Thursday it will invest the equivalent of 3.5 billion US dollars in Brazil between 2010 and 2014 in an attempt to overtake Fiat as the country's number one car and truck retailer.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 05:14 UTC

  Brazilian Senate further delays vote on Mercosur incorporation of Venezuela

  

  Former Brazilian president and head of the Senate Jose Sarney said that the upper house has no interest “for the moment” in casting a vote on the Protocol papers for the incorporation of Venezuela as the fifth full member of Mercosur.

• Thursday, November 26th 2009 - 13:34 UTC

  Obama and Lula da Silva have differences in crucial issues of the global agenda

  

  US president Barack Obama sent a letter to his Brazilian peer Lula da Silva explaining details of his administration’s foreign policy, related to such issues as Honduras and Iran, revealed on Wednesday the Brazilian Executive.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 10:01 UTC

  Brazil to scrutinize Argentine imports licences system

  

  Mercosur senior partners are again clashing over trade. Brazilian government announced that it will run an exhaustive study of all the non-automatic import licenses that President Lula da Silva’s administration believes cause nothing but Argentine restrictions on Brazilian products.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 04:37 UTC

  Brazil plans to export 168 billion USD in 2010

  

  Brazil targets exports of 168 billion US dollars for 2010 (compared to 160 billion USD in 2009) announced Deputy Trade Minister Welber Barral during the opening of a foreign commerce forum in Rio do Janeiro.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:06 UTC

  Capital inflows in Brazil cause unease; G20 considers regulations

  

  Brazil does not rule out new steps to slow gains in its currency, the Real, even as the government evaluates the impact of a recently imposed tax on capital inflows, Secretary of Economic Policy Nelson Barbosa said in an interview on Monday.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 12:59 UTC

  Ford plans its largest ever investment in Brazil: 2.3 billion USD

  

  Ford Motor Co. announced it will spend 4 billion Reis (2.3 billion US dollars) to expand in the growing Brazilian market, the largest investment it has made in the country.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 07:49 UTC

  Lula da Silva anticipated his Uruguayan election vote: incumbent Mujica

  

  A leading figure from the ruling Workers Party of Brazil visited this weekend Uruguayan presidential candidate Jose “Pepe” Mujica with a message from President Lula da Silva.