Brazil

• Sunday, March 20th 2011 - 07:23 UTC

  Obama praises Brazil but falls short of backing bid for UN Security Council

  

  US President Barack Obama heralded Brazil's “extraordinary” rise on the world stage but stopped short of backing its bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

• Saturday, March 19th 2011 - 00:06 UTC

  Brazil wants an equals relation with the US, says Foreign minister Patriota

  

  Brazil’s Foreign Affairs minister Antonio Patriota said that the visit of US president Barack Obama represents a significant reset in bilateral relations. What Brazil wants, declared the minister, ‘is to be treated as an equal, in a more seamless relationship without confrontations’.

• Saturday, March 19th 2011 - 00:03 UTC

  Obama’s Rio Sunday’s public speech moved from an open plaza to a theatre

  

  President Barack Obama has cancelled a public speech he was scheduled to deliver Sunday in Rio’s main square during his visit to Brazil, the US embassy in Brasilia said.
  The speech in the historic plaza known as Cinelandia, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, “is cancelled” said an embassy spokesperson.

• Friday, March 18th 2011 - 18:55 UTC

  Brazil “could be important partner” for the US, says President Rousseff

  

  Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said that Barak Obama’s visit this weekend strongly consolidates the perception that Brazil “could be an important partner” for the United States, during a press interview.

• Friday, March 18th 2011 - 18:51 UTC

  Brazil planning to increase grain crop to 190 million tons in next decade

  

  Brazil stands on the brink of becoming an agricultural superpower and is one of the few countries in the world with the climate, technology, farming practices and the sheer quantity of land to be able to satisfy the surging global appetite for food in the coming decades.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 17:41 UTC

  Brazil real estate boom: 9.1m middle class families plan to buy in next 12 months

  

  A total of 9.1 million families plan to buy real estate in Brazil over the next 12 months which is a huge increase since the Minha Casa Minha Vida (My House, My Life) program was introduced in 2009

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 15:34 UTC

  Brazil tightens land acquisition by foreigners: ‘speculators and sovereign funds’

  

  The Brazilian government is tightening a law that restricts the amount of land foreigners can buy. The decree prohibits non-Brazilians from buying controlling shares of companies that own vast tracts of territory in the country, Brazilian Attorney General Luiz Inacio Adams said in a statement this week.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 15:27 UTC

  Brazilian industry creates a Chinese Studies Centre to monitor bilateral trade

  

  Brazil’s powerful Federation of Industries of Sao Paulo State (Fiesp) is set to create a Chinese Studies Centre in partnership with the federal government, the president of the federation said in Sao Paulo.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 07:36 UTC

  World Bank loan to improve quality of life in Rio do Janeiro’s favelas

  

  Some two million people who live in informal low income settlements (favelas) in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region, Brazil, will be benefiting from a 485 million US dollars development policy loan for the Metropolitan and Housing Project approved by the World Bank.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  Brazil’s unofficial ‘job-aid’ for President Obama coming visit

  

  Rio do Janeiro governor Sergio Cabral said he expects US president Barack Obama to announce during his trip to Brazil that he supports Brasilia’s aspiration to hold a seat in a reformed UN Security Council.