Brazil

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 23:16 UTC

  Latest mudslide may have killed 200 people in Rio do Janeiro

  

  A landslide in a Rio de Janeiro satellite city may have killed 200 people as rains that started earlier this week continue to saturate the soil of the hilly region home to 12 million people, the state’s civil defense office said on Thursday.

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 04:21 UTC

  Brazil and US sign defence cooperation accord next week, first since 1977

  

  Brazil and the United States will sign a defence-cooperation agreement next week, Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said Wednesday. This would be the first major bilateral military cooperation agreement since 1977.

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Rio declares three days of mourning, while many city services remain paralyzed

  

  At least 113 people died, over 100 were injured and 1,410 were left homeless in a storm that devastated Brazil's state of Rio de Janeiro since Monday evening, authorities said Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 01:24 UTC

  Soaring car sales confirm strong rebound of the Brazilian economy

  

  Automobile output in Brazil soared in March as manufacturers ramped up production to keep up with record sales fuelled by a strong economic rebound, the national automakers' association Anfavea said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 21:02 UTC

  Bolivia and Brazil discuss energy and exploitation of strategic minerals

  

  Bolivia and Brazil are considering a vast joint investment program to industrialize natural gas and for the exploitation of strategic minerals in the salt plains of the land-locked Andean country.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 06:03 UTC

  Olympic Rio do Janeiro collapses under heavy rains leaving at least 100 dead

  

  Landslides and floods set off by the heaviest rains in decades killed at least 100 people in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, making hundreds homeless, flooding roads and paralyzing Brazil's second city, officials said.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 02:38 UTC

  Confirmation of Brazilian Central banker boosts currency and confidence

  

  The Brazilian currency rose to a three-week high as central bank President Henrique Meirelles’s decision to stay in his post bolstered investor confidence in the country. The Real was trading in the range of 1.75/1.76 to the US dollar, its strongest level since March 12.

• Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Lula da Silva unveils massive four year infrastructure program

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Monday an 886 billion US dollars infrastructure investment plan that would be carried out by his chosen successor, Cabinet Chief Dilma Rousseff, should she win the October presidential election.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:16 UTC

  Mujica meets Lula da Silva to consider bilateral and regional integration

  

  Increasing trade, bilateral and regional integration dominate Monday’s agenda for the meeting in Brasilia between President Lula da Silva and Uruguayan leader Jose Mujica.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:29 UTC

  Brazilian opposition presidential hopeful leads in polls by nine points

  

  Sao Paulo state governor Jose Serra, the main opposition candidate in Brazil’s presidential election next October widened his lead over the ruling party contender as his popularity grew among poor voters and women, pollster Datafolha said Saturday.