Brazil

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 11:06 UTC

  Lula da Silva proud to lend money to the IMF

  

  President Lula da Silva said he wants to be the first Brazilian leader whose administration will lend money to the International Monetary Fund. His comments were done following the G20 summit when it was agreed to supply the IMF with additional funding to the tune of 750 billion US dollars.

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 09:50 UTC

  Guess who the most popular politician on earth is

  

  United States President Barack Obama, wildly popular the world over, said he isn't the globe's most admired politician: the title belongs to Brazil Lula da Silva

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil and China discuss bilateral trade in Real and Yuan

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva said Friday that he supports alternatives to the dollar as the world's premier currency who anticipated the issue will be addressed when he visits China next month. Senior Chinese and Russian officials have talked in recent weeks about a new reserve currency to replace the dollar.

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 09:43 UTC

  With tax breaks, March auto industry sales in Brazil are record

  

  Auto industry sales in Brazil soared in March as consumers flocked to dealers to benefit from government tax breaks, according to data from the national dealers’ association Fenabrave.

• Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 02:18 UTC

  A Brazilian oil carnival?

  

  How much access western energy firms win to Brazil’s vast offshore oil fields hinges on complex political currents in the country – and how well the companies navigate these, argues Juliet Hepker.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 10:58 UTC

  Brazilian inmates use pigeons to smuggle cell phones

  

  Brazilian police have discovered inmates using carrier pigeons to smuggle cell phones onto a prison farm in the south eastern state of Sao Paulo.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 10:50 UTC

  Tepid isolated signs of recovery from Brazil

  

  Brazil’s latest statistics revealed some encouraging numbers. The foreign trade surplus in March was 1.77 billion US dollars, the same as the February surplus and slightly higher than forecasted. Although expected, industrial production rose 1.8% in February over January boosted by a slight recovery in credit availability and the automotive sector.

• Sunday, March 29th 2009 - 16:16 UTC

  Lula da Silva blames US, UK and Spain for current crisis

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva on Saturday at the Progressive Governance summit in Chile told representatives of the United States, Britain and Spain they had a major responsibility for causing the global economic crisis.

• Sunday, March 29th 2009 - 16:05 UTC

  Brazilian minister fails geography test and is sacked

  

  The governor of Brazil’s richest state Sao Paulo sacked the Secretary of Education following the printing of thousands of school books with maps of South America which ignored the existence of Ecuador, inverted geographically Uruguay and Paraguay and showed Bolivia sharing territory with Paraguay.

• Saturday, March 28th 2009 - 08:31 UTC

  Paraguay-Brazil Itaipú energy dispute is “like Panama Canal negotiation”

  

  Paraguay rejected this week Brazil’s proposals regarding the non renegotiation of the Itaipú treaty which regulates energy production from South America’s largest hydroelectric dam shared by the neighbouring countries.