Brazil

• Tuesday, March 24th 2009 - 13:43 UTC

  Brazil’s future as emerging power “linked to regional situation”

  

  Brazil’s future as an emerging power is closely linked to the regional situation according to President Lula da Silva’s international affairs advisor Marco Aurelio García.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2009 - 13:14 UTC

  Vietnam targets Brazil and Chile as seafood markets

  

  Vietnamese businesses are looking to South America for new market opportunities for a range of competitive products, including seafood, trade officials said. Brazil has authorized 60 Vietnamese companies to export fish products to the country the Vietnam Trade Office in Brazil confirmed, reports Vietnam Net.

• Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 08:48 UTC

  Petrobras guarantees fuel supply ahead of five day strike

  

  Brazil’s government managed oil and gas corporation Petrobras said there is “no chance” a planned strike by its workers beginning Monday will limit the country’s fuel supply.

• Saturday, March 21st 2009 - 11:32 UTC

  Argentine, Brazilian businesses agree to fight “Chinese imports”

  

  With the master touch of Brazilian diplomacy the Friday regional summit with Argentina not only sent a clear political message of understanding between Mercosur main partners, but also evidence of that close coordination.

• Saturday, March 21st 2009 - 10:13 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil close ranks and downplay trade differences

  

  Argentine visiting president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva called on Friday for speedier financing of joint development and commerce projects to help stimulate decreasing bilateral trade.

• Saturday, March 21st 2009 - 08:40 UTC

  Petrobras union threatens with national strike beginning Monday

  

  Brazil’s government managed oil and gas corporation Petrobras faces a possible nationwide strike by oil workers that could paralyze the company's oil production for five days, starting Monday.

• Saturday, March 21st 2009 - 08:33 UTC

  Milestone ruling in Brazil supports Amazon Indian reservations

  

  Amazon indigenous groups have won a major victory with Brazil's Supreme Court upholding the integrity of a vast native reserve in the northern state of Roraima next to Venezuela.

• Friday, March 20th 2009 - 05:27 UTC

  Brazil needs 270 billion USD in ten years to make true its oil dreams

  

  Brazil needs 270 billion US dollars in investment over the next 10 years to develop massive new deepwater oil reserves, energy minister Edison Lobao said on Thursday.

• Thursday, March 19th 2009 - 16:44 UTC

  Pulp and paper maker Stora Enso freezes huge mill expansion in Brazil

  

  Europe’s largest paper and pulp maker Stora Enso anticipated a drop in first quarter earnings and said it is freezing the expansion of a mill in Brazil because of sliding demand for wood and fine paper used in offices and magazines.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2009 - 10:10 UTC

  Dengue confirmed in five countries and in Brazil’s posh seaside resort

  

  The mosquito transmitted dengue disease which has caused havoc in the heartland of South America and at least five countries, has now been reported in the northeast of Brazil where authorities confirmed Monday the spread of the disease with a death toll of 25 people since the beginning of the year and 4.751 new cases reported in the last week.