Brazil

• Sunday, September 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil to spend $300m on indigenous reservations

  

  The Brazilian government is to spend $270m (£133m) in the next three years creating new reservations for indigenous groups in the Amazon.

• Sunday, September 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula da Silva in Madrid to attract “wave of Spanish investors”

  

  In search of more investments Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived this weekend in Spain where beginning next Monday he has a heavy schedule of political and economic meetings.

• Thursday, September 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Fragile victory for key Lula da Silva Congressional ally

  

  The Brazilian Senate narrowly voted Wednesday to absolve the embattled higher house president Renan Calheiros, a key ally of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who faced expulsion over corruption allegations.

• Thursday, September 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian economy steadily expanding at 5.4% rate

  

  The Brazilian economy expanded 0.8% in the second quarter over the first quarter reported Wednesday the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute. This represents a 5.4% increase over the same period a year ago.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Petrobras exploration priorities: Gulf of Mexico and Argentina

  Brazil' government managed oil corporation Petrobras announced international investments totaling 15 billion US dollars in the 2008/2012 period, most of which in exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico, Argentina and Western Africa.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's civil aviation chaos forces TAM to delay expansion plans

  Brazil's biggest airline, TAM Linhas Aereas said on Tuesday it postponed plans to increase its fleet of Airbus jets from 2008 to 2011 because of a drop in demand for domestic air travel.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian Lula's former aide to face corruption trial

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a corruption case against former Cabinet members in a 2005 bribes-for-votes scandal that seriously damaged the reputation of the president's party.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Rio de Janeiro wants bigger share of Brazil's oil money

  An initiative by Rio de Janeiro state government to withdraw from Brazil's nation-wide treaty exempting taxes on investments in oil exploration has become a major concern for the country's oil sector, said industry sources on Monday.

• Monday, August 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula says he won't seek a third term

  

  President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he will not seek a third consecutive term as Brazil's leader, but will try to influence the choice of his successor who might come from outside his ruling party.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Greenpeace accuses Brazil of encouraging Amazon deforestation

  

  Brazil's government has promised to investigate allegations that its policy of settling landless communities in the Amazon is encouraging deforestation. Greenpeace has claimed that some of these areas are being exploited by logging companies, after what it says was an eight-month investigation.