Declassified documents prove that United States was planning a military coup in Brazil in the early sixties to prevent labor leader Leonel Brizola from reaching power and the possible Cubanization of the country revealed Tuesday Folha de Sao Paulo.
A passenger jet crashed and burst into flames after skidding off a runway at Brazil's busiest airport Tuesday and barreling across a highway, officials said. All 176 people on board were feared dead in what would be Brazil's deadliest air disaster, and at least 15 people were killed on the ground.
An estimated 130.000 Brazilians have financial assets valued at over a million US dollars which totals 573 billion US dollars, well above half the country's GDP, according to a report published Sunday in Folha de Sao Paulo.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Brazil will budget about half a billion US dollars over eight years to complete its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment technology, a third plant and finishing the building of a nuclear-powered submarine.
US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson received a long list of complaints during his visit Wednesday to Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said Finance Minister Guido Mantega who acted as the spokesperson of the meeting in Brasilia.
President Lula da Silva said that Brazil's booming ethanol business won't hurt the Amazon rain forest, dismissing criticism that the alternate fuel could cause deforestation.
The Brazilian government will spend 1.7 billion dollars to bring running water and other basic services to Rio de Janeiro slums to counter drug gangs that control many of the poor areas, announced President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The Brazilian government will spend 1.7 billion dollars to bring running water and other basic services to Rio de Janeiro slums to counter drug gangs that control many of the poor areas, announced President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The first ever summit between the European Union and Brazil is taking place in Portugal marking the start of what both sides hope will become a new strategic partnership on issues such as energy, climate change and human rights.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees welcomed an offer by Brazil to resettle an estimated 100 Palestinians formerly living in Iraq starting in mid-September.