Tag: Brazil

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 17:08 UTC

  World crisis “too deep” to be addressed by “a couple of countries” exclusively

  

  Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff warned that a full blown economic crisis could be devastating for emerging countries as well as for the world’s largest economies. She added that the global financial situation could cause a “serious rupture.”

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Brazilian daily creates a “Folhaleaks” to help combat rampant corruption

  

  Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo on Sunday launched an online initiative to collect feedback from sensitive information and leaks for journal investigation, a Web site it dubbed “Folhaleaks” in direct reference to the widely known Wikileaks Web site founded by Julian Assange.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:45 UTC

  Family affair: fifty children and still feeling strong

  

  A 90-year-old retired peasant has fathered children with two wives, sister-in-law and mother-in-law in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte state, the press reported on Sunday.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:25 UTC

  Obama and Rousseff address world crises and pledge new talks before G20 meeting

  

  The world crisis was the main issue addressed by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff during the bilateral meetings with US President Barack Obama and later with her peer Mexico’s Felipe Calderon in New York.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 00:49 UTC

  Uruguay alert to the extent of Brazil recent measures on auto imports

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica admitted a certain ‘stinging feeling’ following the recent Brazilian decision to increase import taxes on vehicles by 30%, which could also have an impact on Mercosur partners.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 00:41 UTC

  Mercosur coordinating temporary tariff mechanism to defend home markets

  

  Mercosur coordinators are holding meetings in Montevideo to decide on a mechanism for temporary increases of national tariffs besides those already implemented under the common external tariff for the group.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 09:03 UTC

  Brazil deploys 7.000 troops along southern borders to combat organized crime

  

  The Brazilian government displayed this weekend thousands of troops with air support along the borders with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in a concerted effort to combat organized crime.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 00:58 UTC

  Hundreds of brooms in Rio’s beaches to protest Brazilian rampant corruption

  

  A total of 594 brooms representing Brazil’s 81 senators and 513 members of the Lower House have been planted in the famous Copacabana beach of Rio do Janeiro by a non government organization demanding for action against rampant corruption.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 00:46 UTC

  Petrobras begins pumping natural gas from first pre-salt field of Santos Basin

  

  Brazil's energy giant Petrobras began pumping natural gas from the offshore Santos Basin on the new 216-kilometer Lula-Mexilhao pipeline Friday, the company said Monday in a statement.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 16:41 UTC

  Brazil reiterates it will defend recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN

  

  Brazil will ‘defend’ the recognition of a Palestinian state during the coming United Nations General Assembly discussions, said President Dilma Rousseff’s international affairs advisor Marco Aurelio García.