Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Saturday, September 27th 2014 - 09:08 UTC

  Relief for Dilma: unemployment rate in August remained at 5%

  

  Brazil's jobless rate rose in August to its highest in six months despite stronger job creation, adding to signs that the economic recession is eroding a robust labor market. The non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate stood at 5.0 percent in August, up from 4.9% in July, statistics agency IBGE announced.

• Saturday, September 27th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

  Marina Silva pledges to de-politicize regulatory agencies and state corporations

  

  Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva vowed to de-politicize regulatory agencies that she says do more to win favor with government allies than ensure fair and efficient markets in Latin America's biggest economy.

• Friday, September 26th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  Marina Silva pledges economic stability and a “fiscal responsibility council”

  

  Former Environment Minister Marina Silva, one of the two main contenders in Brazil's Oct. 5 presidential election, said on Thursday that, if elected, she will not embark on any “adventure” in economic policies.

• Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 - 11:11 UTC

  Rousseff's government denies Brazil has any 'imperial' intentions

  

  President Dilma Rousseff's main foreign affairs' advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia denied Brazil has any “imperial intentions” in reply to claims relative to Cuba from presidential opposition candidate Marina Silva.

• Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 - 10:57 UTC

  Rousseff's television campaign gradually eroding Marina Silva's lead

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff effective television campaign has started to erode Marina Silva's lead in the polls that the opposition candidate enjoyed two weeks ago and turned the race into a dead heat. The ads remind tens of millions of voters who have been lifted from poverty by social welfare programs that they could still slip backward.

• Wednesday, September 17th 2014 - 04:20 UTC

  Mantega announces yet another stimulus package for Brazil's economy

  

  Finance Minister Guido Mantega presented on Monday a package of tax measures aimed at stimulating Brazil's economy less than a month ahead of the presidential election.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 17:00 UTC

  There are two Mercosur, but only the ideological one prevails

  

  The original Mercosur is over; it has been reduced to a political block with a three member board, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, according to Demetrio Magnoli a renowned Folha de Sao Paulo columnist who added that the 'political' Mercosur has helped the Alliance of the Pacific to advance.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 03:27 UTC

  Dilma confirms Finance minister Mantega is stepping down in October

  

  President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff has affirmed that current Finance minister Guido Mantega will not carry on in his post should the Workers' Party (PT) candidate win a second term as head of state in October's presidential elections.

• Monday, September 8th 2014 - 05:56 UTC

  Dilma pledges new economic policy and team if she wins: bye, bye Mantega

  

  Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has hinted that if re-elected next month, she would not reappoint Finance Minister Guido Mantega. When reporters in Fortaleza asked Rousseff about Mantega’s role if she were re-elected, she responded that, “A new election means a new government, a new team.”

• Saturday, September 6th 2014 - 03:04 UTC

  Marina Silva's lead turns Dilma more aggressive in her re-election bid

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has adopted a more combative re-election campaign strategy after opinion polls showed her trailing popular environmentalist candidate Marina Silva. Two election surveys this week showed Rousseff was the frontrunner in the first round ballot scheduled for October 5, but would lose to Silva, a former environment minister, in a likely runoff.