Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Thursday, May 1st 2014 - 07:08 UTC

  Rousseff bids for re-election and announces benefits for her electoral base

  

  President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday she will seek re-election in October, even though some are calling for the return of her popular predecessor president Lula da Silva. Rousseff, who belongs to Lula's Workers Party and was his protegée, said she hoped to have the support of all the parties allied with her government.

• Saturday, April 26th 2014 - 06:05 UTC

  Protestors interrupt Rousseff's speech and pledge to torpedo the World Cup

  

  President Dilma Rousseff was repeatedly interrupted while giving a speech by hecklers protesting the coming World Cup hosted by Brazil and who are demanding more funds should be invested in health care, education and improved transportation.

• Thursday, April 24th 2014 - 02:25 UTC

  Brazil sets the path for the future of a free, open and transparent internet

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said at the Wednesday opening of a gathering in Sao Paulo that no country can have “more weight than another” in governing cyberspace. Delegations from more than 85 countries are attending the NETMundial international conference which during two days will debate Internet issues and try to reach an agreement on a new oversight model.

• Monday, April 21st 2014 - 07:38 UTC

  Killings and riots in Rio do Janeiro; Army patrolled Bahía can't control crime

  

  Hooded youngsters blocked one of Rio do Janeiro's main highways connecting with neighboring Niteroi and set on fire several buses and vehicles to protest the killing of two youths during weekend police operations in the shanty town (favela) of Caramujo. To the north in Salvador-Bahía, Brazilian army patrolling is unable to control crime.

• Thursday, April 17th 2014 - 07:59 UTC

  Brazil sends army to World Cup host city following police strike and widespread looting

  

  Brazil's government ordered 5,000 army troops to one of the host cities for the coming World Cup to provide law and order after a police strike led to civil unrest and looting.On Wednesday, the troops entered Salvador, the capital of Bahia state in northeastern Brazil, the state where police began striking on Tuesday night followed by the ransacking of shops and supermarkets, according to local reports.

• Tuesday, April 8th 2014 - 00:14 UTC

  Brazil will launch massive investment plan next August, two months ahead of election

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced that the third stage of an investment plan, Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) will be launched in August, just two months ahead of an October presidential election in which she will seek re-election.

• Monday, April 7th 2014 - 06:12 UTC

  Brazil Rousseff support down ahead of October election, but rivals don't benefit

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's popularity has dipped five percentage points ahead of October's presidential elections, revealed a new poll published on Sunday. The Datafolha polling institute said 36% of respondents rated Rousseff's government as “great/good” against the 41% who gave it that rating in the firm's previous poll conducted in February.

• Saturday, April 5th 2014 - 05:48 UTC

  The poll was completely wrong: Brazilians love their scantily dressed women

  

  Friday came with a relief for Brazil when a leading economic pollster admitted to having committed a serious error in interpreting results released earlier saying that a majority of Brazilians supported the idea that women in revealing clothes “deserve to be attacked”.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 23:20 UTC

  Brazil remembers the 50th anniversary of the coup that led to 21 years of military rule

  

  President Dilma Rousseff remembered on Monday, 31 March, those who died or disappeared fighting for the return of democracy in Brazil on the fifitieth anniversary of the miltiary coup of 1964, which lasted until 1985 and had full political support from the United States, at the time under president Lyndon Johnson.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 19:28 UTC

  Mercosur expects to exchange tariff-reduction proposals with EU next June

  

  Mercosur expects to present a joint proposal regarding tariff reductions to the European Union during a meeting next June, according to Brazil's Minister of Development, Trade and Industry, Mauro Borges who apparently convinced a reluctant Argentina to join the group.