Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 06:46 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff sacks top officials involved in influence-peddling ring

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff moved quickly and with no consideration for political allies ordered the dismissal on Saturday of all government officials allegedly involved in a bribery ring, including the country's deputy attorney general.

• Friday, November 23rd 2012 - 20:15 UTC

  Brazil has its first ever black head of the Supreme Court

  

  Brazil judge Joaquim Barbosa took the oath of office as Brazil's first ever Afro descendant head of the Federal Supreme Tribunal (Supreme Court) on Thursday, in a historic ceremony attended by President Dilma Rousseff and other top leaders.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 06:30 UTC

  Spain and Portugal call for Latam business opportunities and investment

  

  Spain and Portugal sought help from their former Latin American colonies to rescue them from economic crisis through a new wave of trade and investment across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2012 - 22:14 UTC

  Rousseff pledges combating corruption is “State policy” in Brazil

  

  Transparency International described corruption as “a plague which destroys lives, communities and countries, and feeds armed conflicts and wars”, during the opening in Brazil of the 15th International Anti Corruption Conference.

• Monday, November 5th 2012 - 13:10 UTC

  Lawless Sao Paulo: 22 people killed over the weekend including the 90th cop

  

  Law and order seems out of control in Brazil’s largest city and financial hub. To the usual appalling crime statistics follows a rash of police officers killings. This weekend an off duty military police officer was the twenty second murder victim and the 90th killed in the city so far this year.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 20:44 UTC

  Brazil’s primary budget surplus rapidly narrowing but Central bank confident target is within reach

  

  Brazil's primary budget surplus narrowed in September, distancing the government from its full-year surplus target, but the central bank said that target is still within reach. The accumulated primary surplus of January through September narrowed to 75.8 billion Brazilian Reais (37.3 billion dollars) from 104.6 billion Reais in the same period a year earlier.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 07:27 UTC

  Brazil will invest 2bn dollars in promoting fishing industry and doubling catches

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff announced on Monday an ambitious program to boost and make competitive the fishing industry doubling catches for which she promised the government would invest 4.1bn Reais (2bn dollars).

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 00:40 UTC

  German luxury car maker BMW joins Brazil automobile industry

  

  German carmaker BMW plans to build a factory in southern Brazil, a more than 200 million Euros investment expected to create 1,000 jobs. The luxury car giant hopes to start building the plant in April next year and producing cars in late 2014.

• Saturday, October 20th 2012 - 04:40 UTC

  Middle class Brazil looks itself in a soap opera and breaks audience records

  

  A soap opera which depicts the recent upsurge of Brazil into a consumer society has trapped the country breaking audience records and even forcing President Dilma Rousseff to modify her agenda.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 22:56 UTC

  Venezuela/Paraguay rift spoils Brazil’s plans for a ‘normal’ Mercosur summit

  

  Venezuela’s expulsion of Paraguayan diplomats from Caracas, as a direct consequence of the ongoing conflict inside Mercosur has left Brazil with the challenge of recomposing relations inside the group ahead of Mercosur next summit in December which will be hosted by the administration of President Dilma Rousseff.