Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Eighth Brazilian minister resigns amid allegations of corruption

  

  Brazil’s minister of cities resigned Thursday amid allegations of irregularities, the eighth member of President Dilma Rousseff’s cabinet to step down since June.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 15:56 UTC

  Brazilian president meets Fidel Castro; promises financial economic aid to Cuba

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff met with Fidel Castro, the revolutionary hero of her youth, and held talks with his younger brother, President Raul Castro, on Tuesday in a visit to strengthen financial and economic ties with Cuba. On Wednesday Rousseff left for Haiti.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 00:09 UTC

  Rousseff downplays human rights issue during her visit to Cuba

  

  Visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff refused to criticize Cuba’s human rights record on Tuesday, saying the issue should not be used to score ideological points.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2012 - 05:39 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff arrives in Havana to advance trade and investment relations

  

  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff arrived Monday to Cuba for a two-day visit to discuss bilateral economic cooperation and human rights. From Cuba Rousseff will travel on to Haiti as she aims to continue the regional diplomatic outreach of her popular predecessor, Lula da Silva.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2012 - 05:22 UTC

  Brazilian company signs agreement to recover the defunct Cuban sugar industry

  

  Brazilian builder Odebrecht plans to produce sugar in Cuba, the company said on Monday as incentives for foreign investment in the Castro family’s regime raise hopes of a recovery in the once-booming sector after decades of decline.

• Friday, January 27th 2012 - 11:39 UTC

  Rousseff signals clear difference with Lula da Silva in coming visit to Cuba

  

  Brazil issued a tourist visa to a dissident Cuban blogger a few days before President Dilma Rousseff is scheduled to travel to the Castro family island in a visit being dominated by human rights concerns.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  President Rousseff to address protestors of anti-Davos Economic Forum

  

  Thousands of trade unionists, students and activists for indigenous and environmental causes gathered Tuesday in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre to kick off debate in the anti-capitalist World Social Forum.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 03:52 UTC

  Lula da Silva back on the political stage next to President Dilma Rousseff

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva currently undergoing treatment for larynx cancer, returned on Tuesday to the political stage after three months of absence, for the inauguration ceremony of two new ministers from the cabinet of President Dilma Rousseff

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 17:06 UTC

  Brazilian Army and Navy won’t hand documents from the military regime time

  

  The Brazilian Army and Navy have not handed over documents dating back to the years of the military dictatorship (1964/1985), in spite of an official request from former president Lula da Silva five years ago.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2012 - 21:34 UTC

  Busy March for Rousseff: President Obama, Chancellor Merkel and BRICS summit

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will be meeting her US peer Barack Obma next March when she is also scheduled to hold talks with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and attend a BRIC group summit.