Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 07:47 UTC

  Mujica says Brazil supports Uruguay in the fiscal haven controversy with G20

  

  President Jose Mujica said on Sunday that his peer from Brazil Dilma Rousseff will make a strong declaration in support of Uruguay when the next G20 summit to counter French President Nicholas Sarkozy recent statements in Cannes describing one of Mercosur junior members as a “fiscal haven”

• Friday, November 18th 2011 - 21:46 UTC

  Brazilian president Rousseff sanctions Truth Commission and Data access bills

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on Friday signed into law the creation of a commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during military dictatorships with the purpose of strengthening democracy but ‘leaving aside all forms of revenge’.

• Friday, November 18th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  Brazilian leader recommends President Rousseff to “purge” her cabinet

  

  Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso recommended President Dilma Rousseff a purge of her cabinet which faces yet another alleged corruption case: the minister of Labour, the fifth since she took office last January.

• Friday, November 18th 2011 - 06:07 UTC

  S&P upgrades Brazil’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating

  

  Standard and Poor's Corp said Thursday it was upgrading the credit rating of Brazil by one notch to BBB, adding that the upgrade reflected the country’s increasing capacity to hold up against the overall deterioration in the global economic outlook.

• Monday, November 14th 2011 - 06:58 UTC

  Rousseff complains German chancellor Merkel “listens to nobody”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff criticized German chancellor Angela Merkel for her refusal to receive suggestions as to how face the global crisis and on specific issues such as youth unemployment.

• Monday, November 14th 2011 - 06:32 UTC

  Brazilian troops take over Rio’s main favela without firing a shot

  

  Three thousand troops backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles occupied Rio de Janeiro's largest favela (slum) without firing a shot, the biggest step in the Brazilian city's bid to improve security and end the reign of drug gangs.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 07:58 UTC

  Rousseff warns about global unemployment; calls for plans to generate jobs

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff addressing the results of the G20 summit in Cannes, where Brazil was one of the countries represented said that job creation is a way to tackle economic crises.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Rousseff could see another minister out: Labour accused of corruption

  

  Advisers to Brazil’s Labor Minister Carlos Lupi demanded kickbacks from non-government organizations with government contracts, newsmagazine Veja reported Sunday, citing unnamed lawmakers and officials.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 08:17 UTC

  BRICS ‘leaders scheduled to decide on common stance before the G20 summit'

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said that solutions to European and global economic difficulties need to promote economic growth and employment. Ms Rousseff arrived Wednesday in France for the summit of G-20 leaders this week, but before will be meeting with peers from the BRICS group to work out a common stance.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 21:12 UTC

  Latin America will demand at G20 summit greater voice for emerging economies

  

  The Latin American block arrives this week at the G20 summit in Cannes with a consensus spearheaded by the strong political standing of Brazil in global affairs and with criticisms to the way in which the European Union and the US are managing their respective “crises”.