Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 02:43 UTC

  President Rousseff makes public her medical report to quell media disclosures

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, following recovery from the bronchial pneumonia she was diagnosed in late April, currently enjoys good health, the president’s doctors said in a report released at her request.

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 00:50 UTC

  Rousseff visits Uruguay to sign 12 accords on trade, integration and technology

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff arrives Monday in Uruguay, the third country she will be visiting after China and Argentina, since taking office last January first. The two countries are founding full members of Mercosur and Brazil is Uruguay’s main trade partner.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 18:55 UTC

  Rousseff administration first scandal takes off in Congress and with prosecutors

  

  Brazil's young government faces its first scandal involving presidential chief of staff Antonio Palocci who is under fire for revelations that, while in Congress between 2006 and 2010, his net worth multiplied 20 times.

• Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 12:40 UTC

  Rousseff’s main advisor describes Brazil/Argentina relations as “fine”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's international affairs advisor Marco Aurélio García lowered the tone of the trade conflict with Argentina and said that the relationship between both countries “is fine” despite the trade barriers that Brazil imposed on the import of Argentine cars.

• Friday, May 13th 2011 - 13:55 UTC

  Brazilian president still recovering from pneumonia cancels trip to Paraguay

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff cancelled on medical advice Sunday’s trip to Asunción where she was scheduled to participate in the bicentennial celebrations of Paraguay’s independence.

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 18:32 UTC

  Brazilian president promises land reform and distribution for family settlers

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff claimed that land reform was needed to eradicate poverty, avoid overcrowding in urban areas and as a matter of justice for the long delayed distribution of land.“

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil considering leasing farm land to foreigners to circumvent sales restrictions

  

  Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said.

• Monday, May 9th 2011 - 19:09 UTC

  Brazil plans to send thousands of students to learn abroad on scholarships

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said that Brazil is the seventh economy in the world and announced that the government is to finance scholarships abroad. “We are the world’s seventh economy and this is due to the effort and sweat of those who made this country grow,” she claimed.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 01:57 UTC

  Brazilian president rests in Brasilia recovering from mild case of pneumonia

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, 63, returned Monday to Brasilia after spending the weekend in a hospital in Sao Paulo suffering from strong flu and a mild case of pneumonia, according to the presidential office.

• Monday, May 2nd 2011 - 01:03 UTC

  Brazil’s Rousseff frustrates top business leaders but is praised by landless peasants

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff left top bankers, investors and corporations CEO frustrated following her decision to cancel a speech to the World Economic Forum on Latin America meeting in Rio do Janeiro.