Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Tuesday, February 1st 2011 - 00:06 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina ratify “strategic relation” and commit greater integration

  

  In her first overseas visit as Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff ratified Monday in Buenos Aires the “special strategic” relation with Argentina while her counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, called for an “increased productive integration” between the two leading Mercosur partners.

• Sunday, January 30th 2011 - 21:16 UTC

  Work Gets Underway on Amazonian Hydro Project

  

  Building will now begin on what will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam after Ibama, Brazil's environment agency, gave the go-ahead for the controversial $17 billion (£10.6 billion) project.

• Sunday, January 30th 2011 - 20:52 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff Makes First Trip Abroad As President to Argentina

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will arrive in Argentina on Monday on her first foreign trip as president.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2011 - 23:51 UTC

  President Obama Announces Trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador For March

  

  United States President Barack Obama has announced that he will pay his first visit to Brazil and other South American countries in March.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2011 - 23:46 UTC

  Brazil to Restrict Foreign Mining

  

  Brazil’s recently sworn in government, is concerned about increasing foreign interests in its mining assets and is looking in to the possibility of restricting foreign purchases of mines, Folha de Sao Paulo reported.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2011 - 20:43 UTC

  Brazil Re-evaluates Purchase of Warships and Aircraft

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is re-evaluating a six billion dollar plan to purchase eleven warships, as part of her plan to slash government spending, the Folha de Sao Pablo reported.

• Sunday, January 23rd 2011 - 17:23 UTC

  Brazilian President Imposes New Work Rules

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is trying to show she is different from former president Lula da Silva. Rousseff prefers strict rules and technical work as opposed to Lula’s political more relaxed way of governing.

• Thursday, January 20th 2011 - 17:17 UTC

  Brazilian and Uruguayan Foreign Ministers to Meet every Three Months

  

  Brazilian and Uruguayan Foreign Ministers Antonio Patriota and Luis Almagro have agreed to hold bilateral meetings every three months they announced during a press conference in Uruguay. The ministers met to discuss the forthcoming meeting between Uruguayan President Jose Mujica and his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff, scheduled for the first week of February.

• Wednesday, January 19th 2011 - 22:56 UTC

  Brazil Created a Record 2.52 Million New Jobs in 2010

  

  Figures in Brazil show that 2.52 million new jobs were created last year, the Brazilian Labour Ministry reported.

• Monday, January 17th 2011 - 20:59 UTC

  Brazilean Central Bank Intervenes in Futures Dollar Market to Stop Real Appreciation

  

  Dilma Rousseff has taken measures to stop the appreciation of the real. The Brazilian Central Bank swapped all of the currency futures contracts in a reverse swap auction. This way the institution headed by Alexandre Tombini disembarks in the futures market.