Tag: Lula da Silva

• Wednesday, December 29th 2010 - 07:09 UTC

  Brazil: Lula disappointed with Obama's LatAm policy

  

  Relations between the United States and Latin America have not changed in any meaningful way under President Barack Obama, Brazilian head of state Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  Carter wants Brazil to play a role in Mid East peace; US mediation exhausted

  

  On the same day that work began on a new Palestinian embassy in Brasilia, Brazilian president Lula da Silva said that peace in the Middle East was impossible with the United States as a mediator, reported the Palestine News Network.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 02:52 UTC

  Lula da Silva admits he could run again for office, if things go bad

  

  Brazil's outgoing President Lula da Silva said he might run for president again some day, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported, a revelation that could weaken his chosen successor.

• Monday, December 20th 2010 - 16:39 UTC

  Lula da Silva calls for an enlarged Mercosur to better defend the region’s interests

  

  Brazilian president Lula de Silva strongly defended Mercosur calling for a quick approval of Venezuela’s incorporation as full member, and proposed other associate members such Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Chile should follow the same path since ‘we share the same political, economic and cultural affinities’.

• Saturday, December 18th 2010 - 09:08 UTC

  Fourteen presidents confirmed for Dilma Rousseff’s ceremony January first

  

  At least fourteen presidents, including Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuela’ Hugo Chavez, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have confirmed they will be present next January first in Brasilia when Dilma Rousseff takes office as Brazil’s first woman president.

• Friday, December 17th 2010 - 06:42 UTC

  Paraguayan industry calls Lula da Silva an “arrogant hypocrite”

  

  The Paraguayan Industrial Union, UIP, called Brazilian president Lula da Silva an “arrogant hypocrite” for making promises he never honoured, and attacked President Fernando Lugo for generating ‘overblown fantasy expectations’.

• Wednesday, December 15th 2010 - 05:53 UTC

  Mercosur: a High Representative post to create “consensus” in summit’s agenda

  

  Mercosur could end up with a High Representative post following this coming presidential summit in Foz de Iguazu. According to Brazilian sources the initiative has been discussed with partners Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and should be approved next Thursday/Friday.

• Monday, December 13th 2010 - 22:48 UTC

  Argentina lifts trade blockade: Paraguay will attend Mercosur summit

  

  Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo will be attending the Mercosur summit this week following on Argentina’s guarantee that the blockade on Paraguayan goods and merchandise imposed by an Argentine maritime union will be lifted, effective Monday.

• Friday, December 10th 2010 - 05:54 UTC

  Lula da Silva supports Assange and asks what about freedom of expression?

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva defended Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks.org website that published more than 250,000 of U.S. diplomatic cables sent to or from embassies around the world and asked where are those rabid defenders of freedom of expression.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2010 - 19:27 UTC

  Lula da Silva promises to veto bill on oil royalties sharing plan

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on Tuesday he would veto a plan to change the distribution of oil royalties among state governments, paving the way for the implementation of a legal overhaul of Brazil's oil sector.