Tag: Lula da Silva

• Tuesday, August 17th 2010 - 09:33 UTC

  Poll confirms Brazilian incumbent presidential candidate Rousseff 11 points lead

  

  Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff has an 11 percentage point lead over former Sao Paulo Governor Jose Serra before the country’s October elections, according to an Ibope poll published by TV Globo network and O Estado do Sao Paulo newspaper.

• Wednesday, August 4th 2010 - 02:42 UTC

  Lula da Silva’s double challenge as Mercosur chair

  

  Consolidating Mercosur as an “undisputed irreversible” integrated block will be Brazilian president Lula da Silva challenge as the pro-tempore chair of the group in the last leg of his eight years in office.

• Sunday, August 1st 2010 - 23:46 UTC

  Lula da Silva/Mrs. Kirchner bilateral meeting following the summit

  

  Once the Mercosur summit is over, on Tuesday afternoon, the presidents of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and of Brazil, Lula da Silva, are to hold a meeting in San Juan to analyse bilateral relations, said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:47 UTC

  Uribe most probably will have Lula da Silva at his table in next Friday’s banquet

  

  The Brazilian Executive spokesman Marcelo Baumbach said on Saturday that President Lula da Silva had a long conversation on the phone with Colombian president-elect Juan Manuel Santos and they talked about the diplomatic crisis with Venezuela.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 18:56 UTC

  Mujica and Lula da Silva reiterate commitment to Mercosur and Unasur

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Uruguay’s Jose Mujica on Friday defended South America’s integration as a peace zone and reiterated the two countries commitment to Mercosur and Unasur.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Lula da Silva will continue to openly support Dilma’s presidential campaign

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva who insists in campaigning for the incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff, in spite of electoral regulations, revealed that the country’s ‘coup elite’ tried to remove him from office.

• Friday, July 30th 2010 - 03:18 UTC

  Uribe criticizes Lula da Silva for his approach to Colombia/Venezuela conflict

  

  Outgoing Colombian president Alvaro Uribe deplored Thursday statements from the Brazilian leader Lula da Silva related to Venezuela’s decision to severe relations with Bogotá, according to a brief release from Palacio Nariño, seat of the Executive.

• Friday, July 23rd 2010 - 23:03 UTC

  Lula da Silva breaks into tears recalling events of his eight years in office

  

  Brazil's President Lula da Silva broke down to tears in front of the TV cameras during an interview with Brazilian network “TV Record” when the popular leader recapped some of his administration's social achievements.

• Sunday, July 18th 2010 - 23:59 UTC

  Lula da Silva anticipates Ms Rousseff will be better than any man president

  

  President Lula da Silva said a woman can rule Brazil country much better than all the men that have been presidents in the country in the last 500 years.

• Friday, July 16th 2010 - 08:01 UTC

  Petrobras begins deepwater pre-salt commercial crude production

  

  Brazil’s government controlled energy giant Petrobras began commercial crude production Thursday from a deepwater deposit in the pre-salt region, which the government anticipates will turn the country into a global leader in oil production.