Tag: Marina Silva

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 11:49 UTC

  Marina pledges to restore Brazil credibility and limit spending below growth rate

  

  Opposition presidential candidate Marina Silva said that Brazil's recession is very worrying and her government would work to restore the credibility of the country's economic policies to recover investment and growth if elected. The Brazilian economy fell into recession in the first half of the year, a heavy blow for President Dilma Rousseff's already diminishing hopes of winning re-election in October.

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 10:53 UTC

  Brazil in recession; Minister Mantega blames external factors and World Cup

  

  Brazil has fallen into recession, further weakening President Dilma Rousseff, just weeks before voting in what will be a tough re-election battle. Brazil's national statistics institute said Friday GDP shrank 0.6% in the second quarter and revised an initially positive first quarter growth estimate down to -0.2 percent.

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 08:24 UTC

  Marina's advisors: economists graduated in Cambridge and MIT and the heir to Brazil's largest bank

  

  Two economists with graduate studies in Cambridge and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a lawyer considered one of the most influential members of Congress and with a PhD from Oxford, plus the heir of a banking empire, the largest in Brazil, and philanthropist, are identified as the closest aides and advisors of Marina Silva, with increasing chances of becoming Brazil's next president in October.

• Thursday, August 28th 2014 - 06:51 UTC

  Marina leaps ahead in presidential debate; wants brightest minds to join her government

  

  A surging Marina Silva took Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to task in an election debate Tuesday night when she touted her government's achievements in improving social conditions and defending wages in the midst of global economic crisis.

• Thursday, August 21st 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Environmentalist Marina presidential candidate but with a pro-agribusiness in the ticket

  

  Environmentalist Marina Silva officially has launched a bid for president, upending Brazil's October 5 elections and threatening the ruling Workers' Party's 12-year hold on power. So far a vice-presidential candidate for the Brazilian Socialist Party, Marina accepted the nomination to top the ticket after candidate Eduardo Campos, a former governor and rising political star, was killed in a plane crash last week.

• Monday, August 18th 2014 - 22:55 UTC

  Marina exposes Dilma's 'soft belly': polls shows she could beat the president in a run-off

  

  Environmentalist Marina Silva could unseat incumbent Dilma Rousseff in Brazil's presidential elections in October, a public opinion poll revealed on Monday, reflecting an altered political landscape since Silva's running mate was killed in a plane crash last week.

• Monday, August 18th 2014 - 07:30 UTC

  Brazil: Marina Silva still unconfirmed, rattles chances of Rousseff and Neves

  

  The Brazilian Socialist Party plans to launch environmentalist Marina Silva as its presidential candidate this week, replacing party leader Eduardo Campos who was killed in a plane clash, a senior party official said over the weekend.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 22:01 UTC

  Campos' successor, Marina Silva represents a stronger challenger for Dilma

  

  The deceased Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, 49, was a former governor of the northeastern state of Pernambuco and belongs to a traditional family from the Brazilian political establishment.

• Monday, January 6th 2014 - 06:48 UTC

  Brazilian opposition ready to present attractive, balanced presidential ticket

  

  Former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva has agreed to run for vice president in October elections on the presidential ticket of Eduardo Campos, the governor of Brazil’s Pernambuco state, O'Globo newspaper reported. Silva, who will make her intention publicly known by mid-February, could announce her candidacy at a January 17 meeting of leaders of Campos’ Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB).

• Saturday, November 9th 2013 - 03:24 UTC

  Brazilian president recovers from June protests and leads polls for next year's election

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is approaching an election year as clear favorite, but she must do more to curb violence and corruption to maintain her popularity, according to a public opinion poll conducted by MDA and commissioned by the private transport sector lobby CNT.