Tag: Wagner Rossi

• Saturday, March 31st 2018 - 21:33 UTC

  Members of Temer's entourage arrested in bribe probe

  

  Three people linked to Brazi's President Michel Temer were arrested Thursday in the investigation of a decree the head of state allegedly signed to benefit a port company in exchange for bribes.

• Thursday, August 18th 2011 - 02:54 UTC

  Brazilian Agriculture minister steps down following corruption allegations

  

  Brazilian Agriculture minister Wagener Rossi resigned to his post Wednesday following revelations of irregularities in his office thus becoming the fourth minister to step down, in eight months, of President Dilma Rousseff administration.

• Thursday, August 11th 2011 - 23:40 UTC

  President Rousseff orders ‘clean up’ of the Agriculture and Tourism ministries

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff ordered a “cleanup and fumigation” in the Agriculture ministry following claims of lobbyism and suspended all tenders at the Ministry of Transport where the minister and his top staff resigned because of corruption charges.

• 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.

• Thursday, April 21st 2011 - 06:41 UTC

  China further opens its market to Brazilian beef, chicken and now pork

  

  China opened its market significantly for Brazilian beef and chicken said Brazil’s Agriculture minister Wagner Rossi on his return from a week long visit to China with a business delegation headed by President Dilma Rousseff.

• Friday, March 18th 2011 - 18:51 UTC

  Brazil planning to increase grain crop to 190 million tons in next decade

  

  Brazil stands on the brink of becoming an agricultural superpower and is one of the few countries in the world with the climate, technology, farming practices and the sheer quantity of land to be able to satisfy the surging global appetite for food in the coming decades.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 15:34 UTC

  Brazil tightens land acquisition by foreigners: ‘speculators and sovereign funds’

  

  The Brazilian government is tightening a law that restricts the amount of land foreigners can buy. The decree prohibits non-Brazilians from buying controlling shares of companies that own vast tracts of territory in the country, Brazilian Attorney General Luiz Inacio Adams said in a statement this week.