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Bitter and Isolated Dies Anselmo Duarte, Brazil's Only Cannes Winner
Brazilian actor, screenwriter and filmmaker Anselmo Duarte died at dawn this Saturday (November 7), in São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, at the age of 89, from complications of a...
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Lula Fights Charges of Illiteracy and Rudeness with Sarcasm and Charm
Irony was the weapon used by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to respond to criticism about his democratic credentials and lack of study leveled against him by his...
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Brazil Blasts US and Casts Doubt It Will Buy American Fighter Planes
Brazilian Defense minister, Nelson Jobim, told reporters this Friday, November 6, that the dispute between the US, France and Sweden to sell 36 fighter planes to the Brazilian Air...
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Brazil: Caetano Veloso Calls Lula Illiterate and Says He'll Vote for Marina Silva
Caetano Veloso, renowned Brazilian singer-composer, gave his full support to Brazil's Green party presidential hopeful Marina Silva who he expects will show more elegance and pragmatism than President Luiz...
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Google, Hottest Internet Property in Brazil with 27 Million Visitors a Month
Brazil access to the Internet is growing in a fast pace. New numbers from the comScore World Metrix service reveal that 31.9 million Brazilians age 15 and over accessed...
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All Signed for Brazil to Start Getting US$ 10 Billion Chinese Loan
Petrobras, the Brazilian state-controlled oil and gas multinational, informed that it has signed a contract with the Chinese permitting the first payment from a US$ 10 billion loan from...
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Brazilian Foreign Reserves at Record US$ 233 Billion
Foreign reserves for Brazil reached US$ 232.9 billion at the end of October, up from US$ 224.2 billion at the end of the previous month. In the first ten...
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It's Up to Investors to Avoid Bubble in Bullish Brazilian Market
In an interview in London with Bloomberg Television, Brazil's Central Bank president admitted that foreign investors might create an asset bubble in Brazil. In terms of asset bubbles,...
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Argentina Accuses Brazil of Violating Trade Agreements
Brazil has been charged by Argentina of not keeping to agreed self regulated bilateral trade understandings originally destined as an umbrella for Argentine industry, and instead has...
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Brazil Demands Zelaya Be Reinstated in Honduras or It Won't Recognize Elections
The Brazilian government is demanding that Manuel Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president be reinstated in his post before the scheduled presidential election of November 29. Brazil threatens to not...
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In London Lula Invites World to Be Part of Brazil's Magic Moment
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said this Thursday, November 5, in London that Brazil should grow 5% next year. He was talking at the opening...
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Moacyr Scliar Once Again Is Brazil's Best Fictionist of the Year
The winners of the Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious literary award had their party this Wednesday night when they received their prize for the best work in fiction, non fiction...
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Brazil Cuts Half New York in Amazon Trees in a Month, And It's a Record Low
Brazil's Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last numbers released by the National Institute of Space Studies (Inpe) this Wednesday, November 4, shows...
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Brazil Opposition Wants OAS Mission to Check on Venezuela's Political Prisoners
Venezuela will have to wait a little longer for Brazilian approval to get inside the Mercosur. Brazil's opposition announced it will attempt to delay as much as possible the...
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Lula Tells Obama How to Solve US's Health Crisis: Go the Brazilian Way
Next time I see Obama I'm going to say: Make a SUS. It costs less, it has quality and it's universal. This is the Brazilian...
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Why Can't Argentina Be More Like Brazil, French Minister Wants to Know
France's Defense minister Hervé Morin said that Argentina could increase its international influence following on the steps of Brazil, which is currently modernizing its military hardware and planning on...
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Obama Increases Pressure on Brazil to Get Boeing's F-18 Fighter Planes
The United States is still very interested in selling 36 F-18 fighter planes to the Brazilian Air Force and the Obama administration seems to be increasing the pressure to...
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Brazil Is Putting on Green Make-up, Says Greenpeace
The administration of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has extended tax breaks on energy-efficient home appliances for three extra months in a bid to boost consumption and...
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Lula on Honduras: Brazil Acted Right and Truth Prevailed
Just before leaving Venezuela to fly back to Brazil, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva commented on the proposed agreement to put an end to the political crisis...
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Chavez Compares Brazil's Lula to Jesus and Sees Venezuela in Mercosur
There was a love fest this Friday between presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez during a visit the Brazilian leader paid to Venezuela....
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Free from US LatAm Learns to Get Free from Own Blindness, Brazil's Lula Tells Chavez
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is back in Brazil after a trip to Venezuela where he met his counterpart Hugo Chavez to sign a series of agreements....
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Brazil Applauds Zelaya-Micheletti Accord and Urges Prompt Action from Honduras
In a note issued this Friday, October 30, by the Itamaraty, Brazil's Foreign Relations Ministry, the Brazilian government expressed its belief that the agreement worked out in Honduras by...
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Brazil Retaliates and Starts Delaying Argentina's Trucks on the Border
Miguel Jorge, Brazil's minister of Development Industry and Trade, confirmed that the Brazilian government is requesting non automatic licenses for some imports from Argentina, but denied it was a...
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Brazil's Drag Queen, the Toast of New Zealand, Stars in Own Play
Color, style, laughs, maybe some tears, live singing, lots of fun and glamour is what people can expect from Confessions of a Drag Queen a new play to hit...
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Lula and Chavez Celebrate in Caracas Brazil Senate's Vote for Venezuela
In a divided vote, Brazil's Senate foreign relations committee approved this Thursday, October 29, Venezuela's request to join Mercosur despite concerns over President Hugo Chavez's authoritarian style of government....
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Brazil Police Stage Monster Operation and Nab over 2,000 Crooks in a Day
The Civilian police in Brazil, in a raid that counted on more than 9,000 policemen, arrested this Thursday, October 29, 2,191 people. Operation Genesis held to fight crime in...
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Ex-Treasury Secretary in Brazil Punches and Kicks Journalist after Incriminating Report
The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism has informed that on October 21, 2009, Brazilian journalist Fábio Oliva, editor of the newspaper Folha do Norte in Januária city in the...
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Lula Wins, Brazil's Senate Committee Says Yes to Venezuela in Mercosur
Brazil's Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave its green light this Thursday, October 25, to Venezuela to become a full member of Mercosur. The controversial vote ended up 12 votes...
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Brazil Won't Let the Gringos Win Olympic Medals, Says Brazilian President
During the inauguration of a remodeled sports and cultural complex at Mangueira's Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva talked about the difficulties...
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Brazil to Profit Up to US$ 16 Billion from New Global Emissions Reduction
Numbers presented by the Brazilian Association of Carbon Market Companies (Abemc) show that the inclusion of mechanisms for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), during the negotiation...
And there is not a word about another new invasion even far bigger than the actual one of illegal foreigners who will do everything to enter the USA, should S.2611 be accepted !!!
In only a five years time or so, a minimum of another 12 millions of new illegal immigrants will
create the same problem as today !
What will America then do ?