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Palestine might sign a trade agreement with the Mercosur. The possibility was mentioned by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this Friday, November 20, after a meeting with...

Just before his arrival in Brazil, which should happen this Sunday, November 22, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wrote a piece in which he calls unfair...

The president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, asked for support from the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in order to reach an understanding with...

The Brazilian economy will experience a robust growth in 2010 and 2011, in the range of 4.5%, while Mexico will recover from deep recession beginning next year with a...

I must confess that almost a decade ago when I moved to New York, I had a very small collection of Brazilian music among my many CDs (a total of...

For the first time since January 2008, the Economic Climate Index (ECI) in Latin America, (developed in partnership between the German Ifo Institute and Brazil's Getúlio Vargas Foundation) rose...

The Brazilian Congress is scheduled to receive the official visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this Monday, November 23. The presidents of the Lower...

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has arrived in Brazil this Wednesday night. He already had dinner with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...

Brazilian women stay slim, while men are getting fatter and fatter. Mal-nutrition and child mortality are falling, but diabetes is on the rise. This is one of the conclusions...

The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrives this weekend in Brazilian capital Brasília accompanied by a group of 300 people, most of them business men. But more than just...

At the request of senator Arthur Virgílio, the leader of the opposition party PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy) the Brazilian senate is summoning a psychic service to help elucidate what...

The Brazilian government has just taken another measure aimed at containing the appreciation of its currency, unveiling a 1.5% tax on certain trades involving American Depository Receipts, ADR, issued...

By 5 votes to 4 the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) ruled that former Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti, condemned in Italy for killing four people, should be extradited to Italy....

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that Latin America's largest economy not only has left the global crisis behind, but also in the third quarter...

The governments and businessmen from Brazil and Argentina have to learn that both countries depend on each other and both should be interested in seeing the other side growing...

Exporters from Argentina claim they are losing huge sums of money because of Brazilian delays at Customs posts and in extending import licenses. According to them, this is particularly...

Starting next month an unmanned spy aircraft will overfly the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro, in southeastern Brazil, at a height of 7.000 meters (23,000 feet),...

Brazil has improved its position in the Transparency International's annual rank of world's most corrupted countries. Brazil went up five points when compared to 2008, which took the country...

Father Andress Tamayo, a priest from El Salvador, has left on November 16 the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital, where he was living since September 21st, when he...

Brazilian president's special adviser for International Affairs, Marco Aurélio Garcia, told reporters this Tuesday, November 17, in Brazilian capital Brasília, that the visit of Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to...

Talking in Rome during a food security conference, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva complained that the leaders of the First World give little attention to world hunger...

Brazil is not lacking law to guarantee the human rights of all of its citizens. The country has an impressive set of laws and policies to promote...

On Friday, October 30, U.S. and Colombian officials signed the controversial Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), granting the U.S. armed forces access to seven Colombian military bases for the next...

With the main target being the recovery of a bi-national hydroelectric dam that has fallen into the hands of an enemy country, Brazil launched Sunday military exercises...

Celso Amorim, Brazil's Foreign Affairs minister is sounding the alarm that relations between the United States and Latin America are deteriorating and called on American president Barack Obama to...

Ashamed of her world famous son's bad manners, who was so impolite to refer to the Brazilian leader in a newspaper interview as illiterate, rude and tacky, a mother...

In an interview from Brazil with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, said that the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  needs to adopt a...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejected on Friday a Brazilian proposal for a joint border monitoring system with Colombia. He said he would not allow any extra-national force...

About 1,500 people took part this Sunday afternoon, November 15, in São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, in a protest against the visit to Brazil of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scheduled...

The recent blackout in Brazil, which left 50 million people in the dark across 18 of Brazil's 26 states, raised questions about whether the country is sufficiently prepared to...