Tag: mercosur

For Brazil and Neighbors, the FTAA Is a Recipe for Impoverishment Not Empowerment

As a result of vehement opposition from around Latin America, the Bush administration’s efforts ...

EU and Mercosur Betting They Will Soon End Stalemate for Accord

The European Union seeks to reach an associative agreement with Mercosur in May 2006, ...

Brazil and Argentina: Two Neighbors Who Can’t Get Along

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been badly wounded by the corruption ...

Brazil Adopts Spanish as Second Language

Brazilian Congress gave final approval Thursday to a bill that makes Spanish a second ...

Brazil and Neighbors Studying a South American Gas Pipeline

A gas pipeline that would link Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay was discussed ...

10,000 Brazilian Farmers Block Road in Protest Against Mercosur

Approximately 10,000 rural producers of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, in ...

Brazil-Argentina War Really Bad Only in the Soccer Field

The Argentinean Industrial Union (UIA) called for sweeping changes in the Mercosur and demanded ...

Minister Throws Water on Fiery Argentina-Brazil Quarrel

The Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, said, yesterday, after a meeting of G-20 ...

Community of Nations, a Brazilian Dream of Riches

Recently the presidents of South American nations launched a proposal to form a “Community ...

South Meets South at Arab-Latin Summit in Brazil

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil deserves the credit and congratulations for ...