Tag: mercosur

Brazilians Want Lula to Assert Leadership in the Face of Chavez at Summit

An agenda with several controversial issues awaits Mercosur summit this week in Rio do ...

Brazil Ready to Sign Free Trade Agreement with Arab Gulf

The basic texts for the free trade agreement between Mercosur and the Gulf Cooperation ...

Brazil Buys Half of All Rice Exported by Argentina

Argentina in the first ten months of 2006 exported 376.000 tons of rice valued ...

Brazil and globalization

In the Globalization Going on in LatAm, Brazil Is Last in Line

Despite growing populism and political tensions, Latin America is becoming more globalized, according to ...

Brazil’s Yes to Uruguay-US Pact Really Means No

Despite the difficulties of the U.S. Congress to pass Free Trade Agreements (FTA) due ...

Brazil Thrilled to Have Venezuela Aboard at Mercosur to Deal with EU

A Mercosur/European Union negotiators meeting scheduled for early October in Brazil has been postponed ...

Brazil Gives Uruguay Its Blessing for Trading with US and Irks Venezuela

Mercosur junior members’ decision to negotiate free trade agreements with third parties received Friday ...

Brazil and Neighbors Get UN Money to Monitor Birds Flying South

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) signed a US$ 500,000 agreement with ...

Castro Uses Mercosur Stage to Accuse US of 600 Plots to Kill Him

Fidel Castro arrived in Argentina to sign cooperation and trade agreements with the Mercosur ...

Venezuela Not Ready for Prime Time in a Mercosur Dominated by Brazil

Venezuela’s July 4 official accession to the Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur), of which ...