Over 120 thousand people have been affected by heavy rains in Mato Grosso do Sul, central eastern Brazil, where millions in losses recorded primarily in the agricultural sector, local authorities said Monday. The last count of Civil Defense indicates that a total of 120 thousand 365 people were affected by the rains of recent weeks and almost 500 have fled their homes in 19 municipalities located in a state of emergency. Read Article
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Brazil’s biggest maker of steel products for the auto and construction industries, Gerdau SA, plans to sell as much as 4.2 billion Real (2.5 billion USD) of stock, boosting speculation that it has plans to buy a stake in a Brazilian rival, most probably Usiminas. Read Article
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he Ministry of Health of Paraná confirmed on Monday the record of nine deaths due to dengue since the beginning of the year. Until last week, six deaths had been confirmed in the state. Altogether, there were five deaths in Jacarezinho, two in London, one in Carlópolis (all cities in the north of Paraná) and […]
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Embraer Brazilian aviation group plans to convert its strong position in sales of civilian aircraft in China, in a strong position in defense aircraft sales, if trade restrictions are relaxed weapons against Beijing. Carlos Camargo, head of communications of Embraer, told Jane’s Defence Weekly that are building strong relations with China, which is crucial for […]
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Brazil has unveiled plans to toughen rules that govern foreign ownership of land in an attempt to control speculative buying of large tracts of farmland and real estate by foreign investors, including sovereign fund managers. Read Article
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A Paraguayan-registered plane carrying 180 kilos of cocaine and 291 kilos of marijuana was seized in a raid by agents of the Brazilian Federal Police at the airport in the town of Lucelia, located west of the state of Sao Paulo. The aircraft departed from the city of Pedro Juan Caballero. Read Article
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Brazil’s international affairs department (SAIN) has taken charge of the approval process for Minas Gerais state utility Copasa’s (Bovespa: CSMG3) project to clean up the Paraopeba river basin, program coordinator Paulo Fernando Lopes told BNamericas. Read rticle
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Federal Police in Brazil captured drug trafficker who is also accused of numerou homicides. The suspect was near Rio Javarri which is located on the border of Brazil and Peru, and was transporting 30 kilos of cocaine. The operation also discovered an Israeli grenade along with weapons and cell phones. Read Article
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Homeland security is of primary concern for Brazil. Spanning over 8.5 million square kilometers this huge nation is bordering ten neighboring countries over 17,000 kilometers of land borders, many of which lay over sparsely inhabited areas, posing a great challenge for law enforcement and control. Brazil’s homeland security market has grown significantly in recent years […]
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The family that controls the world’s largest meatpacker, Brazil’s JBS SA (JBSAY, JBSS3.BR), on Monday took a small step toward expanding its banking arm, but more-ambitious plans for increasing the company’s financing clout are likely to follow. On Monday, holding company J&F announced the merger of its existing banking operations, Banco JBS, with those of […]
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The first contacts between both nations were Joshua and Keilor Fumero Rojas, Director of Innovation and Technology Transfer and Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MICIT), respectively. Fumero and Rojas participated in the first edition of the School of Political Science Managers, Technology and Innovation, held at the headquarters of the Economic […]
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Norte Energia – the Brazilian consortium that made the winning tender offer for the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam and power plant in the state of Pará, on the Xingu River – did was distribute free food baskets to members of the indigenous community in the area around the dam site. Read Article
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Brazil’s prolonged Carnaval weekend, which started on Friday and only ended at noon this Wednesday, along with its very close, almost essential, association with partying and drinking, has always been a nasty time on federal roadways. Read Article
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The Panther Squadron, located in Santa Maria Air Base in Brazil, held last March 1, the arrival of the first H-60L Black Hawk. These new aircraft, an American, came out on February 13 Sikorsky factory in Elmira, New York. Read Article
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Beginning 28 March 2011, passengers will have access to direct connections from Changi Airport to Brazil as Singapore Airlines commences its three-times-a-week service to Sao Paolo via Barcelona. The launch of flights from Singapore to Sao Paolo marks Changi Airport’s first direct air link with South America. Read Article
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Brazil is a developing nation well situated in time and place. Unlike other areas of the world, it has no bloody religious or ethnic conflicts, and its last border conflict took place in the early 19th century. However, Brazil is the most populous Latin American nation, with nearly 200 million inhabitants, and thousands of miles […]
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In Brazil, the number of cases of dengue officially registered in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro has risen 1,000% in the first two months of 2011, compared to the same period last year – 5,663 cases in 2011 and 539 in 2010. Read Article
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Brazil, firmly opposed to a militarisation of the crisis in Libya and in favour of negotiated solutions without foreign intervention, is heading to a Mar. 7-8 ministerial meeting with India and South Africa. At next week’s meeting in New Delhi, being held by the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum, the foreign ministers of the three […]
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At least 16 people are dead and more than 50 were injured when a live power line fell onto a float at a pre-carnival parade in Brazil. Parade goers saw a “ball of fire” before the area in the small town of Bandiera do Sul near Rio de Janeiro went dark. Read Article
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Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday its Brazilian unit issued a recall over the weekend to fix the fuel hose, tank and pump parts of the Corolla compact manufactured in Brazil between March 2008 and December 2010, and sold only in Brazil. Read Article
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Nokia has moved its headquarters for Latin America to the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Until now, all operations in the region were controlled from the company’s office in Miami, in the US. Nokia’s president for Latin America, Olivier Puech, said that the change aims to strengthen operations in the region. Read Article
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Clashes between police and drug-gangs in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have left five criminals dead and one officer wounded while six were arrested. On Tuesday morning, in an attempt to establish a free zone of gangs and drug-traffickers, the Rio de Janeiro Special Police Force (BOPE) stormed the Jacarezinho slum to stop […]
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Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday on a popular television program that Brazil’s workforce needs more women. “I asked them to employ more women, but there is still a tendency to employ men. But I will not give up,” Rousseff said on the morning show “Mais Voce” on the local TV […]
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Plans for the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric plant in the Amazon rainforest have been suspended by a Brazilian judge over environmental concerns. The proposal to build Belo Monte, which would be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam, has sparked protests in Brazil and abroad because of its impact on the environment and native […]
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A protestor held out a handful of metal dust, part of the “silvery rain” falling that day in Santa Cruz, a low-income neighbourhood on the west side of this Brazilian city, as proof of the environmental nightmare affecting the area ever since a German steel plant opened there. Read Article
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Brazil recorded 999,688 cases of dengue in 2010, more than triple of last year cases, while deaths totaled 572, more than double in 2009, according to figures released Monday. Preliminary statistics on the disease in 2010 show that the southeast was the worst hit, with 473,994 cases, compared with 106,942 in 2009, followed by the […]
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The Human Rights Secretariat of the Brazilian presidency began a campaign on Friday to fight the sexual abuse of children and teenagers and to raise public awareness. The campaign, launched at Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, aims to protect Brazilian children and teens during the carnival time, when sexual abuse is common and […]
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A tour operator is accused of murdering an Argentine tourist in front of his girlfriend at the beach resort of Buzios, Brazil. The tourist was trying to claim tickets for entrance to one of the events for Carnival. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the way some local courts permit the use of multiple lawsuits and other abusive judicial procedures to censor journalists. Carlos Santos, a freelance journalist and blogger based in Mossoró, a town in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, was ordered this month of February to pay 6,000 […]
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Dynamic growth in Brazil and China is swelling revenues for US carmaker General Motors, the company’s South America manager, Jaime Ardila, said Thursday. Read Article
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On Thursday, almost 3,000 protesters participated in a peaceful demonstration organized to bring the city mayor to the negotiating table. The police closely monitored the demonstration, but there were no clashes, a Press TV correspondent reported. An increase of 30 cents in bus fare — from $2.70 to $3.00 — was introduced in January by […]
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Brazil, which will host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games trails only El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala and the Virgin Islands for the number of homicides proportional to its population, said the report carried out by the Sangari Institute. Read Article
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Biotech crop acreage grew another 10 percent last year worldwide, driven in part by strong growth in Brazil, where farmers have been rapidly switching to genetically engineered varieties of corn and soybeans, according to a study. Read Article
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Brazil’s government has missed its self-imposed deadline to provide details on how it will cut 50 billion reais ($30 billion) from this year’s budget, casting further doubt on whether it will have the discipline to see the measures through and slow an outbreak of inflation. Read Article
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German conglomerate Bayer AG (BAYRY, BAYN.XE) is expecting Brazil’s pharmaceutical industry to grow to $27 billion by 2015 from $ 15 billion in 2008, the company said Tuesday in a press release. Read Article
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Martha Rocha, a 27-year police veteran who led a division responsible for protection of women, will command the troubled 12,000-member Civil Police, which is responsible for fighting crime in a city famous for spectacular bouts of violence. Read Article
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General Electric Co. says it will invest $550 million to build a research center in Brazil. Science and Technology Minister Aloizio Mercadante says General Electric’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt announced the investment plans during a Wednesday meeting with President Dilma Rousseff. Read Article
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Brazilian authorities say they have arrested nearly 20 police officers suspected of taking part in a death squad that allegedly murdered and tortured innocent women and children. Read Article
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The Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) is a specific anarchist organization in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded on August 30, 2003, the FARJ identifies its origins in the work of militants as Ideal Peres (1925-1995), his father Juan Perez Bouzas (or João Peres) (1899-1958), José Oiticica (1882-1957) among others. It […]
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According to Argentine sources the joint declaration reaffirms the “importance of the strategic relation between both countries” and is the continuation of what was agreed during the recent presidential summit of Dilma Rousseff with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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Brazil and Argentina came out Friday against a French proposal to be put to the G20 to regulate commodity prices whose recent rises are blamed for a spike in food costs. IMF chief urges global monetary reform. Read Article
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More than a quarter of wireless customers in Brazil indicate they are likely to switch carriers in the next 12 months, according to the J.D. Power do Brasil 2011 Wireless Satisfaction Study. Read Article
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At least three consortia will bid in April for the right to build and run a high-speed railway in Brazil, the head of the nation’s transport regulator told Reuters on Friday. The auction for one of the key infrastructure projects ahead of the 2016 Olympics was delayed last year to allow time for more companies […]
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sustainable palm oil production, with an initiative that brings a new crop to its Brazilian supply chain. ADM is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a multi-stakeholder organization that has been working to transform the supply chain for palm oil since 2004. The oil is used widely in consumer food products, as […]
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Sugar prices are unlikely to fall in the second quarter from current levels near three-decade highs, even with the start of a big harvest in Brazil, as rising supply is met with the unleashing of pent-up demand. Read Article
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Brazilian mining giant Vale SA (VALE, VALE5.BR) said Thursday that protesters closed the Carajas railroad Wednesday for more than five hours and continue to hold six workers hostage. Read Article
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Hundreds of people, including over 80 Amazonian Indians, gathered yesterday outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace to protest at the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon rainforest. Read Article
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Officials in Brazil say at least five inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the northeast, including some who were decapitated. Read Article
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Extraordinary film footage narrated by movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival International’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.
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Brazilian soccer player William Morais, 19, who played for the team America in Minas Gerais after being loaned by Corinthians, was murdered Sunday while resisting a carjacking, police said.Read Article
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Rio de Janeiro police, with the support of the armed forces and other security agencies, on Sunday occupied nine “favelas,” or shantytowns, which were dominated by drug gangs and did so “without a single shot,” officials said. Read Article
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Last year’s severe drought in the Amazon will pump billions of tonnes of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a new report has found. Researchers calculate that millions of trees died in 2010, which means the Amazon is soaking up much less CO2 from the atmosphere, and those dead trees will now release all […]
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Brazil’s buoyant economy is suffering under the double whammy of a strong real and competition from cheaper Chinese goods that are chipping away at the Latin American country’s global market share. Read Article
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Four Cities were hit that will host World Cup A widespread blackout cut power to millions of people across Brazil’s northeast Friday, but officials insisted the accident should not raise worries about the energy supply in a nation that will host an Olympics and a World Cup. Read Article
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The Ministry of Health (Sesau) is a new warning to the public about the increasing number of dengue cases reported in Alagoas. In January this year, were reported 369 dengue cases, while in the same period last year, there were 247 notifications. The superintendent of the Health Surveillance Sesau, Sandra Canuto, recalled that the State, […]
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A total of 877 deaths were reported as a result of torrential rains in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro, a tragedy that President Dilma Rousseff wants to prevent in the future by changing the national civil defense strategy. Read Article
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Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border. Read Article
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The growing presence of Chinese and Brazilian capital in Latin America’s energy sector is facilitating the construction of hydroelectric complexes, but is also the fuelling nationalist stances that are adding to the environmental criticisms of those major projects. Read Article
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Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. Read Article
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Severe floods triggered by torrential downpours have killed at least six people in southern Brazil and driven thousands from their homes. The Civil Defense department in Santa Catarina state says the floods that began in mid-January have forced nearly 21,000 people to leave their homes and 71 cities to declare a state of emergency. Read […]
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A tool developed by the owners of Edinburgh Zoo is helping preserve the wetlands of Brazil. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has created special software to assist in the conservation of the Pantanal freshwater wetlands in the South American country. Read Article
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Brazilian carrier TAM Airlines is expanding its fleet on the back of rising demand for domestic flights across the vast country. The airline is to add two Airbus A330s, two A321s and three A319s to its fleet to meet domestic demand which is forecast to soar by as much as 18% this year. Read Article
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New Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is in Argentina on her first foreign trip to talk about nuclear energy and trade with President Cristina Fernandez. It’s the first time both South American countries are led by women. Read Article
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Brazil monitors many such tribes from the air, and they are known as “uncontacted” because they have only limited contact dealings with the outside world. Photographs of the same tribe were released to the world two years ago. Campaigners say the Panoan Indians are threatened by a rise in illegal logging on the Peruvian side […]
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If Wikileaks documents are any indication, Chinese investors might have a big surprise in store as they continue their push into Latin America. In their effort to extract raw resources, the Chinese have fared relatively well in such areas of the globe as Africa. However, recently disclosed U.S. cables hint that Latin America may not […]
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A consumer-advocate organization and local news media are reporting that Chile’s top antitrust authorities have suspended a merger between Chilean airline LAN and Brazilian airline TAM. The daily newspaper La Tercera is reporting that the five members of the Court for the Defense of Free Competition agreed to suspend the merger while they determine whether […]
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PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Brazilian government has issued a “partial” installation license allowing the Belo Monte Dam to break ground on the Amazon’s Xingu River despite egregious disregard for human rights and environmental legislation, the unwavering protests of civil society and condemnations by its Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF). The license was approved by Brazil’s environmental […]
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This weekend, the Brazilian police recovered five stolen shot in the past 48 hours, in the area of Foz de Iguazu (Brazil), about to cross the border into CDE. En lo que va del año suman 23 las recuperaciones. So far this year add up to 23 recoveries. Read Article Opinion
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Brazil’s largest airline, TAM Linhas Aereas, said on Tuesday it expects growth in demand for domestic flights to slow to between 15 and 18 percent in 2011, but to remain supported by robust tourist and business travel. Read Article
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New highways stretching across South America from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans will consolidate Brazil’s role as the continent’s leader and give it an alternative export outlet to Asia. The roads won’t redraw global trade patterns the way the Panama Canal did, but their impact could be considerable. Read Article
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If all goes according to plan, a collaborative project involving Earth Networks of Germantown and a Brazilian agency could predict severe thunderstorms up to 30 minutes before they hit. Read Article
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U-blox has announces the immediate availability of an off-the-shelf reference design for the Brazilian stolen vehicle tracking (SVT) market. The design, the C16-G26Q, addresses all key requirements of the Brazilian National Transportation Department (DENATRAN) to equip all vehicles with SVT devices to discourage theft and facilitate stolen vehicle recovery. Read Article
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It is mere ignorance that stands in the way of Brazil having a broad network of navigable waterways and leads to the wasted potential of the country’s great rivers, laments José Alex de Oliva, superintendent of inland navigation at Brazil’s national waterways transport regulator (ANTAQ). Read Article
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Argentina Federal Police requested assistance from the Brazilian Federal Police, based on the state of Rio Grande do Sul, for investigation of assault on Banco Provincia. Argentine agents are investigating whether the attackers fled across the border between the two countries. Read Article
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Heavy rainfalls in Sao Paulo has flooded highways and disrupted traffic, prompting the mayor’s office to issued a warning to the people of the city, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Brazilian officials said hundreds of others were missing. They also mentioned the number of deaths might surpass 1,000 in the coming days. Read Article
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With three new actions that occurred between Sunday night and yesterday morning, came to 38 the number of farms invaded or demarcated camps with the wing of the Landless Movement (MST), led by Jose Rainha Junior, in western Sao Paulo State . The group of seven invasions count Queen says in the Pontal, in the […]
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UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said that the UN is paying close attention to the tragedy in Brazil caused by the rains and is waiting for its government to make a call for humanitarian help to send some aid. Nesirky said that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is aware of the situation and is also extremely […]
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Governments throughout Latin America are ramping up dengue prevention campaigns after 1.5 million people were infected and over 1,000 people in the region died of the disease in 2010. There have already been deaths from dengue fever this year, the most recent one in Perú, where the deaths are exceeding hospital capacity – and it […]
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From January 02 through January 13th, 2011, the Department of Health in Espirito Santo have recorded 548 cases of dengue fever. The state is now on alert. Most outbreaks of dengue fever is found in houses, flower pots, and pools of water. Read Article
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70 cities have enacted emergency situation in Minas Gerais. According to the latest bulletin from the state Civil Defense, released on Thursday, four more cities declared a state of emergency on Wednesday. Guaraciaba, Inhapim, Maria da Fé and Itamonte.
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O Globo reported on Wednesday a transvestite was murdered in Carjacica. He was standing near a motel he would often meet customers. A vehicle approached him with two people. One of the occupants exited the vehicle and shot the victim.
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Rescue crews are working to reach survivors after torrential summer rains devastated the area around Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 14,000 have been left homeless. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff promises aid for the region. Read Article
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Brazil will offer $1 billion in reverse currency swaps today as it buys dollars in the futures market for the first time in 21 months to protect the real from the global currency war. Read Article
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Yesterday in Rio state, more than 250 died in the areas worst flood in its history. The victims were in a single day by deluged with unexpected heavy rains that lashed the mountainous area. The phenomenon also affects Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo. Read Article
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The Government allocated 1,080 million reais for the purchase of drugs, vehicles, sprayers, larvicides, and educational material. Epidemics such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever resurgence due to climate change. The Government of Brazil, at the initiative of President Dilma Rousseff, today launched an ambitious plan to combat the spread of dengue, which involved thirteen […]
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Argentina will import an additional 3 billion pesos (750 million US dollars) in 100-peso notes from state-owned mint Cada de Moeda do Brasil, central bank President Mercedes Marco del Pont said Monday. Argentina originally signed an accord in November with the Rio de Janeiro-based mint to produce 130 million 100- peso notes. Read Article
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SINCE last summer, when the Federal Reserve turned back on the liquidity taps, the flow has been largely to developing economies. Rather like financial bathtubs, popular emerging markets in South America, Asia and even Africa have been attracting vast amounts of frothy hot money, and developing world currencies have appreciated immensely. Read Article
Heavy flooding in Brazil kills 35, leaves thousands homeless, and submerges nearly 60 cities in four states. Brazilian authorities said the number of people left homeless by flooding has risen to about 100,000 in four southeastern states. Reports from regional civil defense authorities showed that Minas Gerais state had been hit the hardest, with 16 […]
Solaria of Spain is to build its first solar power plant in Brazil with the help of Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais, according to Spanish newspaper Cinco Días. The photovoltaic (PV) plant is scheduled to become operational in the first half of 2011, the report said. Read Article
razil is set this year to authorize building four additional atomic atomic energy stations, Energy Minister Edison Lobao said on Friday. “We will approve the construction of these four (plants) this year,” the Xinhua News Agency quoted Lobao as saying. Read Article
Brazil had a record year exporting coffee in 2010, bringing in $5.7 billion from the bitter beans and consolidating its position as easily the world’s biggest coffee producer, data released Monday showed. Brazil’s Council of Coffee Exporters (CECAFE) said in a statement that revenue was 33 percent higher than for 2009 and that the volume […]
As my colleague Jonathan Wheatley reports on beyondbrics, the FT’s emerging markets blog, it seems there is an embryonic plan to set up a stock trading platform that would challenge BM&FBovespa, the monopoly exchange in Brazil. Read Article
According to SOS Mata Atlantica Foundation, an NGO which works for the protection of the Atlantic Forest, 30 percent of Brazilian water sources have poor quality, an official news agency informed. After analyzing 43 water sources in 12 States and in the Federal District the foundation reported that 25 percent of them have poor quality […]
Swiss private equity firm Partners Group has opened its fourteenth office, in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, to support investments and the firm’s “growing” number of client relationships in the fast-growing Latin American economy. Read Article
Brazil’s inflation jumped to 5.9 percent in 2010, its highest rate in six years, according to the state statistics agency. The increase in consumer prices, from 4.3 percent in 2009, was far higher than the 4.5 percent target eyed by the government and suggested Brazil’s central bank would soon be forced to again raise its […]
Parker Hannifin Corporation, a global leader in motion and control technologies with bases in Norfolk, Herts and Milton Keynes, has made a key acquisition in Latin America. It has acquired HDA Acessorios e Equipamentos Ltd. in Sao Paulo. HDA is a manufacturer of hydraulic filters and accessories typically used in the mobile equipment, industrial and […]
Head of Iran-Brazil Friendship Association Mir-Qassem Mo’meni said a large delegation of Iranian businessmen are due to visit Brazil in mid February in a bid to study market potentials and interest in Iranian products in the Latin American country. Read Article