RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines in t…
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Archive for September 29th, 2008
Stocks Plunge As Lawmakers Reject U.S. Bailout Package
Posted in September 29th, 2008
"Everybody took for granted that this would be approved…but the fact is this [bill rejection] is extremely bad for the markets," said Vitoria Saadi, lead Latin American analyst at RGE Monitor. "It…
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Brazilian president okays Portuguese spelling reform
Posted in September 29th, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement to implement spelling reforms in the Portuguese language. The agreement was signed Monday in …
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Traveling the Globe — Just to Get to Class - Wall Street Journal
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Traveling the Globe — Just to Get to ClassWall Street Journal - 22 hours agoIn that program, students travel to several locations for a week every other month. Flavio Fernandes travels nearly every three weeks from San Paulo, Brazil …
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TAM Brazil Airpass - 2009 - e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
Posted in September 29th, 2008
TAM Brazil Airpass - 2009e-Travel Blackboard (press release), Australia - Sep 28, 2008TAM Brazil AIRPASS was created for foreign and Brazilian nationals residing abroad who wish to travel within Brazil on flights operated by TAM (JJ) at an …
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PAHO and PAHEF Present Inter-American Leadership Award to Dr. Cesar Victora of Brazil
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Posted on: Monday, 29 September 2008, 18:00 CDT To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Dana Weckesser, +1-202-974-3103, Fax +1-202-974-3636, weckessd@pahef.org WASHINGTON,Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — T…
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Brazil stocks tumble as US bailout plan fails - Summary
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro - For the first time in close to a decade the Brazilian stock exchange in Sao Paulo had to suspend activities for half an hour Monday, after its Bovespa index crashed 10.6 per…
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Stocks plunge as lawmakers reject U.S. bailout package
Posted in September 29th, 2008
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Equity markets across Latin America plunged Monday, knocked sharply lower as U.S. lawmakers voted to reject the Bush Administration's 0 billion plan to rescue the finan…
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Remittances, exports — Latin America has reasons to worry over U.S. financial crisis
Posted in September 29th, 2008
QUITO, ECUADOR — After being lectured for 20 years about the superiority of the free market, officials in Latin America see no small irony in the effort to bail out the U.S. banking system. Latin…
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Brazil August Electricity Demand Up 6.4% On Year
Posted in September 29th, 2008
, the engine of Brazil's industrial economy, saw electric power demand rise 6.4% in August, the highest level for the year. Residential and commercial consumption of energy has surpassed that of the …
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US$ 684 Million in Losses
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Regular Brazilian airlines incurred losses of 1.27 billion reais (US$ 684.4 million) in 2007. The negative operational result was published in the 2007 Air Transport Directory - Economic Data, disclos…
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Stocks Plunge As Lawmakers Reject U.S. Bailout Package
Posted in September 29th, 2008
"Everybody took for granted that this would be approved…but the fact is this [bill rejection] is extremely bad for the markets," said Vitoria Saadi, lead Latin American analyst at RGE Monitor. "It…
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Amazon destruction up sharply
Posted in September 29th, 2008
File photo of trees bowing over seasonal high waters in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. (Will and Deni McIntyre, Getty Images) RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazilian officials say the Amazon is being …
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Travelocity Joins the South American Travel Stampede - BNET
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Travelocity Joins the South American Travel StampedeBNET, Ca - 3 hours agoAccording to another report, almost 60 percent of the new hotel projects in South America are in Brazil, and more than half are independent. …
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Bonnie's South America Travel Blog - About - News & Issues
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Bonnie's South America Travel BlogAbout - News & Issues, NY - 4 hours ago… show begins in world famous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and jets off to its first stop of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. …
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Latin American stocks plunge on fears global crisis will worsen
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Alan Clendenning September 29, 2008 - 3:58 p.m. SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Latin American stocks plunged Monday as the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a US0 billion bailout package meant …
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Amazon destruction is rising again
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Police in Belem, Brazil, guard a raft in March that is loaded with logs that were illegally cut in the Amazon, where destruction jumped 228 percent in August when compared to the same month a year …
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Where was Latin America in the Debate
Posted in September 29th, 2008
NEW YORK — Within the past few weeks many significant foreign policy events have occurred impacting U.S. and Latin America relations — Russia stepping up arms negotiations and joint military exercis…
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Brazilian stocks plunge 10 percent
Posted in September 29th, 2008
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Latin American stocks plunged in intraday trading Monday as the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a US0 billion bailout package meant to reboot the global economy.
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Brazilian stock exchange suspends trading after 10 per cent crash
Posted in September 29th, 2008
Sao Paulo - For the first time in close to a decade, the Brazilian stock exchange in Sao Paulo had to suspend its activities for half an hour Monday, after its Bovespa index crashed 10.6 per cent. The…
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