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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"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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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 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 - 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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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"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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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They blame higher global food prices for a sharp increase in illegal logging as soy farmers and cattle ranchers clear rain forest for crops and grazing land.Authorities say 756 square kilometers (292 …

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The Bush administration has requested that Bolivia be removed as a beneficiary country under the Andean Trade Preference Act and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) The ATPA …

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A new round of talks between the government and the opposition are set to be held in Cochabamba, central Bolivia, amid high expectations of a possible agreement between the two parties. The talks on …

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazilian officials say the Amazon is being deforested more than twice as fast as last year.They blame higher global food prices for a sharp increase in illegal logging as s…

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. Equally forthright was the man widely regarded as the world's best futsal player, Brazil legend Falcao: "If we need to play ugly football in all nine games in order to win the cup then that…

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-(Dow Jones)- Brazil's Ibovespa stocks index was down 6.1% in late morning trade at 47,850 points on the Brazilian Stock Exchange, or Bovespa, intensifying its fall from the start of the day Monday.

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"Order routing linkage will enable customers in more than 80 countries, using the CME Globex electronic trading platform, to trade BM&FBovespa products directly," the exchanges said in a joint s…

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A spokeswoman for Vale was responding to renewed complaints from Chinese steelmakers Sunday about Vale's plans to raise ore prices by around 11%. Shougang Corp. Chairman Zhu Jimin said Sunday the Chi…

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Travel Green - The AmazonAbout - News & Issues, NY - 8 hours agoIt also applies to travel in the form of eco-tourism, which has become more popular in the last decade or so. The Amazon, described by the Weather Channel, …

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Airlines Touting Brazil as New HotspotGadling, CA - 9 hours agoby Josh Lew Sep 29th 2008 @ 1:30PM South America's destinations are hard to travel to. For people with samba fever outside of a few major hub cities (like …

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Ras Al Khaimah Football Club has not had a good run recently. Al Ittihad beat Ras Al Khaimah convincingly in an away game and they have already lost to rivals Emirates. In the two matches they only sc…

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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia : At first glance around this rebellious city, President Evo Morales seemed to have suffered a sharp setback this month. Mobs looted nearly every federal building, strewing offices…

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Long Island pilots two years ago are still seeking answers from the government on the cause of the accident, the official Agencia Brasil news service said Sunday. Families of the victims celebrated…

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Iraq lose appeal, Qatar able to play onESPN - 10 hours agoThe Iraqi Football Association appealed to the CAS after Qatar fielded Brazil-born Emerson in their clash in March. FIFA had earlier determined that despite …

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Air travellers oppose mobile phones in flight: surveyAFP - 10 hours agoCustomers in five Asian markets — Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand — were surveyed along with those in Brazil, Britain, Canada, …

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Wall Street Journal Blogs

Continental Airlines Offers Fare for US Helicopter Service …MarketWatch - 11 hours ago1 for travel through Oct. 31, 2008. Customers previously ticketed to travel within these dates may add the US Helicopter service at the discounted fare. …Continental Offers Bargain Helicopter Rides into Manhattan Wall Street Journal Blogsall 19 news articles

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Amazing Race Season 13: Excitement begins and new destinationsGadling, CA - 12 hours agoAlthough Salvador, the first colonial capital of Brazil, is known as being a fun and easy going place, our eleven new couple friends didn't have much time …

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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - Sept. 29, 2008) - Apogee Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:APE) today announced it has received the assay results from seventeen diamond drill holes completed at the Pulacayo …

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he mood was grim in the Buenos Aires offices of Lehman Brothers after the venerable Wall Street firm filed for bankruptcy. Jobs were on the line. But then came word that the Argentine operation would …

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SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR– Just six weeks after President Thomas S. Monson dedicated the Panama City Panama Temple, construction began on another future temple in Central America. On Sept. 20, member…

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A group of sympathizers of the party of Bolivian President Evo Morales, Movement to Socialism, who were blocking Santa Cruz, enter the city of Montero, 50 km north of Santa Cruz, on September 24, 2008…

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — Players brawled on the pitch during one Brazilian championship derby and fans clashed with riot police on the terraces during another on Sunday. The Internacional…

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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia : THE documentary on Bolivian state television opens with grainy images of leaders of the Ustashe, the fascist movement that ruled Croatia during World War II. The movie, part of a…

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Edited Press Release ZURICH -(Dow Jones)- Swiss goods inspection company SGS AG (SGSN.VX) Monday said it will acquire Servicos de Automacao PiD Ltda (PiD) Group in Brazil for an undisclosed sum. "SG…

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — In front of their home crowd, the Brazilian men's volleyball team lost on Sunday in the final match of the American Cup to the national team from Cuba. After havin…

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