State-controlled Petrobras said Tuesday that it is prepared to offer Brazil's striking oil workers a bigger share of the company's healthy profits. "We are open to dialogue with the unions,&qu…
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Archive for March 24th, 2009
Petrobras Makes Overture to Brazil
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Kaka doubtful for Brazil
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Kaka missed training with Brazil to treat a left foot injury on Tuesday, and team doctors weren't sure he would be available for this weekend's World Cup qualifier against hometown Ecuador. Inter Mil…
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Gang members killed in Brazilian shootout
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Mar 24 2009 WalesOnline A shootout between Brazilian police and Rio de Janeiro gang members left five suspects dead near the famed Copacabana beach. Police said the suspected thieves killed were t…
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World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Loan Will Aid Embraer Sales
Posted in March 24th, 2009
Brazil will lend 0 million for Argentina’s biggest airline, the state-owned Aerolineas Argentinas, to buy 20 planes from the Brazilian aircraft-maker Embraer. The Embraer 190 models, which seat up to 114 people, will be delivered over five years, said Ivan Ramalho, executive secretary of the ministry. Embraer said in February it would reduce 20 percent [...]
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Brazil striker Robinho wants Pele to apologize
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Robinho, who plays for Manchester City in the Premier League, threatens legal action if the soccer great does not comply. Pele also implicated Ronaldo, another Brazilian star, in his comments to a Bra…
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Coir exporters bet on Latin America
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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KOCHI: Coir Board is promoting coir geotextiles and other coir products in new markets like Latin American countries in the context of the international year of natural fibre declared by the Food a…
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LEVEL Vision Electronics Add Sales Forecast of Over $US 25 Million From Its Latin American Customers
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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LVLV ) has received its forecast from its Latin American customers and expects Orders of more than $US 25 Million for 2009. LEVEL Vision Electronics has been negotiating and homologating products…
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Brazil and South Africa to co-operate during 2010 World Cup
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Johannesburg – South Africa and Brazil have all the necessary measures in place to co-operate on security issues during the 2010 World Cup South African media reported on Tuesday. The South African Pr…
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Southern Command Baseball Team Embarks on
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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By Petty Officer 1st Class Gino FloresSpecial to American Forces Press Service MIAMI, March 24, 2009 A baseball team representing U.S. Southern Command will begin a 25-day “friendship tour”…
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Five die in shootout between gang and Brazil police
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
A shootout between Brazilian police and Rio de Janeiro gang members has left five suspects dead near the famed Copacabana beach.Police said the suspected thieves killed were trying to rob a car in the…
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CME Group to Offer South American Incentive Program
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
South American Incentive Program that will enable South American-based banks to receive discounted trading fees for propriety trading of CME Group products, scheduled to begin
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UK PM Brown Heads To EU Parliament, US, Latin America Pre-G20
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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to make an address to the European Parliament, days after a European Union summit focused on the global economic slowdown. From the French city he is due to fly to
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Mottaki due in Brazil on Wednesday
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Tehran, March 24, IRNA – Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due in Brazil on Wednesday heading a high-ranking delegation to meet his Brazilian counterpart.
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Stocks Leap In Reaction To U.S. Plan To Rid Banks Of Toxic Assets
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Latin American equity markets surged Monday, rallying alongside Wall Street after the U.S. government unrolled blueprints for getting rid of as much as
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Petrobras workers launch 5-day strike in Brazil
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Tens of thousands of Brazilian oil workers launched a five-day strike yesterday, halting production in one refinery and at several offshore platforms and onshore oil wells, a union spokesman said. The…
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Las Vegas impersonator jailed in South America
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
A Las Vegas celebrity impersonator is in a South American jail. She's been there for weeks because she took the stage instead of singer Toni Braxton. At first glance, the performer you watch on st…
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Brazilians Affected by Dams Hold a Week of Protests
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Brazil's Movement of Those Affected by Dams (MAB – Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens) conducted a series of activities in protest against the construction of hydroelectric dams in honor of the…
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Snubbing Washington and Pampering Havana
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
It comes as no surprise that after decades of playing the role of hemispheric hegemon, the United States at the same time has created a critical mass that has inadvertently resulted in a backlash thro…
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Brazil economy growing at snail
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Economists expect Brazil's economy to expand at the slowest pace in 17 years this year as companies cut jobs and consumers scale back spending. Economists covering Brazil's economy forecast the cou…
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Brazil beat Argentina 4-1 in indoor soccer
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 23 (Xinhua) — Brazil team beat their arch-rivals Argentina 4-1 on Monday in the International Challenge of Indoor Soccer. In the stadium named after Brazil's star player Falcao…
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U.S. soccer team expects hostile crowd for qualifier in El Salvador
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Oguchi Onyewu of the U.S. Men's Soccer team celebrates scoring a goal with head coach Bob Bradley during the FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying match between Cuba and the USA on October 11, 2008 at RFK St…
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Brazil aims to boost ecotourism
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Berlin – Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach first comes to mind when people envision Brazil or perhaps the sprawling favelas around the big cities. The world's fifth largest country, regularly criticiz…
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Brazil shows strong signs of recovery
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that the worst part of the economic crisis has passed and the country already shows "extraordinary" signs of recovery. "I belie…
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Continental Airlines Receives Tentative DOT Authority for Daily Nonstop Flights Between Houston and Rio de Janeiro
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Authority includes through flight service to New Orleans Continental Airlines has announced that it has received tentative approval from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to operate daily year-r…
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US Airways Awarded New Brazil Route
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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Airline Plans to Begin Its First-Ever Service to South America Later This Year The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it has tentatively awarded US Airways new route authority t…
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Getting on the Plane for Democracy in El Salvador
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
San Salvador, El Salvador ––– Imagine caring about an election so much, you’d be willing to go a long way to participate. Come election time, many Americans have a tough time making it to a lo…
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The Latin-american Economic Outlook Report 2009, Prepared By The Oecd, Will Be Presented At The Oas
Posted in March 24th, 2009
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The Latin-American Economic Outlook report 2009, prepared by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will be presented during the Fifteenth OAS Policy Roundtable of the Orga…
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* Change is coming to El Salvador, but it may not be so joyous
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009, Page 9 Back in his radical days, former London mayor Ken Livingstone famously quipped that if voting changed anything, they would abolish it. It turns out that in Latin America…
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Newest LNG Plant Erases Blackout Threats
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
will not have energy problems," he said, adding that when water levels for Brazil's hydroelectric dam dependent energy grid are too low for electric power companies to operate at full capacity,
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Brazilian mobile base totals 152.36m in February
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
The number of registered SIM cards in Brazil totalled 152.36 million at the end of February 2009, up 415,909 (0.27%) on the month of January, according to data published by the local telecoms regulato…
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Brazil and Argentina Form United Front Against Chinese Invasion
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
The recent Brazil-Argentina summit, with the master touch of Brazilian diplomacy, not only sent a clear political message of understanding between Mercosur main partners, but also evidence of that clo…
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Brazil Supreme Rules Kuwait-Size Territory Belongs to Amazon Indians
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Indians from the Brazilian Amazon have won a major victory with Brazil's Supreme Court upholding the integrity of a vast native reserve in the northern state of Roraima next to Venezuela. The…
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Kerry seeks legal status for Brazil gay man
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
Sen. John Kerry has asked the Obama administration to grant asylum to a gay man who was forced to return to Brazil after he was married to a U.S. citizen in Massachusetts.
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Vasco maintain charge at top of table
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Editor in Breaking News
The fourth-round derby at the Maracana was a very hot tempered affair with five players sent off – Vasco trio Ramon, Carlos Alberto and Ibson and Flamengo duo Willians and Leonardo Moura.Elton opened …
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World Business Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: Petrobras Strike Impact
Posted in March 24th, 2009
A strike by Petrobras workers cut output at refineries in Brazil and also temporarily halted crude production of 60,000 barrels a day and 1.4 million cubic meters of natural gas, union officials said.
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