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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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…
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…
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…
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 [...]
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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
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
Tehran, March 24, IRNA – Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due in Brazil on Wednesday heading a high-ranking delegation to meet his Brazilian counterpart.
Latin American equity markets surged Monday, rallying alongside Wall Street after the U.S. government unrolled blueprints for getting rid of as much as
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 …
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.