Sep 18 2010
Brazil’s ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff remains on track to win next month’s election in the first round despite an ethics scandal involving her party, two opinion polls showed on Friday. In an Ibope survey, Rousseff...
Jul 20 2010
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are under renewed pressure to bulletproof up to 200 schools in conflict-stricken areas, after an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet during a maths lesson. According to reports in the local press city authorities...
Jun 23 2010
Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras announced Monday that it plans to invest $224 billion between this year and 2014, a 20 percent increase over its previous five-year investment program. Petrobras, Brazil’s largest company and one of...
May 13 2010
When the wife of an Amazonian electrical technician, Walter Carvalho de Almeida, gave birth to his first daughter in September 2008, it was the realisation of a long-held dream – he could name one of his own children after two lifelong heroes. Paying...
May 8 2010
It has taken four years and more than £3m to produce a remarkable production called Amazonas, a multimedia, transcultural German-Brazilian tragic opera, developed in four languages, that will have its world premiere this weekend. Perhaps...
Apr 20 2010
Brazilian police have detained an 83-year-old priest after a congressional hearing produced allegations he molested boys as young as 12, fueling a growing scandal involving Roman Catholic clergy across Latin America. The pedophilia allegations against...
Feb 23 2010
At least one person was killed and 20 others were wounded in fights between fans of soccer clubs Palmeiras and Sao Paulo over the weekend in Brazil, the press reported Monday. At least six direct clashes between rival fans occurred Sunday afternoon and...
Dec 3 2009
rosecutors and police raided a stockbroking company Wednesday in connection with Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque’s decision last month to place four commercial banks under state control. Only hours later, President Hugo Chávez issued a...
Nov 26 2009
The United States risks souring relations with much of Latin America if it recognizes a presidential election in Honduras on Sunday, the foreign policy adviser to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said in an interview on Wednesday.
Nov 9 2009
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American...