...in New York slumped 3.9 percent Wednesday, down US$0.41 to US$10.14. Dilma Rousseff, chief of staff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, acknowledged Brazilian exporters like Vale are being squeezed by much lower global demand for everything from steel...
...on race and violence issues in Rio's slums. Six years ago the country elected its first working-class president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a white man who enjoys huge support among blacks. But only two of his 28 government ministers are black. In 2003 Brazil...
...RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to Rio de Janeiro slum residents on Thursday that new social and security projects would mark the end of years of state neglect and violent policing. In a rare visit to...
...governments who saw it as a continuation of their own electoral victories. Even before the election President Lula da Silva of Brazil said: "Just as Brazil elected a metal worker, Bolivia elected an Indian, Venezuela elected Chavez and Paraguay a bishop, I...
...Dantas still faces the charges he was arrested under in July, which relate to a financial scandal that hit President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaâs first administration. In the âmensalao,â or monthly allowance, scandal, the opposition alleged that undeclared...
...costs" to Brazil. Â Â Â Â The program will be a key part of the measures the Brazilian government, led by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is adopting to tackle the international economic slowdown, she said. Â Â Â Â "The PAC produces a high-level of public and...
...visited China in April of this year, and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa in November 2007. Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva visited the country in 2004. Beyond growing trade and political ties, perhaps the most significant development between...
...and orderly distribution are keys to breaking the logistical logjam and supplying relief.â Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed Monday that Santa Catarina will be rebuilt as it was prior to the flooding. âWe cannot lose hope,â Lula said, according...
...New York slumped 8.3 per cent Tuesday afternoon, down 87 cents to $9.68. Dilma Rousseff, chief of staff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, acknowledged Brazilian exporters are being squeezed by much lower global demand for everything from steel to soy....
...-- that Medvedev has visited in the past two weeks. Less than a week ago in Brazil, Medvedev and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva called for the BRIC countries to hold a summit for the first time next year. "The financial crisis, which we haven't started...