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Brazil Finance Minister Announces Budget Cuts
Share/Bookmark Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega announced yesterday that the country will cut 28bn reales (US$13.7 bn) in spending for this year's budget, mainly due to slower economic growth than ...
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Latin America Amnesty Releases Annual Human Rights Report
annual report for 2013 , in which it highlights the main issues affecting human rights globally and in Latin America. The 2013 report focused much of its attention on the plight of migrants and refugees, and in this context the organisationurged the US government to reconsider its immigration laws as hundreds of Latin American citizens risk their lives every year in illegal border ...
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Brazil - Brazilian court upholds ban on development protestor
ARTICLE 19 is disappointed with the decision of a court in Sao Paulo to uphold a ban against a protester who has been campaigning against a property development in the city. The Court of Justice in the State of So Paulo has approved an injunction against the engineer and community activist Ricardo Fraga Oliveira, founder of the Movement for the Other Side of the Wall campaign.Fraga, who is a ...
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President Carlos Mauricio Funes of El Salvador Visits Pope Francis
Pope Francis met this morning with Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, President of El Salvador at the Apostolic Palace today. Shortly after his meeting with the Holy Father, President Funes met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, who was accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with ...
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Massive fuel-depot fire breaks out in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO -; A massive fire broke out Thursday at a fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, sending bright orange flames leaping high into the air and thick black smoking rolling upward and enveloping the ...
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Brazils ViaVarejo CEO quits cites Po de Acar meddling-letter
SAO PAULO | Thu May 23, 2013 12:22pm EDT SAO PAULO May 23 (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Brazilian appliance and furniture retailer ViaVarejo said on Thursday he quit because of strategic differences with executives of the controlling Grupo Po de Acar, according to his resignation letter that Reuters obtained. Antonio Ramatis Rodrigues took the helm at ViaVarejo just six ...
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Brazil Limits First Pre-Salt Oil Auction to Libra Field
Brazil 's first auction for the so-called pre-salt region that holds the country's largest discoveries will be limited to one field, the ...
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Brazil oil prospect Libra has up to 42 bln barrels of oil -ANP
RIO DE JANEIRO | Thu May 23, 2013 11:40am EDT RIO DE JANEIRO May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's Libra prospect in the subsalt area that will be auctioned in the second half of October has between 26 billion and 42 billion barrels of in-place oil, Magda Chambriard, director of the ANP oil agency said on Thursday. "This is really different; it's very big," she said of a column ...
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Brazilian Tennist Player Pereira in Roland Garros Qualifying
Paris, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Brzilian tennis player Teliana Pereira advanced today to the third stage of the Roland Garros' qualifying, defeating Canadian Stephanie Dubois by a double 6-3. The also Brazilian Joao Souza, ninth, was eliminated on Thursday at the sam stage, after losing with the Spanish Pablo Carreno-Busta, with partial 1-6, 6-2, 1-6. Two other Latin American, Ecuadorian ...
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Brazilian Paralympic Committee sign agreement to develop winter sport ahead of Sochi 2014
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Fluminense Draw in Libertadores Daily
Robbie Blakeley By Robbie Blakeley, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Fluminense drew 0-0 with Paraguayan outfit Olimpia in the first leg of ...
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Indie Shop Mother Plots Expansion to Brazil
Independent agency Mother is planning to open its fourth office in Brazil next year and has asked creative Gustavo Sousa to lead the charge. ...
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El Salvador presses pope on Romero beatification
Pope Francis speaks with El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes as they stand in front of a reliquary containing a fragment of the vestment that archbishop Oscar Romero was wearing when he was assassinated, during a private audience at the Vatican Thursday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandro Bianchi, ...
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Political participation in Latin America still low Report
New York, May 23 : Indigenous peoples in Latin America have undergone an unprecedented mobilization in the past 20 years, but political participation, particularly among women, is still low, the United Nations said in a new ...
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In Brazil Let The Lay-Offs Begin
Unemployment inched up in Brazil in April and is expected to end the year around 6.5%, according to the International Monetary Fund. After years of record low unemployment, lackluster investment by corporations, and sub par growth last year is finally weighing in. Earlier on Thursday, the Brazilian Institute for Statistics, known as IBGE, showed that the April unemployment rate rose to 5.8% ...
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Pope Salvador president discuss beatification of slain archbishop
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, on the road to Roman Catholic ...
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Brazilian little step dance evolves online
It involves dexterous footwork and stylish movements of the upper body and arms, which are reminiscent of breakdancing and other urban dance styles. Clipe do Vinimax - Batalha do Passinhozejacy But hybridization and remixing have always been a characteristic of Brazilian culture in general, and this dance isn't any different. The Passinho dance style adapts elements of North American ...
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Brazil Unemployment Rises for Fourth-Consecutive Month in April
RIO DE JANEIRO--Brazil's unemployment rate climbed for a fourth-consecutive month in April and local wages continued to retreat as tight labor markets in Latin America's largest economy continued easing. Unemployment was 5.8% in April compared with 5.7% in March, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, said Thursday. The unemployment rate in April 2012 was ...
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U.S. Ambassador to Leave Brazil Daily
Ben Tavener By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter SO PAULO, BRAZIL - The United States has informed the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the current U.S. Ambassador to ...
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PT Q1 profit down 52 on Brazil forex impact
EUR634 .4 million, down 6.8% year-on-year, reflecting Portugal's challenging economic conditions and pricing pressure, as well as lower interconnection revenues among other factors. Brazilian telco Oi generated turnover ...
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STXNEWS LATAM-Brazils OSX fires 300 in restructuring -report
Thu May 23, 2013 7:48am EDT OSX Brasil SA, the shipyard and ship leasing company controlled by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista, fired 300 employees as part of an effort to cut costs, O Estado de S. Paulo said on Thursday. According to Estado, which did not cite anyone as the source for the information, the company decided to slow down construction of a shipyard until receiving new orders. The ...
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Northern Ireland healthcare firm lands business in Brazil
Arlene Foster attended South America's largest healthcare exhibition.The company currently employs around 110 people and exports to 55 countries including the ...
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Goal Why Time May Be Running Out for Brazil’s State Championships
Droylsden ? Run their finely tuned thoroughbreds into the ground for no financial gain? Hardly. Those seeking a soccer planner's dream gone mad should instead look to Brazil. The 27 deeply idiosyncratic estaduais (state championships) run from January until the middle of May (the biggest, the Campeonato Paulista, can last for up to 23 matches). After a generous seven days of rest, the ...
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Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture
The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to ...
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Infants to get free milk in Paraguay
ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack clean drinking ...
Rio de Janeiro Digest
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Rio's uphill battle to host the Games
Rio de Janeiro has many aspects, it is the party capital of Brazil, the internationally recognized face of the country, the most visited city in Brazil, the crime capital of South America, a city with some of the highest drug use statistics and, more recently, the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Winning that particular war has not been easy.
Rio de Janeiro, this bustling city of 6 million people (14 million if one includes the greater metro area) is the second largest city in Brazil and is famous for its statue Christ the Redeemer, which sits atop Corcovado Mountain and has looked down upon the city for almost 100 years. It is also famous for the internationally known Carnivale, the city’s samba schools, the fabulous beaches that grace our shoreline and Sugarloaf Mountain with its ancient cable car. Read more
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