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STXNEWS LATAM-Brazils Cielo faces regulatory noise ahead analysts say
Tue May 21, 2013 9:09am EDT Analysts at banks including BTG Pactual Group and Bank of America Merrill Lynch expect a decision to make the central bank the watchdog for the merchant acquiring industry. They also expect efforts by lawmakers to curb profits at card payment processors to escalate regulatory-related risks in the industry. A decision by the government to centralize all oversight of ...
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DB Schenker to Manage DAF Trucks Logistics Operation in Brazil
has selected DB Schenker in Brazil as its logistics service provider.The Brazilian arm of the global logistics provider will be responsible for export consolidation, supply chain visibility and import logistics in support of DAF Brazil's new truck assembly plant in Ponta Grossa, in the state of Paran. DB Schenker will be responsible for the door-to-door air and ocean transportation between ...
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Face of Defense Soldiers Cook Up Smiles in El Salvador
By Army Staff Sgt. Ian ShayU.S. Army South SONSONATE, El Salvador, May 21, 2013 Before coming to exercise Beyond the Horizon El Salvador 2013 here, soldiers might have expected to eat only a steady diet of packaged rations for the two-week duration. But fortunately for them, Joint Task Force Jaguar is equipped with Army-trained cooks and a mobile kitchen ...
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Brazil may use accounting gimmick to boost revenue-report
SAO PAULO | Tue May 21, 2013 8:35am EDT SAO PAULO May 21 (Reuters) - The Brazilian government could use an accounting gimmick to boost revenue and meet fiscal targets for this year, O Estado de S. Paulo reported on Tuesday, citing an executive decree. The decree, which was published this week in the government gazette, authorizes the government to bring forward about $15 billion from ...
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Brazil Mobile Subscribers Increased Slightly in April
Brazil's mobile-phone subscriptions in April rose at a slower pace from the prior month, while market leaders gained ground in the period, telecommunications regulator Anatel said late Monday.Total mobile-phone users in Brazil increased to 264.55 million, up 0.19% from March, Anatel said. A total of 500,000 new subscribers were signed, down from 1.01 million in the previous month. In March, ...
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Brazils CSN could see Asian partners exit Namisa unit -report
Tue May 21, 2013 8:06am EDT * Asian partners could exercise put option this July * JFE, Kobe, Posco-led group paid $3.1 bln for stake * CSN declines to comment on Valor report on Namisa SAO PAULO, May 21 (Reuters) - A group of Asian steelmakers that owns 40 percent of Brazilian iron ore producer Namisa could exercise an option to sell their stake to majority shareholder CSN as early as July, ...
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Telefonica MasterCard to launch first mobile money service in Brazil
Online journal MobilePaymentsToday reports that Telefonica (Vivo), the fixed and mobile operator owned by Telefonica of Spain, has established a Brazilian joint venture with MasterCard Worldwide to launch Brazil’s first mobile payment service. Dubbed 'Zuum', the new service will launch in five cities in the state of Sao Paulo and in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. It will be ...
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Credit Crazy Brazil Is Heading forTrouble
Brazil faced a minor bank run over the weekend sparked by false rumors over the country's social security fund, but one analyst told CNBC on Tuesday that the real issue facing the country's banking system is a runaway credit boom. Neal Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at macro-economic research firm Capital Economics told CNBC that the massive increase in credit in Brazil ...
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PMs South America trip turns focus from turmoil to trade
Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Peru and then to Colombia for trade talks this week - after he speaks to his caucus about a growing Senate expense scandal that claimed his chief of staff over the weekend. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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HRT announces drilling of well 1-HRT-11-AM concluded
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Brazil Lagging in Fight against Human Trafficking
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 20 2013 (IPS) - In contravention of international law, in Brazil trafficking in human beings remains invisible and unpunished, which encourages the practice of trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labour, illegal adoption and the trade in human organs, according to ...
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Biofuels a boon for Brazils rural poor but obstacles remain elsewhere | Paige McClanahan
Brazil , a country that is home to both a sizeable biofuels industry and about 4.1m small-scale family farms. But while some of the country's biofuels policies have fallen short, others have proved a boon to the rural poor. Smallholder farmers have seen their incomes rise thanks to the introduction of more progressive standards and new rules on contract negotiations."The numbers show ...
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Brazil main opposition party elects a new leader and 2014 presidential hopeful
Brazilian opposition unified over the weekend behind Aecio Neves who was elected by a landslide president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB. His naming opens the way for his candidacy to the 2014 presidential election, when President Dilma Rousseff will be bidding for another four ...
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U.S. womens soccer stars to Brazil
When it comes to foreign aid, sending soccer players to Brazil might seem a bit like shipping coals to Newcastle.But when those players are women, the story is different. As part of the State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative, retired U.S. women’s soccer players Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain (yes, the one who tore off her shirt) are traveling to ...
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Brazilian Jumper Threatens to Retire Before 2016 Olympics
Rio de Janeiro, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The Brazilian jumper Maureen Maggi could end her career before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro-2016 due to inattention, reports O Globo newspaper. Maggi, Olimpic golden medal in Beijing 2008, claimed "a structure behind me" before the appointment of Rio, if not "I retire because it would not be fair to the medal I have and it will be no ...
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Brazilian president denies plan to end subsidy to poor
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday strongly denied rumors that the government plans to end an income subsidy program called Bolsa Familia."I want to make it clear that my government's commitment to Bolsa Familia is strong, deep and definitive," Rousseff said at a completion ceremony of an oil tanker platform in northeastern Brazil."We will always guarantee the ...
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Brazil China to cooperate on digitalization of historical archives
Antunes said that Brazil can learn a lot from China when it comes to digital preservation of archives, as China has much more experience on this ...
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Pregnant Salvadoran woman Beatriz seeks life-saving abortion in El Salvador
The pregnant woman has lupus and doctors say her baby has anencephaly, a total or partial absence of the brain and the skull. Source: Quest Newspapers A pregnant, chronically ill Salvadoran woman testified before the Supreme Court to urge the justices to allow her to proceed with an an abortion that could save her life. Abortions are strictly forbidden in El Salvador, where the sentence for ...
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Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations meet Obama in US
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, and meet with US President Barack Obama in the United States on June 7-8, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced Tuesday.According to Qin, Xi's visits are at the invitation of President of Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Carmona, President of Costa Rica Laura ...
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Former Olympic champion Maggi ponders retirement
Brazil's former Olympic long jump champion Maurren Maggi has conceded her dream of competing at the Rio 2016 Games could be over after failing to qualify for this year's World Championships in Moscow.The 36-year-old managed a best jump of just 5.92 meters to finish in last place during her final World Championship qualifying event in Sao Paulo on Sunday.She blamed a lack of support and ...
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Zim to Boost Asia-South America Rates in Mid-June
will raise rates for all shipments on its trade from Asia to the east coast of South America, starting June 15.The increase will be $500 per 20-foot container and $1,000 per 40-foot container, the carrier said.Containerized exports from Far East Asia to South and Central ...
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Man Linked by U.S. to Hezbollah Is Arrested in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Brazilian police have arrested a businessman listed by the United States as a member of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group, under suspicion of operating a fraudulent scheme in the clothing industry -- a far cry from the arms, drugs, explosives and counterfeit bills that American officials have suspected him of trafficking in during the ...
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Fr. Lombardi Brazil Expected to Be Popes Only 2013 International Trip
Spokesman Also Confirms Benedict XVI's Move Back to the VaticanVATICAN CITY, April 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) - During a press conference at the Foreign Press Association headquarters in Rome, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, stated that the Pope's upcoming trip to Brazil for World Youth Day will be the only international trip for Pope Francis this ...
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Penn urges US to pressure Bolivia to free US man
WASHINGTON -- Actor Sean Penn is urging the U.S. government to pressure Bolivia to free an American businessman jailed there since 2011.Penn says international pressure is what Bolivian President Evo Morales needs to free Jacob Ostreicher of New York.Ostreicher was granted house arrest in December after being jailed 18 months without being charged with any crime. He was arrested in a money ...
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CTS Australasia Exports to South America Plummet
Containerized export volume from Australasia/Oceania to South and Central America steeply declined in March 2013, according to data from Container Trades Statistics ...
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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