The article quotes the following: "Speaking in Rio late in August 2008, the Minister of Defense Nelson Jobim explained that the modernization of Brazil’s defense required a massive transfer of technology from France - and that this was essential if Brazil
Senaten i Brasilien godkände på tisdagen en banbrytande lag som ska garantera nätneutralitet. 23 april 2014 president Dilma Rouseff har förklarat att hon ska underteckna lagen, som ska presenteras på en global konferens om internets framtid under onsdagen.
China and Brazil have signed several trade agreements on the sidelines of a shortened Bric summit in Brasilia. The deals are aimed at boosting trade and energy co-operation between the two states and include a pact to build a Chinese steel plant in Brazil
"The biggest Brazilian investor in Africa - and one of the biggest investors in the continent from anywhere - is Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, which is usually known as Vale. It is one of the three biggest mining companies in the world and is the world's biggest iron ore miner, controlling about 27% of the global market. It also produces coal, nickel, copper, bauxite, alumina, aluminium and a wide range of other commodities. As a result of the needs of its mining operations, it also invests heavily in power plants, railways and port infrastructure. Vale currently has investments totalling $7.7bn in nine African countries and plans to invest more than $18bn in Africa over the next five years but much will depend on the direction of global markets over that time." "The firm's biggest investment, however, is its Moatize coal mining project in the Moatize Basin of Tete Province in northwestern Mozambique."
An abandoned highrise building occupied by squatters in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil caught fire and collapsed Tuesday, sending chunks of fiery debris crashing...
By ALAN CLENDENNING The Associated Press Wednesday, January 27, 2010; 11:42 AM PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- Brazil's first working-class president got a hero's welcome at the World Social Forum, wowing 10,000 leftists with a vow to reproach the planet's busin
Joe Leahy, FT With additional reporting by Thalita Carrico in São Paulo? Comment by Gulliver, June 23: "High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e79204e-da5a-11e2-a237-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2X7DWghCS For a very long time the media has been trumpeting the emergence of a new middle class, proclaiming the amount of people “rescued” from poverty around the world. Is non-sense, what we have is a very large amount of shoppers who now can shop due to state hand-outs. If cheap credit (easy money) and state benefits are removed there will be a global meltdown and the end of it is inevitable because in the long run is unsustainable. This is probably just the beginning."
A temporary WhatsApp shutdown is not even close to the craziest thing happening with the Brazilian internet right now. If Brazil’s conservative Congress..
(Santiago, den 28 januari 2013). Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (Cloc VC) beklagar och fördömer mordet på ledaren för MST i Brasilien, Guedes Cicero dos Santos, 54, som sköts till döds 25 januari i Campos dos Goytacazes. Cicero deltog i ett möte på lägret och blev skjuten i ett bakhåll när han återvände med cykel till sitt hem i Zumbi Dos Palmares. Cicero var en av ledarna för MST i Rio de Janeiro.
Dave Zirin on June 26, 2013: As reported on the website of The Nation Institute, Galeano has spoken. Here is what he has to say. "As far as I’m concerned, the explosion of indignation in Brazil is justified. In its thirst for justice, it is similar to other demonstrations that in recent years have shaken many countries in many parts of the world. Brazilians, who are the most soccer-mad of all, have decided not to allow their sport to be used any more as an excuse for humiliating the many and enriching the few. The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. That is a fire police violence will never put out.” That second to last sentence—“The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it”—is one we shouldn’t forget. You see it in the streets, favelas, and beaches of Brazil, where soccer hasn’t stopped just because the season of protests has started. You see it in the great Brazilian players like Neymar and Hulk who have supported the protests. You see it in the calls by demonstrators for “FIFA quality hospitals and schools.
Analysis by Beatriz Bissio * RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 16, 2010 (IPS) - Since the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement, there has been no louder and more compelling call for a rethinking of the international economic system as the one issued this week in Brazi
After their meeting, Xi said that Europe is an “independent pole in a multipolar world.” That the Chinese leader should make such a statement is not surprising. That a major American European and NATO ally should sign on to it is. The joint declaration issued by Xi and Macron following their talks declares that “They seek to strengthen the multilateral international system under the aegis of the United Nations, in a multipolar world.”
One week after Macron flew out of Beijing, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew in. Like Macron, he arrived with a huge entourage of business executives. Accompanied by 240 business representatives, Lula and Xi signed several agreements on trade and investment