http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/brazil/ en-us Tue, 7 Oct 2008 06:10:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099348/posts Russia and Brazil crumble as commodity prices crash The entire complex of commodities and emerging market stocks, bonds, and currencies is now in free-fall as the economic crisis spreads like brushfire, threatening to draw every corner of the globe into the vortex of recession. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 7:00AM BST 07 Oct 2008 Oil, grains, and industrial metals all crumbled as the week began despite the passage of the Paulson bail-out plan in Washington and dramatic moves by European governments to shore up their banking systems, compounding the steepest commodity crash in over half a century. The big exception... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099348/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 06:10:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099013/posts SAO PAULO, Brazil — Maybe they should have tried "John McCain." At least eight "Barack Obamas" who borrowed the Democratic presidential candidate's name to run in Brazilian local elections lost. chron.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099013/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 22:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096379/posts US encourages Brazil to buy F-18 fighter jets By ALAN CLENDENNING – 8 hours ago SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — The U.S. Embassy said Thursday that it is encouraging Brazil to buy Boeing-built F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets — one of three models selected by Latin America's largest nation as finalists for a fleet revamp. The embassy declined comment on whether a deal would include technology transfer — a key demand by Brazil's government as it upgrades its armed forces. But its statement said the "U.S. regards Brazil as a key strategic partner and supports Brazil's program to modernize its... The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096379/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:35:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094945/posts A series of oil finds reported to Brazil's National Petroleum Agency on Tuesday demonstrated once again the immense promise the country holds for global oil companies. In a series of filings to the ANP, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro separately said they found oil off the coast of South America's largest country. Details about the latest discoveries were limited because of the nature of the routine filings, but the finds continued a recent string of positive discoveries offshore Brazil. Oil companies operating in Brazil are required to inform the ANP within 24 to 48 hours... RigZone.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094945/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091038/posts Japanese firms—including traders and car manufacturers as well as oil and gas companies—are fast stepping up their interest in Brazil's bioethanol industry. But the increased interest in, and development of, Brazil's bioethanol industry already is beginning to saturate the country's transport and export infrastructure, with more bottlenecks likely on the way. Itochu Corp. is the latest Japanese firm to enter the market, announcing plans to produce bioethanol in Brazil through an alliance with major US grain processor Bunge Ltd. The Japanese trading house has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in Agroindustrial Santa Juliana SA, a Brazilian bioethanol production firm... Oil & Gas Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091038/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:41:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090447/posts Brazil is in mourning after former Vasco de Gama player Thiago da Silva was brutally tortured and murdered, allegedly by hired assassins on the orders of his ex-girlfriend. Da Silva, 25, who had been playing for second-division team Estacio de Sa Soccer Club, died in a Rio de Janeiro hospital Wednesday night, six days after being mortally shot in an attack by three men on a soccer field. According to reports from the local police, the instigator of the crime is da Silva's former girlfriend. Before he passed away, da Silva was able to tell the police that he had... SI via CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090447/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:34:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023208/posts Skin painted bright red, heads partially shaved, arrows drawn back in the longbows and aimed square at the aircraft buzzing overhead. The gesture is unmistakable: Stay Away. Behind the two men stands another figure, possibly a woman, her stance also seemingly defiant. Her skin painted dark, nearly black. The apparent aggression shown by these people is quite understandable. For they are members of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes, who live in the Envira region in the thick rainforest along the Brazilian-Peruvian frontier. Thought never to have had any contact with the outside world, everything about these people is, and... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023208/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 21:59:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023505/posts One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru. The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land. The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows. More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says. Stephen Corry, the director of the group - which supports tribal people around the world - said such tribes would "soon be made extinct" if their land was not protected. 'Monumental... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023505/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 13:59:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023750/posts Dramatic photographs ofpreviously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted theprecariousness of the few remaining "lost" tribes and thedangers they face from contact with outsiders. The bow-and-arrow wielding Indians in the pictures releasedon Thursday are likely the remnants of a larger tribe who wereforced deeper into the forest by encroaching settlement,experts said. Rather than being "lost", they have likely had plenty ofcontact with other indigenous groups over the years, saidThomas Lovejoy, an Amazon expert who is president of The HeinzCenter in Washington. "I think there is an ethical question whether you can inthe end keep them from any contact and I think... http://www.eleconomista.es http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023750/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 22:55:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084726/posts <p>Welcome to Obama-mania, Brazil-style. Few countries have embraced the idea of the US's first black president as enthusiastically as Brazil, a country with one of the largest Afro-descendant populations on Earth yet where black faces remain a minority in politics. Obama T-shirts are everywhere while chat shows and newspaper columns are filled with talk of the 47-year-old Illinois senator.</p> The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084726/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:57:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084340/posts Barack Obama is running for mayor in Belford Roxo, a little town close to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also trying to become a mayor and a city council member in at least five other towns around Brazil, in the Brazilian October municipal elections. Not that Barack Obama though. Thanks to the Brazilian electoral legislation, which allows candidates to choose whatever name they want to appear on the ballot, Brazilian politicians are using the high name recognition and popularity of US senator Barack Obama to advance their own political career. The Rio Obama calls himself Obama of Belford Roxo.... Brazzil Mag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084340/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:38:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084334/posts Petrobras' domestic monthly oil output rose to a record high in August after production was raised at two wells and another platform entered into service, Brazil's state-run energy firm said on Tuesday. Petrobras, which accounts for nearly all crude production and refining in Latin America's largest country, said it pumped an average of 1.89 million barrels per day last month, up 1 percent from 1.87 million bpd in July and above the average of 1.79 million bpd for all of 2007. Petrobras said August's output made it a record month. The firm's crude output has risen more or less steadily... Rig Zone http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084334/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:34:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084156/posts Marcelo Bordon is a powerful bear of a man. In football, people like Bordon are known as towering defenders. He is sitting in the club restaurant owned by Schalke 04, the Bundesliga (German football league) team he plays for. With his slicked-back hair, muscular upper body and tattoos, he could easily pass for a prison guard in New Jersey. Yet he speaks softly, talking about the love that helps him when he is in distress, and about the one who has always been there for him, ever since he came into his life. Bordon is referring to the Holy Spirit.... Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084156/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:54:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083852/posts Petrobras’ Downstream Director, Paulo Roberto Costa, stated on Monday that the Company does not intend to be a major oil exporter, rather, to export derivatives of higher market value. While participating in the "Integrating Oil Refining and Petrochemicals" panel, during the 14th edition of the Rio Oil & Gas, Costa guaranteed that in 2015 the company will produce, in Brazil and abroad, more than 3,000,000 barrels per day, 50% more than the 2,000,000 it currently produces. According to the director, the refining capacity will be increased with the new units that are being built in Brazil. In the upcoming years,... Rig Zone http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083852/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083820/posts President of Chile Michelle Bachelet is trying to reconcile the positions adopted by the Presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and Brazil, Lula da Silva, regarding the political crisis in Bolivia, according to official sources quoted on Monday by Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. Based on the report, the proposal that will be discussed by the leaders of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) will be not to intervene in the internal affairs of Bolivia and not to mention the United States. eluniversal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083820/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:36:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083808/posts BRASILIA (AFP) - Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced Tuesday that Oslo will donate up to a billion dollars to a government fund here devoted to rescuing the Amazon rain forest. < > Brazil is considered the fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, 75 percent of which come from deforestation. AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083808/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083338/posts Excerpt - MOSCOW. Sept 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers have patrolled the eastern coast of South America, aide to Russian Air Force commander Col. Lieut. Vladimir Drik told Interfax-AVN. "The aircraft took off from the Libertador military airfield in Venezuela at 4.30 p.m. Moscow time [on September 15]. They flew over neutral waters along the eastern coast of South America in the direction of Brazil. They landed at an airfield in Venezuela at 10 p.m.," Drik said. The Alexander Molodchy and Vasily Senko bombers were in air for about six hours. The crewmembers practiced synchronization and... Interfax.com (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083338/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:44:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082275/posts RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao announced Friday Brazil plans to build 50 to 60 nuclear power plants in half a century, with each having capacity of 1,000 megawatts. "The general idea is to build one plant per year," he said during a visit to the construction site of Brazil's third nuclear power plant, Angra 3. The ambitious plan, a priority for the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has yet to be approved by Brazil's National Council of Energy Policy, he added. The construction of Angra 3 started in 1984,... Xinhua http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082275/posts#comment Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:44:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078353/posts Brazil and Argentina are ready to stop using U.S. dollars to trade goods between them. Brazil's president tells the Buenos Aires-based Clarin newspaper that exports and imports between the two nations will be bought and sold in local currency — reals and pesos. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva did not say when the measure would take effect. Silva says the move will boost bilateral trade, which reached $US17.6 billion so far this year through July. During that time, Brazil sold more to Argentina than it bought, building a US$3 billion trade surplus. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078353/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:26:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074162/posts Brazil is considering a formal invitation from Iran to join the OPEC group of oil producing nations following its recent discovery of huge offshore reserves, Energy Minister Edison Lobao said on Wednesday. Lobao said Brazil had not yet responded to the invitation that came from Iran's ambassador two weeks ago, but that he saw no obstacles to Brazil becoming a member even though it is not yet a major oil exporter. "He came to make a formal invitation. We are still evaluating," Lobao told reporters. reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074162/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:21:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071708/posts Brazil will spend 160 million US dollars by the end of next year on the development of a nuclear-powered submersible to protect the oil reserves found recently off its coast, said Defence minister Nelson Jobim on Friday. The vessel, which officials hope to be complete by 2020, would be the first nuclear-powered submarine in Latin America and is being developed with Brazilian technology and lately French assistance. Speaking in Rio de Janeiro Defence Minister Jobim said the upgrade includes provisions for a massive technology transfer from France, essential if Brazil hopes to have a nuclear submarine. In February, French President... MercoPress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071708/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:41:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2070246/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite images of the region. The scientists, whose findings were published on Thursday in the journal Science, described clusters of towns and smaller villages connected by complex road networks and housing a society doomed by the arrival of Europeans five centuries ago. < > The existence of the ancient settlements in the Upper Xingu region of the Amazon in north-central Brazil means what many experts had considered virgin tropical... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2070246/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:54:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064441/posts Homeschooling Showdown in Brazil: Children to be Tested by Court in Battle Over Educational Rights of Parents By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, August 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two homeschooled children face a battery of tests this week in a showdown between the Brazilian government and a Christian family over the educational rights of parents in the South American nation. The children of Cleber and Bernadeth Nunes have already passed the entrance exams for law school at the ages of 13 and 14, but that doesn't satisfy the Brazilian government, which has been trying to force them into its... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064441/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:26:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063127/posts London: Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding. As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 per cent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Petrobras has since slumped 28 per cent. Soros has increased his mining and commodities holdings, a move that accelerated in the first quarter... Gulf News (United Arab Emirates) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063127/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:57:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061753/posts Brazil's state-run oil company is planning to bring 63 new oil rigs into operation at newly discovered offshore fields and other sites by 2018. Petrobras' Chief Financial Officer Almir Barbasa said Wednesday that 59 of the rigs will be able to drill in very deep waters... ...will spend US$112 billion... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061753/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:07:02 GMT