Brazil Reluctantly Takes Key Role in Honduras Dispute
By Tim Padgett with Andrew Downie
São Paulo
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was 40,000 feet in the air on Sept. 21, en route to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, when he got the news. Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, after sneaking back into his [...]
Embraer, a Brazilian company, reported the sale of more than 20 commercial planes including US parts to Venezuelan airlines for about $700 million, following Washington authorization of the operation; however, Embraer said that the deal does not mean that the US embargo on the sale of weapons to the Venezuelan government has been relaxed. El [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years before the coup that toppled the leftist leader of Chile, President Richard Nixon and Brazilian President Emilio Medici discussed coordinated intervention in that nation and Cuba, according to a newly declassified document.
The formerly Top Secret account of a Dec. 9, 1971, White House Oval Office meeting spells out a desire [...]
WASHINGTON – Troubled world economies, energy and the environment, will be among the topics for discussion when President Barack Obama sits down with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Trade, relations with Latin America and the case of a New Jersey man trying to bring his 8-year-old son back from Brazil also may come up [...]
By Sam Hopkins
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
There’s a saying among Brazilians that God is, well, Brazilian…
And for a good chunk of 2007 and 2008, Brazil’s petroleum production prospects looked heavenly. The offshore Tupi field is estimated by the UK’s BG Group to hold 30 billion or more barrels of oil equivalent (BOE). Petrobras itself has tossed [...]
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