From Brazzil Mag news team http://www.brazzilmag.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:54:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.brazzilmag.com From Brazzil Mag news team http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11399/ Irony was the weapon used by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to respond to criticism about his democratic credentials and lack of study leveled against him by his... 2009 - November 2009 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:13:16 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11398/ Brazilian Defense minister, Nelson Jobim, told reporters this Friday, November 6, that the dispute between the US, France and Sweden to sell 36 fighter planes to the Brazilian Air... 2009 - November 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:46:17 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11397/ Caetano Veloso, renowned Brazilian singer-composer, gave his full support to Brazil's Green party presidential hopeful Marina Silva who he expects will show more elegance and pragmatism than President Luiz... 2009 - November 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:39:53 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11396/ Brazil access to the Internet is growing in a fast pace. New numbers from the comScore World Metrix service reveal that 31.9 million Brazilians age 15 and over accessed... 2009 - November 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:55:05 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11395/ Petrobras, the Brazilian state-controlled oil and gas multinational, informed that it has signed a contract with the Chinese permitting the first payment from a US$ 10 billion loan from... 2009 - November 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:29:08 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11394/ Foreign reserves for Brazil reached US$ 232.9 billion at the end of October, up from US$ 224.2 billion at the end of the previous month. In the first ten... 2009 - November 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:08:50 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11393/ In an interview in London with Bloomberg Television, Brazil's Central Bank president admitted that foreign investors might create an asset bubble in Brazil. In terms of asset bubbles,... 2009 - November 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:49:07 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11392/ Brazil has been charged by Argentina of not keeping to agreed self regulated bilateral trade understandings originally destined as an umbrella for Argentine industry, and instead has... 2009 - November 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:28:26 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11391/ The Brazilian government is demanding that Manuel Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president be reinstated in his post before the scheduled presidential election of November 29. Brazil threatens to not... 2009 - November 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:13:48 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11390/ The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said this Thursday, November 5, in London that Brazil should grow 5% next year. He was talking at the opening... 2009 - November 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:44:26 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11389/ The winners of the Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious literary award had their party this Wednesday night when they received their prize for the best work in fiction, non fiction... 2009 - November 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:17:21 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11388/ Brazil's Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last numbers released by the National Institute of Space Studies (Inpe) this Wednesday, November 4, shows... 2009 - November 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:04:56 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11387/ Venezuela will have to wait a little longer for Brazilian approval to get inside the Mercosur. Brazil's opposition announced it will attempt to delay as much as possible the... 2009 - November 2009 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:13:15 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11386/ Next time I see Obama I'm going to say: Make a SUS. It costs less, it has quality and it's universal. This is the Brazilian... 2009 - November 2009 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:19:47 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11385/ France's Defense minister Hervé Morin said that Argentina could increase its international influence following on the steps of Brazil, which is currently modernizing its military hardware and planning on... 2009 - November 2009 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:55:38 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11384/ The United States is still very interested in selling 36 F-18 fighter planes to the Brazilian Air Force and the Obama administration seems to be increasing the pressure to... 2009 - November 2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:10:40 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11383/ The administration of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has extended tax breaks on energy-efficient home appliances for three extra months in a bid to boost consumption and... 2009 - November 2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:12:49 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11382/ Just before leaving Venezuela to fly back to Brazil, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva commented on the proposed agreement to put an end to the political crisis... 2009 - October 2009 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:36:51 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11381/ There was a love fest this Friday between presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez during a visit the Brazilian leader paid to Venezuela.... 2009 - October 2009 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:20:41 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11380/ Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is back in Brazil after a trip to Venezuela where he met his counterpart Hugo Chavez to sign a series of agreements.... 2009 - October 2009 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:00:38 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11379/ In a note issued this Friday, October 30, by the Itamaraty, Brazil's Foreign Relations Ministry, the Brazilian government expressed its belief that the agreement worked out in Honduras by... 2009 - September 2009 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:30:47 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11378/ Miguel Jorge, Brazil's minister of Development Industry and Trade, confirmed that the Brazilian government is requesting non automatic licenses for some imports from Argentina, but denied it was a... 2009 - October 2009 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:49:52 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11377/ Color, style, laughs, maybe some tears, live singing, lots of fun and glamour is what people can expect from Confessions of a Drag Queen a new play to hit... 2009 - October 2009 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:16:42 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11376/ In a divided vote, Brazil's Senate foreign relations committee approved this Thursday, October 29, Venezuela's request to join Mercosur despite concerns over President Hugo Chavez's authoritarian style of government.... 2009 - October 2009 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:28:00 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11375/ The Civilian police in Brazil, in a raid that counted on more than 9,000 policemen, arrested this Thursday, October 29, 2,191 people. Operation Genesis held to fight crime in... 2009 - October 2009 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:13:35 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11374/ The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism has informed that on October 21, 2009, Brazilian journalist Fábio Oliva, editor of the newspaper Folha do Norte in Januária city in the... 2009 - October 2009 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:27:58 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11373/ Brazil's Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave its green light this Thursday, October 25, to Venezuela to become a full member of Mercosur. The controversial vote ended up 12 votes... 2009 - October 2009 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:07:57 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11372/ During the inauguration of a remodeled sports and cultural complex at Mangueira's Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva talked about the difficulties... 2009 - October 2009 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:51:42 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11371/ Numbers presented by the Brazilian Association of Carbon Market Companies (Abemc) show that the inclusion of mechanisms for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), during the negotiation... 2009 - October 2009 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:56:03 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11370/ Sandra Carvalho, a lawyer, sociologist and director of the non-governmental organization Global Justice, is the first Brazilian woman to be granted the Annual Human Rights Award from Human Rights... 2009 - October 2009 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:24:33 +0100