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Oil Agency Chief Betting on 7% Growth for Brazil in 2006
Written by Vitor Abdala
Friday, 13 January 2006
The general director of the National Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels Agency (ANP), Haroldo Lima, said on Wednesday, January 11, that the Brazilian economy needs to improve its performance.
He is betting that the annual growth rate will surpass 7%, "as was the case when the country had one of the world's fastest growth rates, until the beginning of the decade of the 1970's."
According to the ANP director, the petroleum and gas sector will do its part by investing US$ 66.2 billion through 2010, 52% of which will go to oil exploration and production.
Lima recalled that the petroleum and gas sector has grown 318% since 1997, a period in which the Brazilian economy as a whole grew only 26%. In 2005 the sector grew 10%, putting it in second place among the various segments of the economy.
Lima made these declarations during a ceremony in which 93 petroleum and gas exploration contracts were signed at the ANP. The exploratory concessions were granted to private enterprises during the Seventh Bidding Round, held last October.
US$ 66.2 billions by 2010 ???????? written by Guest,
January 13, 2006
Not later than yesterday, Petrobras announced they will spend US$ 18 billions in the next 10 years. US$ 18 billions in 10 years or US$ 66 billions in just 5 years does make a big difference, but it looks like not for Brazilians maths. The difference is only US$ 1.8 billion per year against US$ 13.2 billions per year, on average.
Well, well, this is just a new total contradiction and confusion.
But arent you in an election year ?
So any numbers, as long as they are good and making brazilians dreams are OK !
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
Not later than yesterday, Petrobras announced they will spend US$ 18 billions in the next 10 years.
US$ 18 billions in 10 years or US$ 66 billions in just 5 years does make a big difference, but it looks like not for Brazilians maths.
The difference is only US$ 1.8 billion per year against US$ 13.2 billions per year, on average.
Well, well, this is just a new total contradiction and confusion.
But arent you in an election year ?
So any numbers, as long as they are good and making brazilians dreams are OK !