brazil - Yahoo! News Search ResultsThe privatization of Brazil's airports could prove to be a test of the country's nascent long-term credit market, as investors look beyond the national development bank to fund the more than 22 billion Brazilian reais ($13 billion) that will be needed to modernize three major airports.
Brazil may end a decade-old automotive trade pact with Mexico and start charging tariffs on cars imported from that country as it battles a growing trade deficit in the sector, the government and local media said Thursday.
The razing of the Pinheirinho slum that was home to 8,000 squatters highlights the plight of those who can't afford to live in their own communities. Two children ran through the rubble, ducking under smoke pouring from a building that was still burning. Everywhere were signs that people had left in haste: toys, half-cooked meals, couches, ID cards, a fan photo of Justin Bieber.
Brazil is offering 6,000 visas to Haitians over a five-year period as one of several efforts that look to help the troubled Caribbean nation get on its feet, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday.
The resignations of seven Brazilian cabinet ministers over corruption charges since President Dilma Rousseff took office are the tip of an endemic problem which experts say hobbles the country's bid for great power status.
Brazil's minister of cities resigned Thursday amid allegations of irregularities, the eighth member of President Dilma Rousseff's Cabinet to step down since June.
Brazil’s central bank bought dollars in the currency forwards market for the first time since July in an effort to slow the real’s 8 percent rally this year that policy makers say could curb exports and undermine the rebound in Latin America’s biggest economy.
The Pantanal, a stunning biodiversity sanctuary in central-western Brazil, is threatened by intensive farming and deforestation, a leading environmental group warned as the world marked World Wetlands Day on Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Brazil is easing Cuba into the free market economy with a generous package of aid in cash and kind and joint projects.