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Lou Gold, an American expatriate living in Brazil’s portion of the Amazon River basin who is a frequent presence on Dot Earth, is keeping track of efforts to change the country’s Forest Code and has posted a helpful update on his blog ...
May 24, 2012 at 20:30 | Source: New York Times Blogs
RECIFE, Brazil — The Brazilian state of Pernambuco was once known for its vast plains of parched dirt and roving bandits called cangacos, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. For later generations, escaping the widespread poverty of the ...
May 23, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: Los Angeles Times
A throng of students, young professionals, and activists gathered on the lawn as dusk took over the towering parliament and Planalto, Brazil’s executive branch. They took their tambourines and whistles, promising to camp out until midnight and ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:20 | Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Little by little, investor attitudes towards Mexico are becoming unmistakably upbeat. Long overshadowed by the larger and more dynamic Brazil, Mexico has suffered a public-image problem in recent years as relatively sluggish growth and, more ...
May 25, 2012 at 20:36 | Source: Financial Times
Buyers of robusta coffee from Brazil, the world’s second-biggest grower of the variety, are paying a premium for the beans even as up to 30 percent of this year’s crop has been harvested, according to Flavour Coffee. Conillons, as Brazilian ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:54 | Source: Businessweek
SAO PAULO -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a line-item veto Friday to send back parts of a congressional bill that loosened the nation's benchmark law protecting the Amazon rainforest – a veto the government said would prevent ...
May 26, 2012 at 01:43 | Source: Huffington Post
LONDON (Reuters) - Takeda Pharmaceutical (4502.T), Japan's top drugmaker, is to buy Brazil's Multilab for up to 540 million Brazilian reals ($265 million) in a deal highlighting global drugmakers' appetite for emerging market sales. Frank Morich ...
May 25, 2012 at 11:10 | Source: Reuters India
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff used her line-item veto powers on a congressional bill that weakened the nation's benchmark environmental law protecting the Amazon. Rousseff removed 12 articles from the bill, among them sections ...
May 25, 2012 at 17:37 | Source: ABC News
May 26, 2012 - Judging Denmark based on a friendly match against Brazil might seem unfair, but in the context of what they're going to face in Euro 2012, it's very fair. When the Danes play Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal in the European ...
May 26, 2012 at 15:19 | Source: SBNation.com
Brazil may reduce its primary surplus target to as low as 2.5 percent from the current 3.1 percent this year to support economy growth, O Estado de S. Paulo reported, citing government officials it didn’t identify. The government would cut the ...
May 26, 2012 at 14:15 | Source: Bloomberg