Tag: Brazil

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2008-12-05 Despite the global financial turmoil, 78 percent of Brazilians believe they will live a better life in 2009.
Three percent of Brazilians believed their lives will be worse next year while another 14 percent thought it would remain the same.
-- According to a survey released the consulting company Datafolha in Brazil
2008-12 In Brazil, the Latin American and Caribbean Summit held issued a declaration demanding an end of the embargo set by the USA against Cuba since 1962.
2008-09-10 Anti-government protesters caused a pipeline explosion in Tarija province, southern Bolivia, forcing a 10 percent cut in natural gas exports to Brazil.
-- According to Santos Ramirez, the head of the state energy company
2008-05-23 At a summit in Brazil, the leaders of 12 South American nations (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela) created the Union of South American Nations. Unasur is a regional body aimed at boosting economic and political integration in the region.
2007-10 Robert Zoellick, World Bank president, argued that the bank should continue to lend to countries such as China, India and Brazil because they still had large shares of the world's poor.
2007-09-27 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened a conference of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gas, pledging the United States took seriously the threat of global warming.

The 16 nations taking part are Australia, Britain, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States, which together account for more than 90 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions.

Other representatives are Portugal, as current EU president, and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
2007-09-20 The members of the IAEA 35-nation board of governors are Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russian, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand and the United States.
2007-05-09 "I am well aware that the soul of this people, as of all Latin America, safeguards values that are radically Christian".
"This identity will be reinforced through the promotion of respect for life from the moment of conception until natural death as an integral requirement of human nature".
Pope Benedict XVI, on his arrival in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2007-05-07 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva congratulated Nicolas Sarkozy on his victory and his "firm resolve" to further improve ties with France, currently the fourth-largest investor in the South American country.
2007-03-08 / 2007-03-14 george Bush visited Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.

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