Stories written by Mario Osava
Mario Osava has been an IPS correspondent since 1978, first from Portugal, then from Brazil starting in 1980. He has covered events and processes all throughout Brazil and has recently been engaged in covering major infrastructural projects that reflect opportunities for development and South American integration. | Twitter |

BRAZIL: Police Violence Accelerates Human Rights Projects

By Mario Osava
The police violence screened on a national news programme Brazilian provided the momentum needed for human rights projects started years ago and left shelved.

BRAZIL: Televised Police Brutality Moves the Nation

By Mario Osava
A crude televised exhibition of police violence moved the Brazilian public, despite the well-known precedent of torture and murder by the nation's thuggish police.

BRAZIL: Bond Scandal Heightens Call to Block Money Laundering

By Mario Osava
Fighting money laundering moved up the priority list in Brazil following a recent scandal with public bonds and new revelations of money being moved via Paraguay and the Italian mafia.

MERCOSUR: Partners Fuming over Restrictions on Imports to Brazil

By Mario Osava
Brazil's unilateral decision, in effect as of Monday, to limit financing for imports has upset its partners in the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR).

BRAZIL-ECONOMY: Banking Sector Opens to Foreign Capital

By Mario Osava
The wall protecting Brazilian banks from foreign takeovers has cracked with the purchase of the local Bamerindus Bank by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).

/IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ MERCOSUR: New Finance Restrictions on Brazilian Imports

By Mario Osava
Brazil and Uruguay , fellow members of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), have fallen out over Brazilian government restrictions on financing imports - designed to contain the nation's growing trade deficit.

/IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ BRAZIL: Economics Blocks Energy Solutions

By Mario Osava
Projects to produce alternatives to fossil fuels to provide energy have been stalled because of the economic logics governing the world today, according to environment officials here.

TRADE-MERCOSUR: New Finance Restrictions on Brazilian Imports

By Mario Osava
Brazil and Uruguay , fellow members of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), have fallen out over Brazilian government restrictions on financing imports - designed to contain the nation's growing trade deficit.

ENVIRONMENT: Economics Blocks Energy Solutions

By Mario Osava
Projects to produce alternatives to fossil fuels to provide energy have been stalled because of the economic logics governing the world today, according to environment officials here.

MERCOSUR: Noose Tightens around Informal Trade in Paraguay

By Mario Osava
Accords signed within the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) and efforts against money laundering are tightening the noose around Paraguay's Ciudad del Este, the main source of goods smuggled into Brazil.

BRAZIL-ECONOMY: Bond Scandal Discredits Highest Institutions

By Mario Osava
A scandal over public debt bonds has tainted Brazilian financial institutions and damaged the image of the Central Bank, the Senate and state and municipal authorities. governments and the financial system as a whole.

ENVIRONMENT: Few Signs of Hope from Rio Plus Five

By Mario Osava
The world environmental movement, and the world environment itself, are in a bad way, if the ten- day Rio plus Five forum which ended here this week was anything to go by.

ENVIRONMENT: Sugar Cane Alcohol against the Greenhouse Effect

By Mario Osava
Sugar cane alcohol could become an important weapon against the greenhouse effect, providing opportunities for economic success and environmental cooperation in the sugar cane producing nations.

WOMEN: Health Conquests Threatened by FundamentalisM

By Mario Osava
A woman's right to health attention has advanced in recent years, but is still up against the "systemic obstacles" of economic and religious fundamentalism, according to an international meeting here.

ENVIRONMENT: Few Signs of Hope from Rio Plus Five

By Mario Osava
The world environmental movement, and the world environment itself, are in a bad way, if the ten- day Rio plus Five forum ending here this week was anything to go by.

ENVIRONMENT: Rio to Have Permanent Sustainable Development Forum

By Mario Osava
The mayor of this city, Luiz Paulo Conde, offered the city as sit for a permanent centre for debate and studies on sustainable development Wednesday, whilst participating in the closing session of the Rio plus Five forum.

ENVIRONMENT: Indigenous Peoples, Still Invisible to Governments

By Mario Osava
The indigenous people of the world remain invisible to governments, and their situation today is much worse than in 1992, when their importance for sustainable development was recognised at the Rio Earth Summit, indigenous leaders denounced Wednesday.

ENVIRONMENT: NGOs Present 18-Point Draft Earth Charter

By Mario Osava
The Rio plus Five forum came up with an 18-point proposal in a session Tuesday where Mercedes Sosa moved the crowd with her rendition of "Gracias a la vida," the famous Chilean song, and her call for justice in the world.

ENVIRONMENT: Prevention in the South and Adaptation in the North

By Mario Osava
Adaptations in the industrial North and prevention in the South form the best strategy for confronting the greenhouse effect, the key environmental problem, according to participants in the Rio plus Five Forum.

ENVIRONMENT: Sugar Cane Alcohol against the Greenhouse Effect

By Mario Osava
Sugar cane alcohol could become an important weapon against the greenhouse effect, providing opportunities for economic success and environmental cooperation in the sugar cane producing nations.

/IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ BRAZIL: France Keen on Enormous Growth Potential

By Mario Osava
French President Jacques Chirac, who kicked off his tour of the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) with two days in Brazil, is working on making up for lost time in the trade bloc, one of the world's largest markets.
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