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CORRUPTION-BRAZIL: Lula’s Approval Ratings Unscathed
The string of corruption scandals that has affected Brazil's ruling party and its allies has not even dented President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's popularity, according to the latest poll.BRAZIL: Scandal Threatens Latin American Left, Say Analysts
The shockwaves created by the corruption scandal that erupted a month ago in Brazil's ruling left-wing Workers Party (PT) could provoke irreversible damage to the left in Latin America as a whole, according to some observers.UNITED NATIONS: Security Council Reform Not Just a Question of Numbers
Rather than granting veto power to a greater number of countries, the United Nations Security Council needs ''qualitative'' reforms that would strip its five permanent members of that authority, if true multilateralism is to be achieved, say analysts in Latin America.UNITED NATIONS: Security Council Reform Not Just a Question of Numbers
Rather than granting veto power to a greater number of countries, the United Nations Security Council needs "qualitative" reforms that would strip its five permanent members of that authority, if true multilateralism is to be achieved, say analysts in Latin America.SOUTH AMERICA: Amazon Nations Gear Up to Fight Biopiracy
Around 500 products based on plants native to Peru are registered in patent offices in the United States, Europe and Japan, but many of them may have been produced by breaking Peruvian laws on access to biodiversity and traditional knowledge.
CORRUPTION-BRAZIL: Scandals Breed Growing Loss of Trust
"This spells the end for our last hope," declared Dircilea da Silva Vieira, reflecting the sense of disillusionment that has spread through Brazil over recent weeks as the government of Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva is hit by one corruption scandal after another.CORRUPTION-BRAZIL: Fatal Contradictions
When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva took office on Jan. 1, 2003, he had little manoeuvring room in economic terms, while facing similar constraints on the political front, and it is his emphasis on the former, to the detriment of the latter, that has given rise to the crisis now facing his government.ENVIRONMENT: Clean Transportation Reduces Premature Deaths
A sharp reduction in transportation-related pollution in Brazil's large cities could save 50 billion dollars over the next 20 years by preventing the premature deaths of 47,000 people and sparing hundreds of thousands more from disease.CORRUPTION-BRAZIL: Proposed Reforms Will Not Provide a Real Cure
By speeding up the adoption of political reforms, the Brazilian government and Congress are hoping to prevent the democratic system from being further damaged by the current corruption scandal, but the initiative could foster added frustration, say some observers.POLITICS-BRAZIL: The Economics of Re-election
The political crisis sparked by allegations of ruling party corruption has heightened uncertainty over the Brazilian economy, but the government will continue to steer economic policies towards promoting the re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, experts say.LATIN AMERICA: Reg’l Meet Promotes Inclusive Information Society – In Theory
Non-governmental organisations and networks protested their exclusion from the Regional Preparatory Ministerial Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean for the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, held this week in Rio de Janeiro.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Hope in Stem Cells for Thousands of ‘Weak’ Hearts
Some four million people with serious cardiac disorders stand to benefit if a three-year Brazilian medical study of stem cell therapy is successful.AMERICAS: United States Does Not Understand Latin America
The U.S. government, whose proposal was voted down this week in the Organisation of American States (OAS), is piling up defeats in Latin America because of a vision of the region that is "distorted" by its "war on terrorism," according to analysts.BRAZIL: Trail of Corruption?
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is facing a new crisis over an ill that was not expected to plague his leftist Workers Party (PT) government: corruption.BRAZIL: Environmental Efforts Can’t Curb Social Impact of Amazon Pipeline
While Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras has taken great pains to limit the environmental impact of gas pipelines in the Amazon region, it has proven more difficult to curb the social repercussions of large-scale projects in the midst of dire poverty.Hope in Stem Cells for Thousands of Weak Hearts
Brazilian doctors are beginning a pioneering study using stem cells in cardiac patients. If they are successful, in three years this new therapy could save as many as 200,000 lives in this South American nation.ENERGY-BRAZIL: The Adventure of Amazon Oil
The jaguar walked into the tent, scratched the cook's face and carried away his backpack. Why was the cook singled out from among 40 workers? Because he hadn't taken a bath after work, and still smelled like food.INDIGENOUS PEOPLES-BRAZIL: ”Lula frustrated our expectations”
At age 28, Jecinaldo Barbosa Cabral is leader of an association of Amazonian indigenous organisations, COIAB, the largest group of its kind in Brazil.ENERGY: Brazil on Edge Over Crisis in Bolivia
The present political instability in Bolivia, which provides nearly two-thirds of the natural gas consumed in Brazil, has heightened the sense of urgency to increase national production, due to fears of an interruption in this supply.BRAZIL: Boat Brings Health Care and Much More to Remote Communities
The Zona Franca Verde riverboat is carrying on a longstanding tradition by bringing medical assistance and other public services to isolated communities near the banks of the Amazon River and others that flow into it, which are only accessible by water.''Lula frustrated our expectations''
The Brazilian president has lacked the political drive to keep the promises he made to the country's indigenous peoples, Jecinaldo Barbosa Cabral, a leader of the Amazonian communities, said in a conversation with Tierramérica.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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