Pinheiro, Brazil News

Sycamore Baptist Church, 302 Somonauk St., will host pianist Fabiola Pinheiro in a pre-Christmas concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Allison Adams Tucker, left, sings during the 2008 Brasil Jazz Festa at the Encinitas Library.

General Motors is hiring factory workers in Brazil, home to the Carnival celebration each February, among other amenities.

Pinheiro Neto Like their foreign counterparts, the recession has forced Brazilian lawyers to adapt to a market with fallen demand for lending and capital markets practices.

Los Angeles, CA -- On Sunday, November 29, 2009 the Brazilian Jazz Collective, featuring Danny Green , Ami Molinelli and Eva Scow , will begin their first California tour to present their unique collaboration of music.

Twenty four years after the military left power in Brazil, the government is to create a Truth Commission to investigate crimes committed by the security forces between 1964 and 1985.

Mexico's central bank has cut interest rates for the first time since 2006 to boost the country's slowing economy as observers warn it is heading toward a recession.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's stated plans to award a multi-billion-dollar fighter jet contract to France ran into turbulence on Wednesday amid pressure from rival biddersand Brazil's air force.

The construction of Brazil's long-delayed third nuclear power plant, Angra 3, will resume in September, the president of the country's nuclear power company Electronuclear, Othon Luiz Pinheiro, said on Friday.

Prison guards foiled a new attempt to smuggle a cell phone into a Brazilian prison by carrier pigeon - this one wearing a tiny backpack - and said Friday that the practice is becoming almost commonplace.

Brazilian pension fund, Petros is planning to invest $756 million in deep-water offshore oil projects, The Wall Street Journal reports.