Dilma Rousseff News

Brazil is "very likely" to choose France's Rafale fighter jet to refurbish its air force, government sources say, a decision that would award one of the emerging-market world's most coveted defense contracts to a jet whose future was in doubt only two weeks ago.

A woman and a child walk past a banner depicting a photo of a slain police officer that reads in Portuguese: " R$ 1,031,38 Is that the value of a life?" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Feb.

Brazil's popular former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was hospitalized on Saturday for exhaustion resulting from chemotherapy, complicating his swift recovery from throat cancer and casting doubts on when he might return to political life.

It has been one year since Dilma Rousseff was elected the first woman President of Brazil.

Blogger Mauricio Caleiro comments [pt] on a new wave of privatization - "masked" as "concessions" - led by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff who, during the electoral campaign, said she was against this instrument.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, whose Workers' Party rose to power because of ties to the labor movement, is being tested by public employees threatening to strike for higher pay.

Brazil's Women Policies Minister Iriny Lopes has resigned to run in municipal elections this year.

If your wife is like mine, every time my iPhone buzzes with a new email, she mumbles about my work-life balance .

La Pupila Insomne launches a ferocious critique of the press coverage A [es] of Yoani SA nchez's plea to the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff to intervene with the Cuban government to grant her the exit permit to travel to Brasil for the screening of a documentary in which she appears.

On April 9, President Obama will host President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil for meetings at the White House as part of the Leaders' on-going dialogue regarding the growing partnership between the United States and Brazil across a wide range of issues.

His tenure was marred by conflicts with city department heads. In 2010, seven department heads submitted a letter of no confidence claiming Straus had engaged in dishonest, unethical and potentially illegal conduct, hid information from them and the public and awarded contracts to friends.

And according to a recent announcement by the Brazilian President, it's about to expand.

Over emphasizing and romanticizing the importance of political violence while remaining mute on the Castro regime's torture and extrajudicial execution of opposition figures along with its role in fomenting political violence and terrorism internationally is a difficult task but Julia Sweig, the director of the Latin America program at the Council ... (more)

Brazil, the world's second largest iron-ore exporter, is seeking to apply local supplier requirements to new mining contracts, according to a government official who participated in drafting the industry's new rules.

Brazil on Monday awarded contracts for private companies to expand and operate terminals at three of the country's busiest airports, hoping concessions worth 24.5 billion reais will improve the cramped and delay-plagued facilities amid soaring demand for air travel and preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

The murder rate in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has soared during a state police strike that has entered its fourth day.

Can someone explain to me why the Obama administration is preventing us from drilling for oil anywhere in America or in our coastal waters, but when the price of a gallon of gas was hovering around $3.50 a gallon, the administration also talked about drawing down the nation's strategic reserve in an attempt to keep gas prices down? The price of gas ... (more)

Sanchez recently got an entry visa from Brazil. The sticking point was whether Cuba would grant the exit visa that islanders must obtain to travel overseas.

Brazil eases Cuba into free market economy by Staff Writers Rio De Janeiro Feb 2, 2012 Brazil is easing Cuba into the free market economy with a generous package of aid in cash and kind and joint projects that give the Latin American country a pre-eminent position in Havana's heady mix of communism and experimental capitalism.

Remembering the Holocaust is one way to prevent it from recurring, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said at a memorial ceremony in Salvador.