Dilma Rousseff News

While the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether American universities should take account of race when they admit new students, Brazil is implementing what are arguably the most radical affirmative action measures for universities in the West.

Brazil plans to modernize and expand its overcrowded ports, attract private investments to the sector and make it easier for companies to hire skilled foreign workers, in a bid to spur economic growth, The Brazilian Congress approved legislation late Thursday that allows the private sector to invest in state-owned ports and lifts restrictions that ... (more)

Legislation that President Dilma Rousseff says is vital to her efforts to modernize Brazil's clogged and costly ports cleared the lower chamber of Congress after a marathon debate and is expected to win Senate approval later on Thursday.

In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi attends a bi-lateral signing ceremony with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil.

Brazil's barriers to international trade are limiting its growth potential and could hamper a huge infrastructure push at the center of President Dilma Rousseff's industrial agenda, the head of the U.S. Commerce Department said in a Tuesday interview.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has ordered her government to stop confiscating farmland to create new Indian reservations, government officials say, a policy reversal with major implications for one of the world's top agricultural producers.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday sent some 3,000 troops into the streets of the capital of Caracas to crack down on rampant crime that has made the OPEC nation one of the most dangerous in the world.

Brazil's deputy Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa, who helped design some of the government's flagship economic projects, has handed in his resignation for personal reasons and will leave the post in June, the ministry said on Monday.

Egypt's parliament approved a new income tax law on Monday that will increase levies paid by the wealthy and by companies but reduce it for people in lower income brackets.

Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi attends a signing ceremony with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto Palace, May 8, 2013.

WAM SAO PAULO, 13th May, 2013 -- German President Joachim Gauck started today his last step-visit to Brazil with economic and trade issues on top of the agenda.

One of the directors of Brazil's political repression agency during the country's long dictatorship says President Dilma Rousseff once wanted to install a communist regime in Latin America's biggest nation.

Brazil's President Rousseff gives a joint statement with her Argentine counterpart Fernandez de Kirchner at the government house in Buenos Aires BRASILIA - Brazil campaigned hard to get the top job at the World Trade Organization this week but behind closed doors even it acknowledges that the WTO's main mission - pushing forward in global trade ... (more)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro got strong backing from regional heavyweight Brazil on Thursday on a tour of South American allies to cement his legitimacy as political heir to the late Hugo Chavez.

President Dilma Rousseff added a new minister to her Cabinet on Thursday, further enlarging a federal government whose rapid growth since her leftist party came to power a decade ago has increased Brazil's heavy tax burden.

Drug mule Tessa Beetge celebrates her 36th birthday in a Brazilian jail today as her South African family continues to hold out hope for her early release.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner waves while waiting for her Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff at the government house in Buenos Aires April 25, 2013.

The Brazilian government sought to appease the country's powerful farm lobby on Wednesday by broadening the decision-making process used to designate land for Indian reservations, following controversial expropriations.

Egypt wants more Brazilian investments and increased trade with Latin America's biggest nation, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said Wednesday.

The results were worse than expected and analysts noted that price rises were widespread, a sign that the central bank will probably continue to raise interest rates off record lows in coming months.