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business | by Stephen George | 06 Feb, 2004 at 07:20 AM | comments (1) | trackback (0)
Earlier this week, Brazil's Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), used its veto power for the first time in 42 years to block Brazil's Nestlé operations from acquiring the Brazilian chocolatier Garoto for R$570m. Apart from the significance of the first-ever veto (by a 5-1 vote), what's significant about this...
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brazil | by Stephen George | 27 Jan, 2004 at 12:46 PM | comments (3) | trackback (0)
Oh...hi there. Let's see. Lula's in India and Dirceu's doing an Al Haig. Brazil, lacking "soul and guts", bombed out of the Athens Olympics by losing to Argentina and Paraguay in the final qualifying rounds. Um. There was some other stuff too - inflation higher in January. Government looking for...
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brazil | by Stephen George | 20 Jan, 2004 at 05:51 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Today is the feast day of São Sebastião, the patron saint of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It's a big holiday here in the city, although those of us unlucky enough to work outside the city limits still have to work. Que pena! At least the commute was easy...
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brazil | by Stephen George | 13 Jan, 2004 at 10:22 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The week's news from Brazil: Blockade - in rural Roraima state, farmers set up a blockade on all the main roads to the capital, Boa Vista. The blockade was maintained for four days. At issue is the recent ratification of a new reserve for indigenous peoples called Raposa Serra do...
brazil | by Stephen George | 06 Jan, 2004 at 06:23 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
A "feliz ano novo" to all of you. The news from Rio de Janeiro: It's been very quiet in Brazil over the holidays (unless you consider the fireworks!). The government has been in its first official holiday recess, proclaimed by President Lula after a successful (in his view) first year...
brazil | by Stephen George | 23 Dec, 2003 at 05:06 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The news from Brasil as we head into the holiday break: Statute of Disarmament - calling it a Christmas present for the millions of Brazilians who fight against violence, President Lula signed into law the Estatuto de Desarmamento, which greatly restricts legal access to firearms, increases penalties for illegal possession...
brazil | by Stephen George | 16 Dec, 2003 at 05:09 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The week's news from Brazil "Lulawrence of Arabia" returned from his Middle Eastern journeys and announced that his travels weren't over, with trips planned next year to China and India. He also announced that Brazil is expecting a visit of Vladimir Putin, as the four cornerstone nations of the G20...
brazil | by Stephen George | 10 Dec, 2003 at 05:13 AM | comments (1) | trackback (0)
Since taking office, President Lula has spent an extraordinary amount of time outside Brazil, ostensibly attempting to establish a new political and economic alliance of developing countries. While the people broadly support Lula's travels (52% support them, 30% oppose them), local critics are beginning to suggest that he ought to...
brazil | by Stephen George | 10 Dec, 2003 at 05:12 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The Staheli case has received a fair amount of international press, judging from recent articles in the Guardian, the New York Times, and about a hundred other sources. One blogger, though, Lenin Guerra, posts a lament, lest we be too quick to blame the general state of violence in Rio...
brazil | by Stephen George | 09 Dec, 2003 at 05:20 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The week's news from Brazil Last week the government agreed to extend the top tax rate at 27.5% for the next two years without concessions to higher-rate tax payers. The move extends an earlier temporary amendment, first approved under the previous government, which shows signs of becoming more or less...
brazil | by Stephen George | 09 Dec, 2003 at 05:17 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Yesterday it was announced that here in Brazil, two large supermarket chains, Pão de Açúcar (currently Brazil's largest) and Sendas, the largest in Rio de Janeiro state, where Pão is not very well-established yet, are planning a merger. The details were fuzzy, but it looks like some kind of a...
brazil | by Stephen George | 05 Dec, 2003 at 05:23 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Our referrer logs are full of Staheli-related hits, so I thought I'd publish a brief update. Michele Staheli died yesterday after 4 days in critical condition. Her condition worsened during the week and she was said to have no neurological function and no recovery was expected. She suffered cardiac failure...
blog | by Stephen George | 04 Dec, 2003 at 05:25 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
ção sâö íóúáé êô ÇÃáà ñãõ I got tired of looking at all the butchered diacriticals, especially in Josephine's post. I changed the character encoding to Windows 1252. I hope everyone should be able to post in Spanish or Portuguese now, but if you have any trouble reading or posting,...
brazil | by Stephen George | 02 Dec, 2003 at 05:26 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The week's news from Brazil GDP Growth - Brazil's GDP (PIB) emerged from a short recession in the third quarter, but its growth by only 0.4% was not as strong as was anticipated. Growth in the industrial sector was weighed down by a 6.7% quarter-on-quarter reduction in the agricultural sector,...
brazil | by Stephen George | 28 Nov, 2003 at 06:04 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Luz para todos - The Brazilian government announced last Tuesday the launch of a new program designed to bring electricity to the 2.5 million Brazilian homes (5% of all homes) currently without. The ambitious goal is to complete this task by 2008. I say ambitious because the majority of these...
mexico | by Stephen George | 28 Nov, 2003 at 05:28 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The BBC Brasil site is reporting this morning about a large march on the streets of Mexico City. Thousands of trade unionists, peasants and activists were marching against the Fox government's proposed reforms, including the planned privatisation of the electricity sector and the imposition of a value-added tax (IVA). The...
venezuela | by Stephen George | 27 Nov, 2003 at 05:42 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Miguel sent some media links for Venezuela that I've added to the national links section: El Universal On-line is one of Venezuela's national newspapers, the last one with free content. Globovision is a site for a 24-hour news network in Venezuela, with live breaking news. Venezuela Today is a portal...
argentina | by Stephen George | 27 Nov, 2003 at 05:34 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Marcelo has contributed some more press links for Argentina: Clarin, Argentina's largest-circulation daily Pagina 12, from left-of-centre, and InfoBAE from right-of-centre...
brazil | by Stephen George | 27 Nov, 2003 at 05:31 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
After nearly a year of protests and strikes, including an invasion of the floor of the congress and an extraordinary week's work stoppage by the country's federal magistrates in August, and despite partisan grandstanding up to the last minute, the Brazilian Senate finally approved yesterday the first reading of the...
blog | by Stephen George | 26 Nov, 2003 at 05:48 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
I've added a couple of weblogs in Portuguese to the blogroll at right. Economia Everywhere is a 3-man effort commenting on economic topics in the news, usually with an amusing spin. Austriaco is intelligent insights and interviews from the keyboard of Lucas Mendes. I've also started by adding some country-specific...
brazil | by Stephen George | 26 Nov, 2003 at 05:46 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
From the helpful Expats site in Rio, too much information about the theft of a US consular car at an intersection in Rio: According to the police report Leslie was robbed of her diplomatic ID badge, credit card, cellular, a leather lamp cover, leather wallet, and the keys to her...
brazil | by Stephen George | 25 Nov, 2003 at 05:50 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The week's news from Brazil Free Trade - By agreeing to disagree (for now), the US and Brazil, the region's two largest economies, managed to put aside the toughest issues remaining between them in order to keep the FTAA (ALCA) negotiations on-track for a 2005 rollout. Some critics are calling...
brazil | by Stephen George | 24 Nov, 2003 at 06:00 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
If not for a copy left behind by a visiting friend, I would have missed this little tidbit from the front page of the November 12th Independent (UK) (and evidently the NY Times), archived on the Truthout website, about the UK's reduction in its International Development budget, redirecting the funds...
brazil | by Stephen George | 24 Nov, 2003 at 05:55 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
I came across the Houston Chronicle's lengthy summary of Brazil's current domestic situation via Danny Yee's Pathologically Polymathic weblog. It's a pretty thorough laundry list of the difficulties facing Lula as he nears the one-year point of his presidency. I thought I'd add that in my own experiences, while people...
brazil | by Stephen George | 18 Nov, 2003 at 06:13 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Luz para todos - The Brazilian government announced last Tuesday the launch of a new program designed to bring electricity to the 2.5 million Brazilian homes (5% of all homes) currently without. The ambitious goal is to complete this task by 2008. I say ambitious because the majority of these...
brazil | by Stephen George | 11 Nov, 2003 at 06:19 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
There is clear delight in Brazil this morning after the WTO decision that US tariffs on steel imports are contrary to the rules of the agreement, and the economy pages of the papers are dominated by the news. Brazil's ambassador to the WTO is quoted in O Globo this morning...
brazil | by Stephen George | 11 Nov, 2003 at 06:17 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
We thought it would be informative if those of us blogging on the ground in Latin America would summarise the news and views from our own areas on an approximately weekly basis. Thus, without further ado, the news around Brazil in the past week, from my own perspective. [I'm dispensing...
brazil | by Stephen George | 10 Nov, 2003 at 06:23 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
It's been a good weekend for a friend of mine, the Brazilian composer Harry Crowl. On Saturday he and his fiancée Rosie were married in their hometown of Curitiba. On Sunday evening, his Aetherus kicked off the opening night of the XV Biennale of Brazilian Contemporary Music (note: .doc format),...
brazil | by Stephen George | 06 Nov, 2003 at 06:24 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
I came across some interesting statistics about the publishing market in Brazil in the September hardcopy issue of Primeira Leitura. This data came from a survey conducted by the Camara Brasileira do Livro. Total books printed, 2002: 338.7 million Active publishers: ca. 530 Points of sale: ca. 5000, of which...
Land Reform
| by Stephen George | 04 Nov, 2003 at 06:26 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
October's Le Monde Diplomatique (eng) (esp: sumario), which just arrived in my mailbag, has a profile of land reform in Venezuela. The article explains Chavez's impatience with the pace of reform and the problems in execution, and it sets out the scale of the goals of the reform (2m hectares...
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