Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday that the country will not cut budgets allocated for infrastructure programs despite the current financial...

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Brazil’s National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) fell to a one-year low of 0.26 percent in September, down from 0.28 percent in August and up from 0.18 percent in...

Brazil’s Central Bank Wednesday staged the first U.S. dollar auctions on the foreign exchange market since March 2003, selling 1.7 billion dollars altogether

U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday discussed efforts to curb worsening global financial crisis with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Latin American equities were rattled Wednesday after a key organization forecast a major downturn in global economic growth, but Brazilian and Mexican markets finished...

airfield High School foreign exchange student Glaucia Lie Terasaka thought she just might be crazy to hop on a plane and leave behind her family, her friends and the...

For 200 years, descendants of slaves have preserved a distinctive way of life in this village near the Amazon jungle. Amid the stone ruins of plantations, they farmed...

Brazilian equestrian rider Bernardo Alves was officially disqualified from the Beijing Olympics on Friday for a positive drug test on his horse.

he Brazilian government will propose to world leaders to resume the WTO’s Doha Development Round talks as a way to fight the international financial crisis,...

Brazil’s president said Friday that emerging market nations like Brazil must have a strong say in developing strict international rules for financial...

IF ANALOGIES with the Great Depression are scary for Americans, they are hardly less so for Latin Americans. Within a few years of the 1929 stockmarket crash, 16...

Julie McCarthy’s description of a 100,000 acre soy farm in Brazil seems to symbolize peace, progress, and economic development: trends for a new Latin America. From...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is not a happy man at the moment as the international financial crisis threatens the achievements he has overseen...

he UK government is proposing to give people more influence over the way local council budgets in England are spent - an idea that has been around for some time in...

Brazil is filing criminal charges against 81 people accused of being the biggest destroyers of the Amazon rain forest.

Due to the chasm in Brazil that exists between law on paper and “law” in practice, anyone wishing to understand how the country works in reality will need...

Four miles under the ocean’s surface off Brazil’s lush coast lie billions of barrels of recently discovered light crude — a treasure that could transform...

Brazil’s main stock index has plummeted more than 10 percent in early trading after steep declines in Asia, Europe.

Brazilian stocks have fallen sharply following steep equity declines in Asia and Europe.