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Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim has stated that his country will not accept the new Honduran president, who was elected on November 29. The statement was made before the... 2009-11-30

BMI View: The recent power outage across Brazil's south east has highlighted the challenge the country faces in ensuring that the development of its energy infrastructure matches... 2009-11-13

BMI View: The recent power outage across Brazil's south east has highlighted the challenge the country faces in ensuring that the development of its energy infrastructure matches... 2009-11-13

The Brazilian senate foreign relations committee signed off on Venezuela's request to join the South American Mercosur trade bloc (comprised of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay).... 2009-11-02

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced plans of travelling to Iran to meet his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2010, after the Iranian leader visits... 2009-10-05

With a ranking of 80th out of 180 countries, Brazil's 2008 performance in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index marked a fall of eight places since the previous... 2009-10-02

The Brazilian parliament is likely to have intense discussions on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's proposed bill of increasing government control over oil reserves. Senate leader... 2009-09-07

During a recent conference held in New York, Banco do Brasil (BCB) President Henrique Meirelles announced that he may seek to return to frontline politics and run for the governorship... 2009-09-04

In our Q309 East Caribbean Business Forecast Report, we outlined the challenges facing the St Lucian economy. We argued that, as one of the most heavily exposed to external demand,... 2009-08-11

The first half of 2009 saw perhaps the biggest deterioration of the Brazilian federal government's fiscal position in almost a decade, when the primary fiscal surplus dropped to it's... 2009-07-31