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Brazil in the News

Every Sunday you will find here the latest news about Brazil published by the international media.

IPS – Ambitious Development Plan to Cut Inequality

VarietyBoost for Brazil’s indie producers

The EconomistBrazil fires another salvo in its dispute with America over cotton subsidies

Affirmative anticipation:A dispute over land becomes an argument about race (article about the rights of slave descendant communities)

The Wall Street JournalBrazil: Trade Retaliation Against US To Stand During Talks

Financial TimesHeading in opposite directions ( a great article about the resistance Brazilian mining group Vale faced when it bought Canadian nickel miner Inco, in 2006) – (depends on free subscription)

BBCBP in $7bn deal to explore for oil in Brazil

Brazil’s Lula criticised for Cuba dissidents comment

Associated PressSilva says Iran sanctions dangerous

ReutersBrazil central bank chief under tax investigation

Brazil’s proposed retaliation against US goods

Brazil consumers lift economy; rate hike seen

Brazil GDP up 2 pct in Q4, recovery steady

Brazil economy seen growing close to 6 pct ‘10

Brazil’s Batista not shy about rise up rich list

Brazil’s Petrobras to invest $44 billion in 2010

EuromoneyPetrobras is Awarded Best Managed Company in Latin America

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Weekly Headlines

This week, the main Brazilian magazines offer a very diversified menu.

Época interviews the story of billionaire Eike Batista, on of the 10 richest men in the world. His empire, that goes from mining to tourism, reaches US$ 27.5 billion – thanks to an unbelievable US$ 20 billion growth in 2009.

Isto É remembers a two-year-old crime – the death of Isabella Nardoni, supposedly killed and thrown from an apartment building by her middle-class father and stepmother, whose trial is happens this week.

Veja does the follow up of the previous week cover on a corruption case involving Partido dos Trabalhadores, Brazil’s governing party .

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Reborn Mutantes

Os Mutantes's show at El Rey, in Los Angeles

Show at El Rey, in Los Angeles, in 2007

Only two Brazilian rock bands really made it abroad. Heavy-metal Sepultura and psychedelic Os Mutantes.

Os Mutantes’s success is peculiar in the fact that the band had its heyday in the late sixties and early seventies, when it was instrumental in shaping counterculture in Brazil. It was dismantled for decades, till the nineties, when it was progressively brought back to life, championed  by Kurt Cobain, Beck and David Byrne.

Initially formed by brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Brito, and red-haired-enfant terrible singer Rita Lee, it blew the country’s mind with its experimentalism and funny, surreal performances, that mixed bridal dresses and Napoleon outfits. Their free and crazy attitude was particularly striking in the tense period of censorship and political restrictions the country faced at the time. Keep reading

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Niemeyer at 102

Brasília Cathedral

Oscar Niemeyer, the centenary Brazilian architect that gained world fame for his sculptural reinforced concrete buildings, is still producing in an almost compulsive rhythm.

His signature is everywhere – not only in Brasília, the country’s capital and the main showcase of his creativity. During the last decade, he designed at least a dozen new projects, including a couple of museums and an annex for the Serpentine Gallery in the Hyde Park, in London. This week an impressive group of buildings by Niemeyer were inaugurated in Belo Horizonte. They will host Minas Gerais state government headquarters. The project, that cost over R$ 1 billion (US$ 560 million), includes two 15-floor towers and an auditorium. Keep reading

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Brazil in the news

Every Sunday you will find here the latest news about Brazil published by the international media.

Johnny AlfCBC (Canada)Johnny Alf, father of bossa nova, dies

BloombergBrazil Stocks Rally as Jobs, Inflation Reports Boost Confidence

Brazil May Overheat on Investments, Coutinho Says

Brazil’s Lula Unbeatable, Not Rousseff, Cardoso Says

Brazil Buyout Firms Have $9 Billion in ‘Dry Powder’

Business Week - Brazil Says Belo Monte Dam Needs 20 Billion Reais of Investments

The New York TimesAn American in Brazil (about Hillary Clinton’s visit to the country)

The Washington PostBrazil rebuffs US, says it will go own way on Iran

Los Angeles TimesRainforest pact: Brazil and the U.S. agree to cooperate

ReutersBrazil’s Serra fails to win popular running mate

Key political risks to watch in Brazil

Youthful Brazil faces challenge of rapid aging

Brazil JBS posts $71 mln Q4 net vs loss yr ago

Pao de Acucar sees Brazil 2010 sales up 15 pct-CEO

The Wall Street JournalBrazil’s BNDES Bank Lends Mercedes A Hand

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Weekly Headlines

Deep Brazil is back to business.

In fact, the transition to a new host and a new look was smoother than I expected. Thanks for sticking with me through this process. I hope you like the results. And, please, remember your feedback is always welcome.

So, back to the topic of the day: Veja covers one more scandal involving the governing Partido dos Trabalhadores. Época gives tips on how to help your kids being good students while Isto É discusses new treatments for male impotency.

Veja magazineEpoca magazine

Isto é magazine

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I need your feedback

In the next few weeks, I intend to change several features of this blog. It will be moving from Wordpress.com to a self hosted version. I hope it will gain flexibility – wider columns, space for more content and, maybe, some ads.

I am not a computer wizard, so this process might be painful. Please, be patient. I believe I will be back to regular business soon.

I am also looking for ways to make the design friendlier and more pleasant. I would really appreciate if you could give me your feedback on these topics:

  • Do you like the look of the website? Too many/few photos?
  • Is it easy to read? Would you prefer a different font/letter size?
  • Can you figure where the links are (or maybe they are too discreet)?
  • Would you like to have more/less blank spaces?

Thanks! I hope you will enjoy the new look of Deep Brazil.

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Brazil in the news

Every Sunday you will find here the latest news about Brazil published by the international media.

The EconomistThe Money Trail – “Corruption in Brazil: Many corruption scandals stem from the high cost of politics, and unrealistically tight campaign-finance rules”

Financial TimesBrazil to reverse easing as inflation fears rise (you need a free registration to read this)

The New York TimesStronger Fidel Castro Meets With Brazil President

Washington Post - US presses Brazil on Iran sanctions

The TimesThe gun-toting boys from Brazil who rule Rio’s ‘Corner of Fear’

BloombergGol Says Brazil Demand to Grow Up to 18% as Economy Expands

Banco do Brasil Plans Capital Boost, May Sell Shares

Brazil May Create Company to Boost Fertilizer Output

Brazil to Build an Additional Million Homes for Poor

Brazil’s January Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.2%

Brazil’s Real Heads for Biggest Advance in World This Month

Brazil February Inflation Rose to Fastest Since 2003

ReutersANALYSIS-Brazil economy well-placed for election year swings

JPMorgan may buy stake in Brazil’s Gavea: report

Brasil Foods export sales plummet in 2009

Brazil’s CSN sees 2010 steel sales up by a third

Brazil cenbank: ready to act to keep stability

Petrobras makes two oil finds in Campos Basin

Clinton seen pushing Iran on Latin America trip

Green Futures magazineRainforest revival: has Brazil turned the tide on deforestation?

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Weekly Headlines

This week, Isto É reveals details of the Mensalão, one of the many on-going political scandals (a big group of congressman that were receiving a “monthly salary” to vote legislation favored by president Lula’s party, Partido dos Trabalhadores). Veja talks about the latest revolution in cosmetics and Época covers the production of a series of films about psychic Chico Xavier, that died eight years ago but who sill has a huge following.

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Brazil, 20 years from now

From the Chrystal Ball series:

The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology released today a study that outlines how the country and the planet will (probably) evolve in the next 20 years. Produced by the Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos, the document offers a time line based on several sources. It is meant to help government plan its future strategies.

Part of its content is easily predictable, considering recent tendencies. But there are some surprises.

Among its main forecasts:

Economy

  • In four years, Brazil will go back to its tradition of successive commercial balance deficits
  • Brazilian Gross Domestic Product will be 925 billion dollars in 2015 (which means, less than our present GDP, around 1.6 trillion dollars. It is not very clear how Goldman Sachs, the original source of this information, came up with this number)
  • Brazil, the brand, will increase its value. The demand for products associated to the country’s cultural diversity will grow

Keep reading

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