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Brazil Opposition Wants OAS Mission to Check on Venezuela's Political Prisoners

Venezuela will have to wait a little longer for Brazilian approval to get inside the Mercosur. Brazil's opposition announced it will attempt to delay as much as possible the Senate vote on the incorporation of Venezuela to...

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Lula Wins, Brazil's Senate Committee Says Yes to Venezuela in Mercosur

Brazil's Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave its green light this Thursday, October 25, to Venezuela to become a full member of Mercosur. Together with Brazilian business leaders Lula had been lobbying Congress to get it to...

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Brazil's Senate President Vows to Help Venezuela's Political Prisoner

Former Brazilian president and current President of the Brazilian Senate, José Sarney, met this Friday, October 23, Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian international lawyer representing the Venezuelan political prisoner Eligio...

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Brazil's Lula Starts Storm Comparing Himself to Jesus and Allies to Judas

In an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil's largest-circulation daily, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that any politician who comes to Brazil will have to rule making deals according to the Brazilian...

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Brazil's Biggest Party Backs Lula's Hand-Picked Candidate for President

The biggest political party in Brazil, the PMDB (Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement), has just made a deal with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to back Lula's hand-picked minister Dilma Rousseff as the...

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Brazil criticized for visit by Iran's president

Israel's chief Rabbi Yona Metzger expresses disappointment with Brazil's decision to receive 'a man who publicly says he wants to destroy our country', urges authorities to call off visit by Iranian President Mahmoud...

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International Lawyer in Brazil to Denounce Chavez' Human Rights Abuses

Venezuelan political prisoner Eligio Cedeno's representatives are visiting Brazil this week seeking what they call urgent support against the ongoing abuses of human rights and political persecution by...

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UN Special Rapporteur: "Brazil is a leading country on the right to ..

Vrijdag 16 oktober 2009 | United Nations (UN) ] BRASILIA - The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Professor Olivier De Schutter, is currently in Brazil for a country mission on the progressive realization of the right...

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Zuma wraps up his visit to Brazil

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma arrived back in South Africa on Saturday after concluding his two-day state visit to Brazil, where he attended a Business Forum and met with Brazilian President Lula Da Silva. During his visit,...

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FT interview transcript: Marina Silva

By Jonathan Wheatley in Sao Paulo Jonathan Wheatley, the FT’s Brazil correspondent, interviewed Marina Silva in her office in Brazil’s Senate on September 18. Ms Silva, who was elected to the Senate for the first time in 1994,...

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