The Copenhagen opening ceremony on Monday as the climate change summit began By Reuters COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – China led calls by developing nations for deeper emissions cuts from the United States, Japan and Europe at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday, as a study showed that this decade will be the warmest on record. The first decade of [...]
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Brazil, U.S., OAS flunked Honduras test
Honduras former president Manuel Zelaya with members of Carter Center in the Brazil´s embassy, in Tegucigalpa BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com Brazil, the United States and the Organization of American States deserve a gold medal each for their awful handling of Sunday’s presidential elections in Honduras. Let’s examine how the main international players behaved in the crisis [...]
Negotiators at Climate Talks Face Deep Set of Fault Lines
Countdown to Copenhagen, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil By TOM ZELLER Jr. – The New York Times With the scientific consensus more or less settled that human activity — the burning of fossil fuels, torching of forests, and so forth — is contributing to a warmer and less hospitable planet, one might reasonably ask, [...]
Brazilian president says ‘gringos’ must pay to protect Amazon
Associated Press Photograph: Fernando Bizerra Jr/EPA Speaking before Amazon summit, Lula calls on industrialised countries to provide financial help to halt deforestation Brazil‘s president said today that “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich western countries had caused much more environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees [...]
Ahmadinejad in Brazil: Why Lula Defies the U.S.
By Andrew Downie, from Time.com Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wave to journalists at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia Eraldo Peres / AP A swing through Latin America this week by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted the Obama Administration and U.S. congressional leaders to signal their [...]
4 Common Misconceptions About Brazil
By Connection Consulting After providing consulting for numerous business to start up in Brazil, we have learned that there are a few subjects related to bureaucracy and perceptions about Brazil that catch foreigners by surprise especially when they are planning to set up or already are in the process to open their business in [...]
The Amazon’s crusader, taking on the world
Photo: Elza Fiúza – Agência Brasil By Juliet Eilperin, from The Washington Post When international climate negotiators convene next month in Copenhagen, Brazilian politician Marina Silva will serve as the conference’s unofficial philosopher-activist. A native Amazonian who grew up in a community of rubber-tappers, Silva worked with murdered Amazonian activist Chico Mendes, won the prestigious [...]
Brazil Elbows U.S. on the Diplomatic Stage
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, from The New York Times BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s ambitions to be a more important player on the global diplomatic stage are crashing headlong into the efforts of the United States and other Western powers to rein in Iran’s nuclear arms program. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Monday that the world [...]
An Influx of Business Wealth in Rio
By VICTORIA GOMELSKY, from The New York Times Photo by Pedro Kirilos/Riotur Rio is expected to attract billions in public and private investment over the next few years. RIO DE JANEIRO — On Alexandra Daly’s most recent visit here in May, she was booked into a hotel across the street from the most [...]
World Out of Balance
By PAUL KRUGMAN From The New Yok Times Photo by Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy or anything else. But let’s hope that when the cameras aren’t rolling Mr. [...]