Brazil’s Blessing in Disguise

Eduardo J. Gómez-Foreign Policy, 07/22/2009
Two decades ago, it would have been hard to imagine finding an upside to an HIV crisis of the scope that Brazil had on its hands. The World Bank estimated that 1.2 million Brazilians would be infected by the turn of the century — by far the highest number of any [...]

Obama touts trade in meeting with Brazil official

Doug Palmer-Reuters, 07/21/2009
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wants stronger ties with Brazil, especially in the commercial area, a top aide and possible successor to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
“He made what I consider a very strong and important statement,” Lula’s chief of staff Dilma Rousseff, speaking through a translator, said [...]

Petrobras case threatens Brazil’s boom

Dom Phillips-Financial Times, 07/21/2009
It may be the worst crisis in Petrobras’s history, says the company’s president, and it comes as Brazil’s state-owned oil group is ratcheting up development of the country’s potentially vast deep-water oilfields.
Last week, members were selected for a Brazilian parliamentary investigation committee (CPI) into allegations of fraud, corruption, over-invoicing and tax avoidance [...]