Sentences with phrase «brazilian presidents»

Her supporters argue that other Brazilian presidents have used the same strategy before.

In August 2012, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced $ 60 billion in private investments for road and rail projects.

• The NSA spied on former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (then a candidate).

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is accusing the Ottawa - based Communications Security Establishment Canada of mounting a sophisticated spy operation against her country's ministry of mines and energy.

But the Brazilian president said Monday it appeared to be an act of industrial espionage and summoned the Canadian ambassador to explain.

Bovespa — April 28, 2016 Brazil's largest corporate scandal in history may be about to take down the Brazilian president.

Rainforest Alliance president Nigel Sizer joins CNN Money with Maggie Lake to discuss deforestation in Brazil and the Brazilian president's new bill to reduce deforestation controls in the Amazon.

He was praised in every soccer - playing nation, toasted in champagne by Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek and pronounced, for the first time, the king of soccer in Brazil.

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has given her support to a black Brazilian player who was racially abused by Peruvian fans during a Copa Libertadores match.

When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff asked to speak to the leaders of the mass demonstrations against the government in 2014 organised entirely on social media with an explicit rejection of party politics, she was told «there are no leaders».

Fernando Collor de Mello, who in 1992 became the first Brazilian president to be impeached, was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 1994 and 2014 on the charges that resulted in his ousting.

Probably the closest thing that has happened is the US invited the Brazilian president over for a state visit and Brazil called the visit off.

A Senior Research fellow at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy LECIAD, Dr. Ken Ahorsu says the suspension of the Brazilian President Dilma Roussef from office is not likely to have any negative impact on Ghana - Brazil relations.

They were pissed off that the US was spying on them (the Brazilian president, not just people in Brazil) even though they are supposed to be allies.

When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the newly elected Brazilian president, announced his intention to double Brazil's research spending, Nicolelis decided to build a state - of - the - art research facility in Brazil.

Earlier this year, 20 Brazilian scientific societies, including the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science and the Brazilian Anthropology Association, wrote to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff opposing the dam, saying it would violate the human rights of indigenous groups.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was among the five world leaders along with Obama who negotiated the final version of the Copenhagen Accord.

To Soares Filho, Brazil's Forest Code, which was updated earlier this year amid controversy (see «Brazilian president vetoes parts — but not all — of controversial forestry bill»), is the Amazon's best chance to preserve biodiversity.

Updated on 29 March: Confusion continues four days after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced her partial veto of a controversial forest code bill.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (from left), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma pose for a photo during the BRICS Summit in Ufa, Russia, in July.

Likewise, former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso recently told a small group of U.S. senators that the most important thing he would remember about his residency at the Library of Congress is «the uniqueness, strength, and autonomy of the American university.»

After the Brazilian president was impeached and a more pro-business leader came into power (he's expected to lower Brazil's 14.25 % interest rate) the market started to soar.

The last drew a round of applause, and Mr. Clinton took the opportunity to endorse — perhaps controversially — the effort undertaken by President Bush and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last year: To heavily promote the production and use of ethanol made from sugar cane throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

So with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visiting President Obama this week, it's a natural time to ask, who gets invited to White House State Dinners and who gets left out in the cold?

The submission came a day after Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff announced the pledge on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, aimed at building political momentum ahead of December's Paris climate conference.

Nevertheless as more details have emerged, it becomes clear that the onus for reining in deforestation falls on Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's successor.

For much of that day, President Obama negotiated with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma.

This strong public support, as well as international pressure, likely contributed to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's recent pledge to cut the country's carbon emissions 37 % by 2025.

President Bush and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva set aside past differences Friday and announced a partnership to promote use of alternative fuels to reduce the Western Hemisphere's dependence on fossil fuels.

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Brazilian president Luis Inacio «Lula» Da Silva is not only going to this year's Copenhagen summit, he's also actively participating in negotiations.

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also came to Rome to defend his country's cultivation of sugarcane ethanol.

Environmental Defense Fund helped focus attention on the escape of Chico Mendes» murderers by delivering over 4,000 letters from Environmental Defense members to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

The Program for Sustainable Production of Palm Oil, announced today by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, is novel in its approach to protecting standing forests while allowing cultivation in areas that have been deforested in the past, namely for use as short - lived sugarcane plantations or lumber operations.

The Brazilian President Luis Inacio «Lula» da Silva is set to sign into law a bill (Bill 458) that would formalize and legalize companies and individuals that are currently squatting on what amounts to Brazilian rainforest.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio «Lula» da Silva pushed the door further open in October 2006 when he decreed that all government bodies must recycle and that their recyclable materials must go to catador cooperatives and associations.

After six years pending in Congress, on March 16, 2015, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff approved a new Code of Civil Procedure (Código de Processo Civil, CPC),...

Recently impeached Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's former chief of staff, Jaques Wagner, has been as resolute in the past.

The former Brazilian President Luiz da Silva (commonly known as Lula) is facing a 12 - year prison term for charges of corruption.

Not exact matches

Only 1 % of Brazilian voters would support him if he were to run for president, according to a recent poll.

Rousseff's potential successor, Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer, is a member of the centrist PMBD party, which is considered more business friendly than Rousseff's leftish Worker's Party (PT).

Brazilian stocks jumped on Thursday after a court ruled that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can be sent to prison while he appeals a corruption conviction.

Brazilian police officers fired tear gas and stun grenades to keep at bay angry protesters rallying against President Dilma Rousseff.

Thousands of protesters poured onto the streets of major cities on Sunday to demand the removal of President Dilma Rousseff amid Brazil's worst political and economic crisis in a generation.Polls show more than half of Brazilians favour the impeachment of Rousseff.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has announced that the SAAB Gripen NG fighter jet has been selected for the FX - 2 program of the Brazilian Air Force.

The president of the Brazil Steel Institute, Marco Polo de Mello Lopes, who was meeting with Brazilian officials when they got the call from Washington, said the ultimatum came as a complete surprise.

Endeavor Entrepreneur Leila Velez, president of Brazilian beauty chain Beleza Natural, participated in a spotlighted interview with Moira Forbes.

The massively popular Brazilian former president has been sentenced to...

David R. Beatty, former Managing Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance; Kevin Cameron, co-founder and former President of Glass, Lewis & Co.; Jesse Fried, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy; Bengt Hallqvist, Founder of the Brazilian Institute for Corporate Governance; Charles Macek, recent Chairman of the Australian Financial Reporting Council; David Nierenberg, President of Nierenberg Investment Management Company; and Ned Regan, Professor, Baruch College.

He has been with the ABPM for the last 14 years and is active in the fresh produce industry outside the role; recently transitioning from vice president to director of institutional relations at Abrafrutas — the Brazilian Fruit Association.