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...An official announcement is expected during Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s visit to Argentina that starts on Sunday night, the veteran leftist’s first foreign trip since taking power on...
...“This may be the first time we have a real chance of having capitalism in Brazil,” says Alfredo Valladão, a Brazilian political scientist at Sciences Po in Paris....
...There is little doubt among local pollsters and pundits that “Marito” — as Mario Abdo Benítez, the son of the dictator Alfredo Stroessner’s influential private secretary, is affectionately known — will cruise...
...There was one famous one, Alfredo Matias, who had built Iguatemi in 1966....
...Spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said her doctors were “pleased to announce that definitive tests … ruled out the presence of cancerous cells, altering the initial diagnosis”....
...Then came transport minister Alfredo Nascimento, who resigned in July because of reports that his top aides were charging companies a fee to win contracts....
...One is that she is too brusque and uncharismatic and lacks the political skills of her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...Although the first female president of Latin America’s emerging global power may lack the charisma of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, her wildly popular predecessor, voters seem to have warmed to her no-nonsense...
...Alfredo Torres, head of Ipsos Apoyo polls, says centrist candidates made a mistake in championing policies of continuity. “Peruvians like change. Campaigning on continuity is an error....
...The deal is the latest effort by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil to increase his influence in Latin America through “good neighbour” policies....
...Carlos Márcio Cozendey, head of the economic division at Brazil’s foreign ministry, said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian president, would stress the risks of protectionism at the meeting....
...But the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has refused to negotiate....
...Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, will be reluctant to concede price rises since these could feed through into higher rates of inflation and make it more difficult to reduce interest rates,...
...Alfredo Palacio’s government has found it increasingly difficult to maintain that its decision – based on the allegedly improper transfer of a 40 per cent stake of the Block 15 oil field to EnCana of Canada...
...As the opposition calls for Mr Palocci’s head, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has urged ministers and PT leaders to rally round....
...Both the US and the Organisation of American States have been cautious about how to respond to the new administration led by vice-president Alfredo Palacio....
...At the very least the scandal appears to be blocking progress of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reform programme....
...Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, travelled to the Colombian border on Wednesday to meet the leader of Brazil's neighbour in an effort to broker a resolution to a tense diplomatic stand-off...
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