Hints and tips:
...Maria Izabel de Jesus, a retired 72-year-old who lives in the east zone of São Paulo, says food has become unaffordable. “It's too much. You can't buy anything,” she says....
...“What a piece of theatre with 605 actors,” remarked Rosa Maria Paya, the daughter of leading former dissident Oswaldo Paya, who died in mysterious circumstances in 2012....
...When Mr Temer took power last year, he appointed a respected manager, Maria Silva Bastos Marques, to try reform BNDES....
...It is only a straw in the wind, but Maria Romeu, who concierges yacht charters to Cuba from Florida, continues to take lots of bookings from her largely Republican clients....
...Maria Immacolata Lopes, a researcher into telenovelas at São Paulo University, points to last year’s hit soap Amor à Vida and the character of Félix, initially a villain from a rich family who is kicked...
...Petrobras’s board is set to meet on Friday to appoint replacements for chief executive Maria das Graças Foster and five other senior executives who quit the state-controlled oil company on Wednesday amid...
...The resignation on Wednesday of Petrobras’ top management, including chief executive Maria das Graças Foster, has left the Brazilian government scrambling to find replacements capable of regaining investors...
...So said Maria das Graças Foster, chief executive of Petrobras, as she announced that the state-controlled oil major is in talks with billionaire Eike Batista’s beleaguered EBX group about a potential tie-up...
...Maria das Graças Foster, Petrobras chief executive, said the national oil major was looking at assets controlled by Mr Batista’s “X” group of companies, whose share prices have been plunging after his flagship...
...Meanwhile, the corporate sector reeled from news of the bankruptcy of Eike Batista’s oil company OGX, which triggered Latin America’s largest-ever corporate default....
...“This is business, not aid,” Maria das Graças Foster, Petrobras chief executive, insists....
...“In the last five years we doubled our reserves and volume of potentially recoverable [oil],” says Maria das Graças Silva Foster, chief executive of Petrobras, in a recent briefing....
...Mr Djokovic joins a stable including fellow tennis champion Rafael Nadal, whose IMG contract expires at the end of the year, and Maria Sharapova, along with others such as NFL star Eli Manning and model...
...A male voice – that of Lina’s husband Pietro Maria Bardi – periodically booms out the phrase “Lina, va fare un caffé” (“Lina, go make a coffee”), which he apparently uttered each time a conversation was...
...Maria Eugênia López, director of Banco Santander Brasil’s private banking unit, says: “The private banking sector continues to grow....
...Some prospectors dug out huge fortunes: Eike Batista, one of Brazil’s wealthiest men, made his first billion dollars there....
...In many ways, my mother was typical of her generation, which included Julio Lobo’s younger daughter María Luisa – one of her closest friends....
...Maria Fernanda Coelho, the bank’s president, was among officials on hand when flood victims were handed the keys to their new homes in Realengo in mid-April....
...“The doctor is like a member of the family,” says Dr Maria Fernandez Oliva, director of the nearby Thomas Romay polyclinic....
...Many had worked for Batista’s regime, or owned or managed companies or land that Castro nationalised....
International Edition