RIO 2016: IS BRAZIL GOING TO BE READY FOR THE OLYMPICS?

By Andrew Downie / Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Sep. 16, 2011

Out on the far west side of Rio de Janeiro, in a zone where a host of Summer Olympics events will take place five years from now, stands a great example of how to plan a major sporting event. And how not to. To read the whole article go to: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2093391,00.html#ixzz1YpcM2Huz 

Obama Goes to Rio: A Nod to Brazil's Growing Power

By Tim Padgett, TIME World, Friday, Mar. 18, 201
In March 1961, Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution was a three-alarm reminder that CIA-engineered coups weren't enough to keep communism out of the western hemisphere. Living standards had to be raised in Latin America, then as now the world's most inegalitarian region. So U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced the Alliance for Progress to help America's distant neighbors ... To read the whole article go to: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2059829,00.html#ixzz1YpbbjQjt

US financial crisis is “political” and needs of strong decisions, says Rousseff

MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency, Thursday, September 15th 2011: Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said the financial crisis in the Untied States which is contaminating the rest of the world is more ‘political’ than economic and it’s not only a matter of money, but also and mainly of ‘strong decisions’. http://en.mercopress.com/2011/09/15/us-financial-crisis-is-political-and-needs-of-strong-decisions-says-rousseff

Infrastructure Problems in Brazil: Equipment Imported by Petrobras From Italy Has Been Stuck in a Port For Over a Month

Ricardo Geromel – Forbes, 09/23/2011
Talk to any economist about Brazil and you will hear that unless infrastructure and bureaucracy are deeply improved there is no way Brazil will be the “country of the future.” Here is one example, first reported by Sabrina Lorenzi, that pinpoints why economists turned terms like infrastructure bottlenecks and bureaucracy into clichés when talking about Brazilian economy. Read the whole article going to: http://brazilportal.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/infrastructure-problems-in-brazil-equipment-imported-by-petrobras-from-italy-has-been-stuck-in-a-port-for-over-a-month/

Newsletter Legal Developments in Latin America—June - July 2011

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