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Yahoo! News: Brazil

Approval for Brazil's Lula hit by economic crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:07 PM PDT

Reuters - The global economic crisis has caught up to Brazil's popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, denting his approval ratings for the first time in well over a year as unemployment rose sharply.

Brazilian court ruling backs Amazon reservation (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 07:26 PM PDT

A Makuxi indian, from the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation in northern Brazil, takes pictures before the beginning of a session of the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasilia, Thursday, March 19, 2009. The court ruled Thursday that the reservation must remain intact, a ruling seen as bolstering indigenous rights, and which sets an important precedent for laying out and protecting the boundaries for many Indian reserves in Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) ¶AP - Brazil's Supreme Court sided Thursday with Amazonian Indians in a land dispute that some have called critical for determining the future of the rainforest that sprawls the size of Western Europe.

Brazil's top court backs indigenous rights (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 06:14 PM PDT

A Makunaimi tribe member attends a session at the Supreme Federal Court on March 18 in Brasilia. Indigenous groups from the Amazon have won a major victory after Brazil's Supreme Court upheld the integrity of a vast native reserve, paving the way for the eviction of white farmers who have resisted leaving.(AFP/File/Joedson Alves)AFP - Indigenous groups from the Amazon have won a major victory after Brazil's Supreme Court upheld the integrity of a vast native reserve, paving the way for the eviction of white farmers who have resisted leaving.

Amazon Indian infanticide video said inciting hate (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:53 PM PDT

Reuters - A video made with the help of U.S. missionaries and depicting Amazon Indians burying children alive is "faked" and inciting racial hatred, a group campaigning for tribal rights said on Thursday.

El Salvador's Funes to make trip to Brazil (AFP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 10:17 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk past grafitti in San Salvador. El Salvador's President-elect Mauricio Funes will make his first foreign trip to Brazil, officials said after his party of former Marxist rebels triumphed in weekend elections(AFP/Yuri Cortez)AFP - El Salvador's President-elect Mauricio Funes will make his first foreign trip to Brazil, officials said after his party of former Marxist rebels triumphed in weekend elections.

Where's Ecuador? Not on new Brazilian school map (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 12:58 PM PDT

AP - Where's Ecuador? Better not ask that question in Brazil. A new Brazilian geography text book for sixth-grade students doesn't even include the South American country on the map.

Best view in Rio? Pushing limits of slum tourism (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 06:26 PM PDT

Reuters - Rolf Glaser zips his motorbike up the twisting alleyways of Vidigal slum, past a bunch of cheerful, gun-packing drug traffickers, and emerges at a cliffside plateau next to some demolished shacks.

Vatican prelate defends abortion for 9-year-old (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 11:25 AM PDT

AP - An influential prelate said Brazilian doctors didn't deserve excommunication for aborting the twin fetuses of a 9-year-old child who was allegedly raped by her stepfather because the doctors were saving her life.

Bundchen, Brady in Brazil to visit model's family (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 08:55 AM PDT

Brazil's top model Gisele Bundchen, right, and U.S. American football star Tom Brady pose for a photograph in Horizontina, southern Brazil, Saturday, March 14, 2009. According to O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper the two arrived to spend their 'honeymoon' in Brazil but there was no official confirmation of the report.(AP Photo/Tadeu Vilani/Agencia RBS)AP - Brazilian media are reporting that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are in the supermodel's hometown so that she can introduce the American football star to her family.

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