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Exclusive: Brazil jets deal heats up as Boeing freezes bid (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST

Reuters - Boeing has frozen the price on its bid for a multi-billion-dollar Brazilian air force jet contract, sources close to the deal told Reuters, as the global race to sell military hardware to emerging economic powers becomes more competitive.

Crime cutting into Brazil's Carnivals amid strike (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:15 AM PST

Vendors wait for customers at the entrance of a store at the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil, Thursday Feb. 9, 2012. A police strike and a resulting wave of violence is scaring off visitors to Brazil's third-largest city leaving the cash registers unusually quiet. Police demanding better pay and benefits walked off the job in the northeastern state of Bahia more than a week ago, doubling the number of murders and flooding Brazilian airwaves with alarming footage of looted banks and businesses. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - In the run-up to this city's huge Carnival, the cash register at the souvenir shop where Vania Alves works is normally buzzing as hoards of revelers scoop up rubber thong sandals, teeny bikinis and sarongs printed with the Brazilian flag.


Why Is Your Boss Moving to Brazil? (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Time.com - How Latin America's Economic Powerhouse is Luring the World's Top Executives

Police strike threatens Rio carnival crime wave (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:58 PM PST

Reuters - Brazilian police went on strike in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, risking a surge in crime just days before the beach city's famed carnival celebrations.

Brazil's Petrobras names first female CEO (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In naming a woman to head Latin America's largest firm, the Brazilian oil company Petrobras is giving a boost to gender parity in a region that has seen women rising well beyond their US peers in politics and starting to populate executive suites.

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