Two pickets, including a 17-year-old girl, were shot dead and nine others were injured as striking sugar cane cutters clashed with police near Campinas in Sao Paulo state, a police spokesman said Friday.
Brazil launched "a life-and-death" struggle against inflation Friday, freezing prices, imposing
here and in other major cities Saturday as Brazil began an official war against inflation.
Brazil, the world's leading independent tin producer, has reached agreement with the seven-member
Socrates and Josimar scored their second goals of the tournament as Brazil ousted Poland from the World Cup with a 4-0 victory Monday.
Brazil's new government, in a gesture inspired by cultural nationalism, has put into effect a law that bans foreign ownership of companies that produce, distribute or exhibit motion pictures in this country, which is a large market for foreign films.
Pope John Paul II's crackdown on the progressive clergy in Brazil, symbolized by the silencing of
Brazil's famous annual festival of pre-Lenten song, dance and debauchery is being called the Carnival of Democracy this year in celebration of the election of a civilian president after 21 years of military rule.
off credit to Brazil, at least temporarily, because of the country's failure to get a grip on its inflation rate, estimated at 223% last year.
The Brazilian Congress gave unanimous final approval Thursday to a sweeping constitutional amendment that gives the right to elect the country's next president to about 75 million voters.
Brazil will ask its foreign creditors to extend new loans this year and reduce financing costs when
The national teams of Bulgaria, Mexico and Chile and the Brazilian First Division club Corinthians will participate in the third Nation's Cup Soccer Tournament at the Coliseum today and Tuesday.
Two girls, each clutching a fistful of purple ribbons, darted through the waterfront crowd celebrating the annual Festival of Our Lady of the Beach, the patroness of sailors and fishermen.
Brazil has begun a last-ditch effort to obtain help in refinancing its $100-billion foreign debt.
Brazil, the Third World's largest debtor nation, has decided to lead a regional Latin American
Octavio Pires heads a prestigious architectural firm in this burgeoning metropolis.
"Brazil," a film that may not sell one ticket at the box office this year, was nevertheless named
"Nobody knows anything."
Citicorp, the nation's largest bank and the world's biggest bank lender to Brazil, said Friday that
Brazil, whose $111-billion foreign debt is the biggest of any developing country, said Wednesday