A spokesman for the Brazilian central bank said it plans to ask Morgan Guaranty Trust which customers are affected by the New York bank's investigation of a former Morgan Guaranty official.
The International Monetary Fund, deeply worried about Brazil's failure to carry out economic reforms, has decided to cancel a $400-million loan to the country due next month, U.S. officials said today.
The thief realized his mistake too late: His young woman victim turned a lightning somersault and kicked him in the throat.
President-elect Tancredo Neves, weakened by six operations in 25 days and suffering from severe breathing problems, was in "very grave condition with his life in danger," doctors said Wednesday.
President Jose Sarney visits Washington today with a proposal that could help President Reagan reduce the U.S. foreign trade deficit.
President Jose Sarney on Wednesday decreed tax increases and higher prices on cars, fuel and air travel abroad to fight poverty and curb a spending boom threatening Brazil's anti-inflation program.
A federal court has convicted eight American men and an Argentine ship captain of smuggling arms into Brazil and given them prison sentences.
West Germany defeated Brazil, 2-0, in a World Cup tuneup soccer match before 50,000 fans Wednesday.
Facing the worst inflation in Brazil's history, President Jose Sarney announced an economic stabilization program Friday that includes a general price freeze, deep cuts in government spending and a currency devaluation.
The death toll from the heaviest rains in 38 years rose to at least 58, and 7,000 people were homeless in South America's largest city, the government said Tuesday.
Brazil's National Congress on Wednesday installed nine committees that will draft a new constitution aimed at returning the country to full democracy.
preparing themselves for a showdown with Brazil by announcing that it will place $2.3 billion in
Four months after the restoration of civilian government in Brazil, the largest marketplace in
The new economic team fielded by Brazil last week to defend against surging inflation is already
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as vice president of Brazil today and stepped immediately into the role of acting president as 21
With the Brazilian economy booming and no more local elections scheduled this year, President Jose Sarney seems ready to tackle renegotiation of Brazil's $100-billion foreign debt.
President Jose Sarney on Friday banned whale hunting off the Brazilian coast for five years, saying the decision was the result of letters he had received from thousands of children asking his help in saving the seafaring mammals.
President Jose Sarney said Monday in a nationally televised address that his government will not allow the "dogmatic intransigence" of international financial agencies to "impose a recessionary situation" on Brazil's economy.
Brazilian authorities, at the request of the United States, have arrested a Taiwanese man sought in the murder in California last year of a Chinese-American journalist who was a critic of the Taiwanese government, U.S. officials said Wednesday.