Tag: Brazil

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for re-election with the Workers Party (PT), shows her electronic voting receipt that confirms that she voted in general elections in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Sunday. Brazilians are casting ballots in an election expected to force a three-week runoff campaign between incumbent Rousseff and one of her two top challengers, either former environment minister and senator Marina Silva or Aecio Neves. Brazilians are also deciding congressional races and electing governors. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Beltway Confidential

Brazil votes, heavily, but result in runoff looks unclear

Michael Barone · October 6, 2014 12:32 pm

An unidentified man holding what appears to be a gun, parades a handcuffed hostage wearing what appears to be an explosive vest, on the 13th floor balcony of the Saint Peter Hotel, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Firefighters and police have cordoned off the area and about 300 guests and other employees left the hotel, some reportedly told to leave by the same man carrying out the attack. Police didn't confirm whether there were actually explosives in the garment. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Man frees hostage held for hours at Brazil hotel

Washington Examiner · September 29, 2014 8:10 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, Brazil's Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira speaks at a news conference on deforestation in the Amazon in Brasilia, Brazil. Despite its critical role in protecting the Amazon rainforest, Brazil will not endorse a global anti-deforestation initiative being announced at the U.N. climate summit, complaining it was left out of the consultation process. A U.N. official disputed that claim. Teixeira said Brazil was "not invited to be engaged in the preparation process" of the declaration. Instead, she said Brazil was given a copy of the text and asked to endorse it without being allowed to suggest any changes. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Countries pledge to end forest loss; Brazil balks

DINA CAPPIELLOALEXANDRA OLSON · September 23, 2014 6:38 pm

A worker sets sugar cane fields on fire at farm in Patrocinio Paulista, in the prosperous countryside of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Andre Vieira/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Changes to EPA gasoline rules may shake U.S. ethanol industry

Zack Colman · September 8, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this July 2, 2014 file photo, a man works on the rooftop of a home at the Providencia slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazil has slipped into recession, with government figures released Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 showing gross domestic product contracting for a second consecutive quarter. Brazil last experienced a recession between October 2008 and February 2009. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

BRIC wall: Brazil’s economy slips into a recession

Brad Brooks · August 30, 2014 12:15 am

In this Aug. 8, 2014 photo, girls participate in a ballet class at the House of Dreams dance studio in Crackland, one of the roughest neighborhoods in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil. Growing up amid drug dealers and addicts, some girls have yet to learn how to read. Yet they are learning the graceful art of ballet courtesy of a local church group that also offers them food, counseling and Bible studies. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Girls from Brazil’s favelas find escape in ballet

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · August 25, 2014 4:06 am

Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) presidential candidate Marina Silva, right, and her running mate Beto Albuquerque, celebrate the launch of their candidacy for the presidential elections at the headquarters of the Brazilian Socialist Party in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil Socialists name Silva as new candidate

Washington Examiner · August 21, 2014 12:59 am

Brazil: Socialist pres. hopeful surges in polls

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 6:06 pm

Brazil party replacing candidate who died in crash

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · August 16, 2014 11:39 pm

Officials work at the crash site of a small plane that was carrying Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos and several campaign officials, in the port city of Santos, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. All seven people aboard the plane, including a campaign photographer and press advisor, as well as two pilots, died in the crash, City Hall press officer Patricia Fagueiro confirmed. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

No recording of crash that killed Brazil candidate

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 9:23 pm

Candidate’s sudden death transforms Brazil race

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · August 14, 2014 3:58 pm

Brazil: Presidential candidate dies in plane crash

Brazil: Presidential candidate dies in plane crash

adriana-gomez, liconstan-lehman · August 13, 2014 11:53 pm