The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brazilian government starts investigation into how radio comedian impersonated president Luiz Inácio da Silva in Rio interview When Brazil's notoriously interview-shy president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, offered journalists from Angolan state radio an exclusive telephone chat, they should probably have smelled a rat. When Lula appeared on air claiming to be speaking live and direct...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A hoaxer pretending to be Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was interviewed by some Portuguese-language radio stations before being found out.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A hoaxer pretending to be Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was interviewed by some Portuguese-language radio stations before being found out.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The president of Brazil stands for democracy, and for the poor. These are still valuable qualities in the 21st century President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who has received the Chatham House prize for 2009 , is one of the few world politicians to have ridden out the global economic crisis with an enhanced reputation. In April he was congratulated by Barack Obama at the Summit of the...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday that paying good salaries to the police officers is the only way to prevent them from accepting bribes from criminals. According to the president, a well-paid and well-formed police force is a guarantee of tranquillity to the society. "The only way we can make sure that a policeman will not accept bribes from criminals is to pay him well...
David Miliband (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I am sorry I am not in London this week to meet President Lula when he receives the Chatham House Prize , awarded annually to the statesperson deemed by Chatham House members to have made the most significant contribution to improving international relations in the previous year. President Lula's leadership of Brazil, domestically and internationally, has been remarkable. Brazil has made itself a key...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Brazil's president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month's climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas...
Climate Feedback - Blog Posts (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field And now I'll take a look at the major developing countries, as promised both yesterday and today. A new analysis of climate commitments by the six biggest emerging economies - Brazil, China, India, South Africa, Mexico and South Korea - suggests that their cumulative emissions add up to a 25 percent reduction compared to "business as usual"...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Brazil’s president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Cut Global Warming (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
"The problem is your European game is too slow and stilted" – Lula might have been saying. So it’s not every day that you tackle the president of Brazil dressed as a member of his national football team. Or at least, I don’t. (Tackle in a very metaphorical sense, I should say.) But when you want to [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
How evangelical preachers are trying to stem the tide of killings in the Olympic city "If you add them all up I control 15 communities," boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4x4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian capital's most wanted drug lords, better known by the nickname Spiderman. The words...
Infotainment (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Add Alerts | Manage Alerts | Unsubscribe Hi shiva703, We've received new pictures for: Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, and Michelle Obama. Barack Obama President Obama Speaks On Education In Madison, Wisconsin (11 pics) Barack Obama Obama Hosts Tribal Nations Conference At White House (7 pics) Gordon Brown Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Visits London (7 pics) Barack Obama White House Hosts...
The Irascible Poet (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I wrote a blog-post last week about poetry and poet's responses to the Great Recession moment. One poet who commented was my friend Sina Queyras - oh if only there were more poets like her.. I got some comments from poets whose work has always been a response to our current situation but going back to the essay I quoted by Eliot Weinberger one of the issues that has made the 30 year Reagan Revolution...
IOL (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may be one of the most popular politicians on the planet, but he also has a way of mangling his language.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may be one of the most popular politicians on the planet, but he also has a way of mangling his language, as a new book reviewed on Wednesday showed.
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