Forbes
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 00:00
The problem is, that in order to build that clean energy, thousands of acres of pristine Amazon rainforest will have to be cut up and inundated with river water.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
Without Petrobras and its massive deep ocean oil discoveries off the coast of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states, international inflows into Brazil would look tame.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 00:00
Josefina Vazquez Mota has a fighting chance to win the Mexican presidential election not in spite of her gender, but because of it.
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 00:00
The Belo Monte dam has been in the works for decades in Brazil and was only approved in 2010. Construction began on the project in late 2011.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 00:00
The Belo Monte dam pits environmental activists, native tribes and clean energy wonks against Brazil’s government and large mining interests
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
Brazil's most popular president in a generation, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx on Saturday
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 00:00
The number of Central American migrants crossing Mexico to reach the United States has dropped almost 70 percent over the last five years, the Mexican government said Tuesday.
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 00:00
Rousseff's father was born in Bulgaria and migrated to Brazil in 1929
Monday, October 3, 2011 - 00:00
The Human Rights Watch study found "virtually no progress" in getting convictions for killings that have occurred in the past 4 1/2 years
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 00:00
Last week, the Brazilian senate passed a measure that grants fiscal incentives to the nuclear power industry.