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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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06SAOPAULO1242 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, PRESIDENTIAL [...] "14 Years In Power" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (12/5): "Chvez speaks about deepening his 'revolution.' Thus the way would be paved for another authoritarian escalation in Venezuela.... The joining of oppositionist forces, now within the rules [...] | 2006-12-06 10:56:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO1248 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT; WESTERN [...] "Exit Door" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (12/10): "The Iraq Study Group report clearly says that the situation is bad and that there is not much one can do to improve it.... The document is an opportunity for the White House to change the focus [...] | 2006-12-11 12:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO1262 | SAO PAULO REACHES OUT TO UNIVERSITIES [...] SUMMARY: As a part of a Mission-wide initiative to reach out to institutions that have historically had little contact with the USG, Sao Paulo Consulate General's Entry Level Officers are visiting universities and other organizations throughout its consular district. The officers found student [...] | 2006-12-15 12:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS ECON CMGT BR |
06SAOPAULO1264 | PT EXPECTS LULA TO ADVANCE THE PARTY'S AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials of President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) downplayed reports of tensions between the President and his party. The PT considers the 2006 elections to have been a referendum on President Lula's record and his vision for the country and believe [...] | 2006-12-15 14:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO1268 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: BRAZIL, LULA'S SECOND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-18 12:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO1277 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST: PALESTINIAN GOVERNANCE; SAO PAULO [...] "Palestinian Crossroad" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (12/9) editorialized: "The Palestinians are on the eve of a civil war, and PNA President Mahmoud Abbas' decision of calling elections does not help to calm the situation. However, the call for elections has [...] | 2006-12-19 12:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO1280 | MEDIA REACTION: AFRICA: LIBYA, BULGARIAN NURSES [...] "Two Hypotheses For Qaddafi's Obstinacy" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge opined (12/20): "All experts reject that the five defendants have committed such a monstrous crime.... We believe that the accusation that they have inoculated the AIDS virus in the [...] | 2006-12-20 12:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO1283 | MEDIA REACTION: AFRICA: LIBYA, BULGARIAN NURSES' [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-21 10:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO1286 | MEDIA REACTION: CUBA; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-22 11:17:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO198 | Santa Catarina - Port Development and Challenges [...] SUMMARY. The Port of Itajai's phenomenal growth, the development of a competing port in the neighboring city of Navegantes, and the 2005 opening of a private port facility in Itapoa highlight the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina's prominent role in Brazilian trade. A U.S. company, [...] | 2006-02-23 10:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EWWT PGOV KIPR ETRD BEXP BR |
06SAOPAULO202 | LULA'S RECOVERY IN POLLS EXPOSES PSDB QUANDARY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Recent polls showing President Lula recovering lost popularity have sounded alarms within the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),which is struggling to nominate a candidate to o [...] | 2006-02-23 18:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO206 | LULA'S RECOVERY IN POLLS EXPOSES PSDB QUANDARY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Recent polls showing President Lula recovering lost popularity have sounded alarms within the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),which is struggling to nominate a candidate to o [...] | 2006-02-23 19:26:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO207 | Destruction of Pirated Software in Sao Paulo [...] (U) On 21 February 2006, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) sponsored the destruction of more than 500,000 pirated software discs outside Sao Paulo's Pacaembu Stadium. The contraband was displayed publicly and then ceremoniously destroyed by feeding discs into a wood chipper. This event hig [...] | 2006-02-23 19:27:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD KJUS BR |
06SAOPAULO215 | LEADER OF THE 1992 CARANDIRU PRISON MASSACRE ACQUITTED OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 15, Police Colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes was absolved of responsibility for the infamous 1992 Carandiru prison massacre by a Special Session of the Sao Paulo State Court of Justice. The Court overturned a 2001 grand jury sentence of 632 years in prison for Guimaraes. [...] | 2006-02-24 23:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO216 | AOL LEAVES BRAZIL, STARBUCKS ARRIVES [...] SUMMARY. After six years in Brazil, bankruptcy crises at parent company America Online Latin America have forced America Online Brazil to cease operations. Meanwhile, American retailer Starbucks will soon set up (coffee) shop in Brazil, with the first store scheduled to open in Rio de Janeir [...] | 2006-02-24 23:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ECPS ETRD ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO223 | CONTINUED DECLINE IN MOST VIOLENT CRIME IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sao Paulo State Secretariat for Public Security released fourth quarter (October-December, 2005) crime statistics for the city of Sao Paulo, the Sao Paulo city outskirts, and the state as a whole. Statewide, violent crime decreased, including a marked decrease in homicide an [...] | 2006-03-02 18:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV ASEC PHUM ECON SNAR BR |
06SAOPAULO229 | HOPES AND FEARS: BUSINESS COMMUNITY VIEWS OF BRAZIL'S [...] Summary: An informal survey of business leaders from Sao Paulo shows support for Finance Minister Antonio Palocci's macroeconomic policies and a general sense of relief that Lula's presidency has not destroyed the economy as originally feared. Although Lula is no longer seen as a threat to th [...] | 2006-03-03 12:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PINR ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO245 | BRAZIL CRAWLS TOWARD DIGITAL TV [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With the nominal March deadline set for the adoption of a digital television (DTV) standard, Brazilian officials remain divided on the issue, and the recent entry of the Brazilian Congress into the process will likely delay a final decision. Brazil is currently choosing a digit [...] | 2006-03-06 19:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON PGOV ETRD BEXP BR |
06SAOPAULO251 | Brazil's Cosmonaut [...] SUMMARY: In late March, Brazil plans to send its first astronaut into space aboard a Russian rocket. This event appears to be the first step in space-related cooperation between Brazil and Russia. Despite the historic significance of this flight for Brazil, the director of Brazil's National S [...] | 2006-03-07 17:40:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA PREL EAIR PGOV BR |
06SAOPAULO258 | BRAZIL: A COMBINATION OF INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION, LOW [...] Brazil's record trade surplus combined with currency appreciation that benefited imports and a substantial current account surplus were the main economic surprises of 2005. Brazil is recovering from a production slowdown in the third quarter of 2005 on the strength of year-end sales and compa [...] | 2006-03-10 10:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB ETRD EFIN EINV EIND BR |
06SAOPAULO261 | The Ever-Rising Real Part II: The Emergence of Dutch [...] (U) This is the second of a two-part series on the macro-economic consequences of the recent rise in the Brazilian real. The first cable in the series, Brasilia 366, looked at the GOB's macro and debt management policies. This cable, authored by ConGen Sao Paulo, considers the effect of the [...] | 2006-03-10 19:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD BEXP ECON EINV PGOV BR |
06SAOPAULO269 | LEBANESE SUSPECT IN HARIRI ASSASSINATION ARRESTED [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Brasilia. 2. (SBU) Sao Paulo State Civil Police arrested Rana Abdel Rahim Koleilat (PDOB Lebanon 23 JAN 1976) on March 12 based on an Interpol warrant for her involvement in the mid-2003 collapse of the Lebanese-based Al-Madina Bank. She is the [...] | 2006-03-13 20:22:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER KCRM BR LE |
06SAOPAULO276 | CARDINAL HUMMES DISCUSSES LULA GOVERNMENT, THE OPPOSITION, [...] (U) During a March 10 courtesy call by Consul General, Claudio Cardinal Hummes spoke at length of the successes and failures of the Lula government; shared his views on the competition between Sao Paulo Mayor Serra and Governor Alckmin for the presidential nomination of the Brazilian Social Dem [...] | 2006-03-14 19:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL ETRD ECON ELAB BR |
06SAOPAULO277 | CARDINAL HUMMES DISCUSSES LULA GOVERNMENT, THE OPPOSITION, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-14 20:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL ETRD ECON ELAB BR |
06SAOPAULO278 | ALCKMIN IS PSDB CANDIDATE [...] Senator Tasso Jereissati, President of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),announced from state party headquarters headquarters in Sao Paulo March 14 that Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin is the party's nominee for president. The announcement ends over two months of uncertainty and [...] | 2006-03-14 20:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PGOV BR |
06SAOPAULO280 | LABOR LEADERS DIFFER OVER LULA GOVERNMENT, BUT MOST WORKERS [...] (SBU) During his March 6-7 visit to Sao Paulo, Labor Attache met with representatives of three major labor organizations and the ruling Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT),as well as some academics specializing in labor issues. With the exception of representatives of the influen [...] | 2006-03-15 13:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO293 | UNDER SECRETARY HUGHES'S VISIT TO SAO PAULO, BRAZIL [...] During her March 12-14 visit to Sao Paulo, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes delivered a message on shared values and common interests to a wide range of Brazilian audiences. U/S Hughes met with a group of Brazilian Youth Ambassadors and attended a cultural p [...] | 2006-03-17 11:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP SCUL OEXC KPAO PREL PGOV OIIP BR |
06SAOPAULO30 | PMDB Leader Ponders Party's Electoral Options [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Federal Deputy Michel Temer, national president of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),believes that public disillusion with President Lula and the Workers' Party (PT) provides an opportunity for the PMDB to [...] | 2006-01-11 14:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO316 | GERALDO ALCKMIN: TWO ADVISORS TALK ABOUT HOW HE BEAT SERRA, [...] (SBU) The March 14 announcement by the leadership of the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) of the nomination of Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin for President (ref A) represented the culmination of a two-month blitzkrieg by Alckmin's forces that apparently took party chieftai [...] | 2006-03-22 17:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO319 | GANGS ON THE RISE IN SAO PAULO'S WOMEN'S PRISONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the Director of Training for the Sao Paulo state prison system, street gang influence within Sao Paulo prisons has notably increased over the last three years. Particularly disturbing in this trend is that for the first time, prison officials see the influence of g [...] | 2006-03-22 17:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO332 | LANDLESS MOVEMENT'S EARLY YEAR ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Land invasions led by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Rural Workers Movement - MST) and allied groups have begun in the Sao Paulo Consular District (southern and part of southeastern Brasil) in anticipation of the annual Red April protests (ref A). Early Mar [...] | 2006-03-24 18:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PREL ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO348 | SEVEN DEAD IN LATEST WAVE OF PCC-LED RIOTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Seven inmates died during a 21-hour rebellion that rocked a public jail in Sao Paulo state March 23-24. This deadly event occurred two days after a series of prison disturbances in four municipalities in the state, and is believed to have been organized by the powerful gang, [...] | 2006-03-29 19:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO350 | SAO PAULO STATE BANK ACCUSED OF FAVORING ALCKMIN [...] Media reports published March 26 accuse state-owned "Nossa Caixa" bank of directing advertising money to political allies of Governor (and opposition presidential candidate) Geraldo Alckmin, including several state legislators. Alckmin and senior bank officials have denied wrongdoing; however [...] | 2006-03-31 12:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN ECON PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO352 | VISIT OF CODEL GRASSLEY TO SAO PAULO: ETHANOL AND [...] Senator Charles Grassley (IA) - Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee - and his delegation visited Maringa, Parana state and Sao Paulo, March 22-23. Other members of the delegation included Senators Crapo (ID) and Allard (CO); Representatives Peterson (MN),English (PA),King (IA),Issa (CA [...] | 2006-03-31 17:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PGOV PREL EAGR ECON ENRG BR |
06SAOPAULO355 | SERRA ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR GOVERNOR OF SAO PAULO [...] On March 31, Sao Paulo Mayor Jose Serra announced his resignation and his candidacy for Governor of Sao Paulo state. After agonizing for months over whether - and how - to break his 2004 promise to voters to serve a full four-year term as Mayor in order to run for President of Brazil, Serra he [...] | 2006-04-03 16:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO356 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-03 16:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO357 | ITAMARATY NEGOTIATOR TALKS TRADE [...] (SBU) EconOff recently attended an American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) event featuring Ambassador Regis Percy Arslanian, Director of International Negotiations for the Brazilian MFA (Itamaraty). Well-known to U.S. diplomats from his tenure as Brazilian DCM in Washington as well as his stewar [...] | 2006-04-03 19:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECIN KIPR PGOV PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO360 | REP. ISSA'S MEETING WITH LEADERS OF LEBANESE COMMUNITY IN [...] (SBU) During the visit to Sao Paulo of CODEL Grassley (septels),Rep. Darrel Issa (CA) held a separate meeting with four leaders of Sao Paulo's Lebanese community. They discussed the size and activities of Brazil's Lebanese community as well as the influence of the broader Arab community on th [...] | 2006-04-04 13:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ETRD PTER EFIN BR LE |
06SAOPAULO371 | PROSPECTS FOR LABOR REFORM AFTER BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS [...] Summary: Labor expert Jose Pastore told Poloff he has advised opposition presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin not to pursue comprehensive labor reform immediately upon taking office, should he win, but to begin with more modest and less controversial legislative proposals that would remove di [...] | 2006-04-06 10:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV SOCI ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO374 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ELECTIONS IN PERU; SAO [...] "Peruvian Elections" Liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4/6) editorialized: "The prospect of candidate Ollanta Humala being elected president in Peru is worrisome. Although he presents himself as a leftist nationalist, it seems more correct to describe him as an ultranationalist with strong authori [...] | 2006-04-06 12:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO387 | "TUCANO" TALKS CAMPAIGN, CHICKENS, CHINA [...] (U) Poloffs met April 3 with Christian Lohbauer, until recently a municipal official in the administration of Sao Paulo Mayor Serra and now a lobbyist for Brazil's poultry association. Lohbauer ventured some predictions about the upcoming presidential campaign, described some of the challenges [...] | 2006-04-10 11:40:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR TBIO PGOV PREL PINR ETRD BR CH |
06SAOPAULO400 | PSDB OFFICIAL EYES UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (U) Poloff and Political Assistant met April 7 with Sao Paulo Municipal Secretary of Government Aloysio Nunes Ferreira to discuss the local and national political scene following Mayor Jose Serra's resignation to run for Governor of Sao Paulo state (ref A). Nunes, who is close to Serra, was sa [...] | 2006-04-13 10:16:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO412 | U.S. CONSULATE GENERAL SAO PAULO UNDERGOES CRISIS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Selected staff of the U.S. Consulate General Sao Paulo participated in two-day crisis management training on March 30-31. Observations and recommendations, keyed to reftel para 2, A-H, follow in cable body. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On March 30/31, selected staff of the U.S. Consul [...] | 2006-04-18 18:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR CASC ASEC AFSI KCOM KESS OTRA BR |
06SAOPAULO415 | WASTED OPPORTUNITIES -- SAO PAULO BUSINESS TELLS A/S WAYNE [...] (SBU) E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) for Economic and Business Affairs, visited Sao Paulo April 5-6 to participate in the World Economic Forum on Latin America. During his visit, he also had several meetings with Sao Paulo business leaders, who generally agreed that whil [...] | 2006-04-19 12:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN EINV BR |
06SAOPAULO423 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST: MONDAY'S TERRORIST ATTACK, HAMAS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-20 15:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO428 | ALCKMIN THE BETTER MANAGER, SAO PAULO BUSINESS TELLS A/S [...] (SBU) E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) for Economic and Business Affairs, visited Sao Paulo April 5-6 to participate in the World Economic Forum on Latin America. While here, A/S Wayne also had several meetings with Sao Paulo business leaders. They indicated a general disa [...] | 2006-04-24 17:54:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO430 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ATTACKS IN EGYPT; WESTERN [...] "Internal Factors" International writer Igor Gielow commented in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4/25): "It is tempting to seek an easy explanation for the attacks in Egypt. If on the one hand there is a strong international component, with a probable link with Al Qaeda and the presence of weste [...] | 2006-04-25 15:45:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO436 | CODEL GRASSLEY: FRANK DISCUSSIONS ON TRADE IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During its recent visit to Sao Paulo, CODEL Grassley engaged in vigorous and sometimes contentious discussions with representatives of Brazil's private sector over U.S. and Brazilian trade policies and different approaches to bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. Braz [...] | 2006-04-25 18:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ETRD EAGR ECON ENRG BR |
06SAOPAULO449 | FEDERAL DEPUTY GREEHALGH SHARES VIEWS ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN, [...] (SBU) In a ninety-minute breakfast meeting with Consulate representatives, Federal Deputy Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh (PT-SP) offered his insights on a number of current political issues. He said President Lula faces a tough fight for re-election and is concerned about his prospects in populous S [...] | 2006-04-28 18:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM ELAB EAGR BR |
06SAOPAULO454 | TREASURY A/S LOWERY MEETS WITH SAO PAULO CONTACTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury A/S Clay Lowery's interlocutors during an April 4 Sao Paulo visit pointed to problems obtaining financing and skilled labor, along with the high and complicated taxes, as hindering the development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). A round-table with recipients of [...] | 2006-05-02 18:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO464 | MULTINATIONAL'S CONCERNS ABOUT BOLIVIAN GAS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sao Paulo-based head of British Gas (BG) for South America expressed grave concerns about the May 1 Bolivian Government decree nationalizing natural gas production. Brazil's Petrobras was hit the worst of all the multinational companies, losing much of its revenue stream in [...] | 2006-05-03 14:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON PGOV PREL BL BR |
06SAOPAULO465 | 2006 ELECTIONS: A "RENT-A-PARTY" (PTB) POLITICIAN'S [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo former Governor Luiz Antonio Fleury Filho, now a Federal Deputy representing the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB),shared his views with Poloff on the upcoming national and state elections. DPO subsequently attended an event at AMCHAM where Fleury talked about his ideas for politica [...] | 2006-05-03 14:10:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO466 | Media reaction: Bolivia; Sao Paulo [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-03 18:56:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO472 | CORRECTED COPY: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: [...] "Growing Tensions In South America" University Professor Sergio Amaral maintained in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (5/4): "To understand the reason for the tension in South America it is necessary to keep in mind three facts: the emergence of social movements in the Latin American politic [...] | 2006-05-04 14:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO484 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: SOUTH AMERICA, BOLIVIA, [...] "Obsolescence of What Is Still Unfinished" The lead editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo remarked (5/5): "What should have been dealt with yesterday in Puerto Iguazu was the premature dismantling of the unfinished projects of [South American] regional integration. The ruined buildin [...] | 2006-05-05 17:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO492 | SAO PAULO GOVERNOR CLAUDIO LEMBO TALKS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo Governor Claudio Lembo told us that despite press reports suggesting otherwise, his Liberal Front Party (PFL) will/will form an alliance with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and will strongly support the presidential candidacy of PSDB Sao Paulo ex-Governor Geraldo A [...] | 2006-05-05 19:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO494 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: SOUTH AMERICA, [...] "Fragmentation Of Latin America" University of Sao Paulo Professor Boris Fausto opined in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (5/8): "President Evo Morales' decision to nationalize the Bolivian oil and gas industry, using the military and exacerbating the nationalist climate, is of itself a serious oc [...] | 2006-05-09 13:26:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO495 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: SOUTH AMERICA, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-09 13:27:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO498 | SAO PAULO'S ARAB COMMUNITY: DIVERSITY AND DIVISIONS [...] (SBU) While the Lebanese Christian community in Sao Paulo is active in politics, the Arab community in general (Muslim and Christian) lacks political clout at the national level. In fact, our conversations with a number of Christian and Muslim leaders of Sao Paulo's large Middle Eastern comm [...] | 2006-05-09 16:00:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KISL KIRF SOCI SCUL BR |
06SAOPAULO501 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, RUMSFELD; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-10 18:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO505 | A BUSY TWO WEEKS FOR LULA'S PARTY: PT READIES FOR CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) The ruling Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) held its National Encounter in Sao Paulo, April 28-30, in preparation for the election campaign. Delegates authorized President Lula and party leadership to enter into electoral alliances with any willing partners, excluding only [...] | 2006-05-10 18:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ELAB EPET BR |
06SAOPAULO508 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: BOLIVIA, GAS [...] "Fake Nationalism" Economist Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. commented in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (5/11): "Brazil must not react violently to the Bolivian government's decisions. First, because Bolivia has its reasoning and those reasons should not be underestimated. Second, because aggravat [...] | 2006-05-11 12:16:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO512 | SAO PAULO PERSPECTIVES ON BOLIVIAN GAS SITUATION [...] (U) Representatives of Sao Paulo's leading industrial federation indicate that while gas supplies from Bolivia remain stable after that country's May 1 hydrocarbons nationalization announcement (refs B-C),Brazilian industries relying on gas are very price-sensitive, and short-term cost increas [...] | 2006-05-11 18:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV PREL EIND EINV BR |
06SAOPAULO516 | OPPOSITION ASSERTS CRISIS IN BRAZIL'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (U) Brazil's foreign policy is going through its worst crisis in recent history, according to a number of leading diplomatic and academic experts tied to the opposition. Consul General (CG) attended a May 10 seminar on Brazil's foreign relations at the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute (IFH [...] | 2006-05-12 18:27:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO526 | GANG WAGES WAR ON SAO PAULO POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The notorious Sao Paulo organized crime gang First Capital Command ("PCC") waged a deadly and brutal assault against the police over the weekend, killing 44 officers and injuring another 27 in up to 180 attacks across Sao Paulo state. The police, in turn, killed 23 suspected cr [...] | 2006-05-15 20:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO530 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: BRAZIL: WAVE OF [...] "Frightened Society" Economic columnist Celso Ming commented in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (5/16): "The facility with which organized crime is successfully spreading terror can be analyzed from several points of view. One of them is the economic viewpoint. This is a nation of the in [...] | 2006-05-16 14:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO532 | SAO PAULO STREET WAR OVER, BUT WHO WON? [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three-night assault on Sao Paulo police forces by the organized crime gang PCC seemed to have ended Monday evening (May 15) as suddenly as it started. The daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported on Tuesday, May 16, that the PCC leadership called a truce after reaching an [...] | 2006-05-16 18:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO543 | DEPUTY IZAR SPEAKS ABOUT THE ETHICS COUNCIL, THE CORRUPTION [...] (U) Federal Deputy Ricardo Izar, Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Ethics Council, is frustrated that so many corrupt Deputies have been exonerated by the full Chamber, but believes nonetheless that the political corruption scandal will have a healthy impact on Brazil's political culture. [...] | 2006-05-17 19:23:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO545 | MEDIA REACTION: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL; WESTERN [...] "Provincial Machiavellis" International affairs analyst Demetrio Magnoli commented in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (5/18): "The good news is that Brazil was the nation that received more votes among those who will represent Latin America in the recently created UN Human Rights Council. The bad [...] | 2006-05-18 14:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO55 | IPR Advocacy Efforts Pay Dividends [...] Summary: In response to sustained Consulate advocacy efforts, Sao Paulo Governor (and possible PSDB presidential candidate) Geraldo Alckmin launched an Interagency Committee to Combat Piracy (CICP),which will improve coordination among local, state and federal copyright piracy enforcement off [...] | 2006-01-19 18:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD KJUS BR |
06SAOPAULO551 | SAO PAULO POLICE STRIKE BACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In reaction to a wave of violence orchestrated by the organized crime gang First Capital Command (PCC) which left over 100 persons dead including over 40 law enforcement officers, Sao Paulo police stepped up patrols and checkpoints on Tuesday and Wednesday (May 16-17) in certai [...] | 2006-05-18 20:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO556 | MEDIA REACTION: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-19 18:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO573 | DUST SETTLES IN SAO PAULO AFTER VIOLENT CRIME WAVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Criminal activities associated with last week's violent crime wave orchestrated by the organized criminal gang the First Capital Command (PCC) have all but ceased in and around Sao Paulo. A few random incidents that appear related were reported over the weekend, but in general, [...] | 2006-05-22 18:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO577 | Building on Momentum: Sao Paulo Forms IPR Working Group [...] (U) Through sustained outreach over the last year, Post has successfully raised the profile of IPR problems in the consular district and forged relationships with local business and law enforcement interlocutors as effective means for encouraging improved IPR protection. To build on recent su [...] | 2006-05-24 09:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD KJUS EIND EAGR BR |
06SAOPAULO590 | SEMICONDUCTORS RETURN TO BRAZIL AFTER 15 YEARS [...] (U) American company Smart Modular Technologies (Smart) recently inaugurated its first semiconductor factory in Brazil. The Smart plant, which encapsulates imported finished memory wafers, is the first semiconductor facility in Brazil since the early 1990s when all microchip companies closed o [...] | 2006-05-30 12:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND PGOV ETRD EINV BEXP BR |
06SAOPAULO605 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: COLOMBIA: PRESIDENTIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-31 19:00:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO623 | PMDB LEADER RULES OUT ALLIANCE WITH LULA [...] (SBU) Former Governor Orestes Quercia, Sao Paulo state chairman of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),will support Senator Pedro Simon if he decides to run for President, but he considers it far more likely the PMDB will run no presidential candidate and will not ally with any par [...] | 2006-06-02 14:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO626 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: HADITHA KILLINGS; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-05 12:46:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO638 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: PERU, PRESIDENTIAL [...] "Lesser Evil" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (6/6): "Alan Garcia's victory in Peru's presidential elections is the triumph of a 'lesser evil'.... His alternative, Ollanta Humala seemed far more dreadful. Humala was a retired military who particip [...] | 2006-06-06 12:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO643 | BRAZIL'S WORKING/MIDDLE CLASS GAINS PURCHASING POWER, [...] Brazil's working/lower-middle class has been making slow but steady progress in regaining purchasing power over the last two years after seeing its economic position erode for a decade (1994-2003) (reftel). These families are becoming more sophisticated in their purchases, with the most notab [...] | 2006-06-06 19:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PINR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO647 | ALCKMIN'S CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR CLAIMS LULA'S POLL NUMBERS [...] (SBU) Despite a series of recent opinion polls that show President Lula maintaining a lead of more than twenty points, with a chance to be re-elected in the first round, Geraldo Alckmin's campaign coordinator told Charg that the PSDB is methodically building grassroots political networks throu [...] | 2006-06-07 18:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ETRD ECPS BR |
06SAOPAULO649 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, US TALKS OFFER, NUCLEAR PROGRAM; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-08 18:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO652 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI'S DEATH; SAO [...] "The Terrorist's End Does Not Resolve, But Helps" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (6/9): "Finally, good news came from Iraq: Zarqawi was killed.... Morally, the butcher's death can only be saluted with relief. Zarqawi had a relevant role in the [...] | 2006-06-09 12:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO659 | ARGENTINE CG DISCUSSES REGIONAL INTEGRATION, CALLS FOR [...] (U) In a recent speech on Argentine-Brazilian bilateral relations, Argentine Consul General Vidal faulted regional asymmetries for Mercosul's disappointing economic performance (reftel) and proposed strengthening cultural ties as a means of achieving regional integration. Vidal points to indu [...] | 2006-06-12 11:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PGOV PREL SCUL BR AR |
06SAOPAULO662 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI'S DEATH; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-12 15:40:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO666 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-13 12:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO675 | COMMERCE SECRETARY PROMOTES U.S. EXPORTS, PUSHES [...] During his June 7-8 visit to Sao Paulo, Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez discussed intellectual property rights with the Governors of four states and attended a meeting of the Sao Paulo State Interagency Committee to Combat Piracy; met with leaders of major business and industrial gro [...] | 2006-06-16 16:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP ETRD BEXP KIPR EINV PGOV EAGR ENRG BR |
06SAOPAULO676 | PSDB INSIDER OFFERS "REALISTIC" ASSESSMENT OF ALCKMIN'S [...] (SBU) Though not sanguine about the odds, PSDB heavyweight Andrea Matarazzo thinks Geraldo Alckmin still has a chance to defeat President Lula in the election this October, provided that all the pieces fall into place. But the Assistant Mayor of Sao Paulo's downtown district thinks his party [...] | 2006-06-16 18:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO685 | BRAZIL TRAILS IN WORLD BANK'S "DOING BUSINESS" RANKINGS [...] SUMMARY: Brazil ranked 119th among 155 countries in the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Doing Business rankings, published by the World Bank. Brazil fared worst in its labor, tax, and bankruptcy rankings. Unless addressed, doing business in Brazil may be viewed more in terms of its [...] | 2006-06-20 12:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO686 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-20 13:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO688 | MEDIA REACTION: US-EU SUMMIT IN VIENNA; NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR [...] "Summit Defrosts US-EU relations, But Only Between Governments" Center-right o Estado de S. Paulo Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge opined (6/21): "Irritation between the US and Europe seems to be diminishing. They are now far away from the bad feelings that in 2003, at the beginning of the w [...] | 2006-06-21 13:16:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO689 | PMDB CHIEF AFFIRMS PARTY'S POSITION AS POWER BROKER BUT [...] (SBU) Michel Temer, President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),believes President Lula has done a masterful job of disassociating himself from the political corruption scandals that have crushed some of his closest advisers. He also has effectively expanded social programs t [...] | 2006-06-21 16:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO692 | BRAZIL'S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Viewed through the lenses applied by many business groupings, Brazil's "competitiveness" has been falling relative to its major emerging market peers, such as India and China. Numerous surveys of business leaders and some studies, including by the OECD, show Brazil falling in var [...] | 2006-06-22 15:15:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KIPR PGOV ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO699 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE, FREE-TRADE, DOHA ROUND; [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-26 11:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO708 | PCC FOILED IN ATTEMPTED ATTACKS ON OUTSKIRTS OF SP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo state security officials reported on Monday, June 26, that police foiled several attacks against employees of detention facilities planned by Sao Paulo's notorious criminal gang the First Capital Command (PCC). State officials said imprisoned PCC leaders ordered stre [...] | 2006-06-27 18:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO718 | MEDIA REACTION: WORLD TRADE: WTO DOHA ROUND NEGOTIATIONS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-29 15:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO722 | SAO PAULO MAYOR DISCUSSES PCC VIOLENCE, ELECTIONS, BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab told the Consul General (CG) June 29 that the recent gang violence in the city was a wake-up call to the public, which has responded in solidarity with the police. Kassab believes opposition candidate Geraldo Alckmin will have a hard time catching up with [...] | 2006-06-30 12:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON ETRD EPET BR |
06SAOPAULO729 | MEDIA REACTION: GWOT: GUANTANAMO, SUPREME COURT; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-03 10:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO73 | ELECTION 2006: OPPOSITION PSDB TO DECIDE ON [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings in Sao Paulo on January 16- 20, Charge d'Affaires (CDA),Sao Paulo Consul General, Embassy PolCounselor and SP Poloff discussed the coming presidential election with the leading PSDB candidates - Sao Paulo city mayor Jose Serra (who is still undeclared) and Sao Pa [...] | 2006-01-26 16:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO734 | ALCKMIN UNVEILS GOVERNMENT PROGRAM [...] (SBU) The opposition PSDB government program unveiled at the party's June 11 national convention cannot be characterized as a page-turner, but it contains a number of interesting proposals and initiatives. Its centerpiece, as is to be expected under the circumstances, is economic development [...] | 2006-07-03 17:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO741 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL [...] "Fires That The US Dreamed Of Extinguishing Are Multiplying" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge underscored (7/7): "The war in Iraq has proved to all unruly, rebelling or messianic nations that they will never be safe from the US's wrath. The only way to preve [...] | 2006-07-07 12:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO742 | PCC KILLS PRISON GUARDS AT HOME, POLICE NAB DOZENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ten days after a raid that left 13 of their compatriots dead and five apprehended, the PCC has carried out almost daily, precise assassinations and attempts on prison guards at their homes around Sao Paulo. Five guards have been killed and several other law enforcement person [...] | 2006-07-07 16:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO751 | SNAPSHOT OF PRISON CHAOS IN SAO PAULO STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For the past month, Sao Paulo prison officials have been housing over 1400 prisoners in an open yard designed to hold about 160 people in the Araraquara prison in northern Sao Paulo state. No AmCits are currently housed in Araraquara, but one AmCit is being held in somewhat si [...] | 2006-07-10 17:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO761 | INCREASED OVERNIGHT VIOLENCE IN SAO PAULO LIKELY DUE TO [...] Sao Paulo's slow burn of violence directed against prison and police officials by the organized criminal gang PCC over the past weeks flared during the early morning hours of July 12. Reminiscent of the beginning of the violence unleashed on Sao Paulo and neighboring cities in mid-May by the P [...] | 2006-07-13 09:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO765 | REDUCED VIOLENCE IN SAO PAULO NIGHT OF JULY 12, BUS [...] Sao Paulo and neighboring cities again suffered attacks the night of July 12/morning of July 13 from the organized criminal gang First Capital Command (PCC),though at a reduced level compared to the previous night. Two deaths from July 12 were reported, though apparently no one was killed in [...] | 2006-07-14 08:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO766 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-14 13:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO771 | VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO DIMINISH IN SAO PAULO NIGHT OF JULY [...] (U) Sao Paulo and neighboring cities suffered a third night of attacks the evening of July 12/morning of July 13 from the organized criminal gang First Capital Command (PCC),though the level of violence continued to fall. There were only about 17 attacks (no deaths) reported overnight: two in [...] | 2006-07-14 18:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO782 | SAO PAULO LEBANESE AND MUSLIM REACTIONS TO EVENTS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Federation of Muslims Associations in Brazil sent a letter to the Consul General in Sao Paulo expressing "immense concern" regarding the recent military actions conducted by Israel in Lebanon, especially as it affects Brazilians currently in Lebanon for tourism and to visit [...] | 2006-07-18 19:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ASEC PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO800 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE; GLOBAL [...] "Peacekeeping Force" Liberal, largest circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (7/25) opined: "The proposal of an international force made up mainly of European troops to be sent to the South of Lebanon is praiseworthy.... That seems to be the best way both for an immediate ceasefire and to ensur [...] | 2006-07-25 12:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO804 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: LEBANON; GLOBAL ECONOMY: [...] "Lebanon's Drama" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (7/26) editorialized: "Israel will maintain a buffer zone in the South of Lebanon to prohibit the area to Hezbollah until international troops can replace its army. This is the only feasible solution for the conflict. Secretary of State Con [...] | 2006-07-26 12:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO810 | IMPROVING POLL NUMBERS BUOY OPTIMISM OF ALCKMIN'S CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) Opposition presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin's campaign coordinator told Consul General that the campaign is coming together well and that support for Alckmin is growing, as reflected in recent polls. Joao Carlos Meirelles said that critical alliances at the state level are firming [...] | 2006-07-28 16:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EAGR BR |
06SAOPAULO829 | MEDIA REACTION: DOHA ROUND, USTR SCHWAB IN BRAZIL; SAO [...] "Truculence in Trade Negotiations" The lead editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (7/29) opined: "Among other topics, USTR Susan Schwab and Foreign Minister Celso Amorim are expected to discuss conditions to reactivate the Doha Round. But the terms of the bilateral cooperation in thi [...] | 2006-07-31 13:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO837 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI BOMBINGS IN QANA; DOHA [...] "The Tragedy Everyone Feared" The lead editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (8/1) maintained: "A single attack against a building in Qana, where local residents were looking for shelter, caused more casualties than all the rockets launched against Israel since the beginning of this [...] | 2006-08-02 10:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO842 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: LEFTIST LEANINGS IN [...] "Alan Garcia's Inauguration" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (8/2) editorialized: "It's indicative that two absences have been particularly noticed in the inauguration ceremony of Peruvian President Alan Garcia, which was attended by nine leaders of the region. The most shocking one was th [...] | 2006-08-02 15:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO847 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: CUBA, CASTRO'S HEALTH; [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-03 11:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO849 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: CUBA; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-04 10:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO859 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST: ISRAEL/HIZBULLAH COMBAT; WESTERN [...] "Conflict Without An Arbiter" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (8/5) editorialized: "Bush supports Israeli policy so strongly that the US can no longer act as an arbiter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.... Of course this is not a one-way relationship. Israel [...] | 2006-08-07 11:16:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO862 | LULA'S BALANCING ACT: PT LEADER OUTLINES PARTY'S ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Sao Paulo State Legislator Renato Simoes outlined the strategy of Lula's Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) for the October elections. Simoes indicated that the party believes the Sao Paulo state and national campaigns have to be integrated. PT gubernatorial candid [...] | 2006-08-07 18:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO865 | PRE-FATHER'S DAY ATTACKS IN SAO PAULO BY PCC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo residents awoke Monday morning, August 7, to reports of yet another round of bus burnings and bomb and gun attacks against police targets orchestrated by the organized crime ring PCC. Twenty-seven attacks were reported in greater Sao Paulo by the office of the state [...] | 2006-08-07 19:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO869 | SAO PAULO FACES DAY 2 OF PRE-FATHER'S DAY JITTERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The dawn of Tuesday, August 8, marked Day Two of the third wave of PCC violence in Sao Paulo State since May (ref A). Metropolitan Sao Paulo was spared from attacks overnight, but cities scattered throughout Sao Paulo state suffered from homemade bomb and Molotov cocktail att [...] | 2006-08-08 20:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO873 | FEWER PCC ATTACKS IN SAO PAULO BUT NEW POLITICAL BATTLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The third day of what is being called the third wave of PCC-led attacks in Sao Paulo state brought only a few new incidents on Wednesday morning, August 9. The newest attacks, however, included targets in upper-scale neighborhoods and the greater use of homemade bombs. Meanwh [...] | 2006-08-09 19:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO880 | Brazil: Domestic Demand Boosts Industry in First Half of 2006 [...] SUMMARY: Official data for the first half of 2006 suggest it should be a relatively good year for Brazil's economy, although less so than 2004. Slower global growth and the strong domestic currency (the Real) are, according to analysts, beginning to slow the growth of certain Brazilian expor [...] | 2006-08-11 12:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB ETRD EFIN EIND BR |
06SAOPAULO887 | QUIET IN SAO PAULO, BUT JOURNALISTS' KIDNAPPING MARKS NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Sao Paulo residents enjoyed a relatively quiet Father's Day weekend, as a feared repeat of the widespread violence that occurred on Mother's Day three months ago failed to materialize (ref B). Some 13,000 inmates were given weekend furloughs for the holiday, but only scattered [...] | 2006-08-14 13:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO892 | MEDIA REACTION: GWOT: AIRLINE TERROR PLOT; WESTERN [...] "The Right Way To Fight Terror" The lead editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (8/12) maintained: "Almost five years from the unprecedented September 11 attacks, only a few things in the world today are as clear as the futility and the boomerang effect of the war the US under the Bus [...] | 2006-08-15 12:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO893 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ISRAEL/HIZBULLAH COMBAT; [...] "No One Won" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (8/15) editorialized: "Following a month of fighting and more than a thousand deaths, a ceasefire has finally been established between the Israeli Army and Lebanese militia Hizbullah. Both were defeated.... The Israel [...] | 2006-08-15 12:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO907 | PMDB LEADER PREDICTS NARROW LULA VICTORY, AND A [...] (SBU) Federal Deputy Delfim Netto predicted President Lula will win a "fairly close" election in the second round if he can avoid committing too many more gaffes. Lula's Workers Party (PT),however, will take a serious hit because of corruption scandals and will end up with fewer than 50 Fede [...] | 2006-08-18 13:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO910 | BRAZIL'S NATIONAL PLAN TO COMBAT PIRACY: AN UPDATE ON [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 2. (U) Summary. At the July 26 Sao Paulo meeting of Brazil's National Council to Combat Piracy and Intellectual Property Crimes, the public-private Forum Against Piracy and Illegality (FNCP) officially became an autonomous unit of the [...] | 2006-08-18 15:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON KJUS BR |
06SAOPAULO912 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-21 11:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO918 | EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND ECONOMIC FAMILIARIZATION WITHIN [...] (U) SUMMARY. In an effort to increase consular outreach and deepen understanding of economic conditions in the diverse Sao Paulo Consular District, two consular officers completed a driving tour of the interior portions of the states of Parana and Sao Paulo. Outreach goals were addressed thro [...] | 2006-08-22 18:46:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS EAGR EINV ETRD ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO924 | FIESP Responds to Threat to Brazil's GSP Benefits [...] (SBU) Summary. The Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo (FIESP),which represents approximately 34% of Brazil's industrial units and 39% of its manufacturing jobs, has concluded in a soon to be released study that if Brazil were to lose its eligibility for GSP benefits, the count [...] | 2006-08-24 13:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EINV BR |
06SAOPAULO935 | Despite Sagging Poll Numbers, Alckmin Adviser Thinks [...] (SBU) Fernando Braga, Sao Paulo State Secretary for Economy and Planning, argued that former Governor Geraldo Alckmin will make it to the second round of the presidential election, where he will take advantage of Lula's high negative numbers in the polls to "win in the last five minutes." He [...] | 2006-08-28 10:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO962 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: LEFTIST LEANINGS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-05 15:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO965 | AMBASSADOR'S AUGUST 23-24 VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) Ambassador Clifford Sobel passed two eventful days in Sao Paulo August 23-24, beginning his visit with an appearance at the opening of a Calder exhibit at the Pinacoteca, one of the major art museums in Sao Paulo. The following day he met separately with the heads of the Brazilian subsi [...] | 2006-09-05 16:57:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD BEXP KIPR BR |
06SAOPAULO968 | POLLSTER GIVES AlCKMIN A FIGHTING CHANCE IN ELECTIONS, SEES [...] SUMMARY: Marcia Cavallari Nunes, Executive Director of the prestigious "IBOPE" polling firm, believes opposition candidate Geraldo Alckmin still has a chance to deny President Lula a first-round electoral victory, but that it would require an unpredictable combination of events between now and [...] | 2006-09-06 13:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO970 | VISIT TO SAO PAULO OF PUBLIC COMPANY ACCOUNTING OVERSIGHT [...] Summary. PCAOB Member Charles D. Niemeier, sponsored by the Public Affairs Section, was the guest speaker at the August 15 meeting of Cafe com Finanzas (Coffee with Finances),a national group of financial organizations who meet on a bimonthly basis to discuss finance-related matters. Mr. Ni [...] | 2006-09-06 19:15:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV KPAO ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO981 | MEDIA REACTION: GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 16:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO988 | COMMANDER OF CARANDIRU MASSACRE FOUND MURDERED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The police commander who was in charge of operations during the infamous 1992 police massacre of inmates at Sao Paulo's Carandiru Prison was found dead in his apartment on Sunday night, September 10. Early reports indicate that Ubiratan Guimaraes, who retired from the police f [...] | 2006-09-12 18:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PHUM PINR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO990 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: FREE TRADE; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 12:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06STATE139878 | GUIDANCE ON ASYLUM CASE OF FARC TERRORIST [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (C) Department understands the Colombian government has approached the GOB regarding the July 14 decision by the Brazilian National Committee on Refugees (CONARE) to grant political asylum to Francisco Antonio Cadena Collazos (ref B). [...] | 2006-08-24 19:59:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER BR CO |
06THEHAGUE1359 | NETHERLANDS/VENEZUELA/BRAZIL: FM TO TRAVEL JULY [...] (C) Summary: Dutch FM Bot will likely travel to Brazil and Venezuela July 10 and 11, to meet with the Foreign Ministers of those two countries. As late as last month, the Dutch had hoped the meetings would be with Presidents Lula da Silva and Chavez. Chavez has refused for over a year to meet [...] | 2006-06-16 11:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR VE NT NL |
06TOKYO2937 | JAPAN PRESSING FOR A MEETING WITH THE U.S. ON UNSC [...] (C) Summary: Japan hopes to receive a response to the proposal on UN Security Council reform that Foreign Minister Aso passed to Secretary Rice during their May 2 meeting prior to the June 29 Summit, according to MOFA UN Policy Division Director Shigeki Takizaki. In addition, Japan "needs" a [...] | 2006-05-26 09:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BR GM IN CH JA |
06USUNNEWYORK1839 | CONFERENCE ON UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION: NGOS [...] SUMMARY: On September 5, civil society think tanks, NGOs, and UN mission representatives discussed next steps for the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) during a German NGO-sponsored symposium on "Getting the Peacebuilding Commission off the Ground - How to Include Civil Society on the Ground." [...] | 2006-09-20 13:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO EAID SOCI BR SL |
06USUNNEWYORK584 | BRAZIL: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] Mission received a note from the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidature to the Human Rights Council. The elections will be held in New York in May 2006. 2. Mission will respond that careful consideration will be given by the United St [...] | 2006-03-23 19:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM UN BR |
06VATICAN60 | (CORRECTED COPY) HOLY SEE: PROMINENT LATIN AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, two influential Latin American cardinals told Ambassador Rooney of their concerns for the continent and urged USG support for efforts to promote free trade and understanding of market economies to upper and lower classes in the region. End summary. 2. [...] | 2006-04-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD SOCI FT MX BR |
06VATICAN61 | HOLY SEE: PROMINENT LATIN AMERICAN CARDINALS SEEK USG HELP [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, two influential Latin American cardinals told Ambassador Rooney of their concerns for the continent and urged USG support for efforts to promote free trade and understanding of market economies to upper and lower classes in the region. End summary. 2. [...] | 2006-04-03 16:03:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD SOCI VT MX BR |
07ACCRA483 | GHANA AT 50: A WORLD VIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the seventh and final in a series of scene setter cables looking at Ghana at 50 and the third looking at Ghana's external relations. Throughout its history Ghana has been independent and vocal on the international stage. It has preferred multilateral solutions, espe [...] | 2007-03-01 18:05:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR CH ECON GH IN PGOV PHUM PREL RS |
07ASUNCION396 | COM CONFERENCE: A SOUTHERN CONE PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During May 8-9 Southern Cone / Brazil COM Conference in Rio de Janiero, the five Southern Cone Ambassadors discussed aggressive plans of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to create a unified Bolivarian movement throughout Latin America, particularly focusing on activities within their respe [...] | 2007-05-17 13:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON AR BO BR CH PA UY VE |
07ASUNCION515 | PARAGUAY: MONEY WELL SPENT; COPS ARRESTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) seized the largest cocaine transshipmentin Paraguayan history in Pedro Juan Caballero (PJC),during a joint intelligence operation between the Brazilian federal police, DEA, and SENAD. SENAD confiscated 450 kg of cocaine and arrested si [...] | 2007-06-20 18:47:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREL PINR SNAR PA BR |
07BOGOTA8306 | GOC PEACE COMMISSIONER EXPLAINS SUSPENSION OF [...] (C) GOC Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo told the Ambassador that Venezuelan President Chavez' repeated violation of the rules set by President Uribe for Hugo Chavez' effort to promote a humanitarian accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had forced Uribe to suspe [...] | 2007-11-30 23:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER MARR AR BR CS EC FR UY |
07BRASIIA1568 | Key Brazilin Senator Voices Concern over Venezuelan [...] (SBU) Summary. During a lunchAmbassador Sobel gave on August 8 as part of a boader outreach to Brazilian senators (septel),the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and Natonal Defense Committee, Heraclito Fortes, expresed concerns about threats to democracy from Venezela and Bolivia. A [...] | 2007-08-14 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON BR XR |
07BRASILIA1000 | BRAZIL: INL A/S PATTERSON'S MEETING WITH [...] (C). Summary. INL Assistant Secretary Patterson and Ambassador Sobel, accompanied by DCM, Embassy Regional Affairs Chief, and PolCounselor, met on 14 May with General Jorge Armando Felix, chief of the ministerial-level Office of Institutional Security (GSI) in Brazil's Presidency. Felix was [...] | 2007-06-04 13:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR SNAR PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1006 | Update on GOL-Legacy Crash Legal Case [...] (SBU) Summary: In a surprise move, the Brazilian federal prosecutor in charge of the criminal investigation into the September 29 air collision between a business jet and GOL airliner indicted four air traffic controllers for the accident, one on serious charges of having acted deliberately. T [...] | 2007-06-04 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EAIR PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA101 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR JAMES STORY, ERIC STONER, AND [...] Name of traveler: James B. Story -- Title: Regional Environmental Officer -- Passport number: US Diplomatic Passport 900346975 -- Agency represented: HUB/DOS -- Arrival/departure dates: February 04-10, 2007 -- Level of security clearance: Top Secret -- Purpose of visit: to attend a meeting on [...] | 2007-01-19 13:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA PE BR |
07BRASILIA1025 | BRAZIL'S ACRE STATE: GROUND ZERO FOR SOUTH AMERICAN [...] (SBU) Summary. One of President Lula's key objectives is the construction of an all-weather highway linking Brazil to the Pacific Ocean, and within a few years this dream will become reality. The GOB has paved route BR 364/317 to the Peruvian border and paving of this highway on the Peruvia [...] | 2007-06-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN PGOV SENV EAID PHUM ETRD SNAR BR PE |
07BRASILIA103 | BRAZIL: OPIC SUPPORT FOR INVESTMENT FUND [...] Post supports OPIC's planned investment in Paladin Realty LP Fund, which will assist in the development of affordable and middle-income housing in Brazil (reftel). Recent changes to Brazilian legislation have encouraged substantial growth in the real estate and construction sector. These cha [...] | 2007-01-19 16:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1034 | LULA, CHAVEZ SPAR OVER BRAZILIAN SENATE RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary. President Lula and Venezuelan President Chavez sparred in the media over Chavez's criticism of the Brazilian Senate's resolution on the RCTV forced closure on May 28, giving additional stress to an already frayed friendship. What began as a polite refusal by Lula to criticize [...] | 2007-06-06 19:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECPS ETRD BR VE |
07BRASILIA1037 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NSF OFFICIAL SMITH [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. William M. Smith, Program Director in the Office of the Assistant Director (GEO),to Manaus, Brazil, June 10-16, 2007, to attend the 24th meeting of the Inter-American Institute (IAI) Conference of the Parties (COP). 2. Visitors are remi [...] | 2007-06-06 20:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA NSF OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1039 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NSF OFFICIAL BROWN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Louis B. Brown, Senior Staff Associate in the office of the Assistant Director (GEO),to Manaus, Brazil, June 10-16, 2007, to participate in the meetings of the Executive Council and Conference of the Parties of the Inter-American Institute [...] | 2007-06-06 20:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA NSF OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1040 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NSF OFFICIAL FILMER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Paul E. Filmer, Program Director in the Division of Earth Sciences (EAR),to Manaus (Brazil),June 10-17, 2007, who will lead the U.S. Government Delegation to the Conference of the Parties of the Inter-American Institute. 2. Visitors ar [...] | 2007-06-06 20:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA NSF OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1041 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NIH OFFICIAL ROSALY CORREA [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Rosaly Correa de Araujo, Director of the Americas, OGHA, OS, HHS to travel to Sao Paulo, Brazil, from June 9-10, to Brasilia, Brazil, from June 10-15, and to Sao Paulo, Brazil from June 15-16, 2007, to co-chair the meeting of the JCM Workgro [...] | 2007-06-06 20:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1042 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR OES/EGC OFFICIAL [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Norman Barth, OES/EGC/State Department, to Manaus, Brazil, June 07-16, 2007, to attend the Executive Council and Conference of Parties of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. 2. Visitors are reminded that all US citizens t [...] | 2007-06-08 10:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1049 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL SIMOES [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Eduardo Simoes, Prevention Research Program Director, NCCDPHP, DACH, COGH, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia (DF),Brazil, June 11-14, 2007, to represent HHS/CDC interests in establishing an agenda of future [...] | 2007-06-08 16:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA105 | FISCAL DATA FOR TRAVEL OF PATRICIA S. PIRIZ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-19 16:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA BO BR |
07BRASILIA1052 | POSSIBLE U.S.-BRAZIL COOPERATION ON WATER RESOURCES ISSUES [...] As discussed in reftel, Brazil's Ministry of the Environment has proposed discussions to investigate the possibility of bilateral technical cooperation in water resource issues. 2. As this is the first area of proposed cooperation where there is bilateral agreement since the establishment [...] | 2007-06-08 18:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA1067 | BRAZIL'S RONDONIA STATE CONFRONTS THE PROBLEMS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Located in center-west Brazil, the state of Rondonia forms part of the country's frontier with Bolivia. Sparsely populated until the 1980s, Brazil's military government during its reign paved highway BR 364 to the state's capital, Porto Velho, to encourage (for national securit [...] | 2007-06-11 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN PGOV SENV EAID PHUM ETRD BR PE |
07BRASILIA107 | CHAMBER PRESIDENCY CONTEST REVEALS COALITION [...] (SBU) Summary. The battle for the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies (equivalent to U.S. Speaker of the House) is revealing an inability by the presidential palace to enforce discipline within the governing coalition and may cause a rift with lasting damage. The crisis is worsening and [...] | 2007-01-19 17:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA108 | INFORMATION ON THE SEED INITIATIVE CANDIDATE FROM BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Reftel requests that Post evaluate Brazilian candidates for the SEED initiative. "Projeto Bagagem" is well-known to USAID Brazil. USAID Senior Advisor Eric Stoner reports it is a community-based tourism network in Brazil. Stoner is familiar with the individuals who participated in the c [...] | 2007-01-19 17:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KPAO KAID TBIO KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1097 | BRAZILIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES VOTES TO UPHOLD [...] The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies (lower house) voted on June 12 in favor of the proposed reorganization of IBAMA, the Ministry of Environment's enforcement agency. The restructuring, first announced April 25 by Environment Minister Marina Silva and supported by President Lula, would split IBA [...] | 2007-06-14 14:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA1099 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NPS OFFICIAL JOHNSON [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Robert Johnson, Director of the Everglades-South Florida Natural Resources Center, National Park Service (NSP) in Florida, to Foz do Iguacu, Brasilia, and Cuiaba (Brazil),June 15-26, 2007, to participate in the Brazilian Congress on Protect [...] | 2007-06-14 17:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY KSCA SCUL OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1105 | BRAZIL: IPR TRAINING REQUEST [...] In accordance with requirements presented in reftel A, Embassy Brasilia submits the following proposal for 2007 IPR enforcement training. The proposal is for a grant of $43,900 to provide a two-day high-level workshop for law enforcement officials (Federal Police, Customs, Highway Patrol) and [...] | 2007-06-15 11:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1115 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE CONTRACTORS PETERSON [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for David P. Perterson and Loren J. Habergger, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),July 5-19, 2007, to Itaituba and Creporizao (State of Para) Brazil, to work on projects on reduction of emissions from community and small scale gold mining in developin [...] | 2007-06-15 18:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA1130 | AMEMBASSY BRASILIA NOMINATES RURALFONE FOR THE SECRETARY'S [...] (U) Based upon its outstanding program aimed at using technology and resources to assist communities located in Brazil's remote, underprivileged areas, the Ambassador nominates the U.S. company Ruralfone, Inc. for the Secretary of State's 2007 Award For Corporate Excellence For the Small to Med [...] | 2007-06-18 17:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP ELAB ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA1131 | AMEMBASSY BRASILIA NOMINATES FORD AND MICROSOFT BRAZIL FOR [...] (U) Based upon their leadership and commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR),Ambassador Sobel nominates the U.S. multinational companies Ford and Microsoft Brazil, as representatives of the 50 U.S. multinational companies that support the U.S. Embassy Brazil CSR Initiative, for th [...] | 2007-06-18 17:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP ELAB ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA1145 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE DOS AND NNSA FUNDED [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for a Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE/NNSA) International Nonproliferation Export Control Program (INECP) for the following DOS and NNSA-funded personnel, from July 7-14, 2007 to conduct WMD Commodity Identifica [...] | 2007-06-20 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ETTC KSTC PARM PREL KSCA KNNP BR |
07BRASILIA116 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL HOWARD [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. William Howard, Safety and Health Manager, Office of Health and Safety, OD, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia (DF),Brazil, February 6-8, 2007, to participate in the BSL-4 lab design workshop. 2. Visitors [...] | 2007-01-22 20:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CDC KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA1185 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 96 [...] The following is the ninety-sixth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...] | 2007-06-22 19:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA12 | POSSIBLE INSTRUMENT FOR BRAZIL MERCURY REDUCTION PILOT [...] At a December 8, 2006, meeting at Brazil's Ministry of the Environment, ESTH Counselor Patricia Norman, Science Officer KG Moore and EPA Project Leader Dr. Luis Fernandez met with Dr. Marilia Cerqueira, Director of Brazil's Mercury programs. Dr. Fernandez presented to the Brazilians the scope [...] | 2007-01-04 18:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC EMIN ETRD PREL KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1204 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA OFFICIAL SCHNEIDER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for William Schneider, Office of Prevention, Pesticides an Toxic Substances, for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s OECD Biopesticide Steering Group, to Sco Paulo (transit only) and Brasilia, Brazil, from June 29 to July 05, 2007, to partic [...] | 2007-06-26 19:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY EPA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA121 | BRAZIL - FOLLOW UP ON AMB. SOBEL'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY USTR [...] (SBU) Summary: Post appreciates USTR's thoughtful and considered outline (reftel) of potential initiatives that the USG might pursue bilaterally with Brazil to enhance the trade relationship. After reviewing those ideas put forth, we believe the area of greatest near term potential is a bilat [...] | 2007-01-23 18:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD USTR ECPS EINV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1216 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL BLANDFORD [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for John Blandford, Economist, NCHSTP, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Rio de Janeiro, , from July 1-8; Brasilia, from July 8-14, to Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 14, 2007, as follow: -- Rio de Janeiro/Brasilia: to provide techni [...] | 2007-06-27 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1220 | BRAZILIAN SUPPORT FOR BOLIVIA ON CN ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary. Worried about the potential for increased narco-trafficking to (and through) Brazil, the Lula administration has sought to provide both economic and moral support to the Morales government. Consistent with their perception of Brazil as the (self-anointed) leader of South Ameri [...] | 2007-06-28 18:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV ETRD ENRG BR BL |
07BRASILIA1231 | BRAZIL PREFERS SUSPENSION OF ISS ARRANGEMENT [...] Post received a Diplomatic Note from Brazil's Foreign Ministry on June 29, 2007, referring to the Government of Brazil's position about the bilateral International Space Station Arrangement (ISS). The Diplomatic Note is as follows: "The Ministry of External Relations complements the United S [...] | 2007-06-29 19:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA SENV KSCA KTIA TBIO TPHY TRGY TSPL BR |
07BRASILIA1240 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/EE A/S KARSNER JULY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE),Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Alexander Karsner, to Brasilia (July 10-12) and Rio de Janeiro (July 12),Brazil, to participate in the Council on Competitiveness and its Brazil [...] | 2007-07-02 18:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA1242 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JULY 9-11 VISIT OF [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. and Brazil share the basic goals of fostering hemispheric stability, promoting democracy, achieving a mutually satisfactory conclusion to the Doha round of WTO negotiations, preventing terrorist and drug transit activity and strengthening international non-proliferation [...] | 2007-07-02 19:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | ECON PGOV EFIN BR |
07BRASILIA1249 | BRAZIL: 2006 GSP ANNUAL REVIEW DEMARCHE [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel points to Peter Fox, MRE Deputy Director of the Division of Market Access, on July 3, 2007. Fox also served on the recent GOB Doha Round negotiating team. Sobel [...] | 2007-07-03 15:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ELAB PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1262 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA OFFICIAL FERNANDEZ [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. Luiz Fernandez, International Affairs Specialist, Office of International Affairs (OIA),U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),to Brasilia, Itaituba, and Creporizao, Brazil, July 5-29, 2007, to work on UNEP Global Mercury Partnership P [...] | 2007-07-05 10:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY EPA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1278 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/EE BARTON [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Bradley L. Barton, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE),Director of Commercialization and Deployment, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to Brasilia (July 10-12) and Sao Paulo (transit),Brazil, to participate in the Council on Competitivenes [...] | 2007-07-06 15:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA128 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Sobel, accompanied by PolCouns, met on 12 January with President Lula's Foreign Affairs Advisor, Marco Aurelio Garcia, for a tour d'horizon of regional and bilateral issues as Lula starts his second mandate. Garcia is one of Lula's closest advisors and has frequently [...] | 2007-01-25 10:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1285 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/EE LUTTRELL [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Ellen Luttrell, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE),Consultant- Communications Advisor, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to Brasilia (July 10-12) and Rio de Janeiro (July 12-15) and Sao Paulo (transit: Jul 10 and 15),Brazil, to participa [...] | 2007-07-09 13:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA1287 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/EE SATTELBERG [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Alfred P. Sattelberg, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE),Contract, Argone National Laboratory, Associate Lab Director for Physical Sciences, to Brasilia (July 9-13),Brazil, to participate in the Council on Competitiveness and its Brazilian coun [...] | 2007-07-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA1289 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/EE ARVISU [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dan E. Arvizu, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE),Director, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to Brasilia (July 10-12) and Rio de Janeiro (July 12-15) and Sao Paulo (transit: Jul 10 and 13),Brazil, to participate in the Council on Compet [...] | 2007-07-09 13:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA1308 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA OFFICIAL LUDWIG [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Ms. Victoria Ludwig, Program Manager, Landfill Methane Outreach Program, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),to Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Goiania, Cuiaba, Porto Alegre and Florianopolis, Brazil, July 15-29, 2007, [...] | 2007-07-10 18:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY EPA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA132 | RUSSIA DOWNPLAYS MILITARY SALES IN BRAZIL BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with his Russian counterpart, Ambassador Vladimir L. Tyurdenev, on January 12, 2007 at the Russian Embassy. Tyurdenev spoke candidly about bilateral relations, trade, Russian hopes to furnish equipment and exprtise to the potential regional gas pipeline proect, [...] | 2007-01-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG BR RU |
07BRASILIA1331 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR HHS OFFICIALS TO TRAVEL TO [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. William R. Steiger, Special Advisor to Secretary Leavitt for International Affairs, HHS, and Dr. Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, Director Office for the Americas, Office of Global Health Affairs (OGHA),OS, HHS to travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, [...] | 2007-07-13 12:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1333 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL LINK AND [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Michael Link, Health Scientist; William Garvin, Computer Specialist, COCHP/NCCDPHP, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Sao Paulo, August 11, and Brasilia, Brazil, from August 11-18, 2007: -- Brasilia: travelers will par [...] | 2007-07-13 16:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1334 | BRAZIL: U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: During their July 11 Brasilia meeting, U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson and Brazilian Finance Minister Mantega discussed recent Brazilian economic performance, recent U.S. economic performance and the importance of promoting reform at the International Monetary Fund - including th [...] | 2007-07-16 14:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1335 | BRAZIL: U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson Meeting with [...] (SBU) In a July 11 meeting with Planning Minister Paulo Bernardo, U .S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson outlined the focus of his visit to Brazil: (1) increasing private sector infrastructure finance; (2) facilitating the development of small and medium-sized enterprise development through inc [...] | 2007-07-16 14:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1336 | BRAZIL: July 11, 2007, meeting between U.S. Treasury [...] (SBU) Summary: In their July 11 Brasilia meeting, Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles told Secretary Paulson that Brazil appears to have overcome the extreme economic and financial volatility it experienced in the past, and that Brazil's medium-term growth and inflation outlook is positi [...] | 2007-07-16 14:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1351 | UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY 'S VISIT TO BRAZIL SPARKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Dobriansky's visit to Brazil May 16-17, 2007, not only fulfilled the request by President Bush and Brazilian President Lula to elevate the Common Agenda for the Environment (CAE) dialogue, but helped the U.S. Mission in Brazil move forward on a number of key issu [...] | 2007-07-18 09:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG SENV EAGR ETRD KSCA US BR |
07BRASILIA1355 | SIGNING OF MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN USGS AND THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA1368 | BRAZIL: U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Amorim emphasized to Secretary Paulson in their July 11 Brasilia meeting the significance Brazil places on regional infrastructure integration. Paulson noted the importance of bringing in the World Bank to this discussion. On trade, Amorim stated that even thou [...] | 2007-07-20 09:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA137 | CLIMATE CHANGE: U.S.-BRAZIL DVC ON APPROACHES TO REDUCING [...] Post has contacted Fernando Lyrio, Director of International Relations at Brazil's Ministry for the Environment, and presented the proposal for a DVC on U.S. and Brazilian approaches to reducing emissions from deforestation. Lyrio reports that the three people key for the Brazilian panel to r [...] | 2007-01-25 17:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1380 | FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-20 17:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA VE BR |
07BRASILIA1412 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL MOKDAD [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Ali Mokdad, Epidemiologist, COCHP/NCCDPHP, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Sao Paulo, August 12, and to Brasilia, Brazil, August 12-18, 2007, as follow: -- to Brasilia: to participate in a meeting and workshop to discus [...] | 2007-07-25 15:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1413 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL HICKS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Marie Hicks, Public Health Advisor, NCIRD, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Sao Paulo, August 15, and to Brasilia, Brazil, August 15-18, 2007, as follow: -- to Brasilia: to support the bilateral cooperation agreement wit [...] | 2007-07-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1414 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL BLANDFORD [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for John Blandford, Economist, NCHSTP, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Sao Paulo, August 5, and to Brasilia, Brazil, from August 5-16, 2007, as follow: -- to Brasilia: to lead a data analysis workshop as part of a year lon [...] | 2007-07-25 15:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1425 | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY [...] Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil was the site of a weeklong conference of 250 community forest entrepreneurs and policy makers from Africa, Asia, Central and South America, July 15-23, 2007. Participants debated the challenges confronted by inhabitants of tropical forests on three continents: la [...] | 2007-07-26 18:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1431 | BRAZIL: IPR TRAINING REQUEST [...] Embassy is resending this as an amendment to reftel F to incorporate suggestions made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 2. SUMMARY: In accordance with requirements presented in reftel A, Embassy Brasilia submits the following proposal for 2007 IPR enforcement traini [...] | 2007-07-26 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON BR |
07BRASILIA144 | U.S.-BRAZIL CAE - NEXT STEPS [...] At the December 13, 2006, U.S.-Brazil Common Agenda for the Environment (CAE) it was agreed that a Technical Work Group be created under the CAE framework to review and coordinate technical-level cooperation. This work group could meet at any time but would report its work and seek policy gui [...] | 2007-01-26 14:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPA TBIO KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1456 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL JOHNSON [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Denise Johnson, Associate Director for Extramural Program, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Rio de Janeiro, August 7-14 and Brasilia, Brazil, from August 14-16, 2007, as follows: -- Rio de Janeiro: to provide [...] | 2007-07-31 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1457 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANNERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Brendan Flannery, CCID/NCIRD/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Sao Paulo on or about (o/a) August 9; to Rio de Janeiro, o/a August 9-10 and to Brasilia, Brazil, o/a August 10-17, 2007, as follows: -- Rio de Janeiro: to partic [...] | 2007-07-31 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1458 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL MOEN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Ann Moen, Associate Director for Extramural Program, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, from August 15-18, 2007, to provide an opportunity to meet with project staff to review progress and plan [...] | 2007-07-31 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1463 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 98 [...] The following is the ninety-eighth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2007-08-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1465 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR REGIONAL [...] Country clearance is requested for Larissa A. Stoner, the Brasilia regional environment assistant, to visit Medellin August 13-19 and Lima August 19-26. Purpose of the visit is to provide logistic support as well as attend and report on EPA Trainings on Environmental Law Enforcement. 2. Sto [...] | 2007-08-01 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA BL BR |
07BRASILIA1466 | BRAZIL: SUBMISSION FOR INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Per instructions in reftel, US Embassy Brasilia is aware of one (1) claim of US persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Brazil (GOB). Claim 1 ------- a. Claimants A and B b. 1999 c. Claimants A and B, along with a Brazilian partner, through a joint [...] | 2007-08-02 11:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE ENRG CASC ECON OPIC PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1485 | EMBASSY BRASILIA CY 2006 CLASS B REFERRAL VALIDATION STUDY [...] Summary: In July 2007, the consular section of Embassy Brasilia conducted a validation study of 475 class B Referral visas issued between January 1st, 2006 and December 31st, 2006. Results from this random sample showed that 71% returned, 2% did not return, 23% never traveled; 4% were inconcl [...] | 2007-08-03 15:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KRFD CMGT BR |
07BRASILIA149 | BRAZIL: LULA'S SECOND TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoB announced on January 22 a series of measures, the Program to Accelerate Growth (PAC),meant to enliven Brazil's current lackadaisical economic growth rates. The measures, a combination of targeted tax breaks and new public spending, along with the recycling of a few exist [...] | 2007-01-26 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD PREL EINV BR |
07BRASILIA1498 | THE SOYBEAN MORATORIUM, ONE YEAR LATER [...] (U) Summary: On July 24, 2007, NGOs involved in the pact for sustainable soy in the Amazon - the soy moratorium - such as Greenpeace and The Nature Conservancy, met in Sao Paulo with representatives of the soybean industry and large-scale European consumers to evaluate the results of the one ye [...] | 2007-08-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO PGOV ECON XR BR |
07BRASILIA1507 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PRATT [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Michael Pratt, Senior Medical Officer, NCCDPHP/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Brasilia, Brazil, August 22-26, 2007, provide technical assistance/consultation to the Brazilian Ministry of Health on developing national chronic [...] | 2007-08-07 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1519 | FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 19:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA VE BR |
07BRASILIA1520 | FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 19:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA VE BR |
07BRASILIA1530 | FISCAL DATA FOR ADDITIONAL COSTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 17:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA CO VE BR |
07BRASILIA1535 | BRAZIL: GOVERNMENT REQUESTS REVIVAL OF FRAMEWORK SPACE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 7 BELOW. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) contacted Post to express interest in reviving the bilateral "f [...] | 2007-08-10 12:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA KTIA TPHY TRGY TSPL BR |
07BRASILIA1536 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NASA OFFICIALS MR AND MRS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Jeffrey Williams (Astronaut) and Anna Marie Williams (spouse),National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) official, to Sao Paulo (SP),Campos dos Goitacases (RJ),Brasilia (DF) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ) [...] | 2007-08-10 12:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA1539 | REVISED FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-10 15:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA CO VE BR |
07BRASILIA1540 | DEPT OF ENERGY'S BRADLEY BARTON AND DAN ARVIZU BRING A [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Department of Energy's Bradley Barton, Director of the Office of Commercialization and Deployment, and Dan Arvizu, Director of DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),led panels on [...] | 2007-08-10 17:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG EAGR ETTC EPET PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1555 | BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DUE [...] (SBU) The below answers are in response to the request for information in ref C: A) Could there possibly be any downside or embarrassment caused by the selection of your post's nominee? --Post has no knowledge of any downside or embarrassment that would result from the selection of its no [...] | 2007-08-13 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV BR |
07BRASILIA1568 | Key Brazilin Senator Voices Concern over Venezuelan [...] (SBU) Summary. During a lunchAmbassador Sobel gave on August 8 as part of a boader outreach to Brazilian senators (septel),the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and Natonal Defense Committee, Heraclito Fortes, expresed concerns about threats to democracy from Venezela and Bolivia. A [...] | 2007-08-14 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON BR XR |
07BRASILIA1578 | FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] The following fiscal data is being provided by the Regional Environmental Hub for expenditures (detailed below) for the Environmental Law Enforcement Workshop to be held August 20-23 in Lima (Peru). 19-726/7103715-1008-7a0926-021000-2403-4121 Total expenditures should not to exceed USD 2,58 [...] | 2007-08-16 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA BR PE |
07BRASILIA1581 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF U/S REUBEN JEFFERY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a June setback to the Doha Round discussions, in which talks between the U.S., the EU, Brazil, and India stalled over disagreements concerning tariff cuts for goods and services and over agricultural subsidies. The Brazilian delegation, led by F [...] | 2007-08-16 16:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD OTRA OVIP PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1585 | BRAZIL TO HOST MINISTERIAL MEETING ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry briefed representatives of embassies about its "Ministerial Meeting on International Governance for Sustainable Development," which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, September 3-4. The For [...] | 2007-08-17 10:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV UN EAGR ECON KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA162 | BINDING MERCURY POLLUTION REDUCTION TARGETS - NO POSITION [...] On January 25, 2007, SCI Officer met again with Otavio Trindade of the Ministry of External Relations' Division for Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development for follow-up discussions regarding demarche request in Ref A. Trindade reiterated Brazil's support for UNEP voluntary mercury pa [...] | 2007-01-29 20:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN AORC ETRD PREL SENV KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1620 | BRAZIL: OCR DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On August 23, EmbOffs delivered the demarche points in reftel to Otavio Brandelli, Director of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relations and Ana Soares, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Anti-Piracy Council, Ministry of Justice. The meet [...] | 2007-08-24 14:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON ADCO BR |
07BRASILIA1648 | BRAZIL: GOB THREAT TO SUSPEND IPR OF US CITIZENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Otavio Brandelli, Chief of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relations told EconOff on August 27 that the media exaggerated some elements of an August 24 report announcing GoB plans to "cross-retaliate" over a WTO finding against U.S. cotto [...] | 2007-08-29 18:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1651 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL IMAI [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Kumiko Imai, Service Fellow, NCCDPHP/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 2 to September 6, 2007, to attend the Secretariat of Health Surveillance Meeting and Workshop, and present "Methodology Cos [...] | 2007-08-29 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1653 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANNERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Brendan Flannery, Epidemiologist, NCIRD/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 10 to September 21, 2007, to work with current HHS/CDC secondee for immunizations and the Pan American Health Organizati [...] | 2007-08-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1654 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PATEL [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Manish Patel, Medical Epidemiologist, NCIRD/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 17; to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 17 to September 20; and, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 20, 2007, as [...] | 2007-08-30 13:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1664 | BRAZIL,S FOREIGN MINISTRY DISSES AND DISMISSES [...] (C) Summary: The director of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) Office of Transnational Crimes, Virginia Toniatti, told PolCouns in a meeting August 27 that Brazil does not see the Brazil/Argentina/Paraguay tri-border cooperation mechanism and the 3 1 mechanism that incl [...] | 2007-08-31 11:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA BR AR |
07BRASILIA1670 | SCANDAL INDICTMENTS AGAINST EX-OFFICIALS SEEN AS A [...] (U) Summary. In rulings seen by Brazilians as an important step forward in countering impunity, the Brazilian Supreme Court has allowed prosecution to proceed against all 40 individuals accused in the "mensalao" ("monthly payola") political scandal that rocked the Lula presidency in 2005. In [...] | 2007-08-31 16:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1674 | BRAZIL ANNOUNCES DRAMATIC DECLINE IN AMAZON DEFORESTATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED, AND IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil reports a sharp decline, 25 percent, in its rate of deforestation for the year 2006. Further, it estimates that the rate will drop another 30% in 2007. END SUMMARY [...] | 2007-08-31 17:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD EAGR KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1686 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA CAREY BYLIN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for EPA Official Carey Bylin, to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 16 to September 18; to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 18 to September 23, 2007, as follows: In Brasilia: Meetings at Ministry of Mines and Energy. In Rio de Janeiro: Meetings at P [...] | 2007-09-05 13:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA169 | BRAZIL BIOFUEL UPDATE, JANUARY 2007 [...] According to data from Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Brazil produced more ethanol in 2006 than any other production period. The 2006 harvest produced a total of 17.8 billion liters compared to a 16.9 billion liter production from the period before. According to Angelo Bressan, Director o [...] | 2007-01-30 18:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA17 | Brazil and Russia Sign Space Cooperation MOU [...] One of the agreements signed by Brazil with Russia during the December 14-15, 2006, visit of Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov to Brasilia was an MOU for Cooperation in Space. According to the newspaper Jornal do Brasil, the principal beneficiary of the agreement will be Brazil's rocket launchi [...] | 2007-01-05 14:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO TPHY TRGY BR |
07BRASILIA1715 | DEPUTIES PROPOSE TRIP TO CUBA TO INVESTIGATE [...] (C) Summary. A delegation of Brazilian federal deputies could travel to Havana soon to learn more about the Cuban boxers who were returned to Cuba during the PanAm games after apparently trying to defect and then undergoing a change of heart. The deputies would try to see the boxers to det [...] | 2007-09-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL BR CU |
07BRASILIA1718 | Brazil Likely to Attend Seminar on UNSCR 1737 [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) On August 28, 2007, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer met with Minister Santiago Mourao and Counselor Luiz Fernando Galvao of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Disarmament and Sensitive T [...] | 2007-09-11 16:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC IR PARM KNNP BR |
07BRASILIA1721 | Brazil to Attend Vienna Global Nuclear Energy Partnership [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On August 28, 2007, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer met with Minister Santiago Mourao and Counselor Luiz Fernando Galvao of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Disarmament and Sensiti [...] | 2007-09-11 16:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA BR |
07BRASILIA1722 | BRAZIL: VIEWS ON COALITION AGAINST WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING: [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazilian Ministry of External Relations Environment Division Director Coimbra stressed in an August 27 meeting with ESTH Counselor that Brazil had concerns about the scope of [...] | 2007-09-11 16:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1723 | Brazil's Delegation to Upcoming Nuclear Nonproliferation [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) On August 28, 2007, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer met with Minister Santiago Mourao and Counselor Luiz Fernando Galvao of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Disarmament and Sensitive [...] | 2007-09-11 16:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG MNUC NPT PARM PREL BR KNNP |
07BRASILIA1742 | BRAZIL: WASHINGTON SEPT. 27-28 MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil will certainly attend the September 27-28 meeting in Washington on climate change. It appears the Ambassador Everton Vargas, the Under Secretary for Policy in the Ministry of Exterio [...] | 2007-09-13 16:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1743 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NSF OFFICIAL NOTMAN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Evan Notman, Assistant Program Officer in the Division of International Science Engineer (OISE),to Sao Paulo(SP),Manaus (AM),and Brasilia(DF),Brazil, from September 17 to September 26, 2007, to participate in the discussion of cooperative pr [...] | 2007-09-13 16:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TPHY NSF OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1745 | SENATE PRESIDENT WINS ACQUITTAL ON IMPROPRIETY CHARGES [...] (U) In a historic vote, Brazilian Senate President Renan Calheiros was absolved on September 12 of charges of misconduct - the first time the Senate had voted on a charge of impropriety against its president. The secret vote of 40 to 35, with 6 abstentions, fell short Of the 41 votes needed t [...] | 2007-09-13 18:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1772 | INL SUPPORT IN 2007 IS YIELDING RESULTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite a dramatic reduction in NAS Brasilia external activities since June 2006, while an internal re-organization and new overall program strategy were being developed, INL authorized the continued support of several projects. In cooperation with other USG agencies at post, N [...] | 2007-09-17 16:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1774 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 99 [...] The following is the ninety-nine in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views express [...] | 2007-09-17 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1775 | BRAZIL: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY OF [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche points to Otavio Brandelli, Chief of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relation,s on September 17. Brandelli said that the GoB feels it should adopt a "low profile" on the issue to avoid alienating the African Group [...] | 2007-09-17 21:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC WIPO BR |
07BRASILIA1779 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL JACOBS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Krista Jacobs, Economist, CCID/NCCPSTP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/HHS, to Rio de Janeiro, October 16 and Brasilia, Brazil, from October 16-20, 2007, as follows: In Brasilia: to assist in teaching a course in economic evaluatio [...] | 2007-09-19 14:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA178 | BRAZILIAN REPRESENTATION AT GLOBE REGIONAL TRAINING, 2-9 [...] The Ministry of Education has informed post that Brazil will have two representatives at the Globe Regional Training on February 2-9 in Panama City. The information provided is as follow: 2. Name: Rachel Trajber Date of Birth: April 24, 1954 (04/24/1954) Place of Birth: Sao Paulo, Sao Pa [...] | 2007-01-31 17:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KGLB SENV KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1784 | MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING: BRAZILIAN DELEGATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On September 18, the Embassy's Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with Paulo Chiarelli, acting Director of the Ministry of Exterior Relations' (MRE) Division of Environme [...] | 2007-09-20 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV KGHG ECON PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1803 | EPA TRAININGS STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: Using funds from OES, three trainings on environmental law enforcement were carried out by EPA experts in August 2007 in Medellin (Colombia),Lima (Peru),and Georgetown (Guyana). With support from the Regional Environmental HUB Office, ECON Offices in each respective country, and [...] | 2007-09-21 10:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1811 | BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR CONTRIBUTION TO [...] (U) Poloffs delivered Reftel demarche to Counselor Glivania de Oliveira, chief of the United Nations Division at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations (Itamaraty). Oliveira was familiar with the Tribunal and agreed its establishment will represent a significant step forward for Lebanon. [...] | 2007-09-21 20:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC LE BR |
07BRASILIA1813 | BRAZIL: UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY'S MEETINGS WITH GoB [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and delegation met with Acting Minister of Mines and Energy, Nelson Hubner; Vice President Jose Alencar; and senior Ministry of Finance officials during his August 20 visit to Brasilia. Hubner said he saw an immediate need to showcase a biofuels p [...] | 2007-09-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENGR ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA SENV BR |
07BRASILIA1819 | BRAZIL: UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY LEADS ECONOMIC DISCUSSION [...] (U) Summary: Following up on a March conversation between the Secretary and Foreign Minister Amorim, Under Secretary Jeffery, SIPDIS along with Ambassador Sobel and State Department officers, in an August 20 discussed with Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs (MRE) Under Secretary Roberto [...] | 2007-09-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA BR |
07BRASILIA1826 | BRAZIL: FIRST MEETING OF USG-GOB BIOFUELS STEERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III, Ambassador Sobel and delegation participated in the first USG-GOB Biofuels Steering Committee meeting on August 20, 2007. Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Under Secretary Everton Vargas led t [...] | 2007-09-25 09:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA1837 | LULA'S TRIP TO EUROPE: CAN ITAMARATY FOLLOW [...] (C) Summary. Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva,s mid-September tour of four Scandinavian countries and Spain to promote foreign investment, expand the use of biofuels in Europe, and press for the expansion of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),represents a continuation o [...] | 2007-09-26 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG BR |
07BRASILIA1850 | Brazilian Senators Welcome U.S. Outreach, Exchange [...] (U) Summary. As part of a broad outreach to Brazilian senators August 7-8 on a number of topics, Ambassador Sobel found very high receptivity to the prospects of an increase in bilateral congressional exchanges. Interest is not limited to members of the foreign affairs committee, and topics [...] | 2007-09-27 20:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL BR |
07BRASILIA1865 | VENEZUELAN MERCOSUL ACCESSION MAY NOT PASS [...] (SBU) Summary. The bill to approve Venezuelan accession to Mercosul may not pass the Brazilian congress, in spite of support from the administration and the government's large majority in the chamber of deputies. President Chavez may have torpedoed Venezuela's chances when, at the September [...] | 2007-09-28 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN BR VE XR |
07BRASILIA1870 | AMB. GROSS LEADS INTERAGENCY DELEGATION TO BRAZIL FOR [...] Summary: Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy (EEB/CIP) led a senior-level U.S. delegation to Brazil for meetings with the Brazilian Ministry of Communications and the telecommunications regulator, the National Telecommunications Ag [...] | 2007-10-01 19:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS TINT TSPA BR |
07BRASILIA1873 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL BLANDFORD [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for John Blandford, Economist, GAP, NCHHSTP/CCID/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October-16-2007 to October-16-2007; Brasilia, Brazil from October-16-2007 to October-20-2007; Sao Paulo, Brazil from Oct [...] | 2007-10-02 14:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA188 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL KSIAZEK [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Thomas Ksiazek, Research Scientist, COCH, OD, HHS/ Centers for Disease Control (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, from February 5-7, 2007, to assist in the developing stages of a Bio Safety Level 4 Laboratory (BSL4) facility. 2. Visitors are re [...] | 2007-02-01 11:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1881 | U.S.-INDIA AGREEMENT: BRAZIL STILL REVIEWING DRAFT POLICY [...] (U) On September 24, ESTH Off delivered reftel's demarche and draft text of a policy exception for the Nuclear Suppliers Group for the U.S.-India 123 Agreement to the Deputy Head of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS),Luis Galvao. The [...] | 2007-10-03 09:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP KTIA PGOV PARM PREL IN BR |
07BRASILIA1893 | NAS BRASILIA REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS-supported activities during September -- though still limited in size and scope -- continued to produce results. In particular, two key NAS and DEA-supported operations carried out by the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF) resulted in several arrests and the seizure of signific [...] | 2007-10-03 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1897 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF NEC DIRECTOR AL HUBBARD [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of an August visit to Brazil by State Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III. During his visit, the Under Secretary's discussions with GOB officials included biofuels and infrastructure (REFTELS A, B,C). A [...] | 2007-10-04 10:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV BR |
07BRASILIA190 | TABLOID SAYS BRAZILIAN INTELLIGENCE SEES FOREIGN [...] (U) On Jan. 29, Jornal do Brasil (JB) published excerpts of what it claimed were from a "Situation report" prepared by the "Amazon Working Group," composed of intelligence and military officials. The JB story described the "Situation Report" as the consensus of Brazilian intelligence officials [...] | 2007-02-01 13:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BR XR |
07BRASILIA1907 | BRAZILIANS "DARE" TO STRENGTHEN DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION [...] (U) The Brazilian National Anti-drug Secretariat (SENAD) and the National Public Safety Secretariat (SENASP) convened a national conference on September 27-28 to re-assess the U.S.-based Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (D.A.R.E.),or PROERD as it is known in Brazil. The federal govern [...] | 2007-10-04 20:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1918 | BRAZIL AND THE FOREST 11 STATEMENT: PRIMARILY A POLITICAL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 24, 2007 leaders from eleven Tropical Rainforest Countries (the Forest 11) issued a joint statement calling for, inter alia, cooperation to slow, stop and reverse deforestation [...] | 2007-10-09 11:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG TNGD TRGY KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1934 | BRAZIL ON EU'S ETS AVIATION EMISSIONS PROPOSAL AND REVIVING [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On the margins of the September 3-4 Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Sustainable Development (SEPTEL),in Rio de Janeiro, State Department Assistant Secretary for Oceans, International Environme [...] | 2007-10-10 11:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAIR KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1935 | MINISTERIAL MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil hosted the "Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Sustainable Development: Challenges for International Governance," in Rio de Janeiro, September 3 and 4, 2007. Participants from t [...] | 2007-10-10 11:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG UN KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA195 | EU TO APPROACH BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT ON TAXATION OF [...] (U) Action Request - paragraph 2. 2. (U) Summary and Action request. On January 31, EU Econ/Commercial Counselor Fabian Delcros approached Commercial Attache with respect to problems that EU cosmetics companies were experiencing regarding alleged discriminatory taxation upon their expo [...] | 2007-02-01 19:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD BEXP ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1952 | MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE: BRAZILIANS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian delegation has expressed both public and private disappointment with the September 27-28 meeting in Washington of representatives of major economies to discuss energy security [...] | 2007-10-11 13:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1976 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA LOREN HABEGGER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for EPA Official Loren J. Habegger, to Itaituba, Brazil, from October 27 to November 5 and to Creporizao from November 5 and November 8, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to further test the performance of the technology installed in the two places [...] | 2007-10-15 17:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA1990 | Ambassador Sobel Visits Chamber of Deputies Foreign [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with members of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee on October 2 for a wide-ranging discussion that included the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum, Burma, Cuba, Darfur, Iran, Haiti, tourism, and other topics. Members expressed intere [...] | 2007-10-16 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1991 | EMBATTLED SENATE PRESIDENT TAKES LEAVE, WILL [...] (SBU) Summary. Embattled Senate President Renan Calheiros (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Alagoas) took leave from the Senate on October 11 after five months of unrelenting media and opposition attacks over alleged corruption. He is now expected to resig [...] | 2007-10-16 18:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA2011 | BRAZIL: LULA TOUTS FOREIGN POLICY INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary. During a speech on 1 October Brazilian President Lula touted the independent trajectory of his foreign policy, and criticized his predecessor's as intellectually submissive and overly oriented towards the United States and Europe. Brazilian foreign policy observers suggest the s [...] | 2007-10-19 22:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2012 | BRAZIL: SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. PROPOSALS COMMISSION FOR THE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. REF: SECSTATE 138243 2. (SBU) SCICOUNS delivered reftel points on October 11 October to Government of Brazil (GOB) Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Director for Space, Marine and Antarctic Affairs, Couns [...] | 2007-10-22 09:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV PHSA BR |
07BRASILIA2020 | BRAZIL: FRANK DISCUSSION ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. In a frank and wide ranging conversation, Director of the National Economic Council Al Hubbard, Deputy National Security Advisor Dan Price, and Ambassador Clifford Sobel met in Brasilia on O [...] | 2007-10-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA2021 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE RODMAN LINN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for DOE Official Rodman Linn, to Brasilia, Brazil, from November 3 to November 10, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to attend and do a presentation at the 19th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering. 2. Visitors are reminded that all [...] | 2007-10-22 17:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA2038 | BRAZIL: POST OCR FINDINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends retaining Brazil on the Watch List based on its continued strong overall anti-piracy enforcement efforts and in light of some continuing problem areas. The value of pirated and contraband items seized by Receita Federal in the first six months of 2007 was over [...] | 2007-10-26 18:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2044 | BRAZIL: INTERESTED IN THE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Drawing on REFS, ESTH Counselor Driscoll had a series of conversations in mid- and late-October with Brazilian Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Chief of the Division of Division for New and Renewa [...] | 2007-10-29 09:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG BR |
07BRASILIA2047 | BRAZIL PLANS TO RENEW NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH INDIA [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. At a meeting with EmbOffs on October 19, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies, Minister Santiago Mourao, said the USG [...] | 2007-10-29 09:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA IN BR |
07BRASILIA206 | INSIGHT INTO BRAZILIAN FM AMORIM FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Dutch Foreign Minister Bot met with Brazilian Foreign Minister Amorim recently during his visit to Brazil. Ambassador Sobel was briefed by the Dutch Mission and gained insights particularly into Brazil's ideas on a UN Security Council seat, views on Syria from his recent meeting wi [...] | 2007-02-06 14:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2062 | Ambassador Sobel's meeting with the Senate Foreign [...] (SBU) Summary. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee told Ambassador Sobel in a closed, informal meeting on October 16 of concerns about a possible U.S.-Brazil tax treaty, fears of Venezuelan aggression, support for the Doha Round, and hopes for sustainable de [...] | 2007-10-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2064 | BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and BNDES Luciano Galvao Coutinho [...] (U) When NEC Director Hubbard, DPA/DNSA Dan Price and Ambassador Sobel met with BNDES President Luciano Galvao Coutinho on October 11 in Brasila, Galvao began by providing brief historical background about BNDES. BNDES was established in 1952 to promote the expansion of capital-intensive indust [...] | 2007-10-30 19:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2065 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV/MULLER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Richard P. Muller and Ann E. Mattsson, from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL),National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA),Office of Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE),to Belem (Para),Brazil, November 3 to November 10, [...] | 2007-10-30 19:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG TRGY OTRA KSCS BR |
07BRASILIA2066 | BRAZIL: DOC Secretary Gutierrez and MDIC Jorge meeting [...] (U) SUMMARY: Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC) Miguel Jorge met October 10 in Brasilia to discuss the CEO Forum, trade and investment challenges in Brazil, and specific trade problems encountered by American firms. The meeting was c [...] | 2007-10-30 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2067 | BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and DOC Gutierrez with Casa Civil [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The meeting between Casa Civil Dilma Rousseff, MDIC Secretary Jorge, Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez, NEC Director Hubbard, DPA/DNSA Price and Ambassador Sobel focused primarily on Doha. Both sides agreed we must seize the moment to come to closure on a Doha agreement. The del [...] | 2007-10-30 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2068 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2007-10-30 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2069 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2007-10-31 09:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2070 | SUBJECT: BRAZIL: PROBABLY WILL SUPPORT ARGENTINA [...] (C) On 29 October, Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to director of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) Office of Transnational Crimes, Virginia Toniatti. While Toniatti was familiar with the AMIA case and the upcoming Interpol General Assembly vote, and noted Brazil,s con [...] | 2007-10-31 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC KJUS PGOV PREL IR BR |
07BRASILIA2079 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV MILLS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for John M. Wills, Los Alamos National Laboratory, from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL),National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA),Office of Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) to attend the International Workshop on Full [...] | 2007-11-01 13:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG TRGY OTRA KSCS BR |
07BRASILIA208 | BRAZILIAN POLITICAL ROUNDUP, JAN. 29-FEB. 5, 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary. The new Congress took office and each house elected a leader from the pro-government coalition, although the choice in the Chamber of Deputies widened a painful split in the government's base. President Lula da Silva must now find ways to repair the damage, and he may use mi [...] | 2007-02-06 17:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA2082 | USG-GOB COMMERCIAL DIALOGUE: CONTINUING A STRONG FORWARD [...] Summary: The reporting session of the third meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue, an hour-long event held October 10, 2007 in Brasilia, Brazil, was a positive and productive example of current USG-GOB bilateral cooperation. Visiting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez and [...] | 2007-11-01 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EINV ENRG TSPL TBIO TPHY TRGY TNGD PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA2084 | BRAZIL: TRAINING BY USG EXPERTS BRINGS TO LIFE PROMISE OF [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Seminars put on in mid-October by U.S. water resource management experts have served to implement recommendations developed by the bilateral water technical working group created under the C [...] | 2007-11-01 19:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA2087 | BRAZIL: CEO Forum recommendations report to USG and [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Brazilian and American CEOs participating in the CEO Forum reported their recommendations to President Lula's Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC) Miguel Jorge, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and National Economic Council Direc [...] | 2007-11-05 17:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2090 | BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and DOC Gutierrez Roundtable with [...] (U) SUMMARY: In an October 11 roundtable with Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and National Economic Council Director Hubbard on the margins of the CEO Forum and Commercial Dialogue, the governors of Bahia (Jacque Wagner),Rio Grande do Sul (Yeda Crusius),and Santa Catarina (Luis Henrique Silveir [...] | 2007-11-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2091 | DRAFT 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] Following is a draft of Part I of the Brazil chapter of the 2007 INCSR. As requested in reftel B, the money laundering portion of the INCSR will be submitted separately. BRAZIL ---------- I. SUMMARY ---------- 2. Brazil is a major transit country for illicit drugs shipped to Euro [...] | 2007-11-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2120 | BRAZIL: ICAO DEMARCHE ON MONTREAL CONVENTION AMENDMENT [...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Monday, November 5 to Alexandre de Lima in the Division of Services, Investments and Financial Affairs (DSF) at the Ministry of External Relations (MRE),as a follow-up on the demarche points sent to him on October 30. De Lima, who will [...] | 2007-11-09 09:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2124 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: ANAC PRESIDENT RESIGNS; THREE DIRECTORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil's civil aviation agency (ANAC)'s Director-President Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi formally submitted his resignation to President Lula the afternoon of October 31. The same day, the "Diario Oficial da Uniao," the GOB's Federal Register equivalent, announced the confi [...] | 2007-11-09 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR EIND PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
07BRASILIA2131 | BRAZIL: COMMANDER OF U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. During his visit to Brazil October 1-5, LTG Robert Van Antwerp, Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE),and his delegation met on October 3 with civilian Brazilian counterpart [...] | 2007-11-10 18:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA ECON EINV BR |
07BRASILIA2132 | IRAN-RUSSIA-VENEZUELA TRIANGLE THREATENS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Iran, Russia, and Venezuela are involved in an open and growing collaboration with a common purpose to make more arms available to radical populist governments and spread anti-American ideology in the region, according to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and National [...] | 2007-11-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL MASS BR VE XR RS IR |
07BRASILIA2140 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR SOBEL DISCUSSES UPCOMING ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Sobel and Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs (MRE) Under Secretary Roberto Azevedo met on November 9 at the MRE to discuss the upcoming State-MRE Economic Dialogue scheduled for December. During the meeting, Azevedo said the only deliverable he expected from the [...] | 2007-11-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA BR |
07BRASILIA2147 | KEY SENATOR SAYS CLIMATE IS RIGHT FOR BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Aloizio Mercadante, chairman of the Senate Economic Affairs Committee, told Ambassador Sobel on October 18 that the bilateral relationship is at a very favorable point and the bilateral agenda must be resumed without delay so as to expand economic relations. He predicted the [...] | 2007-11-16 12:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2151 | FORMER PRESIDENT URGES USG TO COUNTER CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary. Former President and sitting senator Jose Sarney (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Amapa) urges the USG to do more to counter Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's increasingly destabilizing actions in the region. Sarney said Chavez threatens to c [...] | 2007-11-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MASS MCAP BR GY VE IR RS |
07BRASILIA2158 | MINI-DUBLIN GROUP MEETING IN BRASILIA -- NOVEMBER 2007 [...] SUMMARY: On November 19, 2007, under the chairmanship of the Government of Spain, the Mini-Dublin Group convened at the Spanish Embassy to discuss counter narcotics assistance and cooperation between member countries and the Government of Brazil (GoB). This was the first time the group had g [...] | 2007-11-21 14:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2159 | BRAZIL: CUBAN BOXERS SAGA LIKELY TO END WITH A [...] Summary: (C) Federal Deputies will probably unceremoniously drop their investigation into the departure of two Cuban boxers who apparently tried to defect at the Pan Am Games but later were repatriated to Cuba. Unable to gain traction on the issue outside of Congress, and stymied by the Cuban [...] | 2007-11-21 17:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BR CU |
07BRASILIA2160 | SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 27-28 VISIT OF CODEL [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] | 2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2161 | SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 26-30 1 VISIT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] | 2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2162 | SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 25-DECEMBER 1 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] | 2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2171 | BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel request, and pursuant to request for extension to Oct. 19 response date, Post submits the following information regarding the development and adoption of bio-based chemical products and liquid biofuels in Brazil, including research and reports available, [...] | 2007-11-23 10:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL EINV ECON PGOV OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA2174 | BRAZIL: HEAD OF FTA UNIT DISCUSSES CURRENT NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with Evandro Didonet, Director of the Department of International Negotiations at Itamaraty, Didonet reviewed the status of ongoing Mercosul FTA negotiations, including Israel, GCC, India, EU and the preferential agreement with SACU. Brazil does not negotiate F [...] | 2007-11-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2176 | BRAZIL: ACTING MINES AND ENERGY MINISTER HUBNER [...] (U) In a meeting with EconCouns, Acting Minister of Mines and Energy Jose Hubner Moreira described his agency's role in energy supply contracting, discussed mining concession processes, and touched on the challenges of environmental legislation and working with the states at the federal level. [...] | 2007-11-23 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ENIV BR |
07BRASILIA2177 | BRAZIL: CNI INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION PRIORITIES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Executive Director and the Manager of the Economic Policy Unit at CNI explained the industry association's structure and priorities in a meeting with EconCouns. CNI is Brazil's manufacturing lobbying and export promotion association of state-level associations and also serves [...] | 2007-11-23 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EFIN BR |
07BRASILIA2184 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 102 [...] The following is the one hundred second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...] | 2007-11-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2185 | BRAZIL READY TO CONSTRUCTIVELY DISCUSS SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] (SBU) On November 7, 2007, per REFTEL ESTHOff met with the Deputy Head of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS),Luis Galvao, to discuss Brazilian views on supply assurances leading up to the visit to Brazil by IAEA Director General, ElBa [...] | 2007-11-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP TRGY BR |
07BRASILIA2188 | BRAZIL: ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] On November 19, 2007 Econoff met with an advisor to the Council for Financial Activities Control (COAF) in Brasilia. COAF has actively worked with Customs to discourage illegal transportation of funds domestically and internationally. Brazilian regulations allow up to Reais $10,000 (approx [...] | 2007-11-27 11:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EEB INL ECON KTFN PTER EETC PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2193 | Brazil: Draft National Trade Estimate [...] (U) Per reftel, set forth in paragraph 2 below is the text of post's draft of the National Trade Estimate. Post notes a new industrial policy is expected to be announced before the holidays, which may affect the subsidiaries and investment sections. 2. (SBU) Begin Text. TRADE SUMMARY [...] | 2007-11-27 17:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EFIN ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2206 | BRAZIL:INVESTMENT AND SERVICES DIRECTOR COSTA [...] (U) Ronaldo Costa Filho, division head for Services and Investment, discussed bilateral and intra-Mercosul investment negotiations, as well as WTO services negotiations in a recent meeting with EconCouns. CAMEX (External Trade Chamber) has recently approved a new BIT parameters proposal intende [...] | 2007-11-30 10:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2215 | BRAZIL:DEPUTY PALOCCI ECONOMICS MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met November 20 with Antonio Palocci, an influential pro-business Federal Deputy (PT, Workers Party, from Sao Paulo) and former Finance Minister. Deputy Palocci was enthusiastic about a possible US-Brazil regional infrastructure initiative and suggested specific p [...] | 2007-12-03 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2227 | Brazil Views National Intelligence Report as Positive and [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 4, 2007, per REFTEL POLCouns and ESTHOff met with the Head of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies, Minister Santiago Mourao, to discuss the recent release of the USG National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) regarding Ir [...] | 2007-12-05 09:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IAEA KNNP NPT TREL BR |
07BRASILIA2233 | SENATE PRESIDENT STEPS DOWN -- FINALLY [...] (SBU) Senator Renan Calheiros (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, government coalition; of Alagoas) resigned as Senate President on December 4 after facing months of mounting accusations of ethics violations. His resignation was an apparent quid pro quo with his fellow Senators in exc [...] | 2007-12-05 20:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA2234 | BRAZIL:ITAMARATY TRADE A/S - ECONOMIC DIALOGUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Carlos Marcio Cozendey, director of the MRE Economic Department (A/S equivalent) has the lead on the Economic Dialogue and provided feedback on the December 13 agenda in a recent meeting with EconCouns. (See ref B for expanded Brazilian feedback on details of the dialogue). Cozende [...] | 2007-12-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2236 | BRAZIL: INFORMATION ON TEXTILES AND APPAREL [...] (U) Post sends this cable in response to information requested in reftel. 2. (U) Total 2006 industrial production in Brazil was approximately USD 284 billion. Through June, 2007 (latest available figures),total industrial production increased 6.7% over the same period in 2006. 3. [...] | 2007-12-06 15:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX BR |
07BRASILIA2241 | BRAZIL: GOB REQUESTS RENEWAL OF 1997 ENERGY COOPERATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On December 7, 2007, the Brazilian Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Division for Non-Renewable Energy Resources (DREN) contacted the Embassy to request that the USG and the Government of Brazil (G [...] | 2007-12-07 21:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV TRGY KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA2242 | SCENESETTER FOR THE ECONOMIC DIALOGUE VISIT OF WHA A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit for the economic dialogue will expand and develop economic cooperation themes discussed during the Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben SIPDIS Jeffery's August visit (REFTELS A, B, C). We hope to use the dialogue to focus on areas wh [...] | 2007-12-07 21:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL SENV BR |
07BRASILIA2243 | BRAZIL: INTEGRATION A/S CARDOSO ON MERCOSUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MRE A/S for Integration Afonso Cardoso stressed the political importance of Mercosul for Brazil as a unifying force for economic development in a recent meeting with EconCouns. Cardoso underlined his views on Mercosul's strengths, highlighted recent integration decisions he felt [...] | 2007-12-07 21:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2244 | NAS BRAZIL ACTIVITY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thanks to ongoing NAS support, the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF),with operational assistance from DEA Brazil, culminated operation "Fenix" an investigation that made significant progress toward dismantling a major drug trafficking organization run by Luis Fernando da Costa, a [...] | 2007-12-10 13:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2258 | Court Rulings Limit Party Switching by Elected Officials [...] Summary. Recent federal court rulings have placed strict limits on party switching that are expected to strengthen large parties and could weaken traditional spoils politics. The rulings are a victory for large parties and a loss for smaller, non-ideological parties in the government coaliti [...] | 2007-12-11 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCOR BR |
07BRASILIA226 | APPROVAL OF NIH RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED "LONG TERM IMPACT [...] On January 15, 2007, Embassy received from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division of Science and Technology, (DCTEC/MFA) an official notification (number 003, dated January 15, 2007) approving the research project proposal entitled "Long Term Impact and Intervention for Diarrhea in [...] | 2007-02-09 15:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
07BRASILIA2262 | BRAZIL: UNWILLING TO ENDORSE ARGENTINE CLAIMS ON [...] (S) Summary: With its abstention on the vote to confirm issuance of international capture notices for five Iranian nationals and one Lebanese suspected of involvement in the 1994 terrorist attack in Buenos Aires at the Interpol General Assembly session on November 7 the Government of Brazil has [...] | 2007-12-12 14:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL BR AR |
07BRASILIA2263 | UNCTAD SEEKS MORE ACTIVE ROLE WITH BIOFUELS: CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND IS NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. UNCTAD, together with the Government of Brazil (GoB),held a conference on biofuels in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 4-5 as a pre-event to the twelfth session of the United Nations [...] | 2007-12-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY UN UNCTAD KGHG ECON SENV ENRG KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA2269 | BRAZIL: INTERESTED IN COOPERATION WITH EPA ON MERCURY, BUT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND IS NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the last six months, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA) has repeatedly expressed interest in cooperating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the field of [...] | 2007-12-13 10:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TNGD KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA2309 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: POSSIBLE INCREASED FREQUENCIES, ROUTES FOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador Sobel spoke again on December 19 with recently confirmed new National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) Director-President Solange Vieira, who will now be responsible for air services negotiations with the United States. The Ambassador also met separately on the same day with Mini [...] | 2007-12-20 09:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EIND PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
07BRASILIA2321 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 104 [...] The following is the one-hundred-fourth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...] | 2007-12-26 14:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2326 | BRAZIL: FTC CHAIRMAN MEETINGS IN BRASILIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 29, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Deborah Majoras met in Brasilia with Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Administrative Council for Consumer Defense (CADE) officials. Majoras discussed deepening the cooperation between the FTC and the MoJ on consumer protecti [...] | 2007-12-27 14:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN BR |
07BRASILIA2335 | BRAZIL: IAEA DG ELBARADEI ADDRESES LATIN AMERICA-EUROPE [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 6-7, 2007, Rio based think-tank CEBRI (Centro Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais - Brazilian Center for International Relations) hosted an international seminar geared toward promotion of the use of nuclear energy and to enhancing the nuclear energy dialogue betwee [...] | 2007-12-28 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP TRGY BR |
07BRASILIA239 | BRAZIL GLOBE ACCORD CLEARANCE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 2. (U) On February 5, 2007, SCI officer spoke with Rachel Trajber, Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and Brazil's future GLOBE country coordinator. Trajber said that MEC would prefer to hol [...] | 2007-02-12 16:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
07BRASILIA240 | BRAZIL GLOBE ACCORD CLEARANCE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 2. (U) On February 5, 2007, SCI officer spoke with Rachel Trajber, Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and Brazil's future GLOBE country coordinator. Trajber said that MEC would prefer to hol [...] | 2007-02-12 16:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
07BRASILIA249 | BRAZIL: Copyright Scenesetter: Piracy Enforcement Efforts [...] Post sends this telegram in advance of A/USTR Espinel's visit to Brazil the week of February 26. Our Special 301 reporting cable, which (inter alia) will include industry views and a look at the patent/trademark situation, will follow septel. 2. (SBU) Summary: The December "Report on Acti [...] | 2007-02-13 13:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA260 | HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] Country clearance is requested for Suzanne Westman, Epidemiologist, GAP-Brazil, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC, to travel to New Delhi, India, from March 2, 2007 to March 9 to participate in the Regional WHO Training Workshop on Avian Influenza Preparedness and Response and from March 11th - May 20th on tem [...] | 2007-02-14 16:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA265 | SUSPENSION OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA KSCA SENV BR |
07BRASILIA266 | Request for training, PE 142 Resource Economics [...] This cable is in response to reftel from January 18, 2007. The Regional Environmental Affairs Officer (Hub) for South America is requesting inclusion in PE 142, Resource Economics, to take place in Washington, DC and Denver, Colorado from July 9-13. 2. As South American Hub officer, this [...] | 2007-02-14 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI ECON BR |
07BRASILIA271 | BRAZILIAN DELEGATION TO TRAVEL TO CUBA SEEKING CLOSER [...] The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology announced February 12, that a delegation lead by Erney Camargo, President of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq),would travel to Cuba February 19-21, hoping to identify new opportunities for S&T cooperation. [...] | 2007-02-15 11:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TPHY TRGY BR |
07BRASILIA273 | SUSPENSION OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA KSCA SENV BR |
07BRASILIA277 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 30 DINNER WITH [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador hosted a dinner for Brazilian Minister for Institutional Security, General Armando Felix on January 30. Felix was accompanied by his newly appointed deputy, Major General Ruben Peixoto Alexandre. Political Counselor and Regional Affairs Officer were in attendance. The [...] | 2007-02-15 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA282 | BRAZIL TO PAY MORE FOR BOLIVIAN GAS [...] (SBU) An agreement reached February 15 between Brazil and Bolivia created a formula that could oblige the parastatal Brazilian energy company, Petrobras, to pay up to four percent more each year for the Bolivian natural gas that primarily supplies the state of Sao Paulo. The increase--althoug [...] | 2007-02-16 15:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON BR BL |
07BRASILIA288 | TEDS VISIT BY REO SUCCESSFUL [...] On February 14-15 the Regional Environmental Officer (Hub) for South America traveled to Belem at the start of the shrimping season to work with the GOB inspectors as they conducted their annual pre-season TEDs verification check. During the last Turtle Excluder Device (TEDs) verification vis [...] | 2007-02-16 18:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD XR BR |
07BRASILIA289 | BRAZIL: USDOT/FHWA/AASHTO AND MINISTRY OF [...] (U) Summary: On February 13, EconOff attended a digital videoconference (DVC) between representatives of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)'s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO),and their Brazilian co [...] | 2007-02-16 18:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN ECON BEXP OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA290 | AMBASSADOR LOBBIES MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CIVAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: On Feburary 13, Ambassador Sobel, EconCouns and Civair Officer met with Minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia Neto, and National Civil Aviation Agency Director-President, Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi, to discuss flight frequency issues and tourism development in Brazil [...] | 2007-02-16 18:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA294 | BRAZIL: Special 301 Recommendation [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Brasilia's input for the Special 301 Review of Brazil. 2. (SBU) Summary: In 2006, Brazil continued to make significant progress in improving protection of copyrights and intellectual property. The potential for compulsory licensing - a key area of [...] | 2007-02-16 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA297 | AMBASSADOR LOBBIES MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CIVAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: On Feburary 13, Ambassador Sobel, EconCouns and Civair Officer met with Minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia Neto, and National Civil Aviation Agency Director-President, Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi, to discuss flight frequency issues and tourism development in Brazil [...] | 2007-02-18 18:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA298 | Brazil: US Mission's 4th Quarter 2006 Corporate Social [...] Summary. (U) Since October 2006, when Ambassador launched the US Embassy's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative, USAID, FCS, Embassy and Consulate Sao Paulo have worked exhaustively with our 31 corporate partners (firms such as Microsoft, GE, IBM, and GM) to follow-up on this issue [...] | 2007-02-18 18:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON SENV BR |
07BRASILIA313 | VENEZUELA'S GROWING MILITARY PROWESS AND CLAIMS [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel gave a dinner on February 13 for veteran political figures that drew out opinions on political reform, relations with the U.S., party behavior, and grave concerns about a perceived growing menace from Venezuela. Guests included a former president; the presid [...] | 2007-02-23 14:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BR XM SCUL |
07BRASILIA315 | ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY [...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...] | 2007-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA316 | ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY [...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...] | 2007-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA319 | BRAZIL: WTO Taft Goods Demarche Response [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel points in to Peter Fox, GOB Deputy Director of Division of Market Access at the MFA. Fox, who will leave for the Geneva talks on 24 February, said that he had read in full the USG position on the issue and, after discussions both internally and externally with pri [...] | 2007-02-23 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BRASILIA32 | BRAZIL'S NEW SMALL BUSINESS LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Lula signed legislation on December 14, 2006 that expanded the scope and coverage of previous efforts to simplify the taxation system as applied to small and medium enterprises (SME) in Brazil. When it comes into full effect in July 2007, the new law, known as "Supersim [...] | 2007-01-08 14:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN SOCI BR |
07BRASILIA351 | BRASILIA REQUESTS COPIES OF AGREEMENTS SIGNED AT [...] This is an action message. See point 3. 2. Reftel notes that at the July 21, 2006, U.S. - Brazil S&T Commission meeting held in Washington, the United States and Brazil signed renewals of the Implementing Arrangement for Cooperation on Environmental Scientific Research in the Large Scale [...] | 2007-02-27 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV TBIO TPHY TRGY TSPA BR |
07BRASILIA362 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS'S MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: U/S Nicholas Burns met in Brasilia with six state governors, representing some of the largest and most significant states by population and GDP, on February 8 to discuss areas of potential cooperation. The governors described specific areas where they would welcome technical [...] | 2007-03-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BTIO ENRG PREL BR |
07BRASILIA366 | Brazil: Under Secretary Burns Meets with Minister of [...] (SBU) Summary. During Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns' February 7-8, 2007 visit to Brasilia, he met with Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce Luiz Fernando Furlan and his management team. The friendly, wide-ranging conversation touched upon issues s [...] | 2007-03-01 16:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ENRG KIPR EAGR SENV BR |
07BRASILIA367 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL WEATHERS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Andrew Weathers, Program Analyst, COCH, OD, HHS/Centers for Disease Control (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, from March 18-23, 2007, to work with the Field Epidemiology Training Program staff to identity administrative and logistical priorities i [...] | 2007-03-01 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA368 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR USGS OFFICIAL TIESZEN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Larry Tieszen, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),Physical Scientist to travel to Brasilia (DF),Brazil (03/18-03/25/2007). PURPOSE OF TRAVEL: To participate in a meeting for South American mapping agencies organized by the Andean Development Corpo [...] | 2007-03-01 19:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA370 | BRAZIL: U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns, WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon, P Special Assistant Heide Bronke, Ambassador Sobel and PolCouns Dennis Hearne met on 7 February with Foreign Minister Celso Amorim for a broad discussion of bilateral and regional iss [...] | 2007-03-01 19:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA371 | BRAZIL: U/S BURNS MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns met on 7 February with Dilma Rousseff, President Lula's Chief of Staff for Policy and, effectively, his senior cabinet official. The discussion focused on rapidly moving progress in the development of U.S.-Brazil cooperation in biofuels, and established the political c [...] | 2007-03-01 19:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA373 | US-BRAZIL S&T MINISTERIAL COMMISSION JOINT STATEMENT [...] On February 27, 2007, U.S. Ambassador Clifford Sobel and Brazil's Deputy Science and Technology Minister, Luis Fernandes, signed the joint statement resulting from the July 21, 2006, U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission Meeting on S&T Cooperation. The ceremony, held in Brazil's Foreign Ministry, was w [...] | 2007-03-02 16:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV TBIO TPHY EAGR ECON TRGY TSPL BR |
07BRASILIA376 | Brazil: Silicon Metal Statistics [...] (U) Note: Since there is no central repository in Brazil for retention of data on this industry, Post has not been able to obtain information in all categories requested for the period covering January 1999 - September 2002. In several other categories requested in reftel, information was co [...] | 2007-03-02 17:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA382 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HUB [...] James Story, South America Regional Environmental Officer based in Brasilia, requests country clearance to visit Lima from March 15-17, Cartagena March 17-21, and Bogota March 21-24. Purpose of trip to Lima is to discuss an environmental enforcement training proposal with embassy staff; trip [...] | 2007-03-05 16:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV CO PE BR |
07BRASILIA394 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS OFFICIAL CROWLEY FROM APRIL 19 [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. James Crowley, U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist to travel to Sao Paulo (SP) April 19-28, 2007 and Maraba (PA),Brazil, April 28 to May 4, 2007 (in transit at Brasilia and Sao Paulo airports). Purpose of travel: Dr. Crowley and scien [...] | 2007-03-06 18:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA396 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENIOR BRAZILIAN POLICYMAKERS PRIOR [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 27, the Ambassador met (separately) with three influential GOB policymakers: Minister of Justice Marcio Thomaz Bastos, MFA U/S for Political Affairs Everton Vieira Vargas, and Lula Private Secretary Gilberto Carvalho. The wide-ranging discussion touched upon a numb [...] | 2007-03-06 18:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PTER OVIP SENV PGOV EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA401 | BRAZIL TO INTRODUCE NEW BIOPIRACY LEGISLATION [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Brazil (GOB) is preparing new legislation to address biopiracy in Brazil, which the GOB believes fuels a USD 100 million a year market for chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries worldwide. The new legislation will feature electronic registration for re [...] | 2007-03-07 13:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO KSCA BAIO BR |
07BRASILIA419 | TWO USGS MOUS WITH BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES APPROVED BY [...] Reftel authorizes Post to seek Government of Brazil (GOB) authorization to sign two previously negotiated Memorandum of Understanding, between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Geoscience Institute of the University of Brasilia and USGS and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte [...] | 2007-03-09 19:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA KTIA NASA SENV BR |
07BRASILIA420 | STAS TEAM VISIT - U.S.-BRAZIL BIOINFORMATICS CONFERENCE AND [...] SUMMARY: Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (STAS) Dr. George Atkinson led a team of scientists and engineers to Rio, Sao Paulo, Campinas and Petropolis, Brazil, November 10-17, 2006, to co-host a regional Global Dialogue on Emerging Science & Technology (GDEST) Conference [...] | 2007-03-09 19:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA SENV TNGD BR |
07BRASILIA430 | BRAZIL: U/S BURNS MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns and WHA A/S Shannon, in Brasilia for strategic dialogue talks with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (MRE),joined with Ambassador, PolCounselor and S/P officer William McIlhenny to meet on February 7 with Marco Aurelio Garcia, President Lula da Silva's international affai [...] | 2007-03-13 11:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA431 | BRAZIL: U/S BURNS MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns and WHA A/S Shannon, in Brasilia for strategic dialogue talks with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (MRE),joined with Ambassador, PolCounselor and S/P officer William McIlhenny to meet on February 7 with Marco Aurelio Garcia, President Lula da Silva's international affai [...] | 2007-03-13 12:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA433 | U.S.-BRAZIL SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON BIOFUELS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 16:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY SENV KSCA TPHY TBIO US BR |
07BRASILIA452 | BRAZIL: LULA'S MEETING WITH GOVERNORS PRODUCES LITTLE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: President Lula held a meeting with the governors of Brazil's 26 states and the federal district on March 6, in part to lay the foundation for cooperation with the governors on some of the sensitive fiscal federalism issues that, in an ideal world, Lula would address over the cou [...] | 2007-03-16 13:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA453 | HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] Country clearance is requested for Aristites Barbosa Junior, Epidemiologist, GAP-Brazil, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC, to travel to Luanda, Angola from April 28-2007 to May 4-2007. 2. The purpose of this trip to Luanda: accompany on several visits to government and NGO principals in order to improve co [...] | 2007-03-16 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA459 | REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES [...] (SBU) In a March 13 meeting, Charge and Acting DCM presented to the head of the Brazil Foreign Ministry's NAMA office (Carlos Henrique Abreu e Silva) reftel demarche points. Abreu e Silva noted that he was already aware of the issue - probably because the EU had previously presented him with [...] | 2007-03-16 19:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA482 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA OFFICIALS ZEPP AND [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for EPA Officials Richard Zepp, Senior Research Scientist and Marirosa Molina, Research Scientist, Office of Research and Development, to Brasilia (DF) April 13-20, and Florianopolis (SC),Brazil, April 20-23, 2007, to attend the Large-Scale Biosphe [...] | 2007-03-21 18:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY EPA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA485 | PRO-GOVERNMENT LEGISLATORS BLOCK AIR TRAFFIC [...] (SBU) Summary. In a dramatic marathon session of the Chamber of Deputies' Constitution, Justice, and Citizenship Committee (CCJ),pro-government legislators on March 20 broke the backbone of a minority attempt to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) into the Air Traffic Crisis. [...] | 2007-03-22 15:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAIR BR |
07BRASILIA487 | BRAZIL: Hot Rolled Paper Dumping Case [...] Post received a letter from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade notifying the Embassy that it has accepted an anti-dumping petition on exports to Brazil of hot rolled base paper for siliconization originating from the U.S. Original will be [...] | 2007-03-22 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA50 | Brazil Supports UNEP Voluntary Mercury Partnerships [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EMIN ETRD PREL SENV KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA501 | THREE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] Three new cabinet ministers were sworn in on March 23, nearly completing the long-awaited cabinet shuffle of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term (reftel). Lula has also selected Miguel Jorge, a banker, to be the new Minister of Development, Industry and Trade. He could be sworn [...] | 2007-03-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA502 | THREE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] Three new cabinet ministers were sworn in on March 23, nearly completing the long-awaited cabinet shuffle of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term (reftel). Lula has also selected Miguel Jorge, a banker, to be the new Minister of Development, Industry and Trade. He could be sworn [...] | 2007-03-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA503 | THREE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] Three new cabinet ministers were sworn in on March 23, nearly completing the long-awaited cabinet shuffle of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term (reftel). Lula has also selected Miguel Jorge, a banker, to be the new Minister of Development, Industry and Trade. He could be sworn [...] | 2007-03-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA510 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 91 [...] The following is the ninety-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...] | 2007-03-26 19:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA512 | BRAZIL BIOFUEL UPDATE, MARCH 2007 [...] The Government of Mexico is sending representatives to Brazil on March 28, 2007, to propose a partnership on ethanol. According to media reports, Mexico will offer the Brazilian ethanol producers fiscal incentives to attract companies to Mexico. The added benefit, of course, would be the nea [...] | 2007-03-27 11:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA52 | BRAZIL REQUESTS SPECIFICS ON SUSPENSION OF ISS [...] (SBU) Summary: SCI Counselor delivered reftel demarche January 9, to Counselor Maria Teresa Pessoa, Chief of the Division of Oceans, Antarctic and Space, Brazil Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty). Counselor Pessoa was expecting the visit and aware of the USG desire to either suspend or terminate the [...] | 2007-01-10 18:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA SENV KSCA KTIA TBIO TPHY TRGY TSPL BR |
07BRASILIA524 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA OFFICIAL YEOW [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Aaron Yeow, Environmental Health Scientist, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation, and Executive Secretary and OSRTI Liaison for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Technical Review Workgroup (TRW) for Metal and Asbes [...] | 2007-03-27 18:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY EPA OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA53 | Brazil and Russia Sign Space Cooperation MOU [...] (SBU) One of the agreements signed by Brazil with Russia during the December 14-15, 2006, visit of Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov to Brasilia was an MOU for Cooperation in Space. According to the newspaper Jornal do Brasil, the principal beneficiary of the agreement will be Brazil's rocket l [...] | 2007-01-10 19:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TBIO TPHY TRGY BR |
07BRASILIA544 | BRAZIL: PETROBRAS AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Drawing on ref A, the Ambassador raised USG concerns over potential Petrobras investments in oil and gas exploration in Iranian waters on the Caspian Sea with Energy Minister Silas Rondeau, Petrobras Southern Cone Manager Deccio Oddone and Foreign Ministry Under Secretary for Polit [...] | 2007-03-28 11:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EPET EINV BR IR |
07BRASILIA545 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL SIMOES [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Eduardo Simoes, Director, Prevention Research Centers, NCCDPHP, HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, from April 9-19, 2007, to provide technical assistance to develop a long-term plan for training, scien [...] | 2007-03-28 11:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA555 | FIVE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] (U) With the March 29 swearing-in of four new ministers and the reassignment of one, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva seems to have completed the overhaul of the cabinet that is to serve him in his second term. Lula created a new cabinet post for the new government spokesman and director [...] | 2007-03-30 14:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA556 | REQUEST FOR LANGUAGE SERVICES REVIEW OF TWO USGS MOUS WITH [...] The two USGS Memorandum of Understanding have been professionally translated into Portuguese. They are being transmitted via email, both the English and Portuguese versions, to Leslie Blancas, OES/STC. 2. Post requests that Language Services review the Portuguese translation to ensure that [...] | 2007-03-30 16:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA KTIA NASA SENV BR |
07BRASILIA559 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS OFFICIAL NICHOLS PLUS 2 [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. James Nichols, Senior Scientist, Byron Williams, Senior Science Advisor, and James Hines, Computer Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist to travel to Cuiaba (Mato Grosso),Brazil, April 28 to May 12, 2007. Purpose of travel: [...] | 2007-03-30 16:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA564 | BRAZIL: POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) President Lula has apparently wound up his cabinet shuffle after four rounds of swearing-ins, on March 12, 16, 23 and 29 (refs a, b and c). The new cabinet aims to satisfy all parties in his coalition, although the Brazilian Socialist Party was left with, in its view, inadequate repre [...] | 2007-03-30 18:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAIR BR |
07BRASILIA572 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR SEEKS IN-COUNTRY FAA PRESENCE TO FURTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy enthusiastically endorses the concept of posting an FAA attache in Brazil to provide for a regional FAA presence in South America. Bilaterally, such a presence would allow FAA and Mission Brazil to work together to assist the Brazilians in dealing with their air traffi [...] | 2007-04-02 15:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA580 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 92 [...] The following is the ninety-second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2007-04-03 15:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA591 | BRAZIL'S MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT PRESENTS CLIMATE CHANGE [...] Brazil's Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, presented on February 27, 2007, the expected consequences of the impacts of global warming on the biodiversity of Brazil for the next 100 years (from 2010 to 2100). The results came from a total of eight studies that were requested by the Minist [...] | 2007-04-04 19:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA592 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICER CHILLER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Tom Chiller, Medical Officer, COGH/NCZVED, OD, CDC, HHS, Brasilia, Brazil, from April 23-27, 2007, and to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from April 22-23, 2007 to meet with collaborators to work on the final analysis of the Candidemia surveillance stud [...] | 2007-04-04 19:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA598 | OPPOSITION DEPUTY BLAMES LULA FOR AIR TRAFFIC [...] (C) Summary. Federal Deputy Antonio Carlos Magalhaes Neto ("ACM Neto"),of the Democrats party ("DEM," formerly called the Liberal Front Party, PFL),of Bahia believes President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defused a ticking bomb in the military this week by reversing his decision not to punish [...] | 2007-04-05 18:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAIR BR |
07BRASILIA60 | BRAZIL: FISCAL PACKAGE CLAIMS FIRST BUREAUCRATIC VICTIM [...] (SBU) Summary: The fiscal battle over President Lula's planned package of economic measures -- which the GoB is now referring to prosaically as a "package to accelerate growth" (PTAG) -- has claimed its first bureaucratic victim. Finance Ministry Treasury Secretary Carlos Kawall (under-secreta [...] | 2007-01-11 14:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA600 | BRAZIL: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS STRIKE, MAY BE PROSECUTED [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 30, between 120 and 200 air traffic controllers (ATCers) initiated the strike that they had been obliquely threatening for months, marking another tense chapter in Brazil's civil aviation history. Due to the military's control of the ATC system, this action was consid [...] | 2007-04-05 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA607 | BILATERAL ENGAGEMENT RESULTS IN IMPROVED PUBLIC REACTION TO [...] (U) Summary. A number of high level visits by USG officials to Brazil, culminating in two Presidential visits have given us an unprecedented opportunity to get our views into the media. As a result, a more positive tone has started to emerge in the media and public opinion, with residual ske [...] | 2007-04-05 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA617 | FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Internationally, in recent years there has been an emphasis on directing foreign assistance to lower-income developing countries where the levels of poverty are generally more acute. However, this approach may result in insufficient support to the development and poverty eradic [...] | 2007-04-09 21:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL BR |
07BRASILIA64 | FRANCE MAKES BRAZIL NUMBER ONE IN LATIN AMERICA [...] (C) French Ambassador to Brazil Antoine Pouillieute met with Ambassador Sobel on January 9, 2007 for a surprisingly frank and substantive conversation. Key themes from the meeting are reported below. BRAZIL -- THE NEW FRENCH PRIORITY 2. (C) Pouillieute noted that his government has a co [...] | 2007-01-12 17:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA661 | BRAZIL: SUBCABINET LEVEL ECONOMIC TEAM CHANGES [...] (SBU) Summary: With the make-up of President Lula's second-term cabinet now finally finalized (ref B),attention has shifted to some of the second tier positions in government. The Central Bank announced on April 11 that it was asking Lula to nominate Mario Gomes Toros, a former Vice Presiden [...] | 2007-04-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA671 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NASA OFFICIAL BRIDGES [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Nathan Bridges, National and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) official, to Carajas (PA),Brazil, to conduct fieldwork at the Carajas mine in support of the remote spectral characterization of terrestrial life formi [...] | 2007-04-16 13:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA680 | BRAZIL: MOJ OFFICIALS SUPPORT NEW PRIVATE INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Newly appointed Minister of Justice Tarso Genro joined Vice Minister of Justice Luiz Paulo Barreto in expressing support to representatives of the Motion Picture Association (MPA),the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Rio De Janeiro based Association o [...] | 2007-04-17 18:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA694 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE A/S KARSNER DELEGATION [...] Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Alexander "Andy" Karsner, and his delegation, to Sao Paulo and Brasilia, Brazil, April 22-25, 2007. Members of the Assistant Secretary's delegation include Courtney Gillespie, Michael Mills [...] | 2007-04-19 12:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA697 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Brendan Flannery, Epidemiologist, COCH/NCIRD/OD/HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, from April 23-30, 2007, to meet with current CDC secondee to PAHO in Brasilia for measles and immunizations activities [...] | 2007-04-19 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA698 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL CHILLER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Tom Chiller, Medical Officer, COGH/NCZVED/OD/HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Rio de Janeiro (RJ),Brazil, from April 22-23, 2007, and Brasilia (DF) April 23-27, 2007 to meet with collaborators to work on the final an [...] | 2007-04-19 18:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA71 | BRAZIL HOSTS THE I SOUTH AMERICAN FISHERS FORUM ON SOLVING [...] On December 12-14, an OES-sponsored workshop with the slogan "Catch Fish Not Birds" brought together 50 experts from across the world to take a look at the potential to reduce seabird bycatch throughout the South American long-line fishery via the adoption of mitigation measures in South Americ [...] | 2007-01-12 18:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA745 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL NESLUND [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Ms.. Verla Neslund, Special Project Advisor, OD/HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, from May 1-5, 2007, to participate in WHO meeting as CDC foundation representative to ensure greater understanding of the [...] | 2007-04-26 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA751 | BANCO DEL SUR BECOMES A BRAZILIAN "PEEVE" [...] (C) Summary: The abrasive and high-handed manner in which Venezuelan President Chavez has sought to advance his "Banco del Sur" project has pushed Brazil to the point of seriously considering not joining the Venezuelan's latest flight of fancy. The Brazilians, according to both the IMF resrep [...] | 2007-04-27 17:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EFIN PGOV PREL BR XM |
07BRASILIA752 | BRAZIL: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON IRANIAN [...] (C) Per reftel, Mission officers have received additional and sometimes conflicting information in recent days on the events surrounding the closing of the Iranian Defense Industries (DIO) stand at the Latin American Air and Defense (LAAD) show in Rio on 16-17 April, following the realization [...] | 2007-04-27 18:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
07BRASILIA755 | NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS DELEGATION VISITS [...] (SBU) Summary: From April 11-13, FIESP (the Sao Paulo State Industrial Federation) hosted visits to Sao Paulo and Brasilia by a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) delegation led by Governor John Engler, the organization's president. The meetings, which came on the heels of USTR Susan [...] | 2007-04-27 20:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BRASILIA759 | BRAZIL: MANAUS MEETINGS, MEANDERINGS AND MUSINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: As Virtual Presence Post Officer, Econoff visited Manaus, State of Amazonas from April 16-19 for public outreach and economic-related meetings. While there, she visited the U.S. Consular Agent in Manaus, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-Amazonas, and the bi-national center, Institu [...] | 2007-04-30 15:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG KPAO OIIP CVIS PGOV SENV BR |
07BRASILIA762 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL SAMIRA ASMA [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Samira Asma, Associate Director, Global Tobacco Control Program, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Sao Paulo(transit),May 1; Brasilia, May 1-3; Rio de J [...] | 2007-04-30 19:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA769 | BRAZIL: SPECIAL 301 DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On April 30, EconOff presented demarche points in reftel to Joao Storti and Renato Pinheiro of the Ministry of External Relations' Intellectual Property Rights Division and to Andre Barcellos, Executive Secretary of the National Council Against Piracy (CNCP). 2. (SBU) The GOB offici [...] | 2007-04-30 22:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR BR |
07BRASILIA771 | MINISTER SILVA ANNOUNCES STRUCTURAL CHANGES AT BRAZIL'S [...] Minister Marina Silva announced structural changes in the Ministry of Environment and at Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency (IBAMA) on April 25, 2007. Four new secretariats were created: Climate Change and Environmental Quality Secretariat(SEMUC)to be headed by Thelma Krug; Water Resour [...] | 2007-05-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA787 | BRAZIL: MERCK REPORTS IMMINENT COMPULSORY LICENSING [...] (SBU) Merck representatives have told EmbOffs that the GOB informed their company on May 3 that it would initiate a compulsory licensing order for Merck's HIV drug Stocrin (Efavirenz) as early as May 3 or the morning of May 4. According to Merck officials, the GOB communicated that any additio [...] | 2007-05-03 21:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA790 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIALS GREGG, IMAI, [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Edward Gregg, Epidemiologist; Kumiko Imai Senior Service; and Yiling Cheng, Scientist, NCCDPHP/HHSCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, May 6-12, 2007, to participate in a meeting and workshop to discuss the [...] | 2007-05-04 14:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA791 | BRAZIL: U.S. WTO Proposal Demarche Response [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 14:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BRASILIA792 | EARTH DAY PHOTO CONTEST ATTRACTS OVER 1,500 PICS FROM ALL [...] SUMMARY: The US Embassy in Brasilia, through its Regional Environmental HUB Office and with indispensable support from the Public Affairs section, celebrated Earth Day 2007 through a countrywide photography contest entitled 'A Snapshot of Brazilian Nature.' With over 1,500 entries from throu [...] | 2007-05-04 14:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KPAO OIIP BR |
07BRASILIA793 | BRAZIL: WTO ARTICLE XXI DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche points to Ronaldo Costa Filho, Chief of the Division of Services, Investments and Financial Issues at the Ministry of External Relations. Costa Filho did not know of any GOB interest in requesting compensatory adjustment at this point. Sobel [...] | 2007-05-04 16:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO BR |
07BRASILIA799 | THE ATLANTIC RAIN FOREST WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING ASSESSMENT [...] SUMMARY: The Brazilian National Network to Fight the Trafficking of Wild Animals - RENCTAS, launched The Atlantic Rain Forest Wildlife Trafficking Assessment Report on May 2, 2007. The report indicated that the poaching and trafficking in wild animals such as monkeys and parrots is reaching [...] | 2007-05-07 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV XM XS BR |
07BRASILIA800 | SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTE SENSING CALLS FOR MORE LATIN AMERICA [...] SUMMARY: The 13th Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing was held from April 23-26 attracting nearly 2,000 participants. While the focus of the event was on increasing regional cooperation on remote sensing technologies through transferring technology, sharing methodologies, and building up r [...] | 2007-05-07 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO TSPA SOCI SENV KSCA EAID XM XS BR |
07BRASILIA82 | MERCOSUL RIO DE JANEIRO SUMMIT: WHITHER MERCOSUL? [...] (SBU) Summary: Mercosul members are facing more than the usual number of institutional challenges as they prepare for the bloc's biannual summit, to take place January 18-19 in Rio de Janeiro. In an implied slap at Mercosul dispute resolution mechanisms, Argentina recently requested WTO consul [...] | 2007-01-17 11:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL ECIN EFIN BR |
07BRASILIA822 | FURTHER INFORMATION ON STRUCTURAL CHANGES AT BRAZIL'S [...] This week new details are emerging about the massive reorganization at Brazil's Ministry of the Environment first announced April 25, 2007 (Ref). The four new secretariats created were Climate Change and Environmental Quality Secretariat (SEMUC),Water Resources and Urban Environments (SRU),E [...] | 2007-05-08 19:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA832 | AMBASSADOR REVIEWS BILATERAL AGENDA WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) On April 25, Ambassador met privately with Lula Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff in the wake of a prior meeting between visiting DOE A/S Andrew Karsner and Rousseff (reported septel). In this subsequent give-and-take session, the Ambassador raised a number of pending issues with Rousseff [...] | 2007-05-09 19:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD OVIP EINV BR |
07BRASILIA833 | BRAZIL: PETROBRAS AND GOB RESPOND TO BOLIVIAN OIL [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivian Government's decree prohibiting Brazil's Petrobras from exporting refined petroleum products (reftel) has drawn an incrementally more robust official response from the Brazilian Government than previous Bolivian actions prejudicial to Petrobras. Foreign Ministry (Itam [...] | 2007-05-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA834 | BRAZIL EXPRESSES RESERVATIONS ABOUT SIGNING THE GLOBE MOU [...] SUMMARY: After previously indicating that it was ready to participate in the NASA GLOBE program, a K-12 science program for the schools, the GoB has reversed itself stating that since the United States has not ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity, the GoB could not be sure that the [...] | 2007-05-10 16:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
07BRASILIA839 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANNERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Brendan Flannery, Epidemiologist, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, May 27 to June 10, 2007, to work with current CDC secondee for immunization to Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) o [...] | 2007-05-10 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA840 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL WELLINGTON SUN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Wellington Sun, Dengue Branch, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, May 23-25, 2007, to attend as a Temporary Advisor at the Regulatory Forum on Clinical Evaluation of Dengue Vaccines, as part of the Sixth [...] | 2007-05-10 17:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA841 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PARASHAR [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Umesh Parashar, Medical Epidemiologist, CCID, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Brasilia, Brazil, May 22-23, 2007, to participate and present at a WHO Meeting on Developing Countries Vaccine Regulators Netw [...] | 2007-05-10 17:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA850 | BRAZIL: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Per reftel B, on May 8 the senior human rights offfical in the Ministry of External Relations indicated to visiting Ambassador for Social Issues, Grover Joseph Rees, that Brazil will not support Belarus and would support Slovenia and the Czech Republic for he UNHRC. 2. (C) In light of [...] | 2007-05-11 14:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BR |
07BRASILIA854 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VISIT OF U/S DOBRIANSKY [...] The U.S. Mission in Brazil welcomes the May 16-17, 2007, visit of Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky and delegation for the Common Agenda for The Environment and other meetings, and grants country clearance to the travelers. During your stay in Brasilia (DF),Bra [...] | 2007-05-14 14:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA OVIP PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA855 | U.S. COMPANIES PRESS TRADE MINISTER ON COMPULSORY [...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 9 meeting with newly-appointed Minister of Trade Miguel Jorge, representatives from the Brazil-U.S. Business Council outlined their thoughts regarding the direction of bilateral trade trends. Chief on their mind was the damage to Brazil's investment climate done by t [...] | 2007-05-14 15:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EIND BR |
07BRASILIA858 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PRATT [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Michael Pratt, Lead, Senior Medical Officer, NCCDPHP, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),to Sao Paulo, May 15; to Brasilia, Brazil, May 15-18; to Curitiba, May 18-20; to Brasilia May 20-23; and, to Sao Paulo, Brazil, [...] | 2007-05-14 17:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA872 | BRAZIL: PMDB PLAYED HARDBALL WITH AIR TRAFFIC [...] (SBU) Summary. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) leadership used a threat of non-cooperation with the government in the Chamber of Deputies' just-created Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI) on the Air Traffic Crisis to pressure the Lula administration for jobs in the second t [...] | 2007-05-16 15:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PGOV CASC BR |
07BRASILIA874 | BRAZIL'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER SILVA DISCUSSES MINISTRY [...] SUMMARY. During a wide-ranging conversation with Ambassador Sobel and other Embassy staff on May 11, 2007, Brazil's Minister for the Environment, Marina Silva, discussed bilateral and multilateral cooperation. Topics included Brazil's proposal regarding compensated deforestation, Ministry prio [...] | 2007-05-16 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TRGY BR |
07BRASILIA888 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIALS SCHMID AND [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Thomas Schmid, Senior Evaluation Specialist and Eduardo Simoes, Chief, PRC, NCCDPHP, CDC, HHS, to travel to Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 20, 2007 and to Brasilia, Brazil, from May 20-24, 2007, and Sao Paulo on May 24, 2007. The purpose of the trip [...] | 2007-05-18 15:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA890 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR HHS/FDA OFFICIALS TIERNAN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Rose Tiernan, Medical Officer and Robin Levis, Regulatory Coordinator, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA, HHS to travel to Brasilia, Brazil, from May 22-27, 2007. The purpose of the trip [...] | 2007-05-18 17:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA905 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S A/S KARSNER VISITS BRAZIL TO JUMP [...] (SBU) Summary: During Assistant Secretary Karsner's April 23-25, 2007, visit, he was able to meet with a broad spectrum of policymakers representing state and federal government plus those from the private sector who make up Brazil's biofuel power elite. Beginning with meetings in Sao Paulo w [...] | 2007-05-21 19:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG SENV EAGR ETRD KSCA US BR |
07BRASILIA918 | CVRD EXECUTIVES LAMENT INCREASING CHINESE INFLUENCE OVER [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 18 office call on the Ambassador, CVRD executives expressed their concern about increasing Chinese influence over both natural resources and the distribution/transportation infrastructure needed to export these resources to distant markets. In the future, they war [...] | 2007-05-23 10:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND EINV BR CH |
07BRASILIA919 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE CONTRACTOR NOZIK [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. Arthur J. Nozik, Sr Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Manaus, Brazil from August 19-25, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to present a speech on recent published results from NREL's research on multiple exciton generat [...] | 2007-05-23 13:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA920 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NIH DR. KAMHAWI [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Shaden Kamhawi, Staff Scientist, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to Manaus, Brazil, June 3-9, 2007, to meet with Brazilian collaborator to continue Sand Fly Leishmania Program research related to malaria studies. [...] | 2007-05-23 13:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA921 | "OPERATION NAVALHA": EMERGING POLITICAL SCANDAL [...] (SBU) Summary. A large-scale Federal Police investigation has surfaced a major political corruption scandal involving bribes a construction firm allegedly paid to politicians to guarantee lucrative contracts. The scandal has reached the Cabinet and at least six ministries may be involved. S [...] | 2007-05-23 13:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON BR |
07BRASILIA934 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NIH/FIC DR. COSTERO-SAINT [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Adriana Costero-Saint Denis, Program Officer, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),NIH, to Manaus, Brazil, June 3-15, 2007, to attend a two-week course, Biology of Disease Vector, at Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. 2. V [...] | 2007-05-24 16:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA94 | BRAZIL'S APRIL 2007 GLOBE LAUNCH ON TRACK [...] (U) On January 11, 2007, SCI officer met with Rachel Trajber, Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Brazilian Ministry of Education. Trajber has been designated by the Government of Brazil (GOB) as GLOBE country coordinator. GLOBE is a USG sponsored interagency science and education [...] | 2007-01-18 13:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
07BRASILIA944 | BRAZIL: Corruption, Public Apathy, Lack of Resources [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 10, Federal Police stationed in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco told EmbOff that public apathy, corruption among state officials, and limited resources have undercut their efforts to stem the flow of pirated goods in the region. Despite a directive from the state's [...] | 2007-05-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA956 | BRAZIL - SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) Brazil has a close relationship with Cuba and the GoB does not publicly criticize the Castro regime's human rights policies. During the last six months, President Lula and Cuban President Fidel Castro have sparred publicly over Brazil's ethanol policy. Castro echoed Venezuelan President C [...] | 2007-05-25 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ECON ETRD BR CU |
07BRASILIA958 | BRAZIL: NEXT STEPS ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 24, in a joint "NAFTA" approach to the Ministry of External Relations, the Econ Counselors from the U.S. and Canadian Embassies, along with the Commercial Counselor from the Mexican Embassy, met with Evandro Didonet, the Ministry's recently-appointed Chief of its Intern [...] | 2007-05-26 19:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA96 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 87 [...] The following is the eighty-seventh in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views ex [...] | 2007-01-18 16:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA961 | MEDIA ARTICLE SPECULATES ON WHY BRAZIL COULD NOT LIVE UP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Brazilian newspaper quotes George Washington University director, John Logsdon as saying because of delays and its inability to meet its obligations for the International Space Station (ISS),Brazil has lost its chance to be a space station partner. The article quotes the Brazili [...] | 2007-05-29 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA SENV TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
07BRASILIA984 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NIH OFFICIAL HANDLEY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Frank Gray Handley, Associate Director for International Research Affairs, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH),to Brasilia, Brazil, from June 10-14, 2007, to participate in the first me [...] | 2007-05-31 17:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA985 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/FE OFFICIAL MCKEE TO [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Barbara McKee, Director, Office of Clean Energy Collaboration, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE),to Brasilia, Brazil, June 26-30, 2007, to chair the International Energy Working Party on Fossil Fuels Executive Committee Meeting and speak a [...] | 2007-05-31 17:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
07BRASILIA990 | FEAR OF CHINA CONSTRAINS BRAZIL'S STANCE ON THE DOHA [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian industry leaders and GOB officials have repeatedly underlined that concern about the impact of Chinese imports on domestic manufacturers is a root cause behind their unwillingness to agree to the non-agricultural tariff cuts proposed by both the USG and the EU. Brazil [...] | 2007-05-31 18:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BUENOSAIRES1127 | Managed Mercosur Auto Trade [...] (U) Argentina's auto sector is roaring ahead, and 2007 is well on track to be the best in its history. The auto industry is a crucial pillar of the Argentine economy, bringing good jobs, technology transfer and innovation. Given the auto industry's importance and political sensitivity, the GO [...] | 2007-06-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD AR BR VE |
07BUENOSAIRES1685 | NEXT STEPS ON THREE PLUS ONE MECHANISM AND TBA [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) In Ref B, Embassies Buenos Aires, Asuncion and Brasilia recommended expanding the Three Plus One mechanism (3 1) to encompass other illicit activities and sources of illicit financial flows, while continuing to give preeminence t [...] | 2007-08-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA BR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1709 | ARGENTINE MINISTER OPEN TO BROADER 3 + 1 DIALOGUE [...] (C) Ambassador asked Argentine Minister of the Interior (MOI) Anibal Fernandez August 27 about his views on dealing with terrorist threats and other serious problems in the Tri-border area (TBA). He asked the Ministe his views on the potential benefits of addressing a broader scope of issue [...] | 2007-08-29 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KTFN AR BR PA |
07BUENOSAIRES1833 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO THE TRIBORDER AREA [...] (S/NF) Summary: On September 11, top Argentine intelligence officials and analysts briefed Ambassador on their perspective of the terrorist threat in the Tri-Border Area (TBA). They noted that Hizballah maintains a real structure in the region, including experienced agents. They detailed adv [...] | 2007-09-13 16:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN KCRM PREL PGOV SNAR AR PA BR |
07BUENOSAIRES1972 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S MEETING WITH UNHCR REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Cristian Koch-Castro, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representative for Southern Latin America, called on the Ambassador to discuss UNHCR's activities in Argentina and the region. Koch-Castro explained that UNHCR has made it a priority to strengthen the cap [...] | 2007-10-03 13:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF AR BR CI UY BL PE |
07BUENOSAIRES2191 | REACTION IN ARGENTINA TO POSITIVE NOVEMBER 7 [...] (C) Summary: Argentine officials, Jewish organizations, and private citizens lauded the Interpol General Assembly's (GA) overwhelming vote for the issuance of international capture notices for five current and former Iranian government officials and one Lebanese Hizballah member wanted in con [...] | 2007-11-08 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AR IR BR |
07BUENOSAIRES2317 | BANCO DEL SUR LAUNCHED IN BUENOS AIRES DECEMBER 9 [...] (C) As his last official act in office, President Nestor Kirchner hosted five other South American Presidents for the December 9 signing of the "Founding Act of the Bank of the South" (Banco del Sur). In their public remarks, the Presidents and President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner e [...] | 2007-12-10 18:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL AR BL BR CO EC PA UY VE |
07BUENOSAIRES285 | ARGENTINA TO REVIEW GLOBAL NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KGIT KNNP PREL AR BR OM KS SN SF IAEA |
07BUENOSAIRES767 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR GROVER JOSEPH [...] (SBU) POST WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO AMBASSADOR GROVER JOSEPH REES, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOCIAL ISSUES, WHO WILL TRAVEL TO ARGENTINA FROM APRIL 25-28, 2007. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ACTIVITIES AND TO ASSESS U.S. SUPPORTED MULTILATERAL [...] | 2007-04-20 13:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI UNICEF WHO OTRA PREL AR BR CI |
07BUENOSAIRES808 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 24 LUNCH WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (C) Ambassador met April 24 with Brazil's Ambassador to Argentina, Mauro Viera, to discuss the April 26-27 visit of President Lula to Argentina (after Lula's visit to Chile). Following are highlights of the discussion: 2. (C) Brazil-Argentine Relations: Friday morning, Lula will meet pr [...] | 2007-04-25 18:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ENRG AR BR |
07BUENOSAIRES864 | ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30, Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana briefed Ambassador Wayne on his recent trip to, and Argentine relations with, Mexico, as well as President Kirchner's meeting with Brazilian President Lula Ignacio da Silva. Taiana, who accompanied First Lady Cristina Kirchner to Mexico [...] | 2007-05-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR MX BR |
07CARACAS2363 | LULA: TOUCH AND GO IN CARACAS TO DISCUSS TRADE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Brazilian President Lula Da Silva, accompanied by approximately 130 Brazilian business leaders paid a five-hour visit to Caracas on December 13, and met with President Chavez and other senior BRV officials. Nine agreements were signed in the areas of health, agriculture, energy, [...] | 2007-12-18 15:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ENRG EINV VE BR |
07CHENNAI84 | US DUMPING DUTIES FORCE INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Elias Sait, Secretary General of the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI),contends that the imposition of U.S. anti-dumping duties on Indian shrimp and subsequent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bond requirements have reduced the number of seafood exporters to [...] | 2007-02-01 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV EFIS EIND SENV IN CE BR EC |
07LAPAZ2030 | EVO MORALES' WAR ON BIOFUELS [...] (U) Recent food shortages, increased food prices, and rising inflation in Bolivia have prompted President Evo Morales to strike out verbally at biofuels. In recent weeks, President Morales' anti-biofuel statements have become heated, echoing those of his political allies Fidel Castro and Hug [...] | 2007-07-24 23:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON BL BR |
07LAPAZ2494 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BOLIVIA TO VOTE YES ON MINUSTAH [...] (SBU) On September 10, poloffs met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director of International Organizations and delivered reftel demarche. The director responded that the GOB is prepared to vote in favor of extending MINUSTAH, although he mentioned that the Bolivian government believes [...] | 2007-09-11 15:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR AR BR BL CI CO EC ES GT PE PA |
07LAPAZ3253 | LOANS TO MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS [...] (U) The following is in response to a potential Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) program to support loans to Microfinancing Institutions (MFI) and, in particular, the Bolivian MFI, Fundacion Boliviana para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (FUNBODEM). FUNDOBEM is part of the Women's [...] | 2007-12-14 16:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON BL BR CO IN ID MX NU PK RP |
07LAPAZ3270 | BOLIVIA CALM FOR PRODUCTIVE BRAZIL/CHILE SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Bolivian President Evo Morales joined his Brazilian and Chilean counterparts December 16 to sign a $900 million road project to link South America's Pacific and Atlantic coasts via Bolivia. He also received a $750 million commitment for natural gas investments from Brazil the next [...] | 2007-12-17 22:52:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | BL ECON PBTS PGOV PREL CI VE BR |
07LAPAZ918 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-05 19:22:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIT KNNP PREL AR BR OM KS SN SF IAEA |
07LIBREVILLE222 | POSSIBLE US-BRAZIL COOPERATION TO COMBAT MALARIA [...] (U) During a visit to Sao Tome and Principe (STP) last week, Ambassador Walkley met Manuel Innocencio de Lacerdo Santos, Brazil's ambassador in STP, to explore possible US-Brazilian cooperation in the fight against malaria. One focus of the conversation was an examination of Taiwan's anti-mal [...] | 2007-05-14 13:34:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI TBIO TP BR |
07LIMA2503 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC MARIE HICKS [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Marie Hicks, Public Health Advisor, NCIRD, CDC, HHS from August 21-24, 2007. The purpose of this trip is the Influenza Division Bilateral Cooperative Agreement with Peru to increase capacity for health information collection res [...] | 2007-07-24 15:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC KSCA SENV CDC AR BR PE |
07LIMA2504 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC CARYN BERN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Caryn Bern, Medical Officer, NCZVED, CDC, HHS from August 22-29 and September 1-4, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to work with collaborators in Asociacion Benefica Proyectos en Salud, Medicina y Agricultura (A.B. PRISMA) on d [...] | 2007-07-24 15:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC KSCA SENV CDC AR BR PE |
07LIMA2547 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANN MOEN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Ann Moen, Associate Director for Extramural Program, NCIRD, HHS/CDC from August 21-24, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to provide an oppportunity to meet with project staff to review progress and plan for the second year of th [...] | 2007-07-26 21:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC KSCA SENV CDC BR AR PE |
07LIMA2826 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR S/P WILLIAM MCILHENNY [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Mr. William McIlhenny, Member of the Policy Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary (S/P),from August 21-22, 2007. Mr. McIlhenny is a member of the delegation of the Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Aff [...] | 2007-08-17 23:05:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC PREL BR CO PE |
07MADRID75 | SPAIN ON URGING BRAZILIAN PSI PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-12 18:35:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM KNNP EWWT PHSA BR PO SP |
07MANAGUA2402 | REGIONAL PARTNERS SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT DIRECTION [...] (C) Ambassadors from Spain, Japan, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico share similar concerns about the direction of Nicaragua under the Ortega Government. They are frustrated by the GON's lack of professionalism, transparency and accountability, and have a low level of confidence in the gove [...] | 2007-10-30 21:57:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID BR CI CO ECON JA MX NU PREL XM |
07MONTEVIDEO1053 | MERCOSUR SUMMIT: POLITICAL ATMOSPHERICS IMPROVE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Presidents from the four Mercosur countries plus Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela met in Montevideo on December 18 at Mercosur%s 34th Common Market Council. Unlike in previous meetings, and contrary to pre-Summit expectations, the gathering was diplomatic and pleasant. Uruguayan Pre [...] | 2007-12-19 21:37:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON ETRD AR BOL BR CH PY VZ XR UY |
07MOSCOW5035 | CIVIL SPACE COOPERATION: MFA PRESSES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 12, EUR/PRA Director Antia Friedt discussed the Framework Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) and other civil space cooperation issues with Andrei Kruitskikh of MFA's Department of Disarmament and Security Affairs (DVBR). Kruitskikh noted the good progress made [...] | 2007-10-17 07:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA TSPL PREL PARM NASA KZ AS BR KS RS |
07NASSAU169 | BRAZIL TO OPEN EMBASSY IN THE BAHAMAS [...] On February 1, Poloff had a chance meeting with the new Brazilian Ambassador to The Bahamas, Tomas Mauricio Guggenheim, on the street outside their homes. Guggenheim, former ambassador to Gabon, said Brazil was in the process of opening an Embassy in The Bahamas. He is currently searching f [...] | 2007-02-07 19:40:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SMIG BR BF |
07NEWDELHI1866 | DELHI DIARY, APRIL 12-19 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 12-19, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Third Phase of the Uttar Pradesh Election Completed -- The Saffron Crowd Finding a Home in the BJP Again -- Chief of Naval Operations Vi [...] | 2007-04-19 08:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC KUNR ETRD EPET KWMN BR |
07NEWDELHI27 | INDIA RESPONDS FAVORABLY TO PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] (C) DCM received a letter dated December 20, 2006 from Manjeev Singh Puri, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social),responding to Ambassador SIPDIS Mulford's letter of November 6, 2006 inviting India to participate in the "Core Group" meeting to help shape the [...] | 2007-01-04 01:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCOR BR MX SF IN |
07OTTAWA819 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SCHWAB'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Welcome back to Ottawa, Ambassador Schwab. This cable offers background information on Canada,s political and economic environment, especially on issues that may be raised outside the formal agenda of your talks with Trade Minister Emerson. Information regarding Canada-Brazil relations [...] | 2007-05-07 18:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | BR CA ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL |
07PRETORIA3772 | IBSA: SECOND HEADS OF STATE SUMMIT [...] (U) Summary: The Heads of State of India, Brazil and South Africa met in Johannesburg on October 17 for the 2nd Annual India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit. The leaders issued a declaration covering economic, political, environmental and other issues. Although the Summit produced few co [...] | 2007-10-26 07:38:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD IMF PREL SF BR IN |
07QUITO2204 | ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE: 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered relevant points on U.S. UNGA priorities to MFA's Multilateral Affairs Directorate on September 21, 2007. He was not able to obtain a response until September 25 because Lourdes Puma, MFA Director General of Multilateral Affairs, was on travel. 2. (C) Climate Change [...] | 2007-09-26 20:43:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA EC BR |
07QUITO2206 | ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE: SUPPORT FOR UN SYG'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-27 11:22:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AR BR BL CI CO EC ES GT HA PE |
07RECIFE2 | PERNAMBUCO GOVERNOR BELIEVES VENEZUELA WON'T STAY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In October 2005, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a joint investment with Venezuela in a $2.5 billion oil refinery to be built in the Suape port complex of Pernambuco state. Two months later, Lula and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez laid the cornerstone for [...] | 2007-01-09 17:35:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV BR |
07RECIFE37 | SETBACK TO ANTI-PIRACY EFFORT IN BRAZIL'S NORTHEAST [...] (C) Summary: The lawyer leading the fight for intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Northeast, Monica Lustosa, (PROTECT NO FORN) told consular officers that due to concern for her personal safety she will no longer publicly demand enforcement of anti-piracy laws. She was shaken to learn th [...] | 2007-05-10 13:13:00 | Consulate Recife | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ETRD ECON PGOV BR |
07RIODEJANEIRO295 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY PATTERSON'S VISIT TO RIO, MAY 16, 2007 [...] (U) INL A/S Anne Patterson completed her Brazil travel with a May 16 stop in Rio de Janeiro where she held discussions with representatives of civil society and local and state government to examine public security issues in and around Rio. She wrapped up the visit by meeting with Governor Se [...] | 2007-06-08 16:10:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KJUS BR |
07RIODEJANEIRO541 | RIO DE JANEIRO'S "OPERATION TWO FACES" RESULTS IN MAJOR [...] (U) Summary. Rio de Janeiro state officials announced a major sting operation which resulted in the arrests of 52 Military Police officers from a single police battalion yesterday. The officers are accused of involvement in a police corruption ring whereby they were on the payroll of drug tra [...] | 2007-09-18 14:58:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI BR |
07RIODEJANEIRO559 | DIRECTORSHIPS AT PETROBRAS BECOMING INCREASINGLY [...] (U) Summary. A political battle erupted among the government and its allied parties last week over high-level positions within various government entities. Although the federal government has managed to alleviate many of the tensions arising from this struggle, it has so far not been able to [...] | 2007-09-27 18:23:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET EIND PGOV BR |
07RIODEJANEIRO564 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS BIOFUELS ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Summary. On July 13, U.S. Ambassador Clifford Sobel hosted a roundtable on biofuels with representatives from Brazil's public, private, and academic sectors. The event marked the initiation of a dialogue to explore areas for strategic cooperation on research, development and commercializat [...] | 2007-09-28 15:19:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET PREL BR |
07RIODEJANEIRO580 | INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS LEARNING JOURNEY (IILJ) VISIT TO [...] (U) Summary: From September 9-14, a group of pension and endowment fund managers, accompanied by Commerce DAS Ana Guevara, FCS and Treasury Brazil personnel, visited Rio de Janeiro and Sco Paulo on an Institutional Investors Learning Journey (IILJ). The IILJ was organized by the Brazilian Vent [...] | 2007-10-22 14:30:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN PREL BR |
07RIODEJANEIRO620 | FLORIDA STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL TO PETROBRAS: GET OUT OF I [...] (C) Summary: During Florida Governor Charlie Crist's visit to Rio o 2. (SBU) LeMieux met with Awad on November 7. He stated that the Stat 3. (SBU) Awad responded that Petrobras must go where the Brazilian Gov 4. (C) LeMieux inquired about media reports about Iranian delegations [...] | 2007-11-23 13:49:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPEC ECON PREL PGOV BR IR |
07RIODEJANEIRO621 | FLORIDA STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL TO PETROBRAS: GET OUT OF I [...] (C) Summary: During Florida Governor Charlie Crist's visit to Rio o 2. (SBU) LeMieux met with Awad on November 7. He stated that the Stat 3. (SBU) Awad responded that Petrobras must go where the Brazilian Gov 4. (C) LeMieux inquired about media reports about Iranian delegations [...] | 2007-11-23 13:50:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPEC ECON PREL PGOV BR IR |
07RIODEJANEIRO622 | FLORIDA STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL TO PETROBRAS: GET OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: During Florida Governor Charlie Crist's visit to Rio on November 7-8, the Governor's Chief of Staff George LeMieux met with Samir Awad, Executive Manager for Petrobras' International Assets, on November 7. They discussed Florida's legislation requiring divestiture of the state's [...] | 2007-11-23 13:57:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPEC ECON PREL PGOV BR IR |
07RIODEJANEIRO626 | AMBASSADOR SOBEL'S VISIT TO VITORIA - A SEA OF POTENTIAL [...] Summary: Ambassador Sobel visited Vitoria, the capital of Espirito Santo, on October 25-26, 2007. There he met with Governor Hartung, Mayor Coser and members of the business community, including the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). Vitoria is a major hub for international trade and logi [...] | 2007-11-28 13:55:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENRG PGOV BR |
07SANTIAGO983 | A SOUTHERN CONE PERSPECTIVE ON COUNTERING CHAVEZ [...] (C) Hugo Chavez,s effort to expand his influence into the Southern Cone was the subject of ref A. This, part two in a series of joint cables from Southern Cone embassies, looks at ways the U.S. can counter Chavez and reassert U.S. leadership in the region. From posts' perspectives, there are [...] | 2007-06-18 14:45:00 | Embassy Santiago | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM KCRM AR BO BR PARM UY VE CI |
07SANTODOMINGO1302 | U.S.-BRAZIL BIOFUELS DEMARCHE: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] On May 31 Charge, accompanied by Brazilian Ambassador Ronaldo Dunlop, delivered ref A demarche to Jose Manuel Trullols, Chief of Staff to Foreign Minister Morales (Morales briefly dropped by the meeting). Trullols was joined by MFA Adjunct Ambassador Juan Pla Gomez. 2. Trullols welcomed th [...] | 2007-05-31 21:13:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG PREL BR DR |
07SAOPAULO10 | BOLSA FAMILIA LIKELY TO EXPAND DESPITE CONTROVERSY [...] SUMMARY: Bolsa Familia is the best-known and most popular cash transfer program in Brazil. As the Lula administration's flagship social program, it played an important role in 2006 in securing support for President Lula among the very poor and thus ensuring his re-election. It currently bene [...] | 2007-01-04 16:53:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PGOV ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO1002 | SAO PAULO CONTACTS RAISE CONCERNS REGARDING RISING HATE [...] (SBU) Brazil's image of a racially and culturally harmonious country contrasts with the reality that deeply-held prejudices and stereotypes are contributing to a rise in hate crimes. Contacts tell us that while a national movement has not yet taken root, skinhead gangs and racist websites are [...] | 2007-12-21 15:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI SCUL KDEM KCRM BR |
07SAOPAULO1004 | DESPITE CORRUPTION SCANDALS, MAJORITY CAMP WINS IN WORKERS' [...] (SBU) Federal Deputy Ricardo Berzoini won the second round of internal voting in President Lula's Workers' Party (PT) presidential elections on December 16. The results maintain the distribution of political power within the PT's national directorate and consolidates President Lula's faction, [...] | 2007-12-21 17:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV KDEM BR |
07SAOPAULO1005 | CPMF DEFEAT WILL NOT BREAK LULA'S BANK [...] (U) Summary: The Lula Administration suffered a serious setback on December 12 when the opposition defeated the extension of a financial transactions tax (CPMF) that brought in more than R$40 billion (approximately USD 22.5 billion) into the government coffers. Despite the revenue loss, most [...] | 2007-12-21 17:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON PGOV BR |
07SAOPAULO1007 | IPR ROUNDTABLE FOR A/S SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Daniel S. Sullivan held a roundtable on intellectual property rights (IPR) on December 12 at the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo. Representatives from recording, film, publishing, healthcare, and Sao Paulo state [...] | 2007-12-26 18:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO104 | BRAZIL-U.S. A NEW OPPORTUNITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-09 16:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO107 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VISITS OF NICHOLAS [...] "There is No 'Free' Alliance" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo's International Editor Claudia Antunes commented (2/12): "The failed occupation of Iraq led many international relations experts in the US to conclude that the Americans, different from the British and [...] | 2007-02-12 11:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO117 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: PRESIDENT BUSH'S IRAQ SECURITY PLAN; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 10:27:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO118 | MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR PROGRAM, IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 10:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO119 | ICMS Tax Benefits Issue: Financial Concerns for U.S. [...] (SBU) Consul General convened representatives of US and Brazilian companies at ConGen Sao Paulo on January 19 to discuss ongoing issues associated with tax benefits (ICMS - rough VAT equivalent collected at the state level) granted by the Sao Paulo state government. Motorola and other electron [...] | 2007-02-14 12:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON PGOV KJUS BR |
07SAOPAULO129 | PT INTERNAL DISPUTE FORESHADOWS 2010 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2010 presidential election, in which President Lula will not be a candidate for the first time since 1985, is the apple of discord behind the current conflict between various factions and tendencies of the ruling Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT). The differe [...] | 2007-02-15 10:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV ELAB BR |
07SAOPAULO150 | MST INVASIONS IN WESTERN SAO PAULO STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Since February 18, Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) has invaded thirteen farms in the far west of Sao Paulo state. The de facto leader of the actions has indicated that more invasions are forthcoming if the government does not get serious soon about land reform and redistribut [...] | 2007-02-23 18:44:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ELAB PGOV PINS PINR BR |
07SAOPAULO152 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 12:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO157 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] "How To Negotiate With Tehran's Astuteness" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent commented (2/27): "The UN Security Council members' meeting in London to discuss a new resolution against Tehran's tricks is affected by two uncertainties: the Europe [...] | 2007-02-27 13:40:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO16 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S DEATH; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-08 11:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO160 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: MERCOSUL, BRAZIL AND [...] "Action In The Americas" The lead editorial in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (2/28) commented: "Brazilian concessions during President Lula's visit to Uruguay are in the right direction, but should not be considered a solution for Mercosul's erosion.... Urugua [...] | 2007-02-28 12:45:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO161 | CONSUL GENERAL VIIT TO THE PORT CITY OF SANTOS [...] (U) ConsulGeneral (CG) and Econoff recently visited the port city of Santos, which lies 60 kilometers southwes of Sao Paulo across the Serra do Mar mountain rnge. Santos serves the industrial and agricultual trade needs of Sao Paulo and neighboring stats and is the most active port by volume [...] | 2007-02-28 13:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT EINV ETRD ECON SENV OEXP BR ELTN SNAR |
07SAOPAULO163 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH CEOs IN [...] (U) Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns' February 6 roundtable with the CEOs of major American companies and subsidiaries in Sao Paulo provided business leaders a chance to comment on the lcal and regional business environment and detail their corporate social responsibility programs. [...] | 2007-03-01 13:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ETRD EINV ECON PGOV BR |
07SAOPAULO165 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS'S ENERGY ROUNDTABLE IN SAO PAULO, [...] (SBU) Summary: In his February 6 meeting in Sao Paulo with senior Brazilian energy experts, Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns emphasized the tremendous potential of U.S.-Brazilian cooperation on ethanol, and solicited his interlocutors' views on developing this partnership. Discussion centered [...] | 2007-03-01 16:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV EAGR EPET SENV BR |
07SAOPAULO166 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' LUNCH WITH SAO PAULO GOVERNOR SERRA, [...] (SBU) Summary: During his February 6-7, 2007 visit to Sao Paulo, Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns and his delegation were hosted for lunch by Sao Paulo Governor Jose Serra and key members of Serra's cabinet. U/S Burns and the Governor discussed cooperation on biofuels, [...] | 2007-03-01 16:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR EPET SNAR ASEC EINV BR |
07SAOPAULO167 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' SPEECH IN SAO PAULO, FEBRUARY 6, [...] (U) Summary: In a speech at the new American Studies Center at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) in Sao Paulo February 6, Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns highlighted common challenges and opportunities that Brazil and the U.S. face and called for strengthen [...] | 2007-03-01 16:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC OEXP KPAO PREL PGOV SCUL BR |
07SAOPAULO172 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: PRESIDENT BUSH'S IN [...] "Ethanol And Diplomacy" The lead editorial in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo maintained (3/5): "Agriculture and trade will be the prevailing issues during President George W. Bush's visit this week in Brazil. Biofuel will be the preferential topic of Presidents [...] | 2007-03-05 16:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO176 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT BUSH TRAVEL TO BRAZIL; WESTERN [...] "Chances And Obstacles Of A Positive Agenda With The US" Business-oriented Valor Economico (3/13) editorialized: "President Bush's goal today is to recover his popularity in the final half of his second term, as well as to recover some maneuvering room before Republican and Democratic Congres [...] | 2007-03-13 17:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO177 | CORRECTED COPY MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: [...] "Lula And Bush In Globalization" Economic columnist Carlos Alberto Sardenberg commented in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (3/12): "Many Latin American nations have already signed free-trade agreements with the US and do not pay the ethanol tariff Brazil has to pay.... Seen from this viewp [...] | 2007-03-13 17:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO18 | RECORD BRAZILIAN INVESTMENT OUTSIDE BRAZIL [...] (U) 2006 marked the first time in Brazilian financial history that Brazilians invested more overseas during the year than foreigners invested in Brazil. This phenomenon is due in large part to the internationalization of Brazilian companies, which are becoming global players as they search fo [...] | 2007-01-08 16:57:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
07SAOPAULO197 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: PRESIDENT BUSH AND USTR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-14 17:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO199 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: PRESIDENT BUSH IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-15 11:10:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO206 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ AND [...] "The Guyana Factor" Political columnist Eliane Cantanhede opined in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (3/16): "President Bush made rapprochement gestures towards US friends in Latin America while Chvez poured millions of dollars into Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia a [...] | 2007-03-16 12:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO212 | VISIT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO SAO PAULO, BRAZIL [...] (SBU) On March 8-9, President George W. Bush came to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first stop in his five-country visit to the Latin American nations of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico. This visit served to underscore the U.S. commitment to the Western Hemisphere and highlighted [...] | 2007-03-19 12:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BUSH GEORGE PREL PGOV SOCI EPET KTIA BR |
07SAOPAULO221 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 15:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO242 | BRAZIL: USTR SCHWAB MEETINGS WITH BRAZILIAN INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: USTR Ambassador Susan Schwab pointed out recently to leading Brazilian industrialists and agriculture sector representatives in Sao Paulo meetings the significance to Brazilian interests of the current Doha Round and affirmed that non-agricultural market access (NAMA) is key to [...] | 2007-03-26 15:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07SAOPAULO249 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 14:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO250 | SAO PAULO GETS NEW ARCHBISHOP [...] Summary: On March 21, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Odilo Pedro Scherer, Secretary-General of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB),to be the next Archbishop of Sao Paulo. Dom Odilo replaces Dom Claudio Hummes, who in October of last year was named Cardinal Prefect of the Cong [...] | 2007-03-27 16:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PREL PGOV PINR ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO251 | BRAZIL: INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE ASSOCIATIONS PUSH FOR GREATER [...] Summary: At a March 10 meeting held at the Sao Paulo headquarters of the Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo (FIESP),Brazilian industrialists presented USTR Ambassador Susan Schwab with a joint statement issued by eight Brazilian industrial and trade associations that calls fo [...] | 2007-03-27 16:26:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07SAOPAULO264 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN, DETENTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 12:44:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO290 | MEDIA REACTION: GLOBAL ECONOMY: US ACTION AGAINST CHINA AT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-12 11:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO299 | MEDIA REACTION: GLOBAL ECONOMY: ECONOMY AND THE [...] "A World Scale Injustice" Former UNCTAD Secretary General Rubens Ricupero maintained in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (4/15): "The US and Europe are responsible for two-thirds of gas emissions causing climate changes, while 840 million Africans cause less than [...] | 2007-04-16 11:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO3 | SAO PAULO BUSINESSMEN PRESS ON NEGOTIATIONS FOR A US TRADE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Members of the Brazil-U.S. Business Council, a bilateral business grouping, recently expressed lack of faith in the resumption of FTAA negotiations and demanded greater commitment from the GOB to begin negotiations for alternative mechanisms to enhance bilateral trade relations. [...] | 2007-01-03 15:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD EINV BR |
07SAOPAULO30 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: PRESIDENT BUSH'S IRAQ SECURITY PLAN; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-12 12:31:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO301 | GOB UNVEILS NEW EDUCATION PLAN TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS [...] Prominent commentators and politicians have increasingly identified deficiencies in Brazil's public education system as a leading cause of the country's subpar economic performance and its inability to keep pace with other so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) economies. Recent result [...] | 2007-04-16 15:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SOCI PGOV ECON KPAO BR |
07SAOPAULO33 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: PRESIDENT BUSH'S IRAQ SECURITY PLAN; [...] "Is There Any Logic In Bush's 'Madness'?" The lead editorial in center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo commented (1/13): "Bush has not only recognized that he made a mistake and publicly admitted it, but he is aware that not even with an additional 20,000 soldiers will h [...] | 2007-01-16 13:10:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO36 | AMBASSADOR AND SAO PAULO GOVERNOR DISCUSS CRIME, PUBLIC [...] (SBU) During an hour-long meeting with the Ambassador, Jose Serra, Governor of Sao Paulo state, said that his most immediate priority upon taking office was public security, especially in the metropolitan public transportation system, which is the state government's responsibility. Though sta [...] | 2007-01-17 10:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR EINV ASEC PREL BR |
07SAOPAULO364 | MEDIA REACTION: ECUADOR, PRES. CORREA'S LEADERSHIP; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-30 10:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO367 | MST'S "RED APRIL" OFFERS LOTS OF THEATER BUT NOT MUCH [...] Summary: (SBU) Actions by the Rural Landless Workers' Movement (MST) this year in observance of "Red April" have been characterized by strident rhetoric but less property destruction than last year. While they have generated some attention, the land invasions and occupations do not appear to h [...] | 2007-05-02 17:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ELAB PGOV PINS PINR BR |
07SAOPAULO368 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST: ISRAEL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE: [...] "Report Converts Israel Into 'Razed Land'" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (5/3): "Following the preliminary conclusions of the Winograd Committee report on the war between Israel and Lebanon last year, Prime Minister [...] | 2007-05-03 14:31:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO369 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: LEFTIST LEANINGS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 17:22:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO371 | MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: FRANCE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 10:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO384 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: BRAZILIAN FOREIGN [...] "What Kind Of Leadership Is This?" The lead editorial in center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo (5/5) maintained: "The GOB continues to support the creation of the Bank of the South, a financial adventure with a deadline to begin.... The idea is to constitute a developme [...] | 2007-05-07 12:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO387 | MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: FRANCE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; SAO [...] "Elected To Change" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (5/8) editorialized: "Conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy obtained a clear victory in the French presidential elections. As a result, the Socialist Party had its third consecutive defeat in presidential elec [...] | 2007-05-08 10:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO404 | MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: UK, TONY BLAIR STEPS DOWN; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-16 09:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO42 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'S REGIONAL AND [...] "From Venezuela To The World" Political columnist Eliane Cantanhede commented (1/18) in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo: "When Hugo Chvez speaks about a '21st Century socialism,' each one understands it as he/she wishes. [Brazilian] Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, [...] | 2007-01-18 15:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO426 | BRAZIL'S NEW GDP METHODOLOGY RESULTS IN HIGHER GROWTH [...] SUMMARY: The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE),in an effort to bring its methodology to determine Brazil's GDP growth into line with international standards, recently revised its current methodology, establishing 2000 as the base year. The highest differences between th [...] | 2007-05-18 10:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN EIND BR |
07SAOPAULO432 | OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY (OCC) MEETS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 12:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV BR |
07SAOPAULO444 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY PATTERSONQS VISIT TO SAO PAULO, MAY 15, 20 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 17:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC BR |
07SAOPAULO447 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY PATTERSONQS VISIT TO SAO [...] (SBU) During her May 15 visit to Sao Paulo, INL A/S Anne Patterson participated in a roundtable with police, prosecutors, and other experts, who discussed the First Capital Command (PCC) criminal organization (see refs C-D) and the different experiences of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with ga [...] | 2007-05-25 09:47:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC BR |
07SAOPAULO45 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE: MERCOSUL SUMMIT IN RIO DE JANEIRO; [...] "Lost Mercosul" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo (1/19) maintained: "In 2006, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay imprudently accepted Colonel Hugo Chvez's Venezuela as a member of Mercosul.... With five partners, Mercosul is weaker than it was with four. With [...] | 2007-01-19 12:00:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO456 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 16:26:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO460 | MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: EU-RUSSIA TENSIONS; WESTERN [...] "Cold War Signs" Center-right national circulation and influential daily O Estado de S. Paulo editorialized (5/28): "In addition to the Middle East horrors, a new focus of international tension has continued to expand in recent months and weeks. It is the remarkable deterioration of the relat [...] | 2007-05-29 17:23:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO464 | POPE BENEDICT'S VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] Pope Benedict XVI's four-day visit to Sao Paulo, the first trip to Latin America of his papacy, was received with popular enthusiasm and saturation media coverage. In his several sermons and other public utterances, the Pope called on the faithful to adhere to Church rules on personal morali [...] | 2007-05-29 17:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PREL PGOV PINR SOCI BR |
07SAOPAULO475 | MEDIA REACTION: GLOBAL ECONOMY: BUSH'S SPEECH ON CLIMATE [...] "Preemptive Attack" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (6/1) editorialized: "In what seems to be a preemptive attack against the tough criticism the U.S. would suffer at the G8 Summit - to take place next week in Germany - because of his position on climate change, [...] | 2007-06-01 13:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO48 | CONVERSATION WITH OPPOSITION FEDERAL DEPUTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition Federal Deputy Arnaldo Madeira outlined what he considers Brazil's four major problems, which have the cumulative effect of impeding the country's economic growth. He also decried the immaturity of Brazil's political class, one symptom of which is the perennial weakn [...] | 2007-01-19 18:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
07SAOPAULO481 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CLOSING OF RCTV, CHAVEZ'S [...] "Geopolitical Presages" Editorialist Aldo Pereira remarked in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (6/4): "Hugo Chvez bought USD 4.5 billion in weapons over the past two years.... He has justified such spending as a precaution against a possible 'asymmetrical' war ag [...] | 2007-06-04 13:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO485 | WHITHER THE LULA ADMINISTRATION - A PT EX-DEPUTY'S [...] (SBU) Workers Party (PT) stalwart and former Federal Deputy Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh sees President Lula as working for the first time in his career without a real power behind the throne, either in the government or in his party. This situation has turned Lula into a political operator who ma [...] | 2007-06-05 12:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM ELAB ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO486 | GLOBAL ECONOMY: CLIMATE CHANGE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE: [...] "Bush's Move To Combat Global Warming" Business-oriented Valor Economico (6/5) editorialized: "The fight against global warming may have gained an important - although exceptional - ally: the U.S..... What remains to be seen is whether Bush entered the game with a diversionary maneuver with d [...] | 2007-06-05 13:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO490 | GLOBAL ECONOMY: VENEZUELA, CLOSING OF RCTV; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-06 13:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO496 | PT SHOWS ITS UNDEMOCRATIC SIDE [...] (SBU) On May 30, Workers Party (PT) President Ricardo Berzoini signed an amorphous "Party Cooperation Agreement" with Syria's Baath Party. On June 4, while senior politicians and commentators across Brazil's political spectrum were expressing outrage over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's de [...] | 2007-06-08 18:10:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BR |
07SAOPAULO5 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S DEATH; WESTERN HEMISPHERE: [...] "Good For The US, Not For Justice" Liberal largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo's Washington correspondent Sergio Davila commented (12/30): "Saddam Hussein's execution served the USG's interests, the White House's will to be able to leave Iraq in the least shameful way possibl [...] | 2007-01-03 15:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO504 | EUROPE: G-8 SUMMIT, RUSSIA, CLIMATE CHANGE; WESTERN [...] "George and Vladimir" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (6/10) editorialized: "Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush did not solve their nations' differences at the G-8 Summit, but succeeded in moderating the tone of the rhetoric between Russia and the U.S..... Both k [...] | 2007-06-11 17:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO53 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE: MERCOSUL SUMMIT IN RIO DE JANEIRO; [...] "Chvez, The Dictator" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo editorialized (1/21): "In Venezuela, all the powers, the republic and democracy are now facing a checkmate. The powers that the Assembly members - who are Chvez's followers without exception - gave to the pres [...] | 2007-01-22 12:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO537 | MIDEAST: HAMAS-FATAH CLASHES; SCO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-19 12:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO538 | VENEZUELAN PAYMENTS LATE FOR BRAZILIAN EXPORTERS [...] (SBU) The Venezuelan Office that regulates the payment of foreign currencies (Commission for the Administration of Official Exchange - CADIVI) is taking an average of six months or more to pay Brazilian companies for their products, adding up to a total estimated at USD 100 million, according [...] | 2007-06-19 15:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD BEXP ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO551 | BRAZILIAN MERCANTILE AND FUTURES EXCHANGE GROWTH AND [...] (SBU) In a June 15 meeting with the Ambassador, Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM and F) President Manoel Felix Cintra Neto and Government Relations Director Joao Lauro Amaral gave an overview of the institution and presented an optimistic outlook of derivatives and commodity tradi [...] | 2007-06-21 15:17:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD EAGR SENV ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO554 | MIDEAST: GLOBAL ECONOMY: WTO AND DOHA ROUND, G-4 TRADE [...] "Double Loss" Influential center right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's economic columnist Celso Ming commented (6/22): "If it is true that a bad deal is preferable to no deal, then the failure of the Postdam meeting to advance trade negotiations signals a double loss for Br [...] | 2007-06-22 13:57:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO560 | A PSDB INSIDER'S EARLY LOOK AT THE 2008 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) In a recent conversation with Poloff, Walter Feldman, a leader of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) currently serving as Sao Paulo Municipal Secretary of Sports, Leisure, and Recreation, shared his views on local government, next year's municipal elections, and the broader Braz [...] | 2007-06-25 16:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO572 | BRAZILIAN COMPANY BECOMES WORLD'S LARGEST BEEF PRODUCER [...] The Brazilian company JBS-Friboi, the largest producer and exporter of beef in Latin America and the largest exporter of beef in the world, purchased 100 percent of Colorado-based Swift & Company for USD 225 million with the assumption of USD 1.16 billion in debt, giving the deal a total value [...] | 2007-06-29 11:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EFIN ETRD EINV BEXP BR |
07SAOPAULO58 | HELPING SAO PAULO AUTHORITIES RESPOND TO SECURITY THREATS [...] (SBU) Consul General met January 17 with Sao Paulo State Secretary of Metropolitan Transportation Jose Luiz Portella and his SIPDIS team to follow up on Governor Serra's request (ref A) for security assistance in the subway and train systems. Portella described the challenges these systems [...] | 2007-01-24 09:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR ASEC PREL BR |
07SAOPAULO580 | MIDEAST: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, NATIONALIZATION [...] "Chavez' New Constitution" Main editorial in center right O Estado de S. Paulo (7/2) says: "The first measure Hugo Chavez took once he became president of Venezuela in 1998 was to reform the constitution.... With the 1999 constitution Hugo Chavez was able to begin to tailor Venezuela to the [...] | 2007-07-02 13:54:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO598 | SANTOS PORT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT: WHERE IS THE MONEY? [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff and Econ FSN visited the Port of Santos recently to follow up on several news stories relating major infrastructure investment. Interviews with municipal and GoB Port Authority (CODESP) officials revealed that there are several privately-funded projects under way, and [...] | 2007-07-11 14:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP EWWT BR |
07SAOPAULO599 | PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH HOLD WHITE HOUSE [...] "Late and Modest Attention" Editorial on liberal Folha de S. Paulo (7/11) comments: "The re-discovery' of Latin America by the White House comes late, it is a reactive measure and does not promise glaring results. It comes late because George W. Bush already displays all the symptoms ...of a [...] | 2007-07-11 16:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO601 | CONVERSATION WITH AN OLD FRIEND OF LULA [...] (C) At a June 26 lunch with poloff and econoff, businessman and lobbyist Mohamad Ali Laila (protect) shared his views on President Lula, the PT, Brazil,s relations with Venezuela, and the Lebanese and Muslim communities in Sao Paulo. Laila, who is President Lula,s neighbor in Sao Bernardo [...] | 2007-07-12 14:12:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SCUL BR LE |
07SAOPAULO639 | FIESP AND CIESP HEAL RIFT, UNANIMOUSLY ELECT PAULO SKAF [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Sao Paulo State Federation of Industries (FIESP) almost unanimously reelected Paulo Skaf to a four-year term as President. The Sao Paulo State Industry Center (CIESP) also overwhelmingly chose Skaf to lead it, ending a three-year breach between the two organizations. Skaf's [...] | 2007-07-30 17:31:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD EFIN EIND BR |
07SAOPAULO640 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: US-CUBA DIALOGUE; [...] "From Havana To Washington" Foreign affairs analyst Newton Carlos commented in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (7/28): "The idea of a possible dialogue between Cuba and the United States seems to be in Ral Castro's mind with who knows, maybe a slight ray of hope. [...] | 2007-07-30 19:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO641 | MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: UK PRIME MINISTER BROWN'S VISIT TO [...] Iraqi Question May Break 'Privileged Relation'" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (7/31): "In his first visit to Washington, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown adopted a tranquilizing posture. Yes, there is a privileged [...] | 2007-07-31 12:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO644 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 12:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO652 | MEDIA REACTION: AFRICA: DARFUR, UN PEACEKEEPER FORCE; SCO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 13:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO657 | MEDIA REACTION: RUSSIA'S CLAIM OVER THE ARTIC; SCO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 13:53:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO669 | MEDIA REACTION: GWOT: BROWN'S STATEMENTS ON GUANTANAMO; SCO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 11:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO673 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN; SCO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 13:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO683 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: PAKISTAN, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-13 12:40:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO7 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S DEATH; AFRICA: SOMALIA; SAO [...] "Saddam And The Hanging" Columnist Carlos Heitor Cony wrote in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (1/4): "Except for the US and the UK, the supporters of the Western civilization, apparently all other nations have condemned Saddam Hussein's execution.... I oppose t [...] | 2007-01-04 10:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO701 | FHC PREDICTS NO REFORMS ON LULA'S WATCH, PSDB/DEM [...] (C) During an August 14 meeting with the Consul General (CG),former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) proffered his views on Lula,s inability to pass economic reforms, whether or not sub-prime lending in the U.S. and Europe could have an impact on the Brazilian economy, the state of [...] | 2007-08-16 11:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN BR |
07SAOPAULO709 | WORLD FINANCIAL MARKET VOLATILITY ROCKS BRAZIL IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The global financial turmoil resulting from losses in global credit markets as well as concerns about the US sub-prime credit market have hit Brazilian assets hard over the last several days. BOVESPA, Brazil's principal stock market, registered declines of more than 15 percen [...] | 2007-08-17 19:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN BR |
07SAOPAULO714 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'S NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 18:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO718 | DESPITE CHALLENGES, PRC,S INTEREST AND INFLUENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 18:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV EMIN KNNP BR CH |
07SAOPAULO726 | BRAZIL: MOVING FORWARD ON BILATERAL HEALTH ISSUES [...] (SBU) The government of Brazil is interested in increasing bilateral health cooperation with the United States and particularly in setting up joint programs in Africa, especially in the area of training medical technicians. According to Brazilian contacts, working together on health issues is [...] | 2007-08-27 20:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TBIO EAID TSPL BR PGOV SOCI |
07SAOPAULO731 | BRAZIL: U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III met August 21 in Sao Paulo with Henrique Meirelles, President of Brazil's Central Bank. Meirelles commented on the recent global market turbulence and used the relatively mild reaction by Brazilian markets [...] | 2007-08-28 13:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV BR |
07SAOPAULO734 | PT PREPARES FOR NATIONAL CONGRESS [...] (SBU) In recent meetings with Poloff, leaders within the Workers Party (PT) outlined the focus of the upcoming PT National Congress. According to Renato Simoes and others, the Third National Congress of the Workers' Party (PT) will not be a forum for great ideological debates, but rather an op [...] | 2007-08-29 19:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM ELAB ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO737 | MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: TURKEY, ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY; SCO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 15:26:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO74 | MIDDLE EAST: PROSPECTS FOR ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN DIALOGUE; [...] "End Of A Cycle" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (1/31) editorialized: "The Israeli Army's unilateral withdrawal from the Palestinian territories - an idea in which most Israelis placed their hopes for peace - did not work.... The unilateral withdrawal plan conc [...] | 2007-01-31 12:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO742 | PT FACTIONS AND TENDENCIES - A PRIMER [...] (U) President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT),faces a number of challenges as it looks towards a post-Lula future. The centrist, pragmatic "Majority Camp" currently occupies the strongest position in the party, but does not dominate. The CM is increasingly challenged [...] | 2007-09-04 19:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ELAB ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO743 | INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ANALYSTS BULLISH ON BRAZIL [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and US Treasury Attache met with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Credit Suisse on August 22 and 23 to discuss the recent volatility in the financial markets. The Brazilian financial markets have calmed down following worldwide financial turmoil earlier this month (reftel),[...] | 2007-09-05 12:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN BR |
07SAOPAULO749 | WORKER PARTY CONGRESS GETS BRAZIL'S NEXT PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (SBU) The Workers' Party (PT) National Congress held in Sao Paulo between August 31 and September 2 - only the third in the party's 27-year history - set the stage for a marathon presidential election cycle as the PT looks forward to 2010. A decision to move internal elections up to December [...] | 2007-09-06 19:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ELAB ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO754 | BRAZIL'S RIBEIRAO PRETO: SUGAR AND ETHANOL BRING PROSPERITY [...] (U) During an official visit to Ribeirao Preto, an agri-business center in northeastern Sao Paulo state, the Consul General visited a sugar mill and met with the Mayor and the President of the City Council. Once part of the state's coffee belt, the Ribeirao Preto area is now best known for it [...] | 2007-09-11 19:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON PGOV ENRG ELTN BR |
07SAOPAULO76 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'S RULE BY DECREE; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-01 11:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO766 | INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRAZIL: THE TIETE RIVER [...] (U) The Brazilian Transportation Ministry hosted the first Bilateral Brazil-U.S. Inland Waterways Navigation Conference August 28-30 in Brasilia that brought together experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by inland waterways. The U.S. delegation included representativ [...] | 2007-09-14 17:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT ETRD ECON SENV ELTN BR |
07SAOPAULO767 | SAO PAULO MAYOR WANTS U.S. INVESTMENT, MAY RUN FOR [...] (SBU) In an introductory lunch with recently arrived Consul General (CG) and DPO, Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab expressed an interest in strengthening the city's cooperative relationship with the USG and said Sao Paulo was interested in attracting U.S. investors for infrastructure projects. [...] | 2007-09-14 19:12:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR PGOV BR |
07SAOPAULO768 | BRAZIL: INVESTMENT GRADE BY 2008? [...] (U) Amid public speculation surrounding Brazil's possible ascent to an investment grade bond rating, Econoffs visited the credit ratings agencies Standard and Poors (S&P) and Moody's to solicit their views. Both ratings agencies have divergent opinions about the quality of Brazil's fiscal acc [...] | 2007-09-14 19:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
07SAOPAULO776 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 14:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO777 | CIVIC MOVEMENT "CANSEI" GENERATES BACKLASH [...] (U) In an attempt to tap into popular discontent with the Lula government, a group of Sao Paulo-based professional and business organizations recently launched the Civic Movement for the Right of Brazilians, known informally as "Cansei" (I'm tired). Though leaders insist that the movement is [...] | 2007-09-18 14:12:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PINR PGOV ELAB EAIR BR |
07SAOPAULO780 | DELFIM NETTO: NOT BULLISH ON BRAZIL"S ECONOMY OR [...] (C) Former Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto told CG September 17 that the Brazilian economy is all right for now despite recent market turbulence, but he has "serious doubts" about the next 5-10 years, especially if the global economy enters a down cycle. He characterized Brazil's focus [...] | 2007-09-20 17:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR ELAB EAGR BR |
07SAOPAULO785 | Media Reaction: Western Hemisphere: Venezuela, Chvez's [...] "Difficult Dialogue With Chvez's Venezuela" Business-oriented Valor Econtmico (9/24) editorialized: "Presidents Hugo Chvez and Lula da Silva resumed in Manaus embraces and friendly public declarations following a tense separation period that began in May when the Venezuelan accused the Brazil [...] | 2007-09-24 13:01:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO787 | BRAZILIAN EXCHANGE STUDENTS FLOCKING TO THE UNITED STATES [...] (U) SUMMARY: AmConsul Sao Paulo had a 23 percent increase in J visa applicants during the first semester of 2007 compared to the same period in 2006. This is the continuation of a trend that has resulted in a 185 percent increase in demand for J visas over the past five years. The increased [...] | 2007-09-24 18:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD OEXC ELAB SMIG BR |
07SAOPAULO794 | MEDIA REACTION: UNGA; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 13:44:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO802 | BRAZILIAN FIRMS LOBBY TO HOLD ONTO GSP BENEFITS [...] (U) The American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) and Sao Paulo Federation of Industries (FIESP) met with representatives of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on September 13 and 14 to discuss Brazil's inclusion in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade program. Amcham an [...] | 2007-09-28 19:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO814 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ECUADOR; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 16:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO819 | BRAZILIAN STOCK EXCHANGE INDEX BREAKS RECORD [...] On September 27, the primary index on Brazil's stock exchange surpassed 60,000 points for the first time in its history. The Ibovespa, the main indicator of the Brazilian stock market's average performance, gained nearly 11 percent in the month of September, and is up 36 percent in 2007. It [...] | 2007-10-03 17:23:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO832 | CREDIT GROWTH IN BRAZIL DRIVING ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (U) Credit growth in Brazil is one of the major drivers of economic growth despite some of the highest real interest rates in the world. Overall credit availability is up 25 percent over the last 12 months, especially in personal consumer credit and much of this growth is attributed to rising [...] | 2007-10-11 19:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO834 | BRAZIL: POLITICAL SCIENTISTS OFFER GLOOMY PROGNOSIS, SEE [...] (SBU) At a September 28 lunch with Emboffs, two prominent political scientists offered a gloomy outlook on the current political situation. According to them, chances for meaningful political reform seem dead, and the ongoing scandals involving Senate President Renan Calheiros (ref A) offer a [...] | 2007-10-11 20:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO836 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 12:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO855 | SAO PAULO'S ARCHBISHOP ON SOCIAL ISSUES [...] (U) In a recent courtesy call, Consul General (CG) sought the views of Dom Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of Sao Paulo, on a range of issues in Brazil's political life and on the role of the Church in Brazil and Latin America. Dom Odilo, who replaced Cardinal Claudio Hummes in late April, an [...] | 2007-10-24 09:54:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PINR KIRF ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO869 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA; SAO PAULO. [...] Venezuela Begins To React An editorial in center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo (10/27) maintained: "It's certain that in a few days the Venezuelan National Assembly will approve a reform aimed at establishing in that nation a regime that will submit all political, ec [...] | 2007-10-29 11:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO873 | PUBLIC SECURITY IN SAO PAULO: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS [...] (SBU) Although public security remains one of the most serious policy challenges in Brazil, civil society researchers and law enforcement analysts in Sao Paulo believe that the federal and state governments are taking inadequate action to tackle the issue or to coordinate with each other in fi [...] | 2007-10-29 16:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM PGOV ASEC BR |
07SAOPAULO876 | TWO KILLED IN MST LAND INVASION SKIRMISH [...] (U) Summary: Two people were shot dead and eight wounded Sunday in a clash between members of landless peoples' organizations and armed guards protecting a farm owned by the Swiss-owned biotech company Syngenta Seeds in Santa Tereza do Oeste, a small town about 340 miles west of Curitiba, the [...] | 2007-10-30 12:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ELAB PGOV PINR PINS SOCI BR |
07SAOPAULO878 | SAO PAULO CITY OFFICIAL TALKS ABOUT GOVERNANCE, POLITICS, [...] (SBU) Calling the operations of street vendors a "racket," Sao Paulo assistant Mayor Andrea Matarazzo told Consul General (CG) that he has been cracking down on the sale of pirated and counterfeit goods by both stores and vendors. He associated the vendors' activities with organized criminal [...] | 2007-10-31 13:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KCRM KIPR SNAR ETRD ASEC BR |
07SAOPAULO879 | TWO KILLED IN MST LAND INVASION SKIRMISH [...] (U) Summary: Two people were shot dead and eight wounded Sunday in a clash between members of landless peoples' organizations and armed guards protecting a farm owned by the Swiss-owned biotech company Syngenta Seeds in Santa Tereza do Oeste, a small town about 340 miles west of Curitiba, the [...] | 2007-10-31 13:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ELAB PGOV PINR PINS PHUM SOCI ASEC BR |
07SAOPAULO882 | BRAZIL'S OPPOSITION PSDB POSITIONING FOR 2008 AND 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: It is not true, according to Sao Paulo city official Andrea Matarazzo, that the Sao Paulo State Social Democracy Party of Brazil(PSDB) is divided between allies of Governor Jose Serra and supporters of former Governor (and 2006 presidential candidate) Geraldo Alckmin. Matarazzo [...] | 2007-11-01 11:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN BR |
07SAOPAULO89 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST: IRAN; GLOBAL ECONOMY: IPCC REPORT; [...] "Bush Helps Ahmadinejad" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo's Washington correspondent Sergio Davila commented (2/5): "The Iranian medium class imposed a political defeat on President Mahmoud Ahmdinejad in recent elections because he failed to fulfill his promise o [...] | 2007-02-05 14:46:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO891 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA;SAO PAULO. [...] "The Language That Chvez Understands" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo editorialized (11/6): "A regime that permits a caudillo to remain perennially in power, deprives minorities and the opposition their fundamental liberties and allows a nation to be ruled without [...] | 2007-11-06 16:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO895 | BRAZIL: NOT A MULTIRACIAL, MULTICULTURAL PARADISE [...] (SBU) Discrimination against Afro-Brazilians tarnishes Brazil's international reputation as a tolerant and welcoming country home to hundreds of indigenous groups and immigrants from every corner of the world. In Brazil the issue is extremely divisive with many claiming that racism does not e [...] | 2007-11-06 17:57:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI SCUL KDEM KPAO BR |
07SAOPAULO899 | BRAZILIAN STOCK EXCHANGE IPO LARGEST IN HISTORY [...] (U) The Brazilian Stock Exchange's (Bovespa) initial public offering (IPO) last month was the largest in Brazil's history, bringing in nearly USD 4 billion. Bovespa representatives told Econoff that its IPO raised its international profile and increased its worldwide credibility as a premier [...] | 2007-11-08 09:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO90 | MIDEAST: CHIRAC ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PLANS; WESTERN [...] "Middle East Is A Politicians' Swamp" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (2/2): "Concerned with the idea that the world will be an orphan - when he leaves the presidency in two months - French President Jacques Chirac wan [...] | 2007-02-05 14:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO900 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: BUDGET AIRLINE BRA SHUTS DOWN OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After operating for eight years, the Brazilian low-fare airline BRA (Brasil Rodo Aereo Transportes) suspended operations on November 7 and gave thirty days notice to its 1100 employees of a possible dismissal. In a last-ditch effort to avoid shutting down entirely, BRA is seek [...] | 2007-11-08 16:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PGOV ECON EINV BR |
07SAOPAULO902 | SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S VISIT TO [...] "Bush's New Best Friend" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (11/7): "It was a U.S. friend who arrived yesterday in Washington for a two-day visit. The Americans, who are not used to kind words from French presidents, are [...] | 2007-11-08 18:12:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO910 | Brazil's Real Estate Market Booming [...] (U) In an October 23 meeting with Eli Horn, president and founder of Cyrela Brazil Realty, Ambassador Sobel discussed Brazil's booming real estate business. Horn expects company sales in 2007 to reach USD 1.2 billion, compared with less than USD 200 million in 2004. Cyrela's stock is up 50 [...] | 2007-11-13 10:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO EINV EFIN ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO915 | DESPITE PROBLEMS, BRAZILIAN AIRLINES OPTIMISTIC [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with the Presidents of the two leading Brazilian airlines TAM and Gol on October 22 to discuss developments in the aviation sector. Both firms noted that Brazil's underdeveloped infrastructure is buckling under increased air traffic in recent years. The T [...] | 2007-11-14 09:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL MARR PGOV ECON EINV BEXP BR |
07SAOPAULO916 | MEDIA REACTION: PAKISTAN; PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S VISIT TO [...] "Self Coup In Pakistan" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's editorial remarked (11/10): "The US and its allies are facing an extremely difficult situation in Pakistan. They cannot support the violent abandonment of democratic appearances, nor can they impose sancti [...] | 2007-11-14 10:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO917 | Brazil-U.S. CEO Forum Follow-Up [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a November 7 meeting with Josu Gomes da Silva, the Brazilian Chairman of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum and President and CEO of Coteminas, Ambassador Sobel and FCS Officer discussed follow-up activities to the October 2007 CEO Forum. All participants agreed that a positive conclusi [...] | 2007-11-14 14:47:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EINV ECON BTIO CVIS AR BR |
07SAOPAULO922 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, EL BARADEI'S REPORT; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 12:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO935 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE, VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 12:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO942 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ANNAPOLIS PEACE CONFERENCE; [...] "Israeli View Of The Summit" An op-ed by Israeli Ambassador in Brazil Tzipora Rimon in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (11/27) reads: "For Israel, the Annapolis conference is an opportunity to reach a common understanding in order to allow the negotiations to ad [...] | 2007-11-27 12:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO943 | SAO PAULO PSDB LEADERS SEEK MORE NATIONAL INFLUENCE [...] (SBU) The new Sao Paulo state directorate of the Social Democracy Party of Brazil (PSDB) is developing a strategy to increase its influence at the national level and to impose party discipline on candidates for elective office. As part of this strategy, the PSDB is focusing on municipal elect [...] | 2007-11-27 17:46:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
07SAOPAULO945 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ANNAPOLIS PEACE CONFERENCE; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 11:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO946 | UN REPORT ACCUSES BRAZIL OF SUPPORTING PRISON TORTURE [...] (SBU) Consistent with Brazil's Annual Human Rights Report, a UN report released on November 23 points out that torture is systemic in Brazilian prisons. The report also blames the GoB for not taking steps to prevent prison abuses and calls for compensation for prison torture victims. The GoB [...] | 2007-11-28 18:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI BR |
07SAOPAULO947 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ANNAPOLIS PEACE CONFERENCE; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 12:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO949 | LULA ASSOCIATE CALLS THIRD TERM TALK A MEDIA INVENTION [...] (SBU) Devanir Ribeiro, a federal deputy who is a long-time personal friend and political associate of President Lula, dismissed as an invention of the media rampant speculation that Lula may seek to amend the Constitution to allow him to run for a third term in 2010. Ribeiro denied reports t [...] | 2007-11-30 15:56:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV KDEM ELAB BR |
07SAOPAULO954 | MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ANNAPOLIS PEACE CONFERENCE; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-03 12:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO958 | FORCED LABOR IN BRAZIL: URBAN MYTH OR RURAL REALITY? [...] (SBU) Recent reports in the Brazilian media have focused on the question of forced labor in Brazil and whether or not the GOB is doing enough to combat poor labor conditions in the country. Some observers question whether forced labor exists in Brazil at all but harsh working conditions are c [...] | 2007-12-04 17:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAGR EIND PHUM SOCI KTIP BR |
07SAOPAULO959 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: US REPORT ON IRAN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 10:17:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO961 | PT INTERNAL ELECTIONS HEAD TO SECOND ROUND [...] (U) Results in the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) internal elections on December 2 confirm that the old centrist Majority Camp, associated with President Lula and the inner circle of his first term, no longer commands a majority of the party faithful or the leadership, but non [...] | 2007-12-06 13:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV KDEM ELAB BR |
07SAOPAULO966 | CODEL REID'S VISIT TO FOZ DO IGUACU, BRAZIL [...] (U) During a November 27-28 visit to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, Codel Reid met with the Ambassador and Embassy Brasilia and ConGen Sao Paulo officers, visited Federal Police headquarters and an operating center of the Maritime Federal Police, and toured Itaipu Dam. The delegation dined with three [...] | 2007-12-12 09:23:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR PTER KCRM OPRC BR |
07SAOPAULO976 | SAO PAULO PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL PARTIES AND AFRO-BRAZILIANS [...] (SBU) According to Sao Paulo-based contacts, Brazil's political parties are slowly beginning to see the value in pursuing initiatives to ameliorate racial inequality in the country especially through programs that directly support the Afro-Brazilian community. Local civil society leaders often [...] | 2007-12-14 10:38:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI SCUL KDEM BR |
07SAOPAULO978 | MEDIA REACTION: UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN BALI; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 11:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
07SAOPAULO988 | SUMMER WORK TRAVEL PROGRAM CONTINUES TO BE SUCCESSFUL [...] SUMMARY. Congen Sao Paulo attended an estimated 7726 students in this year's Summer Work Travel (SWT) season, a 10 percent increase over last year. The vast majority of the students were well-prepared and qualified for the program. Brazilian exchange agencies predict that growth will continu [...] | 2007-12-18 14:16:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD OEXC ELAB SMIG BR |
07SAOPAULO991 | JUDGES WARN THAT BRAZIL MUST DO MORE TO BATTLE [...] (C) Sao Paulo Supreme Court justices are concerned about the possibility of growing ties between organized crime and terrorism in Brazil. During a December 5-7 visit to Sao Paulo by Greg West, Assistant United States Attorney and Organized Crime and Terrorism Section Chief for the Northern D [...] | 2007-12-19 18:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV OEXC OIIP KCRM BR |
07SAOPAULO992 | OVERWORKED SAO PAULO JUDGES WANT GREATER LAW [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo judges tell us that they are overworked and overburdened and that the growth in the drug trade and lack of prison space make their already difficult work even more challenging. Greg West, Assistant United States Attorney and Organized Crime and Terrorism Section Chief for the [...] | 2007-12-19 18:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR PGOV PHUM OEXC OIIP KCRM SNAR |
07STATE142845 | WHA A/S SHANNON,S SEPTEMBER 27, 2007 MEETING WITH [...] (U) September 27, 2007, 5:00 p.m., New York 2. (U) Participants: United States A/S Thomas A. Shannon Scott Miller, WHA Notetaker Brazil U/S for South America Jorge D'Escragolle Taunay Christian Sigueiroa, second secretary, Brazilian Mission to the U.N. Wilson Dockhorn, second secr [...] | 2007-10-11 16:02:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | BL BR EC PA UNGA |
07STATE148408 | U/S JEFFERY,S MEETING WITH CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery met with Central Bank of Brazil (CBB) Governor Henrique Meirelles October 21 on the margins of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting. They discussed the need for and impediments to infrastructure investment in Brazil, impact of recent financial marke [...] | 2007-10-24 19:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR ECON EFIN PREL |
07STATE152799 | STEERING GROUP NON-PAPER FOR THE PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] (SBU) This is an action request; please see para 5. 2. (SBU) Background: The Partnership for Democratic Governance was successfully rolled out at a well-attended high level event co-hosted by OECD and UNDP in New York on October 1, 2007. The Department appreciates Posts' support and effort [...] | 2007-11-05 22:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AU BR CA CI EAID ET JA KDEM KS MX NL NZ PL PO |
07THEHAGUE1460 | NETHERLANDS/US NONPROLIFERATION INITIATIVE: DUTCH [...] A GONL representative will attend the international meeting on October 22-23, 2007 in Spiez, Switzerland hosted by the US Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation. On August 6, poloff delivered the meeting invitation and r [...] | 2007-08-06 14:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP ENRG PREL AR AS BR CA CI CH EZ |
07USEUBRUSSELS1537 | NO EU UNITY GOING INTO REVIEW OF COMMON POSITION [...] (C/NF) EU and member state officials told visiting WHA DAS Madison and Cuba Coordinator McCarry May 2-3 that the EU has not yet reached consensus on what parts of its Common Position on Cuba will be renewed in June. Contacts agreed on the need for Cubans to decide their future with encouragem [...] | 2007-05-08 17:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM EAID EUN BR CU |
07USNATO332 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR STAFFDEL KENNETH MYERS, MAY [...] Mission welcomes Mr. Kenneth Myers to NATO for meetings. Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Peter Chisholm, work tel:(32)2-724-3384, fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. USEU Control Officer is USEU Political Officer M [...] | 2007-05-25 12:06:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO EUN FR BR |
07USUNNEWYORK1183 | UNSC REFORM: LITTLE CHANGE IN SUBSTANCE BUT SOME [...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on UNSC expansion on December 14, President of the General Assembly (PGA) Srgjan Kerim announced that he had created a three-PermRep "task force" to help him advance the upcoming inter-governmental negotiations on Council r [...] | 2007-12-18 22:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNSC IN JA BR |
07USUNNEWYORK1225 | USUN VIEWS ON SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM [...] (C) Summary and comment. With inter-governmental negotiations on Security Council reform set to begin in 2008, a serious debate has begun on Council expansion. We are closer than we have been in several decades to the prospect that a formal proposal for expansion could be put to a vote. We d [...] | 2007-12-29 02:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC JA BR IN GE |
07VATICAN85 | PAPAL VISIT TO BRAZIL: A PREVIEW [...] (SBU) Pope Benedict XVI travels to Brazil May 9-13 to open a plenary session of the council of Latin American and Caribbean bishops conferences (CELAM). The three most recent continental meetings (Colombia 1968, Mexico 1979, and Dominican Republic 1992) provided direction for the Catholic Chur [...] | 2007-05-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF ECON SCUL SOCI BR VT XM |
08ASUNCION267 | PARAGUAY ELECTION DAY MEDIA PLAY [...] (U) "Lugo Overpowers the Colorado Party," shouts almost identical Monday morning headlines in two of the three national dailies, while circulation-leader ABC Color uses its entire front-page for an editorial entitled "The people defeat those who humiliated them, impoverished them and betrayed [...] | 2008-04-21 21:52:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL CI AR BR PA UY |
08ASUNCION62 | THREE PLUS ONE READOUT [...] (C) The January 10-11 Three-Plus-One Security Dialogue with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and the United States in Asuncion played out as expected, with fruitful coordination on the margins of the meeting, but plenary interventions from the three focused primarily on crime fighting and preserving [...] | 2008-01-29 17:16:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KCRM PGOV GTIP SNAR PA BR AR |
08ASUNCION701 | ANTI-DRUG AGENTS ARREST FIRST CAPITAL COMMAND [...] (C) Paraguay's National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) arrested six members of the Sao Paulo-based gang First Capital Command October 13 operating near Pedro Juan Caballero (PJC),Amambay Department. SENAD agents -- with the assistance of the U.S.-trained Paraguayan Military Forces' Joint Imm [...] | 2008-10-15 17:39:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MOPS PGOV BR BL PA |
08ASUNCION709 | PPL MEMBERS INDICTED FOR KIDNAPPING AS LAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Paraguayan authorities indicted former Free Fatherland Party (PPL) members Manuel Cristaldo Mieres and Osvaldo Villalba September 23 for the kidnapping (and post-ransom release) of former Tacuati mayor and wealthy rancher Luis Alberto Lindstron. Whether politically or just finan [...] | 2008-10-20 13:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | PTER ASEC PINS PGOV PA BR AR |
08ASUNCION722 | TENSIONS WITH BRAZIL INCREASE OVER LAND AND [...] (C) Paraguay's bilateral relations with Brazil soured in October over Brazilian military exercises on the Paraguayan border and an increase in invasions of land owned by Brazilian-Paraguayans. Although Brazil informed Paraguay of its plans to conduct military exercises, Paraguayan officials c [...] | 2008-10-24 18:41:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PINS PGOV PREL PA BR AR ES |
08ASUNCION97 | PROPOSAL FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY08 ESF AND INCLE FUNDS [...] (U) Embassy Asuncion submits the following anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) proposal for FY 2008 ESF and INCLE funding (reftel). This proposal details the second phase of an IOM project funded by G/TIP in 2006 and completed in July 2007. Cynthia Bendlin, WHA winner of the 2008 Secretary's [...] | 2008-02-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG BR AR PA |
08BEIJING1210 | TIBET: MFA ORGANIZES TIGHTLY CONTROLLED TRIP TO [...] (C) With less than 24-hours notice to participating Embassies, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Government, organized an overnight trip to Lhasa March 28 to 29. Fifteen Beijing-based diplomats, including PolOff, participated. Diplomats we [...] | 2008-03-31 13:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF NP IN JA BR GM CA IT |
08BEIJING2104 | THE U.S.-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, WORKING [...] (U) May 26, 2008; 1:30 p.m.; Beijing, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse 2. (U) Participants: U.S. David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights, and Labor John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secret [...] | 2008-05-30 10:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KOLY NK BR CH |
08BEIJING3703 | MFA AND RUSSIAN EMBASSY PREVIEW SEPTEMBER 25 BRIC [...] (C) At least three Foreign Ministers from Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRIC" nations) will meet September 25 on the margins of the UN General Assembly (UNGA),according to a Chinese MFA official. Items for discussion will include international development cooperation and the Millenniu [...] | 2008-09-24 10:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON SENV ENRG CH RU BR IN |
08BEIJING4023 | MFA REVIEWS SEPTEMBER 25 BRIC FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) Responding to ongoing global financial turbulence, climate change and issues related to the G8-plus-5 grouping were the topics at the September 25 meeting of foreign ministers from Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRIC forum"),according to an MFA contact. Despite the regional and cu [...] | 2008-10-22 09:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | BR CH ECON EG ENRG GG IN MX PREL RS SENV SF |
08BEIJING4253 | CHINA'S GROWING ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH LATIN [...] (C) Summary. Chinese President Hu Jintao,s November 16-20 visit to Latin America, which includes stops in Peru for the APEC summit, Costa Rica, and Cuba, is intended to strengthen China,s rapidly growing economic relations with the region, according to Embassy contacts. To spur further trade [...] | 2008-11-18 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | BR CN CS CU ECON ETRD MX PE PREL XM EINV |
08BOGOTA1715 | BRAZIL PUSHES SOUTH AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim briefed Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos on April 28 on the GOB proposal to create a South American Security Council and pushed hard for the GOC to sign up. Santos told us the GOC fears the initiative may duplicate UN and OAS efforts, suspects Ve [...] | 2008-05-09 18:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MOPS PTER PHUM BR CO |
08BOGOTA337 | CJCS ADMIRAL MULLEN'S JANUARY 17 MEETING WITH [...] (S) President Uribe's overwhelming concern during a January 17 meeting with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Admiral Michael Mullen, was Hugo Chavez' aggressive remarks and proposal to grant belligerent status to the FARC. Uribe insisted the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia [...] | 2008-01-28 17:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MARR MOPS VZ AR BH BR CI CS |
08BOGOTA683 | GOC TO FACILITATE NEW FARC HOSTAGE RELEASE, [...] (C) President Uribe said the GOC will facilitate the possible release of four more political hostages held by the FARC, including allowing Venezuelan helicopters to use San Jose de Guaviare airport. Peace Commissioner Restrepo told us the February 21 meeting with Uribe and French FM Kouchner [...] | 2008-02-25 21:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PTER PHUM OAS BR CU FR PM SP SZ |
08BRASILIA1000 | USDA UNDER SECRETARY KEENUM CO-CHAIRS 3RD U.S.-BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Mark Keenum, USDA Under Secretary Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services co-chaired the 3rd U.S.-Brazil Consultative Committee on Agriculture in Brasilia May 19-20, 2008 which was successful in expanding bilateral dialogue and in nudging the agricultural trade agenda with Br [...] | 2008-07-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1002 | BRAZIL: FOUR SENATORS TAKE ON THE FOURTH FLEET [...] (SBU) Summary. Four members of the Senate Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee visited Ambassador Sobel on July 9 to express objections to the re-establishment of the Fourth Fleet, and called on President Bush to reverse it. They asked the Ambassador to transmit their objections [...] | 2008-07-24 16:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL XM BR |
08BRASILIA1003 | BRAZIL,S HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY: FOLLOWING THE [...] (SBU) Bolstered by economic success, the GOB demands equal footing with all nations, especially when it comes to foreign policy, and its human rights policy is no exception. Brazil's Constitution mandates that the second prevailing principle of its international relations is human rights. Even [...] | 2008-07-24 16:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA1035 | UPDATE AND ACTION REQUEST ON ABADIA EXTRADITION [...] (C) As a follow up to ref a instructions, Post, on July 24, 2008, once again contacted Ministry of Justice Legal Advisor, Rafael Tomaz Favetti regarding the expulsion of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia (Chupeta). Favetti advised Post that he had encountered stiffer opposition within the Ministry t [...] | 2008-07-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM CJAN PREL CVIS SNAR BR |
08BRASILIA1048 | Brazil: Post-Doha - early public reaction [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 15:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1061 | BRAZIL'S NEXT GENERATION FIGHTER COMPETITION TAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Meeting the July 31, deadline for responses to Brazil's request for information (RFI) on a next generation fighter aircraft (FX2),Boeing and Lockheed Martin submitted their proposals on July 30 and 31 respectively. The Brazilian Air Force (BRAF) is expected to review the propo [...] | 2008-08-05 14:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR BR ETTC |
08BRASILIA1069 | NEXT STEPS ON ABADIA EXTRADITION CASE AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. Post appreciates Department and DOJ assistance in determining next steps on securing the extradition of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia ("Chupeta") and requests the guidance discussed ref A on an urgent basis, as ongoing investigations into Abadia's activities in Br [...] | 2008-08-06 20:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM CJAN PREL CVIS SNAR BR |
08BRASILIA1079 | BRAZIL: MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS ON SHOOTDOWN [...] (C) On August 5, POLMILOFF met with Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Special Advisor Marcos Pinta Gama and discussed U.S.-Brazil cooperation on shootdown-related issues. (Note: Pinta Gama, a key embassy contact, is chief of staff to Secretary General (vice minister) Samuel Pinheiro Guim [...] | 2008-08-08 11:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR MOPS PREL SNAR |
08BRASILIA1102 | BRAZIL GENERALLY SUPPORTS CREATING NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary. At an August 14 meeting with Environment, Science and Technology Counselor, the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division for Disarmament and Sensitive Technol [...] | 2008-08-15 11:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AORC ETTC BR |
08BRASILIA1111 | 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DRAFT DECLARATION OF [...] As per reftel, post discussed preparations for the April 2009 Summit of the Americas with Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs Division of American States Deputy Director Antonio Franca. Franca said that Brazil was still reviewing the draft declaration and would have specific comments later [...] | 2008-08-15 20:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1112 | CLIMATE CHANGE: BRAZIL WILL CONSIDER USG NOMINATION FOR [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Environment, Science and Technology Counselor met on August 15 with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Director of the Division of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development, Cou [...] | 2008-08-15 21:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG KSCA SENV AORC BR |
08BRASILIA1113 | BRAZIL SUPPORTIVE OF ATCM MEASURE ESTABLISHING THE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Environment, Science and Technology Counselor met on August 14 with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Director of the Department for the Environment and Special Themes, Min. Luis Alb [...] | 2008-08-15 21:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY BR |
08BRASILIA1118 | DUE DILIGENCE FOR BRASILIA NOMINEE GOOGLE EARTH OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Post Brasilia reaffirms that the conduct of Google Earth Outreach, building conservation partnerships with indigenous leaders and practitioners in the Amazon forests of Brazil, has been exemplary and deserving of consideration for State's 2008 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). An aw [...] | 2008-08-18 19:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV SENV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1120 | CONTROVERSY OVER BRAZIL,S AMNESTY LAW INFLAMES OLD [...] (U) On August 31, Brazilian Justice Mininster Tarso Genro called for prosecution of members of the Brazilian military involved with violations of human rights, including torture, during Brazil,s 1964-85 military government. This would call for a revision of the 1979 law on amnesty which hal [...] | 2008-08-19 15:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR MARR PGOV PHUM |
08BRASILIA1122 | EXPANDING THE ENERGY REALTIONSHIP WITH BRAZIL: KUPFER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Acting Deputy Secretary of Energy Jeffery Kupfer and his delegation visited Brazil August 4 - 7. They met with a wide variety of private sector and government officials to discuss a broad range of energy issues. In Rio on August 4, Kupfer discussed primarily oil issues, in Bras [...] | 2008-08-21 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG EINV SENV KSCA BR IN |
08BRASILIA1124 | SHOOTDOWN: VISIT TO CINDACTA IV [...] In late July, a team from MLO Brasilia and SOUTHCOM visited CINDACTA IV, the regional air traffic control center responsible for almost fifty percent of Brazil's territory and controlling the most commonly used routes for drug traffickers. The team reported that the CINDACTA was working effi [...] | 2008-08-22 13:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR MOPS BR |
08BRASILIA1128 | BRAZIL: Trade, Taxes and Investment - CAMEX Lytha Spindola [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting August 20 between Ambassador Sobel and CAMEX (see para 7) Executive Secretary Lytha Spindola, Spindola hinted strongly that MRE is becoming extremely interested in pursuing 4 plus 1 conversations on trade with the United States. She expressed optimism that forward m [...] | 2008-08-25 16:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA113 | CODEL NELSON VISIT TO BRASILIA AND BELEM [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Senator Bill Nelson visited Brazil November 27-30, 2007, focusing primarily on environmental issues, biofuels, and national security matters. He met with key Brazilians in the national gove [...] | 2008-01-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP SENV KGHG EAGR TRGY BR |
08BRASILIA1151 | SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 2 VISIT OF [...] (U) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it has ever been, the result of the excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, new cooperation mechanisms on biofuels, business issues, and econom [...] | 2008-08-27 20:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1159 | BRAZIL LAUNCHES ITS AMAZON FUND, BUT WHO WILL CONTRIBUTE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On August 1, President Lula signed Decree 6527 calling on the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) to create the "Fundo Amazonia" (or Amazon Fund),a new tool to help reduce Brazil's [...] | 2008-09-02 11:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG EFIN NO BR |
08BRASILIA1160 | BRAZIL: Airport Administrator INFRAERO Meeting [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting between Ambassador Sobel and the head of INFRAERO, Sergio Guadenzi, Guadenzi provided a brief overview of civil aviation administration in Brazil, discussed airport profitability and privatization proposals, reviewed cargo infrastructure, and noted a decision on Gu [...] | 2008-09-02 12:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1170 | SHOOTDOWN: Brazilian Air Defense Procedures [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Paragraph 2 contains an Embassy translation of the text of the procedures under which Brazil's Air Defense Authorities can order a shootdown under Brazilian law. These procedures were provided by the Braizilian Air Force and should be treated as an internal Brazilian [...] | 2008-09-04 16:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER FARC BR |
08BRASILIA1172 | NREL EXPERT ON RENEWABLE ENERGY RECEIVES RAVE REVIEWS IN [...] Renewable energies expert Dr. Doug Arent from the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) spoke at a series of events in Chile and Argentina on energy technology and energy efficiency, issues of primary importance to the national security of these two countries. Dr. Arent's visit was [...] | 2008-09-05 11:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG ECON CI AR XR BR |
08BRASILIA1176 | BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. Brazil biofuels steering committee met at the technical level on August 20 in Brasilia, following the postponement of travel to Brazil by Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Reuben Jeffery. The meeting included a highly constructive private sector element and a very p [...] | 2008-09-05 20:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAGR ETRD ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA1183 | GEORGIA: BRAZILIAN VIEWS ON SITUATION [...] (C) Post has held a series of discussions with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) using the points and themes contained in reftels. Consistent with its normal practice, the Brazilian government has avoided taking a strong position on a situation distant from Brazil's borders [...] | 2008-09-08 11:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA12 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR FINDS OPPORTUNTIES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH [...] SUMMARY. Ambassador Clifford Sobel met with Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao on December 12 to advance the public health cooperation agenda. The Ambassador said the USG would work with the Health Ministry, the NGO "Malaria No More," and the State of Amazonas to develop a program [...] | 2008-01-03 19:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI EAID KHIV BR |
08BRASILIA1214 | 2008 RECOMMENDATION FOR RENEWAL OF PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In accordance with ref a instructions, Post has conducted an extensive review of Brazil's Air Bridge Denial (ABD)/Shootdown program. Following site visits, conversations with Brazilian government officials and analysis of Brazil's shootdown procedures, (reftels) post has a clea [...] | 2008-09-11 18:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL MOPS BR |
08BRASILIA1215 | Brazilian Concerns over Bolivian Gas Disruptions [...] (C) Summary: Calling the situation "worrisome," Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy Assistant Secretary for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Renewables, Limo Neto, shared with Econoff the breaking news that gas flow from Bolivia was decreasing, although the majority of the supply to Brazil remains [...] | 2008-09-11 18:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG ECON EPET EINV BR BL |
08BRASILIA1217 | BRAZIL: BTT-Receita Federal Lina Vieira and Ambassador [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the new head of Receita Federal, Lina Vieira and the chief international tax negotiator Marcus Pontes, Vieira appeared focused, well-briefed and clearly knowledgeable both on general tax issues and very aware of domestic political atmospherics. She understood [...] | 2008-09-12 11:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1218 | LULA, AMORIM DISCUSS CONTINUITY, IRAN, VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary: During separate meetings with Senator Hagel, President Lula and Foreign Minister Amorim shared common views about the need for the next U.S. Administration to continue building on the remarkable progress achieved in the past several years in bringing the two countries closer. Bo [...] | 2008-09-12 13:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO ETRD PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1219 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 112 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2008-09-12 15:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA1224 | Bolivian Gas in Brazil: Stable But Waiting For The Shoe To [...] (C) SUMMARY: As of September 12, Brazil's gas supply had stabilized following first a minor (10 percent) and then major (50 percent) disruption in Brazilian imports of Bolivian natural gas during the preceding two days as the result of a domestic political struggle in Bolivia. Flow remains dow [...] | 2008-09-12 20:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG ECON EPET EINV BR BL |
08BRASILIA1226 | WHAT TO DO ABOUT BOLIVIA? BRAZIL'S PRESIDENCY, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 23:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENGR EPET EINV BR BL |
08BRASILIA124 | BRAZIL'S LONG-TERM PLANNING MINISTER OUTLINES [...] (C) Summary. Over the course of two meetings with the Ambassador (accompanied by PolCouns, DAO, and MLO representatives) and a briefing with Department of Defense officials in Cambridge, Long-Term Planning Minister Roberto Mangabeira Unger has laid out his vision for a U.S.-Brazil partnership [...] | 2008-01-24 19:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM SOCI SENV ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1252 | 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: BRAZILIAN PRIORITIES [...] Poloff discussed this year's UNGA with Ministry of External Relations (MRE) UN Division Director Gilda Neves. Brazil will be represented by President Lula and Foreign Mininster Amorim. Both will have extensive schedules of bilateral meetings. Lula is spending more time than planned in New Y [...] | 2008-09-19 20:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA BR |
08BRASILIA1253 | BRAZIL VIEWS ON BOLIVIA CRISIS, EXPULSION OF US [...] (C) PolCounselor delievered ref A demarche September 19 to Ambassador Marcel Biato, foreign policy advisor at the Brazilian presidency (Planalto). Biato asked if the decision to expel the Bolivian and Venezuelan ambassadors to the U.S. was "considered" or "reciprocal." PolCouns responded the [...] | 2008-09-19 22:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR BO |
08BRASILIA1257 | BRAZIL- DEMARCHE DELIVERED -OFAC NARCOTICS KINGPIN ACT [...] (SBU) On September 18, 2008 ECONOFF delivered reftel demarche to the Council for the Control of Financial Activities (COAF) at the Ministry of Finance. COAF officials Joaquim da Cunha Neto and Bernardo Mota took delivery of the document, which outlined the reasons behind the designation of thr [...] | 2008-09-22 14:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER PINR EFIN VE BR SNAR AND KCRM PREL |
08BRASILIA126 | Brazil: Biofuels Meeting with MRE's Division of Renewable [...] Summary: EconOffs and ESTHOffs met January 22 with Ministry of External Relations (MRE) interlocutors to discuss next steps on our Biofuels MOU, and used the opportunity to introduce the MRE to new economic deputy and energy officer. Claudia Vieira Santos and Marcelo Solomao Martinez clarifie [...] | 2008-01-25 12:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET PREL BR |
08BRASILIA1261 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNODC SELF-ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) On September 16, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the director of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) Office of Transnational Crimes, Virginia Toniatti. Asked if Brazil would complete the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) self-assessment checklist, which Bra [...] | 2008-09-22 20:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS UN PG BR |
08BRASILIA1265 | LULA, AMORIM DISCUSS TRADE, CUBA, UNSC REFORM WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 21:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PAO ETRD PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1266 | BRAZIL FOREIGN MINISTRY ON BOLIVIA SITUATION [...] (C) PolCounselor delivered ref A demarche on September 22 to the Brazilian Foreign Ministry South America 1 Division (Mercosul countries) Chief, Minister Joao Luis Pereira Pinto, who is handling all of South America in the absence of his counterpart who handles the Andes and Under Secretary for [...] | 2008-09-22 21:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PREF BR BO |
08BRASILIA1267 | SENATOR HAGEL DISCUSSES ENERGY, REGIONAL POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Chuck Hagel visited Brasilia from August 31 to September 1, during which time he met with key leaders in the Brazilian government, including Minister of Defense Jobim, Minister of Mines and Energy Lobao, and Minister for Strategic Affairs Unger, to discuss Brazil,s dynam [...] | 2008-09-22 21:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PAO ETRD PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1289 | BRAZIL: DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON APPLICATION OF IAEA SAFEGUARDS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 19:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP TRGY BR |
08BRASILIA129 | BRAZILIAN DEFENSE MINISTER ON DCA, TRIP TO FRANCE [...] (C) Summary. Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told the Ambassador January 17 that he would like to sign a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA, ref A) when he visits Washington in March, but that he faces stiff opposition in the Ministry of External Relations (MRE or Itamaraty). He brie [...] | 2008-01-25 14:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAIR PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA1290 | Brazil Municipal Elections: Belo Horizonte Race Will Test [...] (SBU) Summary: Although all Brazilian cities elect mayors and city councils on October 5, the municipal elections in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo have the most potential to affect the national political situation. In Belo Horizonte, Brazil's sixth largest city located in the state of Minas G [...] | 2008-09-29 20:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA1291 | BRAZIL: MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS: UPDATED [...] Per REFTEL, Post's officers responsible for handling requests for marine scientific research authorizations are as follows: - Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor Richard J. Driscoll - tel. 55 61 3312-7401, email DriscollRJ@state.gov (through summer 2010) - ESTH [...] | 2008-09-29 20:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KRVC EWWT KSCA SENV BR |
08BRASILIA1292 | BRAZIL: DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON PROPOSED IMPORT OF LOW LEVEL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 14:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP TRGY BR |
08BRASILIA1294 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 113 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2008-09-30 16:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA1299 | Brazil Responds to U.S. Financial Crisis [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the U.S. financial crisis, Brazil's Central Bank (CB) has partially reversed its hawkish anti-inflationary policies by adding 13.2 billion reais to the financial system in hopes of freeing up credit and has indicated that future interest rate hikes are unlikel [...] | 2008-10-01 11:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA13 | BRAZIL: SEN. BILL NELSON'S MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. During a November 27 conversation with Senator Bill Nelson (Florida),the Ministry of Exterior Relations' (MRE) Under Secretary for Policy, Ambassador Everton Vieira Vargas, discussed relati [...] | 2008-01-03 19:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP SENV KGHG KPKO EAGR TRGY PREL HA VE BR |
08BRASILIA130 | BRAZIL: USTR OCR MEETING WITH GOB OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On January 15, Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative (DAUSTR) Chris Wilson and delegation met privately with Hadil Vianna, Director for Scientific and Technical Affairs (DCT) at the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) and later with members of the [...] | 2008-01-25 18:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1301 | BRAZIL'S LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SUMMIT: [...] (C) Summary. Brazilian officials are describing the first-ever Latin America/Caribbean Summit, to be held in Salvador, Bahia December 16-17, as an opportunity for the region to discuss its own agenda. With no more than an indicative focus on integration and development as the stated theme of [...] | 2008-10-01 13:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM BR |
08BRASILIA131 | MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING II: BRAZIL DELEGATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian delegation to the second Major Economies Meeting (MEM2) in Honolulu has changed little in terms of personnel. What we do see, however, is a remarkable change in terms of their [...] | 2008-01-25 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA1312 | WHA TARGETED REQUESTS FOR AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY [...] (SBU) PolCouns delivered the demarche on September 24 to Minister Marcos Pinta Gama in the Foreign Ministry's General Secretariat of Foreign Relations, and Poloff delivered it on September 29 to First Secretary Marisa Kenicke, the Afghanistan desk officer. Pinta Gama noted that Brazil had a [...] | 2008-10-03 11:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF BR |
08BRASILIA1314 | SUPREME COURT WIRETAP SCANDAL CHANGES FACE OF [...] (C) Summary: Long-running suspicions that phone calls of high-level Brazilian officials from all three branches of government are being intercepted became the latest front-page scandal when Veja magazine reported that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) had tapped conversations between a [...] | 2008-10-03 14:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PTER PINS BR |
08BRASILIA1315 | BRAZIL: WIRETAP SCANDAL HIGHLIGHTS POWER STRUGGLE [...] Summary: Revelations that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) may have been wiretapping Supreme Court (STF) President Gilmar Mendes' calls (reftel) have reinvigorated Congressional inquiries into abusive wiretapping practices and will likely lead to legislation providing oversight over wi [...] | 2008-10-03 15:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL PTER BR |
08BRASILIA1320 | BRAZIL: LOCAL ELECTIONS AN EARLY SIGNAL OF TOP [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 5, Brazilians will elect mayors and city council members in all cities except Brasilia. It is increasingly looking like the results will define the 2010 presidential election as a contest between Dilma Rousseff (PT),the president's chief of staff and clear favorite, [...] | 2008-10-03 19:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA1325 | BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR CEO FORUM - OCT 9/10 - SECRETARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 13:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1330 | BRAZIL: BRAZIL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: FIRST ROUND [...] (U) Summary: During local elections held on Sunday, October 5, in over 5500 Brazilian cities and towns (but not in Brasilia, as the DF has a governor but no mayor),Brazilians voted for mayors and city councils peacefully without incident. In state capitals they generally re-elected mayors or [...] | 2008-10-07 20:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA1332 | Growth Trends in Brazilian Telecommunications [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian Ministry of Communications (MOC) staff noted in a recent meeting that information technology use has increased by 40% over 2006 in the mobile service sector, by 35% in the internet service sector and by 30% in the pay TV service sector. The MOC also confirmed the rumo [...] | 2008-10-08 14:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT MARR PINR TINT TSPA BR |
08BRASILIA1334 | BRAZIL: UPDATE ON SPACE COOPERATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 1, 2008, Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor met with Luis Maria Pio Correa, the Acting Director of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Oceans, [...] | 2008-10-08 17:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TSPA TSPL SENV BR |
08BRASILIA1335 | NEXT MOVES IN BRAZILIAN ENERGY ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) Based on a conversation between Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) Minister Lobao and Ambassador Sobel on October 6, Deputy MME Minister Zimmermann is expected to come to the United State in late October, to be followed by a visit at a later date by Minister Lobao. The trip is e [...] | 2008-10-08 17:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG BR IN EINV KSCA |
08BRASILIA1345 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ADM. STAVRIDIS TO [...] SUMMARY. Your visit comes at an important time for our strategic partnership with Brazil. Overall, the U.S.-Brazil relationship is as productive as it has ever been, driven by strong cooperation between Presidents Bush and Lula, particularly in the area of biofuels. As Brazil completes its [...] | 2008-10-10 13:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS ETTC BR |
08BRASILIA1353 | BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERIES: OFAC KINGPIN ACT DESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) On October 3, 2008 Econoff delivered ref A and B demarches to the Council for the Control of Financial Activities (COAF) at the Ministry of Finance. COAF official Bernardo Mota took delivery of ref A document regarding the Department of the Treasury's (DOT) Office of Foreign Assets Contr [...] | 2008-10-10 19:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER PINR EFIN NU CI UY PA PM CA VE BR AR |
08BRASILIA1354 | BRAZIL: UPDATE ON BRAZIL'S AMBITIOUS CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) has ambitious plans for Brazil's nuclear renaissance. It intends to complete construction of its third nuclear power plant (Angra 3) located near Rio de Janei [...] | 2008-10-10 19:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA1356 | BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER 16-17 VISIT OF [...] (C) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it as ever been, the result of the excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, new cooperation mechanisms on biofuels, the CEO Forum, racial integr [...] | 2008-10-10 20:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
08BRASILIA1362 | Brazil: U/S Jeffery - Central Bank and External Relations [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 10:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1365 | IMPACT OF OLYMPICS ON VIEWS TOWARD CHINA [...] (SBU) This cable transmits Brasilia's responses to questions (reftel) about the impact that China's hosting of the Olympic Games has had on views of China. A) How closely did the public follow the Beijing Olympic Games? The Brazilian public followed the games with great interest, especial [...] | 2008-10-15 20:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PGOV PREL BR CH |
08BRASILIA1366 | BRAZIL: THIRD MEETING OF USG GOB BIOFUELS STEERING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III, Special Advisor Greg Manuel and PDAS Craig Kelly participated in the third USG-GOB Biofuels Steering Committee meeting on October 3. The Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) new Under Secretary f [...] | 2008-10-16 11:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1373 | BRAZIL'S FIGHTER COMPETITION - THE IMPORTANCE OF [...] (U) This is an action request -- see paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On September 29th, the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) announced its three finalists for Brazil's next generation fighter aircraft (FX2): the Boeing F18 Super Hornet, the Dassault Rafale and the Saab Gripen. The winner of the c [...] | 2008-10-16 20:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PREL MARR ETTC |
08BRASILIA1377 | BRAZIL-DEFORESTATION: GREAT CONCERN BUT LITTLE ASSISTANCE, [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. At a September 8 meeting, representatives of key European and Asia-Pacific countries outlined their current and planned financial and technical assistance to Brazil to help combat deforestati [...] | 2008-10-20 09:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID KGHG EFIN NO BR |
08BRASILIA1378 | BRAZIL DEFORESTATION UPDATE - OCTOBER, 2008 [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) had another bad month in August in its efforts to reduce the rate of deforestation: the rate more than tripled compared to August 2007. Against this backdrop, [...] | 2008-10-20 09:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA1393 | BRAZIL: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOFUELS, NOVEMBER [...] SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) is hosting an International Conference on Biofuels from November 17 through 21 in Sao Paulo. Brazilian President Lula will speak twice at the conference; and President Bush has been invited to participate. Post and the GOB hope to have the U.S. represe [...] | 2008-10-23 12:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP ECON ENRG EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1396 | U.S. FOREST SERVICE COLLABORATION ADVANCES BRAZILIAN FOREST [...] Following a two-week workshop lead by U.S. Forest Service (USFS) experts, the Brazilian Center for Forest Fire Fighting and Prevention (PREVFOGO/IBAMA) agreed to take the lead in forming a National Wildfire Coordination Group, which will be responsible for elaborating and implementing a Brazil [...] | 2008-10-23 17:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA1398 | Ambassador Schulte Visit to Brasilia - Nuclear Issues [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an October 13 visit to Brasilia, Ambassador Gregory Schulte discussed Iran, Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) issues and Brazil's nuclear program. Brazil wants to play a constructive role with the UN on nuclear issues, particularly with Iran. Completing an Additional Pro [...] | 2008-10-24 16:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG MNUC PARM UN BR |
08BRASILIA1399 | BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY (IBAMA) TO TAKE [...] SUMMARY. In an effort to improve handling of trade in products covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) will assume responsibility for all imports and exports. Pursuant to a rule th [...] | 2008-10-24 17:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1405 | BRAZILIANS HIGHLIGHT POSITIVE BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (C) During his October 17 visit to Brazil, Under Secretary Bill Burns was told repeatedly by GOB officials and others that relations between the United States and Brazil are excellent and that they hope a new U.S. administration will make an early effort to build on them. GOB officials focused [...] | 2008-10-24 20:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG BR |
08BRASILIA1406 | BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR USDEL TO PREP MEETING FOR THE JOINT [...] SUMMARY: The overall relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it has ever been, with an excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. A variety of cooperative mechanisms have been created or revitalized in [...] | 2008-10-27 09:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV ENRG BR |
08BRASILIA1407 | Brazil: WTO Amb Azevedo Meeting with DUSTR Veroneau [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 09:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIND EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1414 | Brazil: Incumbents, PMDB Win in Second Round Mayoral [...] (U) Summary. In second round voting for mayors in thirty Brazilian cities, candidates from the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and incumbents did well, while President Lula's Workers' Party (PT) lost in Sao Paulo, Salvador, and Porto Alegre, but did well in the industrial cities su [...] | 2008-10-28 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA1417 | Brazil Enacts Preventive Measures to Address Global [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the global financial crisis, Brazilian President Lula signed Provisional Measure 443 (MP443) October 22 that allows two federal institutions, the Bank of Brazil (BB),and Caixa Economica, the right to purchase stock in Brazilian banks, private or public, as a pre [...] | 2008-10-28 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1418 | Brazil: Scenesetter - Economic Partnership Dialogue October [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The third meeting of the Economic Partnership Dialogue (EPD) provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce the importance USG attaches to deepening and expanding the positive economic agenda between the United States and Brazil now, through the transition, and into a new Adminis [...] | 2008-10-29 09:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1427 | BRAZIL'S RESPONSE TO INFO GATHERING REQUEST SUMMIT [...] (U) The following is in response to Ref A action request for information gathering leading up to the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy in Washington, November 15, 2008. Post also recommends Refs B, C, E, F and G which all address Brazil's reaction and response to the U.S. fin [...] | 2008-10-31 09:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA1435 | BRAZIL: NEW DELHI IBAS SUMMIT ENSURES CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazilian diplomats say Brazil was satisfied with the October 15 India)Brazil-South Africa (IBAS) Summit in New Delhi because it strengthened IBAS and should ensure its continuity after the upcoming changes in member state governments. The IBAS Fund is capitalized at only tw [...] | 2008-11-03 11:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD IN SF BR |
08BRASILIA1460 | U.S. CANDIDACY FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 19:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN AORC PGOV PREL XK XL XS BR |
08BRASILIA1462 | BRAZIL'S NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN - NON-BINDING, [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) has released its draft National Plan for Climate Change, which it intends to submit at the Poznan UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference [...] | 2008-11-06 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG EAGR KGHG ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA1463 | Brazil: Views on G20 meetings [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazilian officials across GOB welcome the G20 approach to address the global financial crisis. External Relations Ministry, Finance Ministry and Central Bank emphasize the G20 must be seen as a mechanism to develop concrete proposals that take emerging economy input into accou [...] | 2008-11-07 13:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1465 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 114 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2008-11-07 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA1471 | BRAZIL DEMARCHE DELIVERY: UNITED STATES COMPROMISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to reftel points, the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL) raised concerns that consolidating working party activities could diminish focus on international mobile telecommunications work. ANATEL looks forward to discussing these issues further with [...] | 2008-11-13 09:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIP ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1472 | BRAZIL: CLIMATE CHANGE ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) REFTEL A asked how the Brazilian government may have changed organizationally with respect to climate change over the past 12-18 months. Post's answers are keyed to questions. 3. (SBU) HAS YOUR [...] | 2008-11-13 09:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG BR |
08BRASILIA1477 | BRAZIL: UPDATE ON NUCLEAR MATTERS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Per November 10 meeting with the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS),the Government of Brazil (GOB) has n [...] | 2008-11-13 14:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM BR |
08BRASILIA1479 | Brazil: Obama's Victory Unleashes Outpouring of [...] (SBU) Summary. Official statements and media reactions to the election of Barack Obama have been overwhelmingly positive, and political and opinion leaders have expressed hopes that the already good bilateral relationship will improve. Brazilians elites have high expectations that Obama will [...] | 2008-11-13 17:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1482 | Brazil: Cachaga and Tennessee Whiskey [...] (SBU) Summary: William Foster, Assistant Administrator of the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB),met with Agriculture, External Relations, and Receita Federal (Brazilian Customs) on October 29th to propose a Memorandum of Understanding, discuss new Brazilian a [...] | 2008-11-13 19:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1486 | BRAZIL WILL OPEN AN EMBASSY IN PYONGYANG [...] (C) Summary. Brazil will open an embassy in Pyongyang next year, and has already selected an experienced diplomat as ambassador, an Itamaraty official told poloff on November 4. Downplaying the opening's significance, the diplomat said the timing was "spontaneous" but fulfills a long-standi [...] | 2008-11-14 18:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PARM PHUM BR KN ZO |
08BRASILIA1487 | SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 20 BILATERAL DEFENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The revival of the Bilateral Working Group (BWG) with Brazil comes at an important time for our strategic partnership. With Nelson Jobim as Defense Minister, Brazil has, for the first time, effective civilian leadership and a mandate to modernize its armed forces. As Brazil co [...] | 2008-11-14 18:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PREL MARR MOPS |
08BRASILIA1493 | COUNTERTERRORISM IN BRAZIL: JUDGE BLASTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a conference on international organized crime held by the Brazil-based International Forum of Justice in Campo Grande, Matto Grosso do Sul from October 15-17, federal judge Odilon de Oliveira delivered a speech that was blistering in its criticism of the Brazilian governm [...] | 2008-11-17 12:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS PTER EFIN PREL PGOV AR PA CO BR |
08BRASILIA1523 | Brazil: Economic Partnership Dialogue meetings [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazilian External Relations Ministry (MRE) U/S Mendonca welcomed the continuation of the Economic Partnership Dialogue (EPD) in the October 30 meeting with WHA A/S Tom Shannon and EEB A/S Dan Sullivan. The EPD agreed to expanded substantive cooperation in third countries on de [...] | 2008-11-24 18:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1528 | DISASTER DECLARATION FOR SEVERE FLOODING IN SANTA CATARINA [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. The Charge has determined, based upon information from Brazil's Secretariat for Civil Defense and Santa Catarina State Government, that the severe destruction due to recent record rains, flooding, and mudslides is of sufficient magnitude to w [...] | 2008-11-25 17:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TBIO SENV BR |
08BRASILIA1529 | NNSA ADMINISTRATOR SEEKS BRAZIL SUPPORT FOR NSG PROPOSAL ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 5, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator D'Agostino met with senior officials of the Government of Brazil (GOB) - Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Und [...] | 2008-11-25 17:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA1532 | BRAZIL RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON NICARAGUAN MUNICIPAL [...] (C) Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche November 25 to Ambassador Goncalo de Barros Carvalho e Mello Mourao, director of the Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Department at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. Morao said that Brazil had expressed in the OAS its "apprehensiveness" wi [...] | 2008-11-25 19:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BR NU |
08BRASILIA1538 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS AT [...] (C) On Tuesday, November 25, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Secretario Ricardo Rizzo from the United Nations Division of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations. Rizzo sincerely thanked poloff for the detailed information breaking down the number of anti-Israeli resolutions compared [...] | 2008-11-28 16:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY BR |
08BRASILIA1539 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE [...] (C) On Tuesday, November 25, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Secretary Ricardo Rizzo from the United Nations Division of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Rizzo noted that he did not expect Brazil's vote to change, but that he would consult with the Division of Disarmamen [...] | 2008-11-28 16:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL UNGA BR |
08BRASILIA1542 | BRAZIL: (SOME) PARLIAMENTARIANS SIGN PETITION [...] Seventy-five Brazilian federal deputies signed and forwarded to this Embassy a petition addressed to the U.S. Congress asking it to "intercede with representatives of the UN General Assembly to suspend the financial, commercial, and economic blockade imposed on Cuba, a matter voted on in the [...] | 2008-12-01 19:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL BR CU |
08BRASILIA1543 | BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CAUTIOUS ON IRAN, BUT [...] (C) Summary: During separate meetings, both Ambassador Everton Vargas, Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations, and Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao, confirmed to Ambassador Sobel that Petrobras is not planning any further investments in Iran [...] | 2008-12-02 15:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR IR |
08BRASILIA1552 | Brazil: Investment Agreement Discussion on EPD Margins [...] (SBU) Summary: DOS and USTR representatives met with Brazilian Ministry of External Relations officials Carlos Marcio Cozendey, Minister, Director of the Economic Development Department and Marcello Salum, Gabinete to the Under-Secretary for Economic and Technology Affairs, on October 29, in ad [...] | 2008-12-04 09:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1553 | BRAZIL'S BIOFUELS CONFERENCE - MANDATES NEEDED, [...] SUMMARY: The International Biofuels Conference hosted by the Brazilian government in Sao Paulo from November 17-21, may have changed the focus of the international debate over biofuels. Despite some criticisms of U.S. corn-based ethanol and tariffs, the participants from over 90 countries over [...] | 2008-12-04 09:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1557 | BRAZIL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY UNDERSTANDS DEA ROLE IN [...] (SBU) On November 18, Ambassador Sobel met with Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Under Secretary for Political Affairs Ambassador Everton Vargas to inform him of our intention to increase DEA staff in our offices in Brasilia and Sao Paulo in light of the Bolivian government's dec [...] | 2008-12-04 11:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL BR BO |
08BRASILIA1559 | BRAZILIANS, KOREANS SAY RELATIONS GOOD, GETTING [...] (C) Summary. The four-day visit to Brazil by Korean President Lee Myung-bak reaffirmed an already positive relationship characterized by a rapidly growing but unbalanced trade relationship, plans for modest exchanges in agricultural and mining technology, and very different views on UN refor [...] | 2008-12-04 16:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV ETRD BR KS KN |
08BRASILIA1565 | GERMANY SEEKS TO EXPAND ITS SUBSTANIAL ASSISTANCE TO BRAZIL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Germany has long been the leading contributor of financial and technical assistance to Brazil on deforestation and climate change. It is looking to expand its substantial program of technic [...] | 2008-12-05 18:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA KGHG BR GM |
08BRASILIA1567 | BRAZIL SEEKING REASSURANCE ON ARGENTINA WILL CONFER WITH [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On December 3, Science Counselor and Science Officer met with the Brazilian Ministry of Exterior Relations' Director of the Division for Disarmament and Sensitive Technology, Min. Santiago Mourao, to [...] | 2008-12-05 19:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY BR |
08BRASILIA1568 | BRAZIL SEEKS REASSURANCE ON REGIONAL ARRANGEMENT BEFORE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On December 3, Science Counselor and Science Officer met with the Brazilian Ministry of Exterior Relations' Director of the Division for Disarmament and Sensitive Technology, Min. Santiago Mourao, to [...] | 2008-12-08 13:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY BR |
08BRASILIA1572 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 115 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2008-12-08 18:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA1588 | BRAZIL: DRUG TRAFFICKING UP, DRUG FLIGHTS DOWN, TIP ISSUES LIMITED: A REPORT FROM THE FAR NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary. Drug flights into Brazil's far north have diminished by 75 percent since the introduction of Brazil's Air Bridge Denial (shootdown) program, but Brazilian authorities say pressure from Plan Colombia has actually increased the amount of cocaine entering Brazil. The region rem [...] | 2008-12-12 15:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SOCI KCRM ELAB FARC KTIP BR VE PE CO XR |
08BRASILIA1589 | THE FX2 COMPETITION: OVERCOMING KEY CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY. A December 9 meeting with Boeing representatives highlighted several key issues for the success of Boeing,s bid for Brazil,s next generation fighter aircraft, the FX2. As noted in ref a, technology transfer continues to be Brazil,s most important criterion for selecting a figh [...] | 2008-12-12 15:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MASC BR |
08BRASILIA1590 | THE BRAZIL-RUSSIA PARTNERSHIP: COFFEE AND SYMPATHY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The late November visit to Brazil by Russian President Medvedev provided an opportunity for both countries to express their interest in enhanced economic ties, science and defense cooperation, energy and development of the BRIC grouping as a more regular international forum. Br [...] | 2008-12-12 15:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS ETRD EAGR ENGR BR RS |
08BRASILIA160 | GOVERNMENT PUSH FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS TAX [...] (SBU) Summary. In the months-long unsuccessful effort to renew the tax on financial transactions ("CPMF"),the Lula administration tried to win congressional votes by distributing jobs and federal funds, meddling in the legislative agenda, and seeking favors for key legislators. The episode [...] | 2008-01-31 15:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM KCOR EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA1603 | PRODUCTIVE U.S.-BRAZIL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIALOGUE, [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 30-31, representatives of the USG scientific and technological community met with Brazilian counterparts in Brasilia. The Brasilia meeting was generally viewed as very productive [...] | 2008-12-12 17:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KSCA SENV ECON ETRD EINV BR |
08BRASILIA1608 | BRAZIL CRIMINALIZES POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WITH [...] (U) Brazilian President Lula opened the Third International Child World Congress in Rio de Janeiro on November 25 (SEPTEL) by pulling out his pen in front of thousands of participants and signing a bill that made possession of child pornography a felony, the first time it has been criminalized [...] | 2008-12-15 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM BR |
08BRASILIA1610 | FIRST MERCOSUL-ASEAN MINISTERIAL: BABY STEPS, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. At the first Mercosul-ASEAN ministerial, delegations discussed global affairs, trade and investment, people-to people ties, and future cooperation. A joint declaration highlighted the blocs' "firm commitment to successfully concluding the Doha Round in a fair and balanced ma [...] | 2008-12-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD BR ASEAN |
08BRASILIA1612 | BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERIES: TERRORIST FINANCE DESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) On 12 December 2008, ECONOFF met Council for the Control of Financial Activities (COAF) official Bernardo Motta to follow up previous discussions regarding the recent USG designations of individuals and organizations as supporters of terrorism under Executive Order 13224 (refs A, B, and [...] | 2008-12-16 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC PTER PINR EFIN KCRM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA1617 | BRAZIL'S PORT DREDGING CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary: Brazil recently unveiled updated plans to dredge over 75 thousand cubic meters at an estimated cost of R$ 1.4 billion (USD580 million) in 16 of its largest commercial maritime ports as part of President Lula's Accelerated Growth Program (PAC). The plan, entitled the National Progra [...] | 2008-12-17 17:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV BR |
08BRASILIA1621 | Brazil Civil Aviation: Liberalization/Privatization Update [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil is currently considering Brazilian civil aviation liberalization/privatization legislation that the government hopes would result in greater direct foreign investment, domestic market liberalization, transference of air traffic functions from military to civilian control, [...] | 2008-12-17 18:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1622 | BRAZIL AND INDONESIA: A RELATIONSHIP FOR THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 18-19 visit to Brazil by Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono, Indonesia and Brazil agreed to cooperate in agriculture, including biofuels; mining; and poverty eradication. They formalized a strategic partnership for ongoing dialogue and cooperation. Brazili [...] | 2008-12-18 13:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV ENRG EAGR BR ID |
08BRASILIA1636 | BAHIA SUMMITS, PART 1: BRAZIL HOSTS FOUR REGIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over a two-day period, December 16-17, Brazil hosted a series of four summit meetings at the seaside resort of Costa do Sauipe, Bahia, involving the heads of state or high-level government officials of 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries: The Common Market of the South [...] | 2008-12-20 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KSUM ECON OAS XL XM BR |
08BRASILIA1637 | BAHIA SUMMITS, PART 2: BRINGING LATIN AMERICA AND [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with ministerial level contacts on December 18 and 19 who commented with varying degrees of detail on the series of summits (Mercosul, UNASUL, Rio Group, and Latin America/Caribbean--CALC) hosted by Brazil in Costa do Sauipe, Bahia December 16-17 (Ref A). Seni [...] | 2008-12-20 18:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN KSUM MARR XM XL BR MX CU |
08BRASILIA1638 | BAHIA SUMMITS, PART 3: THE SURPRISE OF BAHIA: [...] (C) In a meeting on December 19 with Ambassador Sobel regarding the outcome of the regional summits hosted by Brazil December 15-17 in Costa do Sauipe, Bahia (see septels),Mexican Ambassador to Brazil Andres Valencia Benavides (protect),just back from Bahia, revealed that President Calderon' [...] | 2008-12-20 18:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM ECIN MARR BR MX |
08BRASILIA1640 | BRAZIL RESPSONE TO IMPLEMENTATION OF AMENDED LACEY ACT - [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On December 9, Environment, Science and Technology, and Health (ESTH) Counselor briefed Antonio Carlos Hummel, Director for the Department of Forests, in the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) abo [...] | 2008-12-22 10:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO BR |
08BRASILIA1650 | BRAZIL: MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PETITION BARACK OBAMA [...] Seventy-one of Brazil's 81 senators and 203 of the 513 federal deputies signed a petition addressed to President-elect Obama calling for an end to the Cuba trade embargo. They represent the spectrum of ideological parties in congress and include some who are opposed to the Cuban regime. Th [...] | 2008-12-23 11:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD BR CU |
08BRASILIA1652 | UKRAINE REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN-BRAZILIAN SPACE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ukrainian Embassy in Brasilia is urging the USG to reconsider its earlier position and now support the Ukrainian-Brazilian space launch venture that will operate out of Alcantara, allowing U.S. satellite firms to benefit from these facilities. While the Ukrainians noted some [...] | 2008-12-23 15:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KTIA TSPA TPHY NASA UP RS BR |
08BRASILIA1664 | Brazil: 2008 Country Report on Terrorism [...] (U) The Brazilian government continues to be a cooperative partner in countering terrorism and related activities that could contribute to the facilitation of attacks in the region or elsewhere--to include investigating potential terrorism financing, and document forgery networks and other illi [...] | 2008-12-29 10:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV ECON CO BR |
08BRASILIA1665 | NSF DIRECTOR'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS US-BRAZIL SCIENTIFIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The visit to Brasilia and Sao Paulo by National Science Foundation (NSF) Director, Dr. Arden Bement and Brazil Program Manager from the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE),Dr. Carmina Londono, included several very productive meetings with GOB agencies an [...] | 2008-12-29 10:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL NSF KSCA SENV ENRG EAGR KIPR BR |
08BRASILIA1666 | BRAZIL: ANNUAL 2007/2008 REPORTS SHOWS MIXED RESULTS IN [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. In its annual deforestation report, the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE) concluded that for the August 2007 to July 2008 period deforestation in the Amazon Forest rose by 3 [...] | 2008-12-29 10:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG KSCA EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1669 | RELOCATING DEA PERSONNEL FROM BOLIVIA TO OTHER WHA [...] (C) Following are mission's response to ref a, para 3. a) As reported ref B, the Ambassador delivered a diplomatic note to Brazilian Foreign Ministry (MRE) Under Secretary Vargas on November x informing the GOB of our intent to increase staffing at existing DEA offices in Brasilia and Sao Pa [...] | 2008-12-29 17:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR AMGT BR |
08BRASILIA168 | BRAZILIAN RESPONSES TO INVITATIONS TO PARTICIPATE ON PANELS [...] Post has received the following responses to the invitations to Brazilians to participate on a panel or in a plenary session at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008): ACCEPTED: Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, President of Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil [...] | 2008-02-01 16:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG SENV TRGY KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA1681 | Senate Strikes Back Against Presidential Decree Authority [...] (U) Summary. The days of "legislation by presidential decree" may be numbered, after the Senate President recently took the unprecedented step of returning a decree to President Lula, and both houses of Congress again focused on curtailing the President's ability to control the legislative age [...] | 2008-12-31 16:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA1685 | BRAZIL: LAYING BLAME AT THE FEET OF ISRAEL, U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: The Brazilian government heavily criticized Israel's actions against HAMAS in Gaza, after originally suggesting it might take a more nuanced approached with its initial statements. President Lula, backed by most Brazilian media outlets, harshly criticized both Israel and the Uni [...] | 2008-12-31 19:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IR BR |
08BRASILIA1686 | BRAZIL: DRUG TRAFFICKING UP, DRUG FLIGHTS DOWN [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's Air Bridge Denial ("shootdown") program has diminished drug flights in Brazil, and as a result, traffickers are increasingly using riverine routes to transport drugs out of the country. The state of Para sees much of this riverine trafficking. The combination of tribu [...] | 2008-12-31 19:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | NAR SOCI KCRM ELAB FARC BR |
08BRASILIA169 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: MEETINGS WITH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ON [...] (SBU) Ref A points were raised in Ambassador's January 10 meeting with Tourism Minister Suplicy, in Ambassador's January 17 meeting with Defense Minister Jobim (ref B) and by Econcouns and Econoff in January 18 meeting with Ronaldo Costa Filho, the head of the Ministry of External Relations's ( [...] | 2008-02-01 16:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON BR |
08BRASILIA177 | BRAZILIAN RESPONSE: U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Environment, Science and Technology (EST) Counselor delivered REFTEL points on January 31 to Counselor Luiz Fernando Abbott Galvao in the Ministry of External Relations' Division for Disarmament and S [...] | 2008-02-01 19:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA PARM IN BR |
08BRASILIA196 | BRAZIL: EXPLAINING THE PAC (THE GROWTH ACCELERATION PROGRAM) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON BR |
08BRASILIA210 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MARKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] | 2008-02-13 15:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PREL BR |
08BRASILIA215 | EXTENSION REQUEST - KRISTIAN G. MOORE, BRASILIA (TED [...] (U) Kristian G. Moore (ESTH Officer 12/06-12/08) requests to extend his current assignment to Embassy Brasilia from 11/2008 to 05/2009. Mr. Moore requests the extension in order to be repositioned to the summer 2009 bidding cycle and also due to family considerations (allowing a child to finis [...] | 2008-02-13 18:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | BR |
08BRASILIA216 | BRAZIL TO WAIT AND SEE ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) In the Ambassador's absence from the capital, Political Counselor followed up Ambassador's initial demarche on Kosovo independence (ref B),delivering Ref A points to Brazil's Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Eastern European Acting Director Rodrigo Mendes Carlos de Almeida. De Almeida [...] | 2008-02-14 10:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI BR |
08BRASILIA222 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: MEETINGS WITH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, ANAC [...] (SBU) On February 13, during a meeting with Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim primarily to discuss Jobim's March visit to Washington, the Ambassador raised the issue of the proposed aircraft parking fee increase at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos airport. The measure was announced in December by [...] | 2008-02-15 17:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
08BRASILIA226 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SMITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has s [...] | 2008-02-19 10:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PREL BR |
08BRASILIA228 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 106 [...] The following is the 106th in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do [...] | 2008-02-19 16:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA229 | BRAZIL'S DEFORESTATION CYCLE (PART 2 of 3): FROM FORESTS, [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The massive clearing that has been taking place in the Amazon since the 1970's (REFTEL) has generally followed the pattern: conversion into cattle pastures and later either soybean productio [...] | 2008-02-19 16:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA236 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF DEFENSE JOBIM [...] (C) Ambassador Sobel met with Brazilian Minister of Defense Nelson Jobim Feb. 13 to discuss Jobim's upcoming visit to Washington, regional security and progress on defense cooperation. Jobim agreed with Ambassador Sobel's outline of possible areas for discussion during his March visit to Wa [...] | 2008-02-20 21:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PREL MARR |
08BRASILIA246 | BRAZIL'S DEFORESTATION CYCLE (PART 3 of 3): GOVERNMENT HAS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) has a limited ability to use "sticks," various law enforcement measures to control deforestation. Even if it could obtain the tools it currently lacks (suffic [...] | 2008-02-24 13:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA247 | WIREC 2008: BRAZILIAN DELEGATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) has informed Post that the official delegation to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) is as follows: Head of Dele [...] | 2008-02-24 13:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG SENV TRGY KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA249 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ADVANCING THE US POSITION FOR [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel per instructions to Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Officials had no immediate reaction, and post will report any response septel. SOBEL [...] | 2008-02-25 20:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CU BR |
08BRASILIA253 | BRAZIL: EXTENSION OF FRAMEWORK SPACE COOPERATION AGREEMENT; [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. EXTENSION OF FRAMEWORK SPACE COOPERATION AGREEMENT 2. (SBU) Per REFTEL, Post delivered a diplomatic note to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) regarding the extension of the Space Cooperation Ag [...] | 2008-02-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TSPA TSPL BR |
08BRASILIA254 | BRAZIL: 2008 Special 301 Recommendation [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Brasilia's input for the 2008 Special 301 Review of Brazil. 2. (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Brazil remain on the Special 301 Watch List based on the GoB's ongoing commitment to a strong overall anti-piracy enforcement regime and its determin [...] | 2008-02-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA258 | HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] Country clearance is requested for Dr. Aristides Barbosa Junior, Epidemiologist, GAP-Brazil, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC, to travel to Maputo, Mozambique from March 02-2008 to March 08-2008. 2. The purpose of this trip to Maputo: to discuss the South to South Collaboration between CDC-GAP-Mozambique, [...] | 2008-02-26 19:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
08BRASILIA271 | BRAZIL EXPECTS TO SIGN JOINT ACTION PLAN AGAINST [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Although the new Racial Equality Minister Edson Santos was just confirmed on February 20, President Lula's administration is working hard to have the bilateral Joint Action Plan against Racism signed durin [...] | 2008-02-28 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA272 | BRAZIL: INFRASTRUCTURE AND MORE - TREAS DAS O'NEILL VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In January 29 meetings with BNDES, Casa Civil, Central Bank, and Planning and Finance Ministries, Treasury Western Hemisphere DAS Brian O'Neill advanced discussion of a possible US-Brazil infrastructure initiative, further explored bilateral investment and tax treaties (see para [...] | 2008-02-29 11:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON BR |
08BRASILIA278 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 107 [...] The following is the one-hundred-seventh in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...] | 2008-02-29 19:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA286 | BRAZIL: NEW SCANDAL COULD MEAN ANOTHER LOST YEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: The latest scandal to engulf the Lula government was unleashed January 13 when influential daily Estado de Sao Paulo took advantage of one of the government's most highly touted clean-government initiatives, its transparency web portal, to report on the exponential increase in u [...] | 2008-03-02 13:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA288 | Brazil: CEO Forum Members meetings Feb 20 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CEO co-chair Tim Solso (CEO Cummins) and Brazilian CEO Forum representatives Jorge Gerdau (CEO, Gerdau SA) and Flavio Leite (representing Josue Gomes da Silva of Cotaminas) met with Embassy staff and MRE visas chief Mitzi Gurgel the morning of February 20 to discuss progress on C [...] | 2008-03-03 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA289 | Brazil: Investment Agreement Principles - consolidated GOB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This message provides consolidated input to Washington agencies regarding the status of intra-GOB discussions on bilateral investment treaty principles. While no treaty "text" comparable to the US model BIT exists, CAMEX (the Brazilian External Trade Chamber) member ministries h [...] | 2008-03-03 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA3 | OECD DSG AT BRAZIL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE [...] OECD Deputy Secretary General Thelma Askey spoke at a conference in Brasilia, the "Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Management in the Public Sector" on December 11. The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Planning Ministry, Presidential Council for Economic Development, and Long-Term Pl [...] | 2008-01-02 19:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV SCUL PREL BR |
08BRASILIA304 | BRAZIL: IRAN, ARAB WORLD, ON AMORIM'S MIND IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim's recent visit to five Middle Eastern countries continues a renewed focus on the Middle East that began with Amorim's participation at the Annapolis meetings in November of last year. Since Annapolis, Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) Middle Eas [...] | 2008-03-05 10:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL BR VE IS IR BL JO SA EG MO SY |
08BRASILIA318 | BRAZIL: RANF DEMARCHE - GOB OPEN TO DISCUSSION BECAUSE IT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On February 27, 2008, Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with the Deputy Director of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technolog [...] | 2008-03-06 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY ENRG IR IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA319 | BRAZIL: USG VIEWS ON IAEA IRAN BRIEFING [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On February 27, 2008, Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with the Deputy Director of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technolog [...] | 2008-03-06 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA322 | BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On February 27, 2008, Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with the Deputy Director of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technolog [...] | 2008-03-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA323 | BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA COOPERATION ON URANIUM ENRICHMENT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazilian President Lula and Argentine President Kirchner met on February 22 and announced a joint effort regarding uranium enrichment. This new initiative is part of Brazil's overall polic [...] | 2008-03-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG IAEA PREL ECON AR BR |
08BRASILIA33 | BRAZIL GRAPPLES WITH RACISM AND RACIAL QUOTAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloffs recently met with University of Brasilia (UnB) President Timothy Mulholland, an expert on Brazil,s university quota systems to discuss self-imposed quotas and the proposed Racial Equality Statue. Racism in Brazil is a difficult topic to address largely as a result of a [...] | 2008-01-07 12:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA331 | NO ADVERSE FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS REGARDING NSF [...] Reftel requested the Embassy to review a grant proposal for four training institutes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) titled "IAI Training Institute to Develop Capacity Building in Interdisciplinary Global Environmental Change Sciences," number OISE-07455732. The proposal would be u [...] | 2008-03-10 14:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TPHY NSF US BR |
08BRASILIA343 | 2008 U.S.-BRAZIL POLITICAL-MILITARY CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) Mission delivered the reftel agenda to Foreign Ministry Special Advisor Marcos Pinta Gama who indicated that Brazil would be prepared to host AA/S Mull for this year's political military consultations April 15. Pinta Gama said that he needed to consult other members of the Brazilian del [...] | 2008-03-12 13:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR MARR PREL PTER |
08BRASILIA35 | BRAZIL: LESS GUNS, MORE BUTTER: LULA TAKES ON [...] (C) Summary: After much hesitation, President Lula was finally forced to wade into the public security debate in light of consistent polling that places crime as the number one concern of most Brazilians. The result, a public security plan called the National Program on Public Security with C [...] | 2008-01-07 13:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA351 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Minister of Defense Nelson Jobim will travel to Norfolk and Washington from March 18-22, 2008 on a counterpart visit. He will meet with Secretary Gates in an office call on March 20 June. Minister Jobim,s objectives for the visit are to enhance prospects for bilateral cooperation and exp [...] | 2008-03-13 16:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASC OVIP BR |
08BRASILIA36 | BRAZIL: TREASURY DAS O'NEILL MEETS WITH GOB AND MDBs ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Brian O'Neill had economic meetings in Brasilia on December 12-13, 2007 with officials from the Brazilian Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning, as well as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. The meetings [...] | 2008-01-07 15:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA373 | POLLUTION RANKS HIGH AMONG ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN PERU [...] (SBU) Regional Environmental Officer held meetings January 28-31, 2008 with Peruvian government representatives, trade organizations, international institutions, NGOs, and private industry to discuss environmental concerns. Discussions of priority environmental issues covered: (1) Mining pollu [...] | 2008-03-18 16:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA390 | Brazil's Congress Prepares to Rein in President's Decree [...] (SBU) Summary. Angered by an alleged overuse of decree-making authority that has caused legislative gridlock, Congress will try to limit the president's ability to dominate the legislative agenda and implement policy through issuance of "provisional measures" (MPs). President Lula's unprecede [...] | 2008-03-20 18:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM BR |
08BRASILIA395 | CODEL MARKEY VISIT TO BRASILIA [...] SUMMARY. Codel Markey visited Brazil February 15-21. The CODEL began its visit in Manaus where it received briefings on environmental issues focusing on the effects of climate change on the Amazon rainforest. It then proceeded to Rio de Janeiro (reported septel) to focus on alternative fuel [...] | 2008-03-24 14:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PGOV PREL AMGT BR |
08BRASILIA41 | BRAZIL: LITTLE HOPE OFFERED ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary: In commemoration of International Anti-Corruption Day, the regional office of the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime together with the University of Brasilia sponsored a roundtable with senior Brazilian government officials from the judicial and legislative branches, medi [...] | 2008-01-07 17:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCRM KCOR KDEM BR |
08BRASILIA420 | BRAZIL: IRANIAN DIPLOMACY MOVES INTO HIGH GEAR [...] (C) Summary: An Iranian delegation headed by Vice-Foreign Minister Alireza Sheikh Attar held a series of high-level meetings with Brazilian officials from the Ministries of External Relations (MRE, aka Itamaraty),Mines and Energy, and Development, Industry and Commerce at the same time Secre [...] | 2008-03-27 10:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR BR |
08BRASILIA429 | THOUGHTS ON THE VISIT OF DEFENSE MINISTER JOBIM TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Jobim's March 18-21 visit to Washington focused on Brazil's efforts to modernize its defense institutions and on possible avenues for bilateral cooperation and identified several areas for further work, particularly completion of a General Security of Information [...] | 2008-03-31 18:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR MARR OVIP |
08BRASILIA43 | COUNTERTERRORISM IN BRAZIL: LOOKING BEYOND THE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Government of Brazil remains highly sensitive to public claims suggesting that terrorist or extremist organizations have a presence or are undertaking activities in Brazil--a sensitivity that appears to be the rise and is resulting in more than symbolic reactions. At an op [...] | 2008-01-08 10:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL KCRM AR PA BR |
08BRASILIA440 | COUNTERTERRORISM IN BRAZIL: ONE STEP FORWARD, ONE [...] (U) Summary: After a drawn-out process that began in 2004, President Lula on March 25, 2008 issued the decree that will reform the Government of Brazil's intelligence apparatus, including its counterterrorism (CT) structure. The reform is intended to provide a more robust intelligence capabili [...] | 2008-04-02 19:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KCRM ETTC EFIN AR PA BR |
08BRASILIA454 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 108 [...] The following is the one hundred eigth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2008-04-09 16:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA469 | SCENESETTER FOR POLICY PLANNING DIRECTOR GORDON [...] (C) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it as ever been, the result of the excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, new cooperation mechanisms on biofuels, business issues, and economi [...] | 2008-04-04 18:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON BR |
08BRASILIA48 | CHINESE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HIS PRIORITIES, [...] (C) Summary. Chen Duqing, Chinese Ambassador to Brazil, told Ambassador Sobel on October 19 that his top priorities are to create a more favorable environment for economic relations and to promote Chinese interests in the Brazilian Congress. Ambassador Chen described an economic relationship [...] | 2008-01-08 13:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV PREL BR CH |
08BRASILIA5 | A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Summary. Michele Varensise, Italian Ambassador to Brazil, told WHA A/S Thomas Shannon on December 13 that Brazil is the centerpiece of Italy's South American strategy. Italy sees Brazil playing an increasingly larger role in maintaining stability, economic growth, and integration. He p [...] | 2008-01-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD IT BR XM XR VE UNSC |
08BRASILIA504 | COUNTERTERRORISM IN BRAZIL: ONE STEP FORWARD, ONE [...] (C) Summary: In November of last year the Government of Brazil announced that it was backtracking on its effort to introduce counterterrorism (CT) legislation after a years-long effort by a working group within the Presidency's Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) to coordinate the drafting o [...] | 2008-04-11 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL KCRM ETTC EFIN ASEC AR BR |
08BRASILIA507 | Got Guerrillas? The Rise of the LCP in Brazil [...] (U) Summary: Following is an Embassy Brasilia translation of an article published in the March 26, 2008, edition of IstoE, a major Brazilian news magazine. The article reports that a violent leftist guerrilla organization operates in Rondonia state, Brazil, and in some ways resembles the Co [...] | 2008-04-14 10:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER FARC BR CO |
08BRASILIA516 | BRAZIL: DEFENSE PLAN PREVIEW GETS THUMBS UP IN [...] (U) Summary: Previewing their Strategic Plan on National Defense (scheduled to be unveiled on September 7, 2008) in Congress for the first time on April 9, Minister of Defense Nelson Jobim and Long-Term Planning Minister Mangabeira Unger were met with an overwhelmingly positive response from m [...] | 2008-04-17 10:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR MCAP PREL BR |
08BRASILIA523 | BRAZIL: SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN CONCERNED [...] (S) Summary. Senate Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee Chairman Heraclito Fortes (strictly protect) (Democrats Party, opposition; of Piaui) told Ambassador Sobel on March 28 he is deeply concerned about signs of terrorists in Brazil. He cited a published report (reftel) of a [...] | 2008-04-18 15:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PTER PREL FARC BR VE EC CO XR BO |
08BRASILIA525 | BRAZIL: RECOVERY OF A FALLEN SPACE OBJECT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On April 14, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division for the Sea, Antarctica and Space, Counselor Bernardo Paranhos Velloso, informed the Embassy's Environment, Science and [...] | 2008-04-18 18:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA SENV KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA526 | IRANIAN DIPLOMACY MOVES INTO HIGH GEAR, PART 2 [...] (S) Summary: Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh-Attar visited Brasilia in mid-March to press Brazil to join an anti-American bloc in South America composed of Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela, and Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad continues to try to arrange an official visit t [...] | 2008-04-18 18:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL PTER EFIN BR VE EC CO BL IR XR CH UN |
08BRASILIA534 | BRAZIL: CHINA AND BRAZIL STRENGTHEN RELATIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary. Sino-Brazilian relations are officially excellent, characterized by a booming economic relationship and a political relationship that has become increasingly closer, especially since 2004. Both governments are taking a long-term view and are trying to focus on crafting a pati [...] | 2008-04-22 17:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV BR CH XR |
08BRASILIA540 | BRAZIL "MONITORS" ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's surprising decision to participate in monitoring Zimbabwe's elections was not what it initially appeared. Although Brazil was among those countries invited to serve as an observer, it was the participation of a federal deputy as an observer on behalf of an NGO that fo [...] | 2008-04-23 12:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PHUM PREL AF |
08BRASILIA551 | Brazil: CEO Forum April 28 Scenesetter [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it as ever been, with an excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [...] | 2008-04-25 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN CVIS BR |
08BRASILIA56 | BRAZIL: LESS GUNS, MORE BUTTER: LULA TAKES ON [...] (C) Summary: As part of the Lula government's plan to take on the crime issue, the government proposed a multi-pronged plan to address both the social causes of crime and the weakness of the law enforcement community to fight it. Lula's proposal, the National Program on Public Security with Ci [...] | 2008-01-09 17:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA57 | BRAZIL: (KIND OF) MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR [...] (C) Summary: For the world's fourth largest democracy, the promotion of democracy abroad remains an important, if secondary goal of Brazil's foreign policy, but its focus and execution has been only loosely defined under the Lula government, limiting potential efforts to forge bilateral initi [...] | 2008-01-09 17:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL EAID BR |
08BRASILIA593 | HOW BRAZIL IS WIRED - ELECTRICITY SERIES #1 [...] SUMMARY: (U) This year will mark ten years since the denationalization of Brazil's electrical sector after fifty years of state control. The sector has undergone many changes during this period: from the days of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso's ambitious drive to privatize the ent [...] | 2008-05-05 14:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA6 | A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT SARNEY [...] (C) Summary: Former President and sitting Senator Jose Sarney (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Amapa) told WHA A/S Thomas Shannon on December 14 that President Lula is doing a good job and has maintained the social calm necessary for growth and development. [...] | 2008-01-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD KDEM BR VE GY BL EC CO XM XR FARC |
08BRASILIA602 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on May 6 to the Ministry of Exterior Relations OAS Division Secretary Luciano Rego, who noted that they were aware of the U.S. candidacy and would take a careful look at the non-paper and C.V. Rego noted that the GoB already made commitments to the Paraguay [...] | 2008-05-06 17:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OAS XM BR |
08BRASILIA603 | BRAZIL: INVITATION TO PSI WORKSHOP DELIVERED [...] (U) Deputy PolCouns delivered invitation to PSI workshop on April 28 to Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies. Any response will be reported septel. SOBEL [...] | 2008-05-06 17:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP XX BR |
08BRASILIA618 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 109 [...] The following is the 109th in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do [...] | 2008-05-09 10:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA638 | CARRIER STRIKE GROUP 8 VISITS BRAZIL, STRENGTHENS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Carrier Strike Group Eight (CSG8),centered on the USS George Washington, visited Brazilian waters April 16-May 2. While in Brazilian waters to participate in the UNITAS 08 exercise, the priority objective for the visit was to enhance the strategic partnership between the U.S. [...] | 2008-05-12 14:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS BR |
08BRASILIA640 | DOROTHY STANG'S KILLER'S FREED ON APPEAL -- TOP [...] (SBU) Summary: Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, also known as Bida, was acquitted by a jury of the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun and naturalized Brazilian citizen, on May 6, almost exactly a year after his initial conviction. On May 15, 2007, Moura, a Brazilian rancher, was sentenced to [...] | 2008-05-12 15:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR PREL PHUM |
08BRASILIA641 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - BRAZIL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary. Below is Post's response to STATE 39410 regarding the impact of rising food and commodity prices on Brazil. As Brazil is a significant net agricultural exporter, high international commodity p [...] | 2008-05-12 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA643 | BRAZIL,S MILITARY PARTNERSHIP WITH FRANCE: TRUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recent meeting of Presidents Lula and Sarkozy and the visit of Defense Minister Jobim to Paris triggered a wave of Francophilia within the Brazilian foreign policy establishment, particularly with regard to the strategic partnership. Despite heavy coverage in the press of [...] | 2008-05-13 19:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM BR MASS |
08BRASILIA656 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - BRAZIL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary. Below is Post's response to STATE 39410 regarding the impact of rising food and commodity prices on Brazil. As Brazil is a significant net agricultural exporter, high international commodity p [...] | 2008-05-15 12:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA663 | BRAZIL FOREST STEWARTSHIP COUNCIL MEETING ON CERTIFIED [...] SUMMARY: The 3rd Brazil Certified Fair and the Amazonia Sustainable Forum (Sao Paulo, April 2008) brought together the Brazilian Council for Forestry Management and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC),in partnership with Friends of the Earth, Imafora, and Imazon for discussion of sustainable [...] | 2008-05-15 18:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA664 | BRAZIL: GREEN LIGHT TO NEGOTIATE A TROPICAL FOREST [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 5, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Environment Department, Min. Figueiredo Machado, informed Post that the Government of Brazil wants to begin negotiations t [...] | 2008-05-15 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG EAID EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA672 | SOURCES OF GENERATION - ELECTRICITY SERIES #2 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 12:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA674 | BRAZIL: TOP ADVISER DILMA ROUSSEFF BOOSTS OWN 2010 [...] (C) Summary. Dilma Rousseff, President Lula's top domestic policy adviser and apparent favorite to succeed him in 2010, greatly increased her chances of being her party's 2010 presidential candidate by an impressive performance before hostile questioning in the Senate Infrastructure Service [...] | 2008-05-16 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA681 | BRAZIL'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER MARINA SILVA RESIGNS - [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Frustrated by a growing string of defeats and cuts to her authority, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva resigned on May 13. Her ministry's slow pace in approving environmental licen [...] | 2008-05-19 11:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV BR |
08BRASILIA707 | BRAZILIAN GENERAL BREAKS RANKS ON INDIGENOUS [...] (C) Brazilian Army General Augusto Heleno, military commander of the Amazon region, spoke out on April 16 against the GOB's indigenous policy calling it "chaotic," specifically in reference to a traditionally indigenous area in northern Roraima state planned to become a protected reserve. Thi [...] | 2008-05-20 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PHUM PREL PGOV |
08BRASILIA708 | CALLING ALL SMUGGLERS - BRAZILIAN "SACOLEIROS" BILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Brazilian bill intended to improve customs processing at the Paraguayan border would likely serve to increase opportunities for the importing of counterfeit goods and smuggling of all types. The so-called "Sacoleiros" (or peddlers) bill would allow small-scale importers to re [...] | 2008-05-20 19:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA712 | Brazil - Focus on Forest Fire Prevention [...] SUMMARY: The Brazilian environmental protection agency (IBAMA) and its forest fire prevention unit (PREVFOGO) are seeking ways to better control forest fires. These efforts included the organization of two seminars in March 2008 focused on promotion of inter-agency coordination and advanced [...] | 2008-05-27 10:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG EAGR EAID SOCI BR |
08BRASILIA735 | Brazil - Areas of Interest in Cooperation With USG on [...] SUMMARY: Brazilian officials have identified a range of areas for possible cooperation with the USG on forest fire control and prevention. Opportunities on forest fire themes include: interagency coordination; remote monitoring; incident command training; fire management; and environmental e [...] | 2008-05-30 10:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG EAGR EAID BR |
08BRASILIA736 | BRAZIL LAUNCHES FORUM ON ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CLIMATE [...] SUMMARY: The Brazilian Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) has launched a climate change forum to focus on analyzing the main economic, social, and environmental impacts of climate change. IPEA has a demonstrated reputation of substantial experience in the economic valuation of envi [...] | 2008-05-30 10:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG EAGR TBIO BR |
08BRASILIA737 | BRAZIL: AGREEMENT TO SUSPEND BRAZIL'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil has completed the exchange of diplomatic notes that suspends Brazil's particpation in the International Space Station. Per the two notes, the suspension took effect upon the receipt by Post of this second note, which occurred on May 29, 2008. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2008-05-30 10:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA KSCA SENV BR |
08BRASILIA750 | BRAZIL LAUNCHES ANOTHER PLAN FOR A SUSTAINABLE AMAZON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 8, 2008, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva unveiled a package of 16 measures called the Plan for a Sustainable Amazon (PAS). The plan is long on good intentions and hints [...] | 2008-06-03 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG EAGR ECON BR |
08BRASILIA756 | S/P DIRECTOR GORDON HOLDS FIRST STRATEGIC TALKS [...] (C) Summary. S/P Director Dr. David Gordon held four hours of talks April 9 in Brasilia with Ministry of External Relations (MRE, or Itamaraty) Under Secretary for Political Affairs Ambassador Everton Vieira Vargas. The wide-ranging talks focused generally on the trends that are likely to ch [...] | 2008-06-04 19:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
08BRASILIA760 | BRAZIL: MEETING WITH SENATE PEDOPHILIA [...] Summary. Ambassador, Resident Legal Adviser, DHS/ICE Attache, and Poloff met on May 13 with the Chairman of the Brazilian Senate's Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI) into Pedophilia and two law enforcement officials to discuss U.S. laws to protect children, prosecute sex offenders, and [...] | 2008-06-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT SOCI TINT KCRM KJUS PHUM BR |
08BRASILIA768 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES ON FOOD SECURITY TO BRAZILIAN [...] SUMMARY: Post delivered the messages indicated in reftels to the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA). MAPA agrees with many of the arguments stated and shares many common positions with the U.S. government. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) USDA Under Secretary Mark Keenum and FAS Administrator M [...] | 2008-06-06 17:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA769 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES REGARDING U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CODEX [...] SUMMARY: Post delivered demarche points in reftel regarding the U.S. candidate for CODEX chairperson to Brazil's CODEX Point of Contact and the Ministry of Agriculture. Both expressed support for the candidate, but clarified that the Government of Brazil's position also involves input from Min [...] | 2008-06-06 17:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA770 | ANDEAN ORGANIZATIONS TELL THEIR STORY AT THE 2ND MEETING OF [...] SUMMARY. The USAID-funded Initiative for Conservation of the Andean Amazon (ICAA) brought together 75 participants for the Second ICAA Partners Meeting, held in Quito, Ecuador from May 18-23, 2008. ICAA is a five year program (2006-2011) based in the Amazon regions of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuad [...] | 2008-06-06 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA779 | BRAZIL: AGREEMENT TO THE EXTENSION OF SPACE COOPERATION [...] SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil agrees on the extension of the Cooperation Agreement in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space signed in 1996. END SUMMARY. 2. In response to the diplomatic note from Embassy (per REFTEL) proposing the extension of Brazil's participation in the cooperation in [...] | 2008-06-09 20:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA KSCA SENV BR |
08BRASILIA792 | Brazil: "Sovereign Wealth Fund" aka "fiscal savings fund" [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 17:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA793 | Brazil: "Sovereign Wealth Fund" aka "fiscal savings fund" [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 17:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA805 | 2008 RENEWAL OF PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION (PD) [...] (S) Reftel requests that post "evaluate and provide guidance on the following issues: (1) Does the USG provide assistance (funding, intelligence, information, equipment, training, or otherwise) to the GOB that could be used to locate, identify, track, or intercept a civil aircraft? (2) Do an [...] | 2008-06-12 14:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | BR MOPS PREL SNAR |
08BRASILIA806 | 2008 RENEWAL OF PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION (PD) [...] (S) SUMMARY. Per ref a, Post is engaged with the Brazilian government to assess Brazil's safety procedures concerning its Air Bridge Denial (ABD) program, in order to make the annual Presidential Determination (PD). Based on regular contacts with the Brazilian Defense Ministry and air tra [...] | 2008-06-12 14:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | BR MOPS PREL SNAR |
08BRASILIA813 | Brazil: Local elections: Lots of Heat, Little Light [...] (SBU) Summary. Campaigning for October 5 municipal elections is getting underway with much media attention and political jockeying but the results will have almost no bearing on national politics. About a fifth of the 513 federal deputies are running for mayor, and the Chamber of Deputies will [...] | 2008-06-13 18:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA822 | BRAZIL VIEWS ON DEMARCHE ON CONVENTION ON SUPPLEMENTARY [...] (SBU) On 12 June 2008, EST officer delivered ref talking points and non-paper to Minister Santiago Mourao, Head of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies for Brazil's Foreign Ministry. Minister Mourao indicated that Brazil was already part of a civilian nuclear liability conv [...] | 2008-06-13 19:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM BR |
08BRASILIA823 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 18-22 VISIT OF SECRETARY [...] (U) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it as ever been, the result of the excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, new cooperation mechanisms on biofuels, business issues, and economi [...] | 2008-06-16 12:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KHLS OVIP ECON BR |
08BRASILIA824 | Brazil: Tax Treaty Roundtable with Receita Federal [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 13:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA836 | OAS DISCUSSES PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN THE [...] Approximately 30 people from nine countries of the Americas (including Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil) attended the OAS event "Trends in the Implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the Americas" June 04 in Sao Paulo. The discussion took place withi [...] | 2008-06-18 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA843 | BRAZIL: SATELLITE PIRACY MONITORING HAS BEGUN--SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Following up on Ref. C demarche regarding U.S. military satellite interference by Brazilian radio operators, Brazilian telecommunications regulatory agency, ANATEL POC indicated during a telcon on 9 June that monitoring will take place over the next at least two months and then [...] | 2008-06-19 20:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS MARR PINR TSPA BR |
08BRASILIA847 | U.S. AIRCRAFT IN CONTENTION TO BE BRAZIL'S NEXT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. On June 10, MLO Brasilia obtained an unofficial copy of a Request for Information (RFI - passed electronically to Washington agencies) from the Brazilian Air Force (BRAF) concerning the upcoming competition for Brazil,s next fighter aircraft. One U.S. origin fighter, the F- [...] | 2008-06-20 18:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR ETTC BR PREL ETRD EAIR EIND |
08BRASILIA848 | ENHANCING POL-MIL ENGAGEMENT WITH BRAZIL [...] (C) Per instructions in ref a, post has remained in discussions with the Brazilian MRE and MOD on how best to proceed with building a fuller, more cooperative political military relationship. When Poloffs asked MRE pol-mil advisor Marcos Pinta Gama for his views on prospects for enhancing ou [...] | 2008-06-20 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR MARR MOPS PREL |
08BRASILIA849 | BRAZIL AND EUROPE: PRIORITIES AND PARADOX [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although relations with Europe do not figure highly in Brazilian public statements of foreign policy priorities, Brazil,s relations with the EU and with major European governments are gaining in importance and complexity. As with the United States, Brazilian leaders sometimes [...] | 2008-06-20 19:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR EU |
08BRASILIA851 | SENIOR BRAZILIAN DIPLOMAT TALKS MIDDLE EAST PEACE, [...] (C) In an office call June 9, the Ambassador discussed Brazil's policies in the Middle East and Africa with Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Under Secretary for Political Affairs (II),Ambassador Roberto Jaguaribe. Jaguaribe described an intensifying series of reciprocal visits with Middl [...] | 2008-06-20 19:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC IR XF ZU BR |
08BRASILIA855 | Brazil: Do All the Corruption Scandals Matter? [...] (SBU) Summary. Fresh scandal news appears daily in major newspapers, and there are now investigations into at least seven major corruption scandals involving politicians. Experience suggests courts and congressional inquiries will mete out little or no punishment. The constant parade of cor [...] | 2008-06-25 16:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM KDEM EAIR BR |
08BRASILIA877 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 110 [...] The following is the one-hundred-tenth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2008-06-27 14:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA880 | BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR PROMISES TO RAISE [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Brazilian presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia on June 25 to express our concern regarding the Bolivian government's lack of concrete assurances to protect our embassy in La Paz. Garcia promised to raise the issue with the Bolivian ambassador (wh [...] | 2008-06-27 15:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG BO BR |
08BRASILIA89 | BRAZIL: LAUNCH OF ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and EB Assistant Secretary Dan Sullivan, joined by Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Latin America Brian O'Neill, led the US delegation to the successful December 13 Economic Partnership Dialogue (EPD) with Brazil's Ministry of External A [...] | 2008-01-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA895 | INFRASTRUCTURE THREATENS AMAZON FOREST CONSERVATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vulnerability of Amazonian rainforests is increasing as a result of rising commodity prices and regional infrastructure integration, as well as global climate change and fire practices. This is the first in a two-part series addressing the regional impacts of agricultural expansion [...] | 2008-07-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON XR BR |
08BRASILIA896 | CONSTRAINING IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN BRAZIL [...] (U) This is an Action Request, please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary: Brazil's participation in the Annapolis peace conference is now cited by every Itamaraty contact, from Foreign Minister Amorim to Middle East desk officers, as the cornerstone of its growing efforts to exert global lead [...] | 2008-07-01 22:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR BR |
08BRASILIA902 | BRAZIL: QUESTIONABLE ON GIVING PRESENTATION DURING [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel talking points on July 2 regarding Brazil's participation in the Missile Technology Control Regime plenary Information Exchange to Santiago Mourao, Head of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies for Brazil's Foreign Ministry. In responding to Poloff' [...] | 2008-07-03 11:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCR PREL BR |
08BRASILIA910 | OIL RESTRUCTURIN: AMBASSADOR TALKS TO ENERGY MINISTER LOBAO [...] (U) SUMMARY: As Brazil debates the revision of its oil exploration fee structure in light of its newly discovered presalt reserves, it is clear that the Ministry of Mines and Energy, tasked with making a recommendation to the President, will advise the formation of a new state entity to own th [...] | 2008-07-03 18:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG EPET EIND EINV BR |
08BRASILIA913 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: BRAZIL'S POSITION ON KOSOVO [...] (C) In a July 3 meeting, the Ambassador raised with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim our interest in seeing Brazil recognize Kosovo's independence. Amorim said that Brazil's position had not changed with regard to the need to respect UNSC Resolution 1244 (ref b). However, Brazil's posi [...] | 2008-07-07 10:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | UN KPKO PREL PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA922 | AMAZON FOREST STRESSED BY FIRE AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] SUMMARY. This is the second in a two-part series addressing the impacts of climate change and fire (Part 2),and agricultural expansion and infrastructure integration (Part 1) on Amazon rainforest vulnerability and conservation. Most climate change models predict a 21st century warming and d [...] | 2008-07-09 10:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON XR BR |
08BRASILIA94 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: AVIATION BILATERALS HELD IN RIO DEC. 5-6, [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. and Brazilian delegations met in Rio de Janeiro December 5-6, 2007 for their first formal bilateral aviation consultations in 10 years to focus on liberalization. While the Brazilian negotiators offered a limited number of increased frequencies to limited destinations in t [...] | 2008-01-16 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
08BRASILIA943 | BRAZIL: LULA TAKES ON THE FOURTH FLEET [...] (C) Summary: During the Mercosul Summit in Argentina, President Lula together with other South American leaders, such as Bolivian president Evo Morales and Venezuelan president Chavez, criticized the re-establishment of the Fourth Fleet Chavez, with Lula at his side, called it a "threat" to t [...] | 2008-07-10 12:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL BR |
08BRASILIA955 | EMBASSY BRASILIA PHASE 2 RENOVATION ADOPTS GREEN DESIGN [...] The US Embassy Brasilia will be embarking on a Phase 2 Renovation of the Embassy Chancery starting in FY2009 or FY2010. Recognizing the growing importance of environmental issues in Brazil and South America, the Executive Office of the Embassy Brasilia requests that the Office of Buildings Ope [...] | 2008-07-14 16:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON XR BR |
08BRASILIA958 | CONVEYANCE OF THE UPDATED P5+1 PACKAGE FOR IRAN TO BRAZIL [...] (SBU) On 2 July 2008, EST officer delivered ref updated copy of the P5+1 package for Iran to Minister Santiago Mourao, Head of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies for Brazil's Foreign Ministry. Minister Mourao expressed appreciation for the delivery of the P5+1 package an [...] | 2008-07-14 19:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM BR |
08BRASILIA964 | RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST REGARDING RAW SUGAR TARIFF RATE [...] (SBU) Post approached the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture regarding the U.S. raw sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) and received the following response. Brazil has already shipped nearly all of its FY2008 quota to the U.S. and expects to ship the entire amount. If the U.S. were to open further TR [...] | 2008-07-16 13:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BR |
08BRASILIA967 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ENVIRONMENT MINISTER AND ENGAGES ON [...] (U) Summary: On Wednesday, July 2, Ambassador Sobel met with new Minister of Environment, Carlos Minc. During a positive conversation that covered issues ranging from the development of ecotourism in the state of Amazonas to the impending visit to Brazil by USAID Administrator Fore, Ambassador [...] | 2008-07-17 14:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA97 | AMBASSADOR REVIEWS BILATERAL ISSUES WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador, joined by PolCouns (notetaker),met with Ministry for External Relations (MRE) Under Secretary for Political Affairs Everton Vargas on January 11 to raise Kosovo independence (ref A) and possible Brazilian participation in UNAMID (ref B). Vargas was joined by chi [...] | 2008-01-17 12:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG SENV SOCI SNAR UNSC BR |
08BRASILIA987 | BRAZIL: MOVING FORWARD WITH BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE ON [...] (C) On July 8, 2008, Defense Attache, Air Force Attache, and Poloff had an initial high-level meeting with Brazilian Air Force generals, Tenente Brigadeiro Paulo Roberto Rohrig de Britto (the number two general in the Brazilian Air Force),Brigaderio Egito, and Colonel Roque to discuss Brazil' [...] | 2008-07-21 11:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL SNAR BR |
08BRASILIA99 | OUTSIDE DEFENSE MINISTRY, BRAZILIAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. I separate meetings, the Ambassador discussed the roposed Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) withMinistry of External Relations (MRE) Under Secretay for Political Affairs Everton Vargas and Long-erm Planning Minister Roberto Managabeira Unger. Although Minister of Defense Jobim [...] | 2008-01-17 12:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL PTER BR |
08BRASILIA993 | BRAZIL: IS THE MILITARY THE SOLUTION TO THE CRIME [...] (SBU) Summary: Public concern in Brazil over steadily rising crime and a murder rate more than four times that in the United States has re-fueled a two-decade old debate over the question of deploying the military to undertake urban crime fighting missions. Enthusiasm for this idea increased [...] | 2008-07-21 20:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KJUS PGOV ASEC BR |
08BRASILIA998 | RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST REGARDING RAW SUGAR TARIFF RATE [...] (SBU) Post approached the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture regarding the U.S. raw sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) and received the following response. Brazil has already shipped nearly all of its FY2008 quota to the U.S. and expects to ship the entire amount. If the U.S. were to open further TR [...] | 2008-07-23 20:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1079 | LULA VISITS ARGENTINA TO ADDRESS BILATERAL TRADE FRICTIONS [...] (SBU) Brazilian President Lula da Silva arrives in Buenos Aires August 3 with a 300-strong delegation of private sector representatives shortly after a very public split between Argentina and Brazil on agricultural subsidy and industrial tariffs in end-game WTO Doha negotiations. Lula's meetin [...] | 2008-08-04 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EAGR WTRO AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1089 | ARGENTINA: CFK BOOSTED BY LULA, CHAVEZ VISITS, MIXED [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) used overlapping August 3-5 visits by Brazil's President Lula and Venezuelan President Chavez to try to regain political momentum. Lula's visit focused on renewed Argentine-Brazilian commercial collaboration following a damaging public diverg [...] | 2008-08-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD WTRO AR BR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES1092 | Argentina: President Kirchner Cancels Trip to Bolivia, [...] (U) In the face of protests in Tarija, Bolivia and reportedly at the request of Bolivian Foreign Minister Choquehuanca, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Kirchner and visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cancelled August 5 their planned trip to meet with Bolivian President Evo Moral [...] | 2008-08-06 20:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AR BR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES1116 | Argentina's Growing Trade Deficit with Brazil Spotlights [...] (SBU) President Lula's August 3-4 visit to Argentina has focused attention on Argentina's 62-month-long string of bilateral trade deficits with Brazil. Brazil is Argentina's number one trading partner and this bilateral merchandise trade deficit, up 47% y-o-y to US$ 3 billion in just the first [...] | 2008-08-09 16:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV EAGR AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1324 | Argentina and Brazil Pledge Increased Cooperation [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva (Lula) pledged increased cooperation and agreed on a number of economic and infrastructure deals during a September 6-8 CFK state visit to Brazil. The fact that the summit constitut [...] | 2008-09-23 12:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINV ENRG EFIN EIND MARR MCAP SENV AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1443 | Argentina's auto sector still somewhat strong despite [...] (U) The Argentine auto sector is on track for another record-breaking year in 2008, in spite of the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Argentine economy and recent high profile media reports of slowdowns in sales and planned layoffs. Production, sales, and exports are at all-t [...] | 2008-10-21 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD ELAB AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1489 | BRAZIL-ARGENTINA COORDINATE ON G-20, DIFFER ON [...] (C) On October 27, Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina Mauro Vieira (protect strictly) told the Ambassador that while Brazil and Argentina differed on the proper trade policy response to the current economic crisis, Brazil would be patient with its neighbor and would work to encourage a constru [...] | 2008-10-29 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1495 | Argentina: Global Crisis Threatens Export Growth, Trade [...] (SBU) Argentina's strong goods export performance in the aftermath of the 2001/02 financial crisis has stalled, a victim of plunging world commodity prices and slower global growth projections. From a projected 2008 trade surplus in the $12 billion range, local economists now see the 2009 surp [...] | 2008-10-30 17:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1537 | Argentina: G-20 Trade Policy Position [...] (SBU) Despite a relatively protectionist response to the global financial crisis, Argentina trade officials say they will work towards consensual and practical trade policy communique language at the G-20 Summit. Argentina will, however, likely object to any Summit calls to resuscitate WTO Do [...] | 2008-11-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1589 | Argentina and Brazil Consider New Trade Barriers [...] (SBU) Argentine and Brazilian officials discussed in Argentina November 17 a new Brazilian plan to subsidize consumer auto financing that will include autos imported from Argentina. They also reviewed recently imposed Argentine non-tariff barriers and Argentina and Brazil's common interest in [...] | 2008-11-21 18:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1697 | RELOCATING DEA PERSONNEL FROM BOLIVIA TO OTHER [...] (C) The following information is provided in response to questions in reftel A regarding the relocation of three DEA positions from Embassy La Paz to Embassy Buenos Aires. 2. (C) As reported in reftel B, on November 14, 2008, Ambassador Wayne advised Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez tha [...] | 2008-12-15 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR AR BO BR CH PA PE |
08BUENOSAIRES1726 | Argentina: Presidential Declaration of Argentina, Brazil [...] Argentine Ambassador to the United States Hector Timerman gave the Ambassador December 17 an unsigned copy of a joint declaration that he said was signed by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez i [...] | 2008-12-19 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL BR VE AR |
08BUENOSAIRES230 | Argentina Hosts Brazil, Bolivia Presidents on Looming [...] (SBU) A bilateral Argentine/Brazil presidential summit in Buenos Aires February 22 and a follow-on February 23 trilateral Argentine/Brazil/Bolivia presidential summit focused largely on regional energy coordination. Bolivia's President Morales acknowledged his country's near-term inability to [...] | 2008-02-26 08:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV AR BR BL |
08BUENOSAIRES242 | ARGENTINA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSTS DISCUSS CFK [...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Eliot Engel and Delegation met February 21 with noted Argentine political and economic analysts to discuss bilateral relations, views on the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration, and regional issues, including relations with Brazil, Venezuela, and Cu [...] | 2008-02-27 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON OREP AR VE BR CU |
08BUENOSAIRES496 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TAKEN BY SURPRISE AS CHAVEZ [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of Venezuela's (GOV) announcement that it would nationalize Venezuela's largest steelmaker, Ternium Sidor, majority-owned by Argentine interests, has rattled local markets and complicated the relationship between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (C [...] | 2008-04-17 17:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EIND ETRD AR VE BR MX |
08BUENOSAIRES568 | ARGENTINA: PLANNING MINISTER DE VIDO ON ARGENTNE TIES WITH U.S., VENEZUELA, AND DOMESTIC STRATEGY TO LAUNCH NEW INFRASTRUCTURE AND "SOCIAL PACT" INITIATIVES [...] (SBU) Planning Minister De Vido called A/S Shannon's visit to Buenos Aires a positive step in rebuilding bilateral relations damaged by the earlier Antonini Wilson "suitcase" scandal. He hopes the postponed visits to the United States by former President Nestor Kirchner and Chief of Cabinet Al [...] | 2008-04-30 17:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV AR VZ BR EC EPET |
08BUENOSAIRES736 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR MARK P. LAGON [...] POST WARMLY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR MARK P. LAGON, DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP),AND BARBARA FLECK, G/TIP REPORTS AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS OFFICER, WHO WILL TRAVEL TO ARGENTINA FROM JUNE 18-21, 2008. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO OBTAIN AN UPDATE ON TIP I [...] | 2008-05-29 13:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN OTRA PHUM SMIG UY AR BR |
08HANOI107 | MISSION WELCOMES OECD INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) The Embassy welcomes the opportunity for enhanced engagement in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with potential Southeast Asian partners, and looks forward to further information from the Department on this initiative. Vietnam has the goal of becoming an [...] | 2008-01-31 00:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ETRD AORC OECD BR CH ID IN SF XC VM |
08HAVANA460 | VISIT TO CUBA OF BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AMORIM [...] (C) Poloff met with Brazilian DCM Vilmar Coutinho (please protect) to discuss the May 30-31 visit to Cuba of Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim. Amorim's visit was a follow-up to Brazilian President Lula da Silva's January 2008 visit to Cuba (Reftel). In addition to meeting with his co [...] | 2008-06-17 14:41:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF ETRD CU BR |
08JAKARTA1242 | G8 OPPORTUNITY FOR US-BRAZIL-INDONESIA BIOFUELS [...] (SBU) Summary. President Lula of Brazil will be signing a biofuels Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Indonesia on July 12, according to Brazilian Embassy contacts at an informal discussion hosted by Ambassador Hume. Participants noted that the upcoming G8 Summit in Japan provides an oppo [...] | 2008-06-26 01:57:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ENRG KGHG SENV PGOV ID BR |
08JAKARTA1346 | IN LULA'S VISIT, GOI-BRAZIL HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his July 11-12 visit to Jakarta, Brazilian President da Silva signed cooperation agreements on biofuels development and education. President Yudhoyono also endorsed Lula's call for expansion of the UN Security Council and seemed to voice outright support for Brazil's cand [...] | 2008-07-14 09:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV UNSC ID BR |
08LAPAZ735 | NEW PUSH FOR DIALOGUE: SHOW BEFORE THE SHOWDOWN? [...] (U) Summary: Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca called for renewed examination of third-party facilitated negotiations with the opposition March 31, in conjunction with an April 1 La Paz visit by OAS envoy Dante Caputo. Caputo met with Santa Cruz opposition leaders April 2. Choquehuanca said [...] | 2008-04-03 20:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS OFDP OVIP BL AR CO BR |
08LAPAZ751 | BOLIVIA: PRE-MAY 4 DIALOGUE HOPES ON THE ROPES [...] (C) Summary: Despite much-publicized government urgency to head off Santa Cruz Department's (state) May 4 autonomy referendum through dialogue with the opposition, Bolivian government contacts are privately accepting they cannot head off the referendum and are looking at a post-May 4 strategy. [...] | 2008-04-07 17:26:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS OFDP OVIP BL AR CO BR |
08LAPAZ854 | DIALOGUE: MUCH ADO ABOUT INTERNATIONAL VOICES [...] (C) Summary. OAS Political Secretary Dante Caputo seemed resigned to the fact that the opposition is holding firm to a May 4 date for an autonomy referendum in Santa Cruz Department (state) and will not sacrifice it as a means to expedite a new round of negotiations with the government. Caput [...] | 2008-04-15 22:53:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS OFDP OVIP BL AR CO BR |
08LIMA1130 | SFRC STAFFDEL examines transparency [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Members Carl Meacham and Brooke Daley visited Lima May 25-31 to discuss the state of transparency in Peru's extractive industries. Meetings with government officials, non-government organizations (NGO),and private sector executives all e [...] | 2008-07-02 21:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ENRG AMGT EMIN ASEC AFIN BR |
08LIMA1202 | PERU ACCEPTS INVITATION TO ILEA DUCC COURSE [...] (U) The Government of Peru accepts ILEA invitation to the Drug Unit Commanders Course to be held at the Regional Training Center of ILEA and is in the process of selecting participants. POC for this and other ILEA related matters is Jorge Del Castillo. Contact Info: DelcastilloJ@state.gov or [...] | 2008-07-15 16:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC BR EDRC KCRM PREL SNAR PE |
08LISBON2690 | PORTUGAL'S TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE LUSO-BRAZILIAN [...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 28, Brazil hosted the Ninth Luso-Brazilian Summit in Salvador, Brazil. The summit is held biennially to discuss common bilateral agendas, and this year included discussions on the financial crisis, the status of the Doha Round and the signing of ten bilateral commercia [...] | 2008-11-04 09:27:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV BR PO |
08LONDON727 | UK SUPPORTIVE OF WHA PDAS KELLY'S VIEWS ON LATIN [...] (C) Summary. FCO Director of the Americas Chris Wood was supportive of U.S. policy on Latin America, praising progress in Colombia in particular during a visit by WHA PDAS Craig Kelly March 7. Wood agreed Venezuela and Bolivia were worrisome and that Cuba had not changed since Fidel's illne [...] | 2008-03-11 17:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EU UK CO EC BR CU VE BL |
08MONTEVIDEO103 | MAJOR DRUG SEIZURE NETS INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKERS AND 142 [...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: The Uruguayan National Police arrested 11 alleged drug traffickers and seized 142 kilos of cocaine in the third significant bust since 2006. The plane used to transport the cocaine was also seized. DEA Buenos Aires-Southern Cone was actively involved in the investigation an [...] | 2008-02-28 15:48:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM UY MX BL BR PA XM XR |
08MONTEVIDEO266 | BANCO DEL SUR: MINISTERS AGREE ON DRAFT CHARTER, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministers of finance from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela met in Montevideo on April 25 for the fourth Banco del Sur (Bank of the South) ministerial meeting. Argentina did not participate in the meeting following the resignation of its Minister of Economy [...] | 2008-05-07 20:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL AR BL BR PY EC VE UY |
08NAGOYA28 | FOREIGN WORKERS CHANGE THE FACE OF CENTRAL JAPAN [...] (SBU) Despite stereotypes of Japan as a homogeneous nation, long-term foreign resident workers now play a crucial role in the Central Japan economy. Owing to labor shortages and the continuing strength of the regional manufacturing sector (even in the face of rapidly rising fuel and raw mater [...] | 2008-07-23 04:07:00 | Consulate Nagoya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL CVIS JA BR CH PE |
08NEWDELHI2763 | INDIA, BRAZIL, SOUTH AFRICA DISPLAY SOUTH-SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary. During the October 15 India-Brazil-South Africa summit in New Delhi, the three countries: -- emphasized their solidarity by pledging to work together to meet shared challenges of the global financial crisis, while criticizing rich countries for the crisis; -- signed seven agr [...] | 2008-10-21 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL SF BR IN |
08OTTAWA1172 | CANADA WILL DISCUSS BRAZIL'S PARTICIPATION IN PDG [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Policy Planning officer Helen Fytche told poloff September 4 that Canada would be pleased to discuss Brazil's participation in the Partnership for Democratic Governance (PDG) at the October 17 Steering Group meeting. Canada felt [...] | 2008-09-05 21:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KDEM BR CA |
08OTTAWA889 | CANADA TO OPEN NEW TRADE OFFICES IN CHINA, MEXICO [...] (U) Summary: In a June 19 speech, International Trade Minister Emerson announced that Canada is establishing 10 new trade offices in China, Mexico, and Brazil as part of Canada's "aggressive" trade policy. This is in addition to new trade offices in India and Mongolia announced in April. The [...] | 2008-06-30 19:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV CA EFTA CH BR IN |
08PARIS2130 | U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR [...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy". STAPLETON [...] | 2008-11-20 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY US UK PO FR SW AR BR |
08PARIS501 | LATIN AMERICA: FRENCH SHARE SENSE OF POSITIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. PDAS Craig Kelly reviewed Latin American priorities with MFA PDAS for Latin America Jean-Marc Laforet and DAS for Central America Jose Gomez on March 6. They concurred with Kelly,s assessment that the democratic governance and regional cooperation were improving across the regi [...] | 2008-03-18 08:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM FR CO EC BR CU |
08PARIS538 | BURMA REFERENDUM: FRANCE SEEKS P-3 UNITY BEFORE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 15:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM FR BR |
08PARISFR1185 | UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: The race to succeed UNESCO Director-General Matsuura (Japan) is on in earnest, even though UNESCO's General Conference will not make the final selection until October 2009. Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Husni was the first to enter the race, but he has hurt his chances with a s [...] | 2008-06-24 09:54:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR UNESCO EG MO BU BR LH CO |
08PARISFR2202 | UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL SUCCESSION: CONVERSATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Mexican and Swedish UNESCO Ambassadors told Ambassador Oliver that their respective countries will oppose the candidacy of Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni for the position of Director General of UNESCO. The Mexican Ambassador also expressed misgivings about the pos [...] | 2008-12-04 17:01:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | UNESCO PREL FR SW MX BR |
08PARISFR2227 | UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL CAMPAIGN: JORDANIAN AND INDIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting with Ambassador Oliver, the Jordanian Ambassador to UNESCO said that Egypt will move ahead with its candidate for the next Director General (DG) of UNESCO unless it decides that its candidate, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, would have serious difficulty gettin [...] | 2008-12-09 16:39:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO JO FR EG IN CU VE BR RS AR |
08PORTAUPRINCE430 | G/TIP PROGRAM: FIRST MONITORING REPORT [...] Summary: The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) awarded the Pan-American Development Foundation (PADF) a USD 250,850 grant to support an anti-trafficking program in Haiti from September 30, 2007 through October 1, 2008. Due to extensive staff turnover at PADF's Haiti [...] | 2008-03-18 12:37:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | BR KCRM KWMN PREL PHUM HA |
08PORTAUPRINCE795 | PRESIDENT LULA REITERATES BRASILIA'S SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Brazilian President Ignacio Lula da Silva visited Haiti for seven hours on May 28. meeting at length with President Preval and other senior Haitian officials. He reiterated his nation's support for Haiti and announced that it would build a major dam for the generation of hydroele [...] | 2008-06-02 21:04:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON HA BR |
08PRETORIA908 | SOUTH AFRICA-BRAZIL TRADE: THE WEAKEST LINK IN [...] (U) Summary. Brazil and South Africa's economic relations, although growing, are still comparatively small. South Africa and Brazil have already formed the trilateral India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Forum, established closer trade ties through the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)-Merc [...] | 2008-04-30 11:19:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV BR SF |
08QUITO216 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT CORREA ON [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Ambassador on March 3, President Correa expressed outrage at President Uribe for bombing his country, saying he expected the international community to condemn unprovoked aggression. He said the GOE had no relationship with the FARC, and accepted the Ambassador [...] | 2008-03-03 23:28:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS EC CO PE BR VE NU |
08QUITO70 | UNASUR STRUCTURE AND CARTAGENA MEETINGS UNCERTAIN [...] (C) Summary. Members of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are planning meetings of their delegates, foreign ministers and heads of state in Cartegena on January 26-28, but as of January 14 no countries had confirmed attendance. The purpose of these meetings is to approve a draft [...] | 2008-01-22 17:04:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AORC EC CO BR XM XR |
08QUITO996 | ODEBRECHT AND PETROBRAS - ECUADOR MOVES AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: President Correa raised the rhetoric level against two big Brazilian companies, and went further with the construction firm Odebrecht, cancelling its projects in Ecuador and its employees' visas. Correa also pressed Petrobras to quickly renegotiate its contract or face expulsio [...] | 2008-10-21 16:11:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL EINV ECON EC BR |
08RECIFE34 | NORTHEAST BRAZIL: LANDLESS MOVEMENT TRIES TO RE-INVENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Just as in southern Brazil (reftel),the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST),and their fellow travelers in the always-disadvantaged northeast region, seem to be changing tactics; with confrontation less appealing, they appear to be re-positioning themselves and trying to get o [...] | 2008-05-28 00:57:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ELAB PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI BR |
08RIODEJANEIRO135 | Petrobras Delays Some Subsalt Tests Due to Equipment [...] Summary. A shortage of drilling rigs and looming relinquishment deadlines have made Brazilian oil company Petrobras delay tests on potentially huge subsalt finds like Carioca and move the rigs to other blocks. Petrobras CEO Sergio Gabrielli announced in late May that production evaluation tes [...] | 2008-06-05 11:57:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET EIND EINV BR |
08RIODEJANEIRO138 | Brazil Considers Changing Energy Sector Rules [...] (SBU) Brazil is considering changes to its oil sector for the purpose of capturing more revenue from the country's significant newfound "pre-salt" oil reserves. Brazil's National Energy Policy Council will meet later this year to decide how to proceed. Meanwhile, further leasing of offshore exp [...] | 2008-06-05 16:59:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV BR |
08RIODEJANEIRO14 | AMBASSADOR SOBEL MEETS WITH FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER LAMPREIA [...] Classified by: PAO Erik Holm-Olsen for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: During a recent meeting at his Rio de Janeiro residence, former Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia spoke with Ambassador Sobel in a candid, free-wheeling look at the current Br [...] | 2008-01-16 15:35:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON BR |
08RIODEJANEIRO144 | Rio de Janeiro Pol-Econ Round-Up April-May 2008 [...] The following are highlights of Political/Economic activity in Rio de Janeiro's reporting district during the months of April-May 2008. - Rio's Former Governor Indicted, Former Police Chief Arrested - Militias Torture Journalists - Brazil Plans for More Nuclear Power Plants - Rio Official [...] | 2008-06-12 15:16:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EIND EAIR ECON PGOV PHUM KCRM KOCI SOCI SNAR BR |