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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 04SAOPAULO1130 |
Two for Two: Brazil's Trade Policy Machine Delivers [...] No summary [...] |
2004-08-12 12:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD TBIO PGOV KIPR BR |
| 04SAOPAULO1472 |
PT AND PSDB GAIN STRENGTH IN BRAZILIAN STATE OF [...] (U) Polls are leaning towards a PSDB win for mayor in Florianopolis, the capital of the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The PSDB candidate, Dario Berger, has a 16 point lead over PP/PFL candidate, Chico Assis. State Governor Luiz Henrique da Silva (PMDB) has endorsed Berger and o [...] |
2004-10-22 17:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SOCI BR |
| 04SAOPAULO1541 |
MUNICIPAL ELECTION RESULTS IN THE SOUTH: PT [...] Summary. In Sao Paulo and the South, the PSDB was the big winner and the PT the big loser in the second round of the Brazilian municipal elections on October 31. The PT lost control of the two biggest prizes in the region, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre, the second of which the party had govern [...] |
2004-11-01 20:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR SOCI BR |
| 04SAOPAULO1745 |
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: VISIT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Begin Summary: Special Ambassador John Miller visited Brazil November 29-December 3 to survey Brazilian efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Ambassador Miller found that Brazilian efforts to educate and raise awareness have been outstanding in many areas, but more needs to be done ( [...] |
2004-12-17 17:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | BR ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL TIP |
| 04SAOPAULO1795 |
GOVERNOR ALCKMIN LAUDS RESULTS OF MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin told the Ambassador during a December 14 courtesy call that he was confident the country was on good economic and political footing, and said he expected continued healthy growth in GDP and exports in both the state and Brazil during 2005. Al [...] |
2004-12-30 15:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD EINV BR |
| 04SAOPAULO493 |
SPECIAL ENVOY REICH'S MEETING WITH JOSE DIRCEU [...] (C) SUMMARY. White House Special Envoy for the Western Hemisphere Otto Reich met with President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu on Sunday, March 21 at a private residence in Sao Paulo. During the course of the relaxed and open 90-minute conversation, the two touched o [...] |
2004-03-26 12:12:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CO BL CU VE BR UNHCR US |
| 04SAOPAULO843 |
RACE RELATIONS IN BRAZIL: THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION [...] (U) Affirmative action measures aimed at improving the socioeconomic situation of Afro-Brazilians are fundamental to the "Movimento Negro," or Black Movement. Though affirmative action remains controversial, even among Afro- Brazilians, the controversy itself is drawing public attention to t [...] |
2004-06-04 19:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EINV SOCI BR TIP |
| 05SAOPAULO1076 |
WORKERS PARTY ELECTIONS GO TO SECOND ROUND; LULA [...] (U) Summary: Party leaders are claiming a large turnout in Sunday's internal election of the ruling Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT), while the press is reporting widespread irregularities. Leaders of moderate and leftist factions are trading accusations of fraud. President Lu [...] |
2005-09-20 18:15:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PGOV ELAB BR |
| 05SAOPAULO1110 |
WORKERS PARTY ELECTIONS FIRST ROUND RESULTS [...] (U) Summary: On September 27, the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) released the final results of its September 18 internal election. In the race for national party president, Ricardo Berzoini, candidate of President Lula's moderate majority faction (Campo Majoritario - CM) gar [...] |
2005-09-29 14:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PGOV ELAB BR |
| 05SAOPAULO1158 |
CONVERSATION WITH JOSE DIRCEU, OCTOBER 9, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: While transiting through Sao Paulo, Brasilia TDY poloff attended an October 9 lunch with friends at which Federal Deputy and former Lula Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu was present. During their 30-minute conversation, Dirceu shared his views on the political crisis, the future of the [...] |
2005-10-13 19:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV BR |
| 05SAOPAULO1321 |
H2B VISAS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY [...] (U) As noted in Ref A, Brazil has seen a dramatic rise in temporary work visas (H2B) in the last year. The Sao Paulo applicants generally fall into three categories: 1) young, educated Brazilians heading to resorts, ski areas and Indian casinos for several months to make some money (the good), [...] |
2005-12-01 10:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS CMGT BR |
| 05SAOPAULO1344 |
BRAZILIAN COPS BUST IMMIGRANT SMUGGLING RING [...] (U) SUMMARY. A year long investigation into immigrant smuggling, dubbed Operation America, resulted in 30 arrests on November 28 and the breakup of a smuggling network responsible for moving 3,500 illegal Brazilians through Mexico to the U.S. each year. The arrests were widely reported in the [...] |
2005-12-07 10:01:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KFRD CVIS CMGT BR |
| 05SAOPAULO1356 |
INCREASED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AT SAO PAULO'S [...] (U) Two incidents involving American citizens within the last month at or near Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International airport have highlighted what has already been perceived by many as a significant rise in criminal incidents targeting travelers moving through the airport. In both cases the vict [...] |
2005-12-09 18:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC BR CA KCRM SC |
| 05SAOPAULO1372 |
ELDER STATESMAN DELFIM NETTO DISCUSSES PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: PMDB Congressman and elder statesman Antonio Delfim Netto told CG that while President Lula remains personally popular, he needs to start courting the PMDB and the smaller &left light8 parties if he hopes to get re-elected in next October,s elections. Netto said the PSDB/PFL elec [...] |
2005-12-15 13:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR BR |
| 05SAOPAULO1376 |
PT Criticism Creates Dilemma for President Lula [...] Sensitive But Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: A senior PT advisor told CG that the party leadership made a mistake in issuing a recent resolution publicly criticizing President Lula's economic policies. The advisor attributed this political blunder to long- standing int [...] |
2005-12-16 13:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR ELAB BR |
| 05SAOPAULO1379 |
SAO PAULO CONSULATE FSN ASSAULTED AT GUNPOINT [...] (U) On Wednesday, 12/14/05 at approximately 2130 hours, a locally employed Brazilian staff member was assaulted at gunpoint while stopped in traffic in her vehicle. According to the victim's accounts, 2 males and an elderly female approached her vehicle at a traffic light. One of the males ask [...] |
2005-12-16 17:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC BR CA KCRM SC |
| 05SAOPAULO21 |
SERRA'S HONEYMOON CUT SHORT [...] (U) SUMMARY. Jose Serra of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) was inaugurated as Mayor of Sao Paulo on January 1, in a ceremony that took on the tone of a PSDB political festival. Virtually all the stars of the Sao Paulo wing of the PSDB party, including former President Fernando [...] |
2005-01-06 10:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
| 05SAOPAULO283 |
THE TIP REPORT [...] (U) This is version II of the Brazil TIP report, incorporating answers to questions raised by version I, and additional information. This report was a coordinated effort between Sao Paulo and Embassy Brasilia, which supplied much of the new information. 2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Brazil conti [...] |
2005-03-11 10:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF TIP |
| 05SAOPAULO624 |
AMBASSADOR VISIT TO RIO GRANDE DO SUL [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by officers from Consulate General Sao Paulo, visited Porto Alegre, capital of Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, May 1- 3. During the visit, Ambassador met with the governor and the mayor; toured the modern General Motors and Dell Compute [...] |
2005-05-23 20:17:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD KIPR EAGR ENRG SCUL SOCI PREL PGOV PINR BR |
| 05SAOPAULO872 |
BREAK-UP OF LEBANESE DRUG RING IN BRAZIL [...] (S) SUMMARY: On June 17, 2005, the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF) broke up a Lebanese-organized drug ring based in Sao Paulo and operating in a number of cites in southern Brazil. 8Operation Tamara,8 (thedate fruit in Portuguese,) involved coordinationwith the German federal police and U.S. [...] |
2005-07-22 11:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | SECRET | SNAR PTER ASEC PGOV ETTC EFIN SOCI BR |
| 05SAOPAULO875 |
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DEBATE CONTINUES IN BRAZIL [...] (U) Summary: On June 10-11, government officials, non- profit organizations, educators, interested citizens, and representatives from 20 public Brazilian universities met in Sao Paulo for a two-day nation-wide conference to discuss nascent affirmative action programs in higher education. Man [...] |
2005-07-22 14:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM ECON PHUM BTIO EINV SOCI BR TIP |
| 05SAOPAULO920 |
SAO PAULO MAYOR SERRA'S SIX MONTH RECORD [...] (SBU) Summary: At the conclusion of his first six months in office, Sao Paulo Mayor Jose Serra (Social Democratic Party of Brazil or PSDB) enjoys a more positive public evaluation than any of his 5 predecessors, yet reviews of his performance to date remain mixed. Of his 15 campaign promise [...] |
2005-08-03 20:15:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KIPR KDEM ECON PHUM BTIO EINV SOCI BR |
| 05SAOPAULO971 |
Sao Paulo journalists discuss corruption scandal [...] Summary: At the end of July/early August, IO Sao Paulo held a series of individual meetings with prominent journalists to discuss the corruption scandal unfolding in Brazil. Various journalists commented that they believe President Lula da Silva (Lula) may not have been aware of the corruptio [...] |
2005-08-16 12:10:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1002 |
SOUTHWEST BRAZIL: CATTLE CRISIS, POROUS BORDER, AND U.S. [...] (SBU) Consul General (CG) recently visited Brazil's southwestern border state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Meetings with representatives of the cattle ranching sector and government researchers shed light on an economic dichotomy in the Brazilian beef industry today: Drought conditions, market worr [...] |
2006-09-18 13:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD ENRG SENV KPAO EINV ECON BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1005 |
SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: AFGHANISTAN, NATO ROLE, [...] "Relapse In Afghanistan" Leading national circulation daily liberal Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (9/18): "Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan is a kind of garden of delights. The US intervention was successful. The hated Taliban regime was deposed and replaced by a government that acquired le [...] |
2006-09-18 18:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1013 |
EUROPE: POPULAR UNREST IN BUDAPEST; UNITED NATIONS: KOFI [...] "Announced Crisis Reflects Increasing Dissatisfaction With Entry in the EU" Leading national circulation daily liberal Folha de S. Paulo's Budapest correspondent reports (9/20): "The tape showing the confirmation that Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany lied about the budget during four [...] |
2006-09-20 10:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1019 |
EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC: COUP IN THAILAND; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-21 10:45:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO102 |
SAO PAULO VICE-MAYOR GILBERTO KASSAB: PFL INSIDER DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge d'Affaires (CDA), accompanied by POLCOUNS, Sao Paulo Consul General, and Sao Paulo poloff, met January 19 with Sao Paulo Vice-Mayor Gilberto Kassab. The 45-year-old Kassab, an influential leader of the state Liberal Front Party (PFL), will serve as acting Mayor through th [...] |
2006-02-01 17:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1030 |
EUROPE: HUNGARY, PROTESTS AGAINST PRIME MINISTER; WESTERN [...] "Western Europe Nations Become Nightmare For the EU" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent remarks (9/22): "Violence has erupted in Budapest against socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.... But there is another and much more important victim of such demonstrations: the [...] |
2006-09-22 13:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1037 |
WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ REGIONAL AND [...] "Oil Threatens Chvez" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (9/25) editorialized: "President Hugo Chvez does not use the richness provided by its nation's oil reserves to prepare Venezuela's infrastructure for the day oil will be over, but to finance a flogging campaign against the US and to wea [...] |
2006-09-27 10:16:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1038 |
WHA PDAS SHAPIRO'S MEETINGS IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) During a September 18-21 visit to Sao Paulo to attend the WHA ELO Conference, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met with a series of experts on questions of foreign policy, international trade, and socio-economic issues. Private sector representatives painted a gloomy economic picture, noting t [...] |
2006-09-27 16:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EINV ETRD SOCI ECON BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1039 |
WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACY; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-28 11:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1051 |
GWOP: DETAINEES POLICY; SAO PAULO "Retrogradation In The US" [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-02 11:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1054 |
EXPORTS, POPULISM AND OLD ALLIES: A TRIP TO PARANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On a recent trip to the state of Parana just southwest of Sao Paulo, Consul General helped launch a Commerce Department initiative at the Port of Paranagua, which, according to Port officials and the state's governor, is being revitalized into a dynamic commercial sea link for [...] |
2006-10-02 18:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD EWWT EINV SCUL KPAO BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1058 |
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: BOLIVIA, VENEZUELA; [...] "Instability Increase in Bolivia" Business-oriented Valor Economico editorialized (10/5): "President Evo Morales is engulfed in another wave of political instability. The polarization of forces intensified following the truce represented by the Constituent Assembly election and the referendum [...] |
2006-10-05 13:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1059 |
AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES THE USAID-SPONSORED PARAISOPOLIS [...] Ambassador Sobel participated in a September 27 ceremony to inaugurate the USAID Paraisopolis Slum Electrification and Loss Reduction (SELR) Program. Close to 100 people attended the ceremony. In his comments, the Ambassador emphasized the importance of the project itself and the rapport bet [...] |
2006-10-05 13:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR EAID BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1069 |
ALCKMIN AS PRESIDENT: THE END OF IDEOLOGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a friendly and candid discussion with the Ambassador, Joao Carlos Meirelles, a long-term advisor and the current campaign manager for PSDB presidential hopeful Geraldo Alckmin (Ref B), outlined the likely policies of an Alckmin government, as well as the strategy that the c [...] |
2006-10-06 16:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD KPLS BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1071 |
MEDIA REACTION: EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST; [...] "Geopolitical Bomb" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (10/10) editorialized: "The announcement of the North Korean nuclear test puts the world at risk to the dangers of [nuclear] proliferation. It will be no surprise if, in view of the new geopolitical reality, bo [...] |
2006-10-10 12:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1082 |
AMBASSADOR SOBEL MEETS WITH PRIVATE SECTOR IN SAO PAULO [...] (U) Ambassador Sobel met with various business leaders and organizations during his September 26-28 visit to Sao Paulo. Septels report on Ambassador Sobel's meetings on education during this visit and his inauguration of a USAID-sponsored development project. The leader of an important indust [...] |
2006-10-11 12:53:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR EAID BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1083 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES EDUCATION, U.S. STUDIES IN SAO PAULO [...] During his September 26-28 visit to Sao Paulo, Ambassador Sobel held several meetings devoted to cooperation on education. At a lunch hosted by the Consul General with senior representatives of several major Sao Paulo universities, the Ambassador heard various views on Brazilian higher educati [...] |
2006-10-11 14:57:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXP SCUL KPAO PGOV ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1088 |
MEDIA REACTION: EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST; [...] "Bush Has No Trump Card" Center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (10/13) editorialized: "By saying that the US does not intend to attack North Korea, George W. Bush was unusually and involuntarily transparent.... Bush is trying in vain to disguise the obvious fact that he does not have, either on [...] |
2006-10-13 14:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1105 |
RIO GRANDE DO SUL: ELECTION RESULTS REFLECT VOTER [...] (SBU) For the first time in five presidential elections, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva failed to carry Rio Grande do Sul on October 1, losing by nearly 1.5 million votes to challenger Geraldo Alckmin. At the same time, incumbent Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) Governor Germano Rigotto n [...] |
2006-10-17 17:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1127 |
MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SECTARIAN VIOLENCE; WESTERN [...] "Reminiscent of Vietnam" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (10/21) editorialized: "When the US invaded Iraq in March 2003, some analysts dared to compare the action to the US's disastrous intervention in Vietnam. They were immediately called irresponsible, and th [...] |
2006-10-23 12:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1130 |
AMBASSADOR SOBEL'S MEETING WITH SAO PAULO MAYOR KASSAB [...] Summary: Ambassador Sobel, accompanied by CG and poloff, met October 17 with Sao Paulo Mayor, Gilberto Kassab, and Municipal Secretary for International Relations, Helena Gasparian. The SIPDIS participants discussed ways for the U.S. and the city to work together on issues of common interes [...] |
2006-10-23 16:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ETRD KCRM BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1131 |
AMBASSADOR SOBEL'S MEETING WITH SAO PAULO GOVERNOR-ELECT [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 18 meeting with Governor-elect Jose Serra, Ambassador Sobel stressed the USG's interest in working with the state government on public security issues. Serra acknowledged that crime is a major challenge facing his administration and that there are many possibil [...] |
2006-10-23 16:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KCRM BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1136 |
MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: IRAQI STUDY GROUP, SECTARIAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-24 11:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1137 |
AMBASSADOR SOBEL'S MEETINGS ON ETHANOL IN SAO PAULO [...] Summary: During his October 4-10 visit to Sao Paulo, Ambassador Sobel met with the new country president of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), who advised that prospects for new infrastructure investment in Brazil are poor and that the company does not plan to produce ethanol outside the U.S. The [...] |
2006-10-24 12:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ENRG ETRD EINV BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1143 |
BG VIEWS BOLIVIAN GAS CONTRACT AS UNACCEPTABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo-based British Gas (BG) Executive Vice President for South America Rick Waddell called DPO on Oct. 20 to discuss ongoing gas contract negotiations with the Bolivian Government. Due to a series of unrealistic demands, Waddell deemed the Bolivian model contract completely [...] |
2006-10-24 19:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON BR BL |
| 06SAOPAULO1152 |
MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: IRAQ AND US MIDTERM ELECTIONS; SAO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-27 11:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1155 |
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: BRAZIL, PRESIDENTIAL [...] "Lula Reelected" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (10/30) editorialized: "Reelected with more than 60 percent of valid votes, President Lula da Silva now has before him a much more diverse political horizon than that of 2002.... Lula is far from the aura of socia [...] |
2006-10-30 14:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1169 |
MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S CONDEMNATION, US MIDTERM [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-06 11:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1174 |
MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S CONDEMNATION, US MIDTERM [...] "Bush, A Lame Duck" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (11/7): "Americans will vote today in the midterm elections, which represent a kind of referendum on the current administration. Polls have suggested that the Republicans will be defeated.... The [...] |
2006-11-07 11:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1176 |
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: NICARAGUA ELECTIONS; [...] "Tunnel Of Time" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (11/8): "Daniel Ortega was elected Nicaragua's president 16 years after having left the government. The Sandinista Front leader says he has changed, disowns his Marxist past and declares himself a pr [...] |
2006-11-08 12:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1183 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS, RUMSFELD'S [...] "Bush's Defeat" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (11/9): "The message sent by the ballots couldn't be clearer: American voters are very unhappy with the prolonged disaster produced by the Bush administration in Iraq and the series of scandals involv [...] |
2006-11-09 11:44:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1190 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS; SAO PAULO [...] "Elections Force Bush To Migrate To The Center" Business-oriented Valor Economico editorialized (11/13): "U.S. voters changed the axis of President George W. Bush's policy by withdrawing support for his continuing to lean to increasingly towards the right and forcing him to the center.... The [...] |
2006-11-13 13:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1192 |
PSDB STATE LEADER: LESSONS LEARNED FROM ALCKMIN CAMPAIGN; [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo State Deputy Sidney Beraldo told Poloff that state leaders of the Social Democracy Party of Brazil (PSDB) have been conducting a "lessons learned" exercise to identify what went wrong in ex-Governor Geraldo Alckmin's unsuccessful presidential campaign. One conclusion is that t [...] |
2006-11-14 11:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1197 |
AUSTR EISSENSTAT VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) Summary. Following their attendance at the Bilateral Consultative Mechanism Meeting in Brasilia on October 16 (Reftel B), AUSTR for Latin America Everett Eissenstat, AUSTR for Industry Meredith Broadbent, and USTR Brazil and Southern Cone Director Sue Cronin visited Sao Paulo. They met [...] |
2006-11-16 17:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON EINV KJUS BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1199 |
MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: IRAN ROLE IN IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST: [...] "To Negotiate With Iran? That Is The Question" International affairs commentator Newton Carlos wrote in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (11/17): "The bipartisan committee that is looking for a way to get the US out of the Iraqi quagmire has already signaled that [...] |
2006-11-17 11:15:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1201 |
MEDIA REACTION: BOLIVIA; SAO PAULO [...] "Autocrat In The Making" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (11/21) editorialized: "The coup that Bolivian President Evo Morales attempted against the Constituent Assembly and the nation's fragile institutions has become a reality. It is no longer possible to conc [...] |
2006-11-21 11:57:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1202 |
GOVERNOR LEMBO DISCUSSES POST-ELECTION POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (SBU) During a lunch with the CG, Sao Paulo Governor Lembo predicted that President Lula will face some opposition from within his own party, and expressed concern that if Lula has difficulty sustaining a majority in Congress, he might resort to populist rhetoric, though probably not populist [...] |
2006-11-21 14:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1206 |
FAVORABLE TRENDS IN FIGHTING IPR PIRACY IN SAO PAULO [...] (U) Econoff met recently with Marcio Vaz Guimaraes de Souza Netto, the head of the Sao Paulo State Interagency Council to Combat Piracy, to discuss recent activities of the organization and new developments in the fight against piracy. The Council has been reaching out to law enforcement in o [...] |
2006-11-21 17:22:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON KJUS BR |
| 06SAOPAULO121 |
LULA'S GOVERNMENT IN THE CROSSHAIRS: A PT PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Although they deny it, members of President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) who attended the Sixth World Social Forum - Americas Region (WSF) in Caracas in late January had some difficult moments. The event became Hugo Chavez's show and Brazil was critici [...] |
2006-02-07 17:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ELAB BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1216 |
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ECUADOR, LEFTIST [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-28 11:22:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1223 |
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ECUADOR, U.S. BASE IN [...] "In Chvez's Club" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (11/29) editorialized: "Leftist Rafael Correa was elected Sunday the eighth Ecuadorian president in the past ten years, and this shows the level of political instability in that Andean nation.... Correa's party d [...] |
2006-11-29 16:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1225 |
MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: POPE BENEDICT IN TURKEY; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-30 12:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 06SAOPAULO1234 |
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA [...] "In Bad Company" Liberal, largest circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (12/3): "Third world leaning is an aspect that the Lula administration's foreign policy explores ad nauseam. It is part of the rational with which the administration feeds ideological groups as a way to symbo [...] |
2006-12-04 12:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 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 |
| 06SAOPAULO785 |
BRAZIL: SENATOR CORNYN VISITS TRI-BORDER REGION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Senator John Cornyn of Texas and his Foreign Affairs Advisor Russ Thomasson visited Brazil and Paraguay on July 1-3 in order to study issues involving the tri-border region. The Senator sits on several subcommittees that provide oversight for matters involving the region, incl [...] |
2006-07-20 18:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ETRD PTER EFIN BRPA |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 07SAOPAULO1001 |
MICROSOFT SEES GOB ATTACKS AGAINST IPR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 20 meeting in Sao Paulo with Ambassador Sobel, Microsoft Brazil President Michel Levy stated that current GOB policies are antagonistic towards Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). According to Levy, the GOB through the Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) has mounted an i [...] |
2007-12-21 13:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ECIN PREL |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-25 16:26:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |