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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05RECIFE113 |
ANTI-TIP AND ANTI-ORGAN TRAFFICKING CONFERENCE IN BRAZIL [...] (U) Summary. Noting Brazil's prominent role as an exporting and a recipient country, speakers at the August 11-12 trafficking in persons (TIP) symposium in Recife, Pernambuco sponsored by the Latin American Institute for the Protection and Defense of Human Rights (ILADH) NGO cited financial gai [...] |
2005-08-31 19:14:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SOCI BR TIP |
| 05RECIFE130 |
PERNAMBUCO CROWS AFTER WINNING PETROBRAS-PDVSA OIL [...] Summary: The announcement by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sept. 29th that their 50-50 venture oil refinery would be located at the port of Suape, some 30 miles south of the Pernambuco state capital of Recife, was celebrated by northeasterner [...] |
2005-10-03 18:30:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ECON BR |
| 05RECIFE147 |
OAS MINISTERIAL CONCLUDES WITH DECLARATION OF RECIFE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The "Declaration of Recife," adopted on October 28 at a ministerial-level Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Recife, Brazil, contained a number of references that advance USG views. This included "representative" democracy, democracy as essential to economic devel [...] |
2005-11-03 14:16:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI BR |
| 05RECIFE150 |
RESPONSE TO VIOLENT PROTEST AT RECIFE CONSULATE DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: Demonstrators protesting President Bush's visit to Brazil marched on the U.S. Consulate in Recife -- peacefully on Friday November 4 and violently the next day. The second group of approximately 200 protesters included members of the Landless Movement (MST), who came armed with [...] |
2005-11-09 19:37:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC KPAO PTER BR US |
| 05RECIFE166 |
LULA AND CHAVEZ, BONDING AT SITE OF FUTURE REFINERY [...] (U) Summary. Brazilian President Lula da Silva traveled to the northeastern state of Pernambuco with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez to lay the cornerstone for an oil refinery and to reinforce their alliance December 16. The anti-American rhetoric of Chavez was no surprise, but the em [...] |
2005-12-17 14:57:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV PREL BR |
| 05RECIFE78 |
UPDATE ON AMCIT MISSIONARY SHOT IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Summary. John David Leonard, an American citizen missionary shot in Brazil, has been medevaced back home to a hospital in Des Moines, IA, where he remains under medical care. Embassy LegAtt and A/LegAtt traveled to the area where Mr. Leonard was attacked, and report that investigation [...] |
2005-07-14 17:33:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP |
| 06RECIFE40 |
SWEETER ENERGY? NORTHEAST HOPES FOR ETHANOL [...] Summary: Sugar has dominated Brazil's Northeast for centuries, but the boom in ethanol production for fuel has yet to fire up their economy. Only 15 percent of Brazil's ethanol comes from the Northeast compared to 85 percent from the South, even though the harvest seasons are complementary and [...] |
2006-03-13 17:14:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ENRG BR |
| 07RECIFE2 |
PERNAMBUCO GOVERNOR BELIEVES VENEZUELA WON'T STAY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In October 2005, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a joint investment with Venezuela in a $2.5 billion oil refinery to be built in the Suape port complex of Pernambuco state. Two months later, Lula and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez laid the cornerstone for [...] |
2007-01-09 17:35:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV BR |
| 07RECIFE37 |
SETBACK TO ANTI-PIRACY EFFORT IN BRAZIL'S NORTHEAST [...] (C) Summary: The lawyer leading the fight for intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Northeast, Monica Lustosa, (PROTECT NO FORN) told consular officers that due to concern for her personal safety she will no longer publicly demand enforcement of anti-piracy laws. She was shaken to learn th [...] |
2007-05-10 13:13:00 | Consulate Recife | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ETRD ECON PGOV BR |
| 08RECIFE34 |
NORTHEAST BRAZIL: LANDLESS MOVEMENT TRIES TO RE-INVENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Just as in southern Brazil (reftel), the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), and their fellow travelers in the always-disadvantaged northeast region, seem to be changing tactics; with confrontation less appealing, they appear to be re-positioning themselves and trying to get o [...] |
2008-05-28 00:57:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ELAB PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI BR |
| 09RECIFE17 |
DISASTER DECLARATION FOR SEVERE FLOODING IN MARANHAO - [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. The Ambassador has determined, based upon information from Brazil's Secretariat for Civil Defense and Maranhao State Government, that the severe destruction due to recent record Rains and flooding is of sufficient magnitude to warrant USG em [...] |
2009-05-01 19:15:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TBIO SENV BR |
| 09RECIFE60 |
LULA TOUTS JOBS AND CAMPOS IN NORTHEAST [...] Summary (SBU) During a visit to the Suape port on September 11, President Lula heaped praise on Governor Eduardo Campos (PSB), in his fifth visit to Pernambuco this year, fueling speculation that PT will offer Campos a high profile role - possibly the vice-presidency - in the upcoming preside [...] |
2009-09-24 17:33:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR PGOV ECON EPET |
| 09RECIFE63 |
DIPLOMATIC DIALOGUE IN RECIFE: DEEPER ENGAGEMENT SOUGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a broad off-the-record discussion of U.S.-Brazil foreign policy issues hosted by the PO and Recife's PD section a select group of Pernambuco opinion leaders attended a breakfast meeting and expressed their points of view about the foreign policy of the Obama administration [...] |
2009-09-30 16:17:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PREL PGOV ECON EPET ETRD EIND SCUL SENV |