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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 07BRASILIA1457 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANNERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Brendan Flannery, CCID/NCIRD/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Sao Paulo on or about (o/a) August 9; to Rio de Janeiro, o/a August 9-10 and to Brasilia, Brazil, o/a August 10-17, 2007, as follows: -- Rio de Janeiro: to partic [...] |
2007-07-31 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1458 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL MOEN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Ann Moen, Associate Director for Extramural Program, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, from August 15-18, 2007, to provide an opportunity to meet with project staff to review progress and plan [...] |
2007-07-31 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1463 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 98 [...] The following is the ninety-eighth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] |
2007-08-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1465 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR REGIONAL [...] Country clearance is requested for Larissa A. Stoner, the Brasilia regional environment assistant, to visit Medellin August 13-19 and Lima August 19-26. Purpose of the visit is to provide logistic support as well as attend and report on EPA Trainings on Environmental Law Enforcement. 2. Sto [...] |
2007-08-01 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA BL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1466 |
BRAZIL: SUBMISSION FOR INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Per instructions in reftel, US Embassy Brasilia is aware of one (1) claim of US persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Brazil (GOB). Claim 1 ------- a. Claimants A and B b. 1999 c. Claimants A and B, along with a Brazilian partner, through a joint [...] |
2007-08-02 11:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE ENRG CASC ECON OPIC PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA1485 |
EMBASSY BRASILIA CY 2006 CLASS B REFERRAL VALIDATION STUDY [...] Summary: In July 2007, the consular section of Embassy Brasilia conducted a validation study of 475 class B Referral visas issued between January 1st, 2006 and December 31st, 2006. Results from this random sample showed that 71% returned, 2% did not return, 23% never traveled; 4% were inconcl [...] |
2007-08-03 15:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KRFD CMGT BR |
| 07BRASILIA149 |
BRAZIL: LULA'S SECOND TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoB announced on January 22 a series of measures, the Program to Accelerate Growth (PAC), meant to enliven Brazil's current lackadaisical economic growth rates. The measures, a combination of targeted tax breaks and new public spending, along with the recycling of a few exist [...] |
2007-01-26 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD PREL EINV BR |
| 07BRASILIA1498 |
THE SOYBEAN MORATORIUM, ONE YEAR LATER [...] (U) Summary: On July 24, 2007, NGOs involved in the pact for sustainable soy in the Amazon - the soy moratorium - such as Greenpeace and The Nature Conservancy, met in Sao Paulo with representatives of the soybean industry and large-scale European consumers to evaluate the results of the one ye [...] |
2007-08-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO PGOV ECON XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1507 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PRATT [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Michael Pratt, Senior Medical Officer, NCCDPHP/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Brasilia, Brazil, August 22-26, 2007, provide technical assistance/consultation to the Brazilian Ministry of Health on developing national chronic [...] |
2007-08-07 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1519 |
FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-08 19:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA VE BR |
| 07BRASILIA1520 |
FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-08 19:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA VE BR |
| 07BRASILIA1530 |
FISCAL DATA FOR ADDITIONAL COSTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-09 17:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA CO VE BR |
| 07BRASILIA1535 |
BRAZIL: GOVERNMENT REQUESTS REVIVAL OF FRAMEWORK SPACE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 7 BELOW. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) contacted Post to express interest in reviving the bilateral "f [...] |
2007-08-10 12:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA KTIA TPHY TRGY TSPL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1536 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NASA OFFICIALS MR AND MRS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Jeffrey Williams (Astronaut) and Anna Marie Williams (spouse), National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) official, to Sao Paulo (SP), Campos dos Goitacases (RJ), Brasilia (DF) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ) [...] |
2007-08-10 12:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
| 07BRASILIA1539 |
REVISED FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-10 15:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA CO VE BR |
| 07BRASILIA1540 |
DEPT OF ENERGY'S BRADLEY BARTON AND DAN ARVIZU BRING A [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Department of Energy's Bradley Barton, Director of the Office of Commercialization and Deployment, and Dan Arvizu, Director of DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), led panels on [...] |
2007-08-10 17:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG EAGR ETTC EPET PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1555 |
BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DUE [...] (SBU) The below answers are in response to the request for information in ref C: A) Could there possibly be any downside or embarrassment caused by the selection of your post's nominee? --Post has no knowledge of any downside or embarrassment that would result from the selection of its no [...] |
2007-08-13 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA1568 |
Key Brazilin Senator Voices Concern over Venezuelan [...] (SBU) Summary. During a lunchAmbassador Sobel gave on August 8 as part of a boader outreach to Brazilian senators (septel), the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and Natonal Defense Committee, Heraclito Fortes, expresed concerns about threats to democracy from Venezela and Bolivia. A [...] |
2007-08-14 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON BR XR |
| 07BRASILIA1578 |
FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] The following fiscal data is being provided by the Regional Environmental Hub for expenditures (detailed below) for the Environmental Law Enforcement Workshop to be held August 20-23 in Lima (Peru). 19-726/7103715-1008-7a0926-021000-2403-4121 Total expenditures should not to exceed USD 2,58 [...] |
2007-08-16 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA BR PE |
| 07BRASILIA1581 |
SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF U/S REUBEN JEFFERY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a June setback to the Doha Round discussions, in which talks between the U.S., the EU, Brazil, and India stalled over disagreements concerning tariff cuts for goods and services and over agricultural subsidies. The Brazilian delegation, led by F [...] |
2007-08-16 16:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD OTRA OVIP PGOV PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1585 |
BRAZIL TO HOST MINISTERIAL MEETING ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry briefed representatives of embassies about its "Ministerial Meeting on International Governance for Sustainable Development," which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, September 3-4. The For [...] |
2007-08-17 10:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV UN EAGR ECON KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA162 |
BINDING MERCURY POLLUTION REDUCTION TARGETS - NO POSITION [...] On January 25, 2007, SCI Officer met again with Otavio Trindade of the Ministry of External Relations' Division for Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development for follow-up discussions regarding demarche request in Ref A. Trindade reiterated Brazil's support for UNEP voluntary mercury pa [...] |
2007-01-29 20:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN AORC ETRD PREL SENV KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1620 |
BRAZIL: OCR DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On August 23, EmbOffs delivered the demarche points in reftel to Otavio Brandelli, Director of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relations and Ana Soares, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Anti-Piracy Council, Ministry of Justice. The meet [...] |
2007-08-24 14:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON ADCO BR |
| 07BRASILIA1648 |
BRAZIL: GOB THREAT TO SUSPEND IPR OF US CITIZENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Otavio Brandelli, Chief of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relations told EconOff on August 27 that the media exaggerated some elements of an August 24 report announcing GoB plans to "cross-retaliate" over a WTO finding against U.S. cotto [...] |
2007-08-29 18:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA1651 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL IMAI [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Kumiko Imai, Service Fellow, NCCDPHP/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 2 to September 6, 2007, to attend the Secretariat of Health Surveillance Meeting and Workshop, and present "Methodology Cos [...] |
2007-08-29 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1653 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANNERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Brendan Flannery, Epidemiologist, NCIRD/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 10 to September 21, 2007, to work with current HHS/CDC secondee for immunizations and the Pan American Health Organizati [...] |
2007-08-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1654 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PATEL [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Manish Patel, Medical Epidemiologist, NCIRD/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 17; to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 17 to September 20; and, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 20, 2007, as [...] |
2007-08-30 13:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1664 |
BRAZIL,S FOREIGN MINISTRY DISSES AND DISMISSES [...] (C) Summary: The director of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) Office of Transnational Crimes, Virginia Toniatti, told PolCouns in a meeting August 27 that Brazil does not see the Brazil/Argentina/Paraguay tri-border cooperation mechanism and the 3 1 mechanism that incl [...] |
2007-08-31 11:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA BR AR |
| 07BRASILIA1670 |
SCANDAL INDICTMENTS AGAINST EX-OFFICIALS SEEN AS A [...] (U) Summary. In rulings seen by Brazilians as an important step forward in countering impunity, the Brazilian Supreme Court has allowed prosecution to proceed against all 40 individuals accused in the "mensalao" ("monthly payola") political scandal that rocked the Lula presidency in 2005. In [...] |
2007-08-31 16:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA1674 |
BRAZIL ANNOUNCES DRAMATIC DECLINE IN AMAZON DEFORESTATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED, AND IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil reports a sharp decline, 25 percent, in its rate of deforestation for the year 2006. Further, it estimates that the rate will drop another 30% in 2007. END SUMMARY [...] |
2007-08-31 17:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD EAGR KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1686 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA CAREY BYLIN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for EPA Official Carey Bylin, to Brasilia, Brazil, from September 16 to September 18; to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 18 to September 23, 2007, as follows: In Brasilia: Meetings at Ministry of Mines and Energy. In Rio de Janeiro: Meetings at P [...] |
2007-09-05 13:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA169 |
BRAZIL BIOFUEL UPDATE, JANUARY 2007 [...] According to data from Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Brazil produced more ethanol in 2006 than any other production period. The 2006 harvest produced a total of 17.8 billion liters compared to a 16.9 billion liter production from the period before. According to Angelo Bressan, Director o [...] |
2007-01-30 18:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD KSCA EAGR BR |
| 07BRASILIA17 |
Brazil and Russia Sign Space Cooperation MOU [...] One of the agreements signed by Brazil with Russia during the December 14-15, 2006, visit of Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov to Brasilia was an MOU for Cooperation in Space. According to the newspaper Jornal do Brasil, the principal beneficiary of the agreement will be Brazil's rocket launchi [...] |
2007-01-05 14:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO TPHY TRGY BR |
| 07BRASILIA1715 |
DEPUTIES PROPOSE TRIP TO CUBA TO INVESTIGATE [...] (C) Summary. A delegation of Brazilian federal deputies could travel to Havana soon to learn more about the Cuban boxers who were returned to Cuba during the PanAm games after apparently trying to defect and then undergoing a change of heart. The deputies would try to see the boxers to det [...] |
2007-09-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL BR CU |
| 07BRASILIA1718 |
Brazil Likely to Attend Seminar on UNSCR 1737 [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) On August 28, 2007, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer met with Minister Santiago Mourao and Counselor Luiz Fernando Galvao of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Disarmament and Sensitive T [...] |
2007-09-11 16:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC IR PARM KNNP BR |
| 07BRASILIA1721 |
Brazil to Attend Vienna Global Nuclear Energy Partnership [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On August 28, 2007, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer met with Minister Santiago Mourao and Counselor Luiz Fernando Galvao of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Disarmament and Sensiti [...] |
2007-09-11 16:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1722 |
BRAZIL: VIEWS ON COALITION AGAINST WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING: [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazilian Ministry of External Relations Environment Division Director Coimbra stressed in an August 27 meeting with ESTH Counselor that Brazil had concerns about the scope of [...] |
2007-09-11 16:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1723 |
Brazil's Delegation to Upcoming Nuclear Nonproliferation [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) On August 28, 2007, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer met with Minister Santiago Mourao and Counselor Luiz Fernando Galvao of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Division of Disarmament and Sensitive [...] |
2007-09-11 16:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG MNUC NPT PARM PREL BR KNNP |
| 07BRASILIA1742 |
BRAZIL: WASHINGTON SEPT. 27-28 MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil will certainly attend the September 27-28 meeting in Washington on climate change. It appears the Ambassador Everton Vargas, the Under Secretary for Policy in the Ministry of Exterio [...] |
2007-09-13 16:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1743 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NSF OFFICIAL NOTMAN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Evan Notman, Assistant Program Officer in the Division of International Science Engineer (OISE), to Sao Paulo(SP), Manaus (AM), and Brasilia(DF), Brazil, from September 17 to September 26, 2007, to participate in the discussion of cooperative pr [...] |
2007-09-13 16:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TPHY NSF OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1745 |
SENATE PRESIDENT WINS ACQUITTAL ON IMPROPRIETY CHARGES [...] (U) In a historic vote, Brazilian Senate President Renan Calheiros was absolved on September 12 of charges of misconduct - the first time the Senate had voted on a charge of impropriety against its president. The secret vote of 40 to 35, with 6 abstentions, fell short Of the 41 votes needed t [...] |
2007-09-13 18:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1772 |
INL SUPPORT IN 2007 IS YIELDING RESULTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite a dramatic reduction in NAS Brasilia external activities since June 2006, while an internal re-organization and new overall program strategy were being developed, INL authorized the continued support of several projects. In cooperation with other USG agencies at post, N [...] |
2007-09-17 16:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1774 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 99 [...] The following is the ninety-nine in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views express [...] |
2007-09-17 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1775 |
BRAZIL: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY OF [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche points to Otavio Brandelli, Chief of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relation,s on September 17. Brandelli said that the GoB feels it should adopt a "low profile" on the issue to avoid alienating the African Group [...] |
2007-09-17 21:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC WIPO BR |
| 07BRASILIA1779 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL JACOBS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Krista Jacobs, Economist, CCID/NCCPSTP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/HHS, to Rio de Janeiro, October 16 and Brasilia, Brazil, from October 16-20, 2007, as follows: In Brasilia: to assist in teaching a course in economic evaluatio [...] |
2007-09-19 14:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA178 |
BRAZILIAN REPRESENTATION AT GLOBE REGIONAL TRAINING, 2-9 [...] The Ministry of Education has informed post that Brazil will have two representatives at the Globe Regional Training on February 2-9 in Panama City. The information provided is as follow: 2. Name: Rachel Trajber Date of Birth: April 24, 1954 (04/24/1954) Place of Birth: Sao Paulo, Sao Pa [...] |
2007-01-31 17:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KGLB SENV KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1784 |
MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING: BRAZILIAN DELEGATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On September 18, the Embassy's Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with Paulo Chiarelli, acting Director of the Ministry of Exterior Relations' (MRE) Division of Environme [...] |
2007-09-20 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV KGHG ECON PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1803 |
EPA TRAININGS STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: Using funds from OES, three trainings on environmental law enforcement were carried out by EPA experts in August 2007 in Medellin (Colombia), Lima (Peru), and Georgetown (Guyana). With support from the Regional Environmental HUB Office, ECON Offices in each respective country, and [...] |
2007-09-21 10:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1811 |
BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR CONTRIBUTION TO [...] (U) Poloffs delivered Reftel demarche to Counselor Glivania de Oliveira, chief of the United Nations Division at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations (Itamaraty). Oliveira was familiar with the Tribunal and agreed its establishment will represent a significant step forward for Lebanon. [...] |
2007-09-21 20:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC LE BR |
| 07BRASILIA1813 |
BRAZIL: UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY'S MEETINGS WITH GoB [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and delegation met with Acting Minister of Mines and Energy, Nelson Hubner; Vice President Jose Alencar; and senior Ministry of Finance officials during his August 20 visit to Brasilia. Hubner said he saw an immediate need to showcase a biofuels p [...] |
2007-09-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENGR ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA1819 |
BRAZIL: UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY LEADS ECONOMIC DISCUSSION [...] (U) Summary: Following up on a March conversation between the Secretary and Foreign Minister Amorim, Under Secretary Jeffery, SIPDIS along with Ambassador Sobel and State Department officers, in an August 20 discussed with Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs (MRE) Under Secretary Roberto [...] |
2007-09-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1826 |
BRAZIL: FIRST MEETING OF USG-GOB BIOFUELS STEERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III, Ambassador Sobel and delegation participated in the first USG-GOB Biofuels Steering Committee meeting on August 20, 2007. Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Under Secretary Everton Vargas led t [...] |
2007-09-25 09:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EAGR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1837 |
LULA'S TRIP TO EUROPE: CAN ITAMARATY FOLLOW [...] (C) Summary. Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva,s mid-September tour of four Scandinavian countries and Spain to promote foreign investment, expand the use of biofuels in Europe, and press for the expansion of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), represents a continuation o [...] |
2007-09-26 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG BR |
| 07BRASILIA1850 |
Brazilian Senators Welcome U.S. Outreach, Exchange [...] (U) Summary. As part of a broad outreach to Brazilian senators August 7-8 on a number of topics, Ambassador Sobel found very high receptivity to the prospects of an increase in bilateral congressional exchanges. Interest is not limited to members of the foreign affairs committee, and topics [...] |
2007-09-27 20:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1865 |
VENEZUELAN MERCOSUL ACCESSION MAY NOT PASS [...] (SBU) Summary. The bill to approve Venezuelan accession to Mercosul may not pass the Brazilian congress, in spite of support from the administration and the government's large majority in the chamber of deputies. President Chavez may have torpedoed Venezuela's chances when, at the September [...] |
2007-09-28 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN BR VE XR |
| 07BRASILIA1870 |
AMB. GROSS LEADS INTERAGENCY DELEGATION TO BRAZIL FOR [...] Summary: Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy (EEB/CIP) led a senior-level U.S. delegation to Brazil for meetings with the Brazilian Ministry of Communications and the telecommunications regulator, the National Telecommunications Ag [...] |
2007-10-01 19:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS TINT TSPA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1873 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL BLANDFORD [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for John Blandford, Economist, GAP, NCHHSTP/CCID/HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October-16-2007 to October-16-2007; Brasilia, Brazil from October-16-2007 to October-20-2007; Sao Paulo, Brazil from Oct [...] |
2007-10-02 14:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA188 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL KSIAZEK [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Thomas Ksiazek, Research Scientist, COCH, OD, HHS/ Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, from February 5-7, 2007, to assist in the developing stages of a Bio Safety Level 4 Laboratory (BSL4) facility. 2. Visitors are re [...] |
2007-02-01 11:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1881 |
U.S.-INDIA AGREEMENT: BRAZIL STILL REVIEWING DRAFT POLICY [...] (U) On September 24, ESTH Off delivered reftel's demarche and draft text of a policy exception for the Nuclear Suppliers Group for the U.S.-India 123 Agreement to the Deputy Head of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS), Luis Galvao. The [...] |
2007-10-03 09:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP KTIA PGOV PARM PREL IN BR |
| 07BRASILIA1893 |
NAS BRASILIA REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS-supported activities during September -- though still limited in size and scope -- continued to produce results. In particular, two key NAS and DEA-supported operations carried out by the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF) resulted in several arrests and the seizure of signific [...] |
2007-10-03 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1897 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF NEC DIRECTOR AL HUBBARD [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of an August visit to Brazil by State Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III. During his visit, the Under Secretary's discussions with GOB officials included biofuels and infrastructure (REFTELS A, B,C). A [...] |
2007-10-04 10:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA190 |
TABLOID SAYS BRAZILIAN INTELLIGENCE SEES FOREIGN [...] (U) On Jan. 29, Jornal do Brasil (JB) published excerpts of what it claimed were from a "Situation report" prepared by the "Amazon Working Group," composed of intelligence and military officials. The JB story described the "Situation Report" as the consensus of Brazilian intelligence officials [...] |
2007-02-01 13:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BR XR |
| 07BRASILIA1907 |
BRAZILIANS "DARE" TO STRENGTHEN DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION [...] (U) The Brazilian National Anti-drug Secretariat (SENAD) and the National Public Safety Secretariat (SENASP) convened a national conference on September 27-28 to re-assess the U.S.-based Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (D.A.R.E.), or PROERD as it is known in Brazil. The federal govern [...] |
2007-10-04 20:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA1918 |
BRAZIL AND THE FOREST 11 STATEMENT: PRIMARILY A POLITICAL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 24, 2007 leaders from eleven Tropical Rainforest Countries (the Forest 11) issued a joint statement calling for, inter alia, cooperation to slow, stop and reverse deforestation [...] |
2007-10-09 11:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG TNGD TRGY KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1934 |
BRAZIL ON EU'S ETS AVIATION EMISSIONS PROPOSAL AND REVIVING [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On the margins of the September 3-4 Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Sustainable Development (SEPTEL), in Rio de Janeiro, State Department Assistant Secretary for Oceans, International Environme [...] |
2007-10-10 11:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAIR KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1935 |
MINISTERIAL MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil hosted the "Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Sustainable Development: Challenges for International Governance," in Rio de Janeiro, September 3 and 4, 2007. Participants from t [...] |
2007-10-10 11:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG UN KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA195 |
EU TO APPROACH BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT ON TAXATION OF [...] (U) Action Request - paragraph 2. 2. (U) Summary and Action request. On January 31, EU Econ/Commercial Counselor Fabian Delcros approached Commercial Attache with respect to problems that EU cosmetics companies were experiencing regarding alleged discriminatory taxation upon their expo [...] |
2007-02-01 19:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD BEXP ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA1952 |
MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE: BRAZILIANS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian delegation has expressed both public and private disappointment with the September 27-28 meeting in Washington of representatives of major economies to discuss energy security [...] |
2007-10-11 13:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1976 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA LOREN HABEGGER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for EPA Official Loren J. Habegger, to Itaituba, Brazil, from October 27 to November 5 and to Creporizao from November 5 and November 8, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to further test the performance of the technology installed in the two places [...] |
2007-10-15 17:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA1990 |
Ambassador Sobel Visits Chamber of Deputies Foreign [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with members of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee on October 2 for a wide-ranging discussion that included the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum, Burma, Cuba, Darfur, Iran, Haiti, tourism, and other topics. Members expressed intere [...] |
2007-10-16 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA1991 |
EMBATTLED SENATE PRESIDENT TAKES LEAVE, WILL [...] (SBU) Summary. Embattled Senate President Renan Calheiros (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Alagoas) took leave from the Senate on October 11 after five months of unrelenting media and opposition attacks over alleged corruption. He is now expected to resig [...] |
2007-10-16 18:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA2011 |
BRAZIL: LULA TOUTS FOREIGN POLICY INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary. During a speech on 1 October Brazilian President Lula touted the independent trajectory of his foreign policy, and criticized his predecessor's as intellectually submissive and overly oriented towards the United States and Europe. Brazilian foreign policy observers suggest the s [...] |
2007-10-19 22:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2012 |
BRAZIL: SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. PROPOSALS COMMISSION FOR THE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. REF: SECSTATE 138243 2. (SBU) SCICOUNS delivered reftel points on October 11 October to Government of Brazil (GOB) Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Director for Space, Marine and Antarctic Affairs, Couns [...] |
2007-10-22 09:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV PHSA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2020 |
BRAZIL: FRANK DISCUSSION ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. In a frank and wide ranging conversation, Director of the National Economic Council Al Hubbard, Deputy National Security Advisor Dan Price, and Ambassador Clifford Sobel met in Brasilia on O [...] |
2007-10-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2021 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE RODMAN LINN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for DOE Official Rodman Linn, to Brasilia, Brazil, from November 3 to November 10, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to attend and do a presentation at the 19th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering. 2. Visitors are reminded that all [...] |
2007-10-22 17:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2038 |
BRAZIL: POST OCR FINDINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends retaining Brazil on the Watch List based on its continued strong overall anti-piracy enforcement efforts and in light of some continuing problem areas. The value of pirated and contraband items seized by Receita Federal in the first six months of 2007 was over [...] |
2007-10-26 18:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA2044 |
BRAZIL: INTERESTED IN THE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Drawing on REFS, ESTH Counselor Driscoll had a series of conversations in mid- and late-October with Brazilian Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Chief of the Division of Division for New and Renewa [...] |
2007-10-29 09:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG BR |
| 07BRASILIA2047 |
BRAZIL PLANS TO RENEW NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH INDIA [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. At a meeting with EmbOffs on October 19, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies, Minister Santiago Mourao, said the USG [...] |
2007-10-29 09:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA IN BR |
| 07BRASILIA206 |
INSIGHT INTO BRAZILIAN FM AMORIM FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Dutch Foreign Minister Bot met with Brazilian Foreign Minister Amorim recently during his visit to Brazil. Ambassador Sobel was briefed by the Dutch Mission and gained insights particularly into Brazil's ideas on a UN Security Council seat, views on Syria from his recent meeting wi [...] |
2007-02-06 14:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2062 |
Ambassador Sobel's meeting with the Senate Foreign [...] (SBU) Summary. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee told Ambassador Sobel in a closed, informal meeting on October 16 of concerns about a possible U.S.-Brazil tax treaty, fears of Venezuelan aggression, support for the Doha Round, and hopes for sustainable de [...] |
2007-10-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA2064 |
BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and BNDES Luciano Galvao Coutinho [...] (U) When NEC Director Hubbard, DPA/DNSA Dan Price and Ambassador Sobel met with BNDES President Luciano Galvao Coutinho on October 11 in Brasila, Galvao began by providing brief historical background about BNDES. BNDES was established in 1952 to promote the expansion of capital-intensive indust [...] |
2007-10-30 19:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA2065 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV/MULLER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Richard P. Muller and Ann E. Mattsson, from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA), Office of Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE), to Belem (Para), Brazil, November 3 to November 10, [...] |
2007-10-30 19:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG TRGY OTRA KSCS BR |
| 07BRASILIA2066 |
BRAZIL: DOC Secretary Gutierrez and MDIC Jorge meeting [...] (U) SUMMARY: Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC) Miguel Jorge met October 10 in Brasilia to discuss the CEO Forum, trade and investment challenges in Brazil, and specific trade problems encountered by American firms. The meeting was c [...] |
2007-10-30 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA2067 |
BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and DOC Gutierrez with Casa Civil [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The meeting between Casa Civil Dilma Rousseff, MDIC Secretary Jorge, Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez, NEC Director Hubbard, DPA/DNSA Price and Ambassador Sobel focused primarily on Doha. Both sides agreed we must seize the moment to come to closure on a Doha agreement. The del [...] |
2007-10-30 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA2068 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] |
2007-10-30 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA2069 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] |
2007-10-31 09:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA2070 |
SUBJECT: BRAZIL: PROBABLY WILL SUPPORT ARGENTINA [...] (C) On 29 October, Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to director of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) Office of Transnational Crimes, Virginia Toniatti. While Toniatti was familiar with the AMIA case and the upcoming Interpol General Assembly vote, and noted Brazil,s con [...] |
2007-10-31 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC KJUS PGOV PREL IR BR |
| 07BRASILIA2079 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV MILLS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for John M. Wills, Los Alamos National Laboratory, from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA), Office of Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) to attend the International Workshop on Full [...] |
2007-11-01 13:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG TRGY OTRA KSCS BR |
| 07BRASILIA208 |
BRAZILIAN POLITICAL ROUNDUP, JAN. 29-FEB. 5, 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary. The new Congress took office and each house elected a leader from the pro-government coalition, although the choice in the Chamber of Deputies widened a painful split in the government's base. President Lula da Silva must now find ways to repair the damage, and he may use mi [...] |
2007-02-06 17:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA2082 |
USG-GOB COMMERCIAL DIALOGUE: CONTINUING A STRONG FORWARD [...] Summary: The reporting session of the third meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue, an hour-long event held October 10, 2007 in Brasilia, Brazil, was a positive and productive example of current USG-GOB bilateral cooperation. Visiting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez and [...] |
2007-11-01 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EINV ENRG TSPL TBIO TPHY TRGY TNGD PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA2084 |
BRAZIL: TRAINING BY USG EXPERTS BRINGS TO LIFE PROMISE OF [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Seminars put on in mid-October by U.S. water resource management experts have served to implement recommendations developed by the bilateral water technical working group created under the C [...] |
2007-11-01 19:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2087 |
BRAZIL: CEO Forum recommendations report to USG and [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Brazilian and American CEOs participating in the CEO Forum reported their recommendations to President Lula's Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC) Miguel Jorge, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and National Economic Council Direc [...] |
2007-11-05 17:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA2090 |
BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and DOC Gutierrez Roundtable with [...] (U) SUMMARY: In an October 11 roundtable with Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and National Economic Council Director Hubbard on the margins of the CEO Forum and Commercial Dialogue, the governors of Bahia (Jacque Wagner), Rio Grande do Sul (Yeda Crusius), and Santa Catarina (Luis Henrique Silveir [...] |
2007-11-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA2091 |
DRAFT 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] Following is a draft of Part I of the Brazil chapter of the 2007 INCSR. As requested in reftel B, the money laundering portion of the INCSR will be submitted separately. BRAZIL ---------- I. SUMMARY ---------- 2. Brazil is a major transit country for illicit drugs shipped to Euro [...] |
2007-11-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2120 |
BRAZIL: ICAO DEMARCHE ON MONTREAL CONVENTION AMENDMENT [...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Monday, November 5 to Alexandre de Lima in the Division of Services, Investments and Financial Affairs (DSF) at the Ministry of External Relations (MRE), as a follow-up on the demarche points sent to him on October 30. De Lima, who will [...] |
2007-11-09 09:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR PGOV PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2124 |
BRAZIL CIVAIR: ANAC PRESIDENT RESIGNS; THREE DIRECTORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil's civil aviation agency (ANAC)'s Director-President Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi formally submitted his resignation to President Lula the afternoon of October 31. The same day, the "Diario Oficial da Uniao," the GOB's Federal Register equivalent, announced the confi [...] |
2007-11-09 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR EIND PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
| 07BRASILIA2131 |
BRAZIL: COMMANDER OF U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. During his visit to Brazil October 1-5, LTG Robert Van Antwerp, Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and his delegation met on October 3 with civilian Brazilian counterpart [...] |
2007-11-10 18:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA ECON EINV BR |
| 07BRASILIA2132 |
IRAN-RUSSIA-VENEZUELA TRIANGLE THREATENS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Iran, Russia, and Venezuela are involved in an open and growing collaboration with a common purpose to make more arms available to radical populist governments and spread anti-American ideology in the region, according to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and National [...] |
2007-11-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL MASS BR VE XR RS IR |
| 07BRASILIA2140 |
BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR SOBEL DISCUSSES UPCOMING ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Sobel and Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs (MRE) Under Secretary Roberto Azevedo met on November 9 at the MRE to discuss the upcoming State-MRE Economic Dialogue scheduled for December. During the meeting, Azevedo said the only deliverable he expected from the [...] |
2007-11-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2147 |
KEY SENATOR SAYS CLIMATE IS RIGHT FOR BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Aloizio Mercadante, chairman of the Senate Economic Affairs Committee, told Ambassador Sobel on October 18 that the bilateral relationship is at a very favorable point and the bilateral agenda must be resumed without delay so as to expand economic relations. He predicted the [...] |
2007-11-16 12:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2151 |
FORMER PRESIDENT URGES USG TO COUNTER CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary. Former President and sitting senator Jose Sarney (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Amapa) urges the USG to do more to counter Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's increasingly destabilizing actions in the region. Sarney said Chavez threatens to c [...] |
2007-11-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MASS MCAP BR GY VE IR RS |
| 07BRASILIA2158 |
MINI-DUBLIN GROUP MEETING IN BRASILIA -- NOVEMBER 2007 [...] SUMMARY: On November 19, 2007, under the chairmanship of the Government of Spain, the Mini-Dublin Group convened at the Spanish Embassy to discuss counter narcotics assistance and cooperation between member countries and the Government of Brazil (GoB). This was the first time the group had g [...] |
2007-11-21 14:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2159 |
BRAZIL: CUBAN BOXERS SAGA LIKELY TO END WITH A [...] Summary: (C) Federal Deputies will probably unceremoniously drop their investigation into the departure of two Cuban boxers who apparently tried to defect at the Pan Am Games but later were repatriated to Cuba. Unable to gain traction on the issue outside of Congress, and stymied by the Cuban [...] |
2007-11-21 17:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BR CU |
| 07BRASILIA2160 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 27-28 VISIT OF CODEL [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] |
2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA2161 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 26-30 1 VISIT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] |
2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA2162 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 25-DECEMBER 1 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] |
2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA2171 |
BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel request, and pursuant to request for extension to Oct. 19 response date, Post submits the following information regarding the development and adoption of bio-based chemical products and liquid biofuels in Brazil, including research and reports available, [...] |
2007-11-23 10:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL EINV ECON PGOV OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2174 |
BRAZIL: HEAD OF FTA UNIT DISCUSSES CURRENT NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with Evandro Didonet, Director of the Department of International Negotiations at Itamaraty, Didonet reviewed the status of ongoing Mercosul FTA negotiations, including Israel, GCC, India, EU and the preferential agreement with SACU. Brazil does not negotiate F [...] |
2007-11-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2176 |
BRAZIL: ACTING MINES AND ENERGY MINISTER HUBNER [...] (U) In a meeting with EconCouns, Acting Minister of Mines and Energy Jose Hubner Moreira described his agency's role in energy supply contracting, discussed mining concession processes, and touched on the challenges of environmental legislation and working with the states at the federal level. [...] |
2007-11-23 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ENIV BR |
| 07BRASILIA2177 |
BRAZIL: CNI INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION PRIORITIES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Executive Director and the Manager of the Economic Policy Unit at CNI explained the industry association's structure and priorities in a meeting with EconCouns. CNI is Brazil's manufacturing lobbying and export promotion association of state-level associations and also serves [...] |
2007-11-23 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EFIN BR |
| 07BRASILIA2184 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 102 [...] The following is the one hundred second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...] |
2007-11-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA2185 |
BRAZIL READY TO CONSTRUCTIVELY DISCUSS SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] (SBU) On November 7, 2007, per REFTEL ESTHOff met with the Deputy Head of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS), Luis Galvao, to discuss Brazilian views on supply assurances leading up to the visit to Brazil by IAEA Director General, ElBa [...] |
2007-11-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP TRGY BR |
| 07BRASILIA2188 |
BRAZIL: ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] On November 19, 2007 Econoff met with an advisor to the Council for Financial Activities Control (COAF) in Brasilia. COAF has actively worked with Customs to discourage illegal transportation of funds domestically and internationally. Brazilian regulations allow up to Reais $10,000 (approx [...] |
2007-11-27 11:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EEB INL ECON KTFN PTER EETC PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2193 |
Brazil: Draft National Trade Estimate [...] (U) Per reftel, set forth in paragraph 2 below is the text of post's draft of the National Trade Estimate. Post notes a new industrial policy is expected to be announced before the holidays, which may affect the subsidiaries and investment sections. 2. (SBU) Begin Text. TRADE SUMMARY [...] |
2007-11-27 17:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EFIN ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA2206 |
BRAZIL:INVESTMENT AND SERVICES DIRECTOR COSTA [...] (U) Ronaldo Costa Filho, division head for Services and Investment, discussed bilateral and intra-Mercosul investment negotiations, as well as WTO services negotiations in a recent meeting with EconCouns. CAMEX (External Trade Chamber) has recently approved a new BIT parameters proposal intende [...] |
2007-11-30 10:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2215 |
BRAZIL:DEPUTY PALOCCI ECONOMICS MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met November 20 with Antonio Palocci, an influential pro-business Federal Deputy (PT, Workers Party, from Sao Paulo) and former Finance Minister. Deputy Palocci was enthusiastic about a possible US-Brazil regional infrastructure initiative and suggested specific p [...] |
2007-12-03 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2217 |
BRAZIL'S FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES GLOBAL, [...] (C) In a November 30 meeting in Sao Paulo, Ambassador Sobel and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim discussed a range of global, regional and bilateral issues. On the region's most pressing issues - such as political developments in Venezuela and Bolivia, and Colombia-Venezuela bilateral [...] |
2007-12-03 21:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD KPAL OVIP EFIN AMGT VE BL AR |
| 07BRASILIA2227 |
Brazil Views National Intelligence Report as Positive and [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 4, 2007, per REFTEL POLCouns and ESTHOff met with the Head of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies, Minister Santiago Mourao, to discuss the recent release of the USG National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) regarding Ir [...] |
2007-12-05 09:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IAEA KNNP NPT TREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2233 |
SENATE PRESIDENT STEPS DOWN -- FINALLY [...] (SBU) Senator Renan Calheiros (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, government coalition; of Alagoas) resigned as Senate President on December 4 after facing months of mounting accusations of ethics violations. His resignation was an apparent quid pro quo with his fellow Senators in exc [...] |
2007-12-05 20:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA2234 |
BRAZIL:ITAMARATY TRADE A/S - ECONOMIC DIALOGUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Carlos Marcio Cozendey, director of the MRE Economic Department (A/S equivalent) has the lead on the Economic Dialogue and provided feedback on the December 13 agenda in a recent meeting with EconCouns. (See ref B for expanded Brazilian feedback on details of the dialogue). Cozende [...] |
2007-12-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA2236 |
BRAZIL: INFORMATION ON TEXTILES AND APPAREL [...] (U) Post sends this cable in response to information requested in reftel. 2. (U) Total 2006 industrial production in Brazil was approximately USD 284 billion. Through June, 2007 (latest available figures), total industrial production increased 6.7% over the same period in 2006. 3. [...] |
2007-12-06 15:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX BR |
| 07BRASILIA2241 |
BRAZIL: GOB REQUESTS RENEWAL OF 1997 ENERGY COOPERATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On December 7, 2007, the Brazilian Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Division for Non-Renewable Energy Resources (DREN) contacted the Embassy to request that the USG and the Government of Brazil (G [...] |
2007-12-07 21:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV TRGY KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2242 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE ECONOMIC DIALOGUE VISIT OF WHA A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit for the economic dialogue will expand and develop economic cooperation themes discussed during the Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben SIPDIS Jeffery's August visit (REFTELS A, B, C). We hope to use the dialogue to focus on areas wh [...] |
2007-12-07 21:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA2243 |
BRAZIL: INTEGRATION A/S CARDOSO ON MERCOSUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MRE A/S for Integration Afonso Cardoso stressed the political importance of Mercosul for Brazil as a unifying force for economic development in a recent meeting with EconCouns. Cardoso underlined his views on Mercosul's strengths, highlighted recent integration decisions he felt [...] |
2007-12-07 21:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2244 |
NAS BRAZIL ACTIVITY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thanks to ongoing NAS support, the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF), with operational assistance from DEA Brazil, culminated operation "Fenix" an investigation that made significant progress toward dismantling a major drug trafficking organization run by Luis Fernando da Costa, a [...] |
2007-12-10 13:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2258 |
Court Rulings Limit Party Switching by Elected Officials [...] Summary. Recent federal court rulings have placed strict limits on party switching that are expected to strengthen large parties and could weaken traditional spoils politics. The rulings are a victory for large parties and a loss for smaller, non-ideological parties in the government coaliti [...] |
2007-12-11 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCOR BR |
| 07BRASILIA226 |
APPROVAL OF NIH RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED "LONG TERM IMPACT [...] On January 15, 2007, Embassy received from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division of Science and Technology, (DCTEC/MFA) an official notification (number 003, dated January 15, 2007) approving the research project proposal entitled "Long Term Impact and Intervention for Diarrhea in [...] |
2007-02-09 15:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
| 07BRASILIA2262 |
BRAZIL: UNWILLING TO ENDORSE ARGENTINE CLAIMS ON [...] (S) Summary: With its abstention on the vote to confirm issuance of international capture notices for five Iranian nationals and one Lebanese suspected of involvement in the 1994 terrorist attack in Buenos Aires at the Interpol General Assembly session on November 7 the Government of Brazil has [...] |
2007-12-12 14:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL BR AR |
| 07BRASILIA2263 |
UNCTAD SEEKS MORE ACTIVE ROLE WITH BIOFUELS: CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND IS NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. UNCTAD, together with the Government of Brazil (GoB), held a conference on biofuels in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 4-5 as a pre-event to the twelfth session of the United Nations [...] |
2007-12-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY UN UNCTAD KGHG ECON SENV ENRG KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2269 |
BRAZIL: INTERESTED IN COOPERATION WITH EPA ON MERCURY, BUT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND IS NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the last six months, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA) has repeatedly expressed interest in cooperating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the field of [...] |
2007-12-13 10:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TNGD KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA2309 |
BRAZIL CIVAIR: POSSIBLE INCREASED FREQUENCIES, ROUTES FOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador Sobel spoke again on December 19 with recently confirmed new National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) Director-President Solange Vieira, who will now be responsible for air services negotiations with the United States. The Ambassador also met separately on the same day with Mini [...] |
2007-12-20 09:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EIND PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
| 07BRASILIA2321 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 104 [...] The following is the one-hundred-fourth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...] |
2007-12-26 14:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA2326 |
BRAZIL: FTC CHAIRMAN MEETINGS IN BRASILIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 29, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Deborah Majoras met in Brasilia with Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Administrative Council for Consumer Defense (CADE) officials. Majoras discussed deepening the cooperation between the FTC and the MoJ on consumer protecti [...] |
2007-12-27 14:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN BR |
| 07BRASILIA2335 |
BRAZIL: IAEA DG ELBARADEI ADDRESES LATIN AMERICA-EUROPE [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 6-7, 2007, Rio based think-tank CEBRI (Centro Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais - Brazilian Center for International Relations) hosted an international seminar geared toward promotion of the use of nuclear energy and to enhancing the nuclear energy dialogue betwee [...] |
2007-12-28 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP TRGY BR |
| 07BRASILIA239 |
BRAZIL GLOBE ACCORD CLEARANCE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 2. (U) On February 5, 2007, SCI officer spoke with Rachel Trajber, Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and Brazil's future GLOBE country coordinator. Trajber said that MEC would prefer to hol [...] |
2007-02-12 16:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
| 07BRASILIA240 |
BRAZIL GLOBE ACCORD CLEARANCE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 2. (U) On February 5, 2007, SCI officer spoke with Rachel Trajber, Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and Brazil's future GLOBE country coordinator. Trajber said that MEC would prefer to hol [...] |
2007-02-12 16:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
| 07BRASILIA249 |
BRAZIL: Copyright Scenesetter: Piracy Enforcement Efforts [...] Post sends this telegram in advance of A/USTR Espinel's visit to Brazil the week of February 26. Our Special 301 reporting cable, which (inter alia) will include industry views and a look at the patent/trademark situation, will follow septel. 2. (SBU) Summary: The December "Report on Acti [...] |
2007-02-13 13:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA260 |
HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] Country clearance is requested for Suzanne Westman, Epidemiologist, GAP-Brazil, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC, to travel to New Delhi, India, from March 2, 2007 to March 9 to participate in the Regional WHO Training Workshop on Avian Influenza Preparedness and Response and from March 11th - May 20th on tem [...] |
2007-02-14 16:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA265 |
SUSPENSION OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-14 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA KSCA SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA266 |
Request for training, PE 142 Resource Economics [...] This cable is in response to reftel from January 18, 2007. The Regional Environmental Affairs Officer (Hub) for South America is requesting inclusion in PE 142, Resource Economics, to take place in Washington, DC and Denver, Colorado from July 9-13. 2. As South American Hub officer, this [...] |
2007-02-14 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA271 |
BRAZILIAN DELEGATION TO TRAVEL TO CUBA SEEKING CLOSER [...] The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology announced February 12, that a delegation lead by Erney Camargo, President of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), would travel to Cuba February 19-21, hoping to identify new opportunities for S&T cooperation. [...] |
2007-02-15 11:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TPHY TRGY BR |
| 07BRASILIA273 |
SUSPENSION OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA KSCA SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA277 |
BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 30 DINNER WITH [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador hosted a dinner for Brazilian Minister for Institutional Security, General Armando Felix on January 30. Felix was accompanied by his newly appointed deputy, Major General Ruben Peixoto Alexandre. Political Counselor and Regional Affairs Officer were in attendance. The [...] |
2007-02-15 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA282 |
BRAZIL TO PAY MORE FOR BOLIVIAN GAS [...] (SBU) An agreement reached February 15 between Brazil and Bolivia created a formula that could oblige the parastatal Brazilian energy company, Petrobras, to pay up to four percent more each year for the Bolivian natural gas that primarily supplies the state of Sao Paulo. The increase--althoug [...] |
2007-02-16 15:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON BR BL |
| 07BRASILIA288 |
TEDS VISIT BY REO SUCCESSFUL [...] On February 14-15 the Regional Environmental Officer (Hub) for South America traveled to Belem at the start of the shrimping season to work with the GOB inspectors as they conducted their annual pre-season TEDs verification check. During the last Turtle Excluder Device (TEDs) verification vis [...] |
2007-02-16 18:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA289 |
BRAZIL: USDOT/FHWA/AASHTO AND MINISTRY OF [...] (U) Summary: On February 13, EconOff attended a digital videoconference (DVC) between representatives of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)'s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and their Brazilian co [...] |
2007-02-16 18:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN ECON BEXP OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA290 |
AMBASSADOR LOBBIES MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CIVAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: On Feburary 13, Ambassador Sobel, EconCouns and Civair Officer met with Minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia Neto, and National Civil Aviation Agency Director-President, Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi, to discuss flight frequency issues and tourism development in Brazil [...] |
2007-02-16 18:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA294 |
BRAZIL: Special 301 Recommendation [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Brasilia's input for the Special 301 Review of Brazil. 2. (SBU) Summary: In 2006, Brazil continued to make significant progress in improving protection of copyrights and intellectual property. The potential for compulsory licensing - a key area of [...] |
2007-02-16 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA297 |
AMBASSADOR LOBBIES MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CIVAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: On Feburary 13, Ambassador Sobel, EconCouns and Civair Officer met with Minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia Neto, and National Civil Aviation Agency Director-President, Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi, to discuss flight frequency issues and tourism development in Brazil [...] |
2007-02-18 18:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA298 |
Brazil: US Mission's 4th Quarter 2006 Corporate Social [...] Summary. (U) Since October 2006, when Ambassador launched the US Embassy's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative, USAID, FCS, Embassy and Consulate Sao Paulo have worked exhaustively with our 31 corporate partners (firms such as Microsoft, GE, IBM, and GM) to follow-up on this issue [...] |
2007-02-18 18:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA313 |
VENEZUELA'S GROWING MILITARY PROWESS AND CLAIMS [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel gave a dinner on February 13 for veteran political figures that drew out opinions on political reform, relations with the U.S., party behavior, and grave concerns about a perceived growing menace from Venezuela. Guests included a former president; the presid [...] |
2007-02-23 14:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BR XM SCUL |
| 07BRASILIA315 |
ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY [...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...] |
2007-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA316 |
ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY [...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...] |
2007-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA319 |
BRAZIL: WTO Taft Goods Demarche Response [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel points in to Peter Fox, GOB Deputy Director of Division of Market Access at the MFA. Fox, who will leave for the Geneva talks on 24 February, said that he had read in full the USG position on the issue and, after discussions both internally and externally with pri [...] |
2007-02-23 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
| 07BRASILIA32 |
BRAZIL'S NEW SMALL BUSINESS LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Lula signed legislation on December 14, 2006 that expanded the scope and coverage of previous efforts to simplify the taxation system as applied to small and medium enterprises (SME) in Brazil. When it comes into full effect in July 2007, the new law, known as "Supersim [...] |
2007-01-08 14:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN SOCI BR |
| 07BRASILIA351 |
BRASILIA REQUESTS COPIES OF AGREEMENTS SIGNED AT [...] This is an action message. See point 3. 2. Reftel notes that at the July 21, 2006, U.S. - Brazil S&T Commission meeting held in Washington, the United States and Brazil signed renewals of the Implementing Arrangement for Cooperation on Environmental Scientific Research in the Large Scale [...] |
2007-02-27 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV TBIO TPHY TRGY TSPA BR |
| 07BRASILIA362 |
UNDER SECRETARY BURNS'S MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: U/S Nicholas Burns met in Brasilia with six state governors, representing some of the largest and most significant states by population and GDP, on February 8 to discuss areas of potential cooperation. The governors described specific areas where they would welcome technical [...] |
2007-03-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BTIO ENRG PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA366 |
Brazil: Under Secretary Burns Meets with Minister of [...] (SBU) Summary. During Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns' February 7-8, 2007 visit to Brasilia, he met with Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce Luiz Fernando Furlan and his management team. The friendly, wide-ranging conversation touched upon issues s [...] |
2007-03-01 16:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ENRG KIPR EAGR SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA367 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL WEATHERS [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Andrew Weathers, Program Analyst, COCH, OD, HHS/Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, from March 18-23, 2007, to work with the Field Epidemiology Training Program staff to identity administrative and logistical priorities i [...] |
2007-03-01 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA368 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR USGS OFFICIAL TIESZEN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Larry Tieszen, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Physical Scientist to travel to Brasilia (DF), Brazil (03/18-03/25/2007). PURPOSE OF TRAVEL: To participate in a meeting for South American mapping agencies organized by the Andean Development Corpo [...] |
2007-03-01 19:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA370 |
BRAZIL: U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns, WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon, P Special Assistant Heide Bronke, Ambassador Sobel and PolCouns Dennis Hearne met on 7 February with Foreign Minister Celso Amorim for a broad discussion of bilateral and regional iss [...] |
2007-03-01 19:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA371 |
BRAZIL: U/S BURNS MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns met on 7 February with Dilma Rousseff, President Lula's Chief of Staff for Policy and, effectively, his senior cabinet official. The discussion focused on rapidly moving progress in the development of U.S.-Brazil cooperation in biofuels, and established the political c [...] |
2007-03-01 19:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA373 |
US-BRAZIL S&T MINISTERIAL COMMISSION JOINT STATEMENT [...] On February 27, 2007, U.S. Ambassador Clifford Sobel and Brazil's Deputy Science and Technology Minister, Luis Fernandes, signed the joint statement resulting from the July 21, 2006, U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission Meeting on S&T Cooperation. The ceremony, held in Brazil's Foreign Ministry, was w [...] |
2007-03-02 16:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV TBIO TPHY EAGR ECON TRGY TSPL BR |
| 07BRASILIA376 |
Brazil: Silicon Metal Statistics [...] (U) Note: Since there is no central repository in Brazil for retention of data on this industry, Post has not been able to obtain information in all categories requested for the period covering January 1999 - September 2002. In several other categories requested in reftel, information was co [...] |
2007-03-02 17:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA382 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HUB [...] James Story, South America Regional Environmental Officer based in Brasilia, requests country clearance to visit Lima from March 15-17, Cartagena March 17-21, and Bogota March 21-24. Purpose of trip to Lima is to discuss an environmental enforcement training proposal with embassy staff; trip [...] |
2007-03-05 16:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV CO PE BR |
| 07BRASILIA394 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS OFFICIAL CROWLEY FROM APRIL 19 [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. James Crowley, U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist to travel to Sao Paulo (SP) April 19-28, 2007 and Maraba (PA), Brazil, April 28 to May 4, 2007 (in transit at Brasilia and Sao Paulo airports). Purpose of travel: Dr. Crowley and scien [...] |
2007-03-06 18:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA396 |
AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENIOR BRAZILIAN POLICYMAKERS PRIOR [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 27, the Ambassador met (separately) with three influential GOB policymakers: Minister of Justice Marcio Thomaz Bastos, MFA U/S for Political Affairs Everton Vieira Vargas, and Lula Private Secretary Gilberto Carvalho. The wide-ranging discussion touched upon a numb [...] |
2007-03-06 18:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PTER OVIP SENV PGOV EAGR BR |
| 07BRASILIA401 |
BRAZIL TO INTRODUCE NEW BIOPIRACY LEGISLATION [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Brazil (GOB) is preparing new legislation to address biopiracy in Brazil, which the GOB believes fuels a USD 100 million a year market for chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries worldwide. The new legislation will feature electronic registration for re [...] |
2007-03-07 13:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO KSCA BAIO BR |
| 07BRASILIA419 |
TWO USGS MOUS WITH BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES APPROVED BY [...] Reftel authorizes Post to seek Government of Brazil (GOB) authorization to sign two previously negotiated Memorandum of Understanding, between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Geoscience Institute of the University of Brasilia and USGS and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte [...] |
2007-03-09 19:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA KTIA NASA SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA420 |
STAS TEAM VISIT - U.S.-BRAZIL BIOINFORMATICS CONFERENCE AND [...] SUMMARY: Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (STAS) Dr. George Atkinson led a team of scientists and engineers to Rio, Sao Paulo, Campinas and Petropolis, Brazil, November 10-17, 2006, to co-host a regional Global Dialogue on Emerging Science & Technology (GDEST) Conference [...] |
2007-03-09 19:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA SENV TNGD BR |
| 07BRASILIA430 |
BRAZIL: U/S BURNS MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns and WHA A/S Shannon, in Brasilia for strategic dialogue talks with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (MRE), joined with Ambassador, PolCounselor and S/P officer William McIlhenny to meet on February 7 with Marco Aurelio Garcia, President Lula da Silva's international affai [...] |
2007-03-13 11:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA431 |
BRAZIL: U/S BURNS MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns and WHA A/S Shannon, in Brasilia for strategic dialogue talks with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (MRE), joined with Ambassador, PolCounselor and S/P officer William McIlhenny to meet on February 7 with Marco Aurelio Garcia, President Lula da Silva's international affai [...] |
2007-03-13 12:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA433 |
U.S.-BRAZIL SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON BIOFUELS [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-13 16:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY SENV KSCA TPHY TBIO US BR |
| 07BRASILIA452 |
BRAZIL: LULA'S MEETING WITH GOVERNORS PRODUCES LITTLE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: President Lula held a meeting with the governors of Brazil's 26 states and the federal district on March 6, in part to lay the foundation for cooperation with the governors on some of the sensitive fiscal federalism issues that, in an ideal world, Lula would address over the cou [...] |
2007-03-16 13:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA453 |
HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] Country clearance is requested for Aristites Barbosa Junior, Epidemiologist, GAP-Brazil, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC, to travel to Luanda, Angola from April 28-2007 to May 4-2007. 2. The purpose of this trip to Luanda: accompany on several visits to government and NGO principals in order to improve co [...] |
2007-03-16 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA459 |
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES [...] (SBU) In a March 13 meeting, Charge and Acting DCM presented to the head of the Brazil Foreign Ministry's NAMA office (Carlos Henrique Abreu e Silva) reftel demarche points. Abreu e Silva noted that he was already aware of the issue - probably because the EU had previously presented him with [...] |
2007-03-16 19:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA482 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA OFFICIALS ZEPP AND [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for EPA Officials Richard Zepp, Senior Research Scientist and Marirosa Molina, Research Scientist, Office of Research and Development, to Brasilia (DF) April 13-20, and Florianopolis (SC), Brazil, April 20-23, 2007, to attend the Large-Scale Biosphe [...] |
2007-03-21 18:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY EPA OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA485 |
PRO-GOVERNMENT LEGISLATORS BLOCK AIR TRAFFIC [...] (SBU) Summary. In a dramatic marathon session of the Chamber of Deputies' Constitution, Justice, and Citizenship Committee (CCJ), pro-government legislators on March 20 broke the backbone of a minority attempt to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) into the Air Traffic Crisis. [...] |
2007-03-22 15:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAIR BR |
| 07BRASILIA487 |
BRAZIL: Hot Rolled Paper Dumping Case [...] Post received a letter from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade notifying the Embassy that it has accepted an anti-dumping petition on exports to Brazil of hot rolled base paper for siliconization originating from the U.S. Original will be [...] |
2007-03-22 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA498 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR ROBERT MIRANDA AND ALAN [...] Country clearance is granted for ROBERT MIRANDA and ALAN HAMPTON to visit Brasilia from 03/25-27/2007 for investigative purposes. All work will be coordinated through LEGAT Brassanini. 2. Visitors are reminded that all US citizens traveling to Brazil for any purpose require visas, which must [...] |
2007-03-23 19:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT |
| 07BRASILIA499 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR ROBERT MIRANDA AND ALAN [...] Country clearance is granted for ROBERT MIRANDA and ALAN HAMPTON to visit Brasilia from 03/25-27/2007 for investigative purposes. All work will be coordinated through LEGAT Brassanini. 2. Visitors are reminded that all US citizens traveling to Brazil for any purpose require visas, which must [...] |
2007-03-23 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT |
| 07BRASILIA50 |
Brazil Supports UNEP Voluntary Mercury Partnerships [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EMIN ETRD PREL SENV KSCA BR |
| 07BRASILIA501 |
THREE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] Three new cabinet ministers were sworn in on March 23, nearly completing the long-awaited cabinet shuffle of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term (reftel). Lula has also selected Miguel Jorge, a banker, to be the new Minister of Development, Industry and Trade. He could be sworn [...] |
2007-03-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA502 |
THREE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] Three new cabinet ministers were sworn in on March 23, nearly completing the long-awaited cabinet shuffle of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term (reftel). Lula has also selected Miguel Jorge, a banker, to be the new Minister of Development, Industry and Trade. He could be sworn [...] |
2007-03-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA503 |
THREE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] Three new cabinet ministers were sworn in on March 23, nearly completing the long-awaited cabinet shuffle of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term (reftel). Lula has also selected Miguel Jorge, a banker, to be the new Minister of Development, Industry and Trade. He could be sworn [...] |
2007-03-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA510 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 91 [...] The following is the ninety-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...] |
2007-03-26 19:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA512 |
BRAZIL BIOFUEL UPDATE, MARCH 2007 [...] The Government of Mexico is sending representatives to Brazil on March 28, 2007, to propose a partnership on ethanol. According to media reports, Mexico will offer the Brazilian ethanol producers fiscal incentives to attract companies to Mexico. The added benefit, of course, would be the nea [...] |
2007-03-27 11:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
| 07BRASILIA52 |
BRAZIL REQUESTS SPECIFICS ON SUSPENSION OF ISS [...] (SBU) Summary: SCI Counselor delivered reftel demarche January 9, to Counselor Maria Teresa Pessoa, Chief of the Division of Oceans, Antarctic and Space, Brazil Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty). Counselor Pessoa was expecting the visit and aware of the USG desire to either suspend or terminate the [...] |
2007-01-10 18:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA SENV KSCA KTIA TBIO TPHY TRGY TSPL BR |
| 07BRASILIA524 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR EPA OFFICIAL YEOW [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Aaron Yeow, Environmental Health Scientist, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation, and Executive Secretary and OSRTI Liaison for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Technical Review Workgroup (TRW) for Metal and Asbes [...] |
2007-03-27 18:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TPHY EPA OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA53 |
Brazil and Russia Sign Space Cooperation MOU [...] (SBU) One of the agreements signed by Brazil with Russia during the December 14-15, 2006, visit of Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov to Brasilia was an MOU for Cooperation in Space. According to the newspaper Jornal do Brasil, the principal beneficiary of the agreement will be Brazil's rocket l [...] |
2007-01-10 19:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TBIO TPHY TRGY BR |
| 07BRASILIA544 |
BRAZIL: PETROBRAS AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Drawing on ref A, the Ambassador raised USG concerns over potential Petrobras investments in oil and gas exploration in Iranian waters on the Caspian Sea with Energy Minister Silas Rondeau, Petrobras Southern Cone Manager Deccio Oddone and Foreign Ministry Under Secretary for Polit [...] |
2007-03-28 11:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EPET EINV BR IR |
| 07BRASILIA545 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL SIMOES [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Eduardo Simoes, Director, Prevention Research Centers, NCCDPHP, HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, from April 9-19, 2007, to provide technical assistance to develop a long-term plan for training, scien [...] |
2007-03-28 11:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA554 |
BRAZIL: MFA DISCUSSES UPCOMING LULA CAMP DAVID VISIT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)'s Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Everton Vieira Vargas, met with the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, and the Charge d'Affaires of Haiti on March 29. DCM and EconOff were also invited to attend. Per reftel, the [...] |
2007-03-29 20:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENIV ENRG DR ES HA SC |
| 07BRASILIA555 |
FIVE NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN; CABINET SHUFFLE [...] (U) With the March 29 swearing-in of four new ministers and the reassignment of one, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva seems to have completed the overhaul of the cabinet that is to serve him in his second term. Lula created a new cabinet post for the new government spokesman and director [...] |
2007-03-30 14:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA556 |
REQUEST FOR LANGUAGE SERVICES REVIEW OF TWO USGS MOUS WITH [...] The two USGS Memorandum of Understanding have been professionally translated into Portuguese. They are being transmitted via email, both the English and Portuguese versions, to Leslie Blancas, OES/STC. 2. Post requests that Language Services review the Portuguese translation to ensure that [...] |
2007-03-30 16:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA KTIA NASA SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA559 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS OFFICIAL NICHOLS PLUS 2 [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. James Nichols, Senior Scientist, Byron Williams, Senior Science Advisor, and James Hines, Computer Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist to travel to Cuiaba (Mato Grosso), Brazil, April 28 to May 12, 2007. Purpose of travel: [...] |
2007-03-30 16:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA564 |
BRAZIL: POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) President Lula has apparently wound up his cabinet shuffle after four rounds of swearing-ins, on March 12, 16, 23 and 29 (refs a, b and c). The new cabinet aims to satisfy all parties in his coalition, although the Brazilian Socialist Party was left with, in its view, inadequate repre [...] |
2007-03-30 18:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAIR BR |
| 07BRASILIA572 |
BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR SEEKS IN-COUNTRY FAA PRESENCE TO FURTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy enthusiastically endorses the concept of posting an FAA attache in Brazil to provide for a regional FAA presence in South America. Bilaterally, such a presence would allow FAA and Mission Brazil to work together to assist the Brazilians in dealing with their air traffi [...] |
2007-04-02 15:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA580 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 92 [...] The following is the ninety-second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] |
2007-04-03 15:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA591 |
BRAZIL'S MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT PRESENTS CLIMATE CHANGE [...] Brazil's Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, presented on February 27, 2007, the expected consequences of the impacts of global warming on the biodiversity of Brazil for the next 100 years (from 2010 to 2100). The results came from a total of eight studies that were requested by the Minist [...] |
2007-04-04 19:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD KSCA EAGR BR |
| 07BRASILIA592 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICER CHILLER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Tom Chiller, Medical Officer, COGH/NCZVED, OD, CDC, HHS, Brasilia, Brazil, from April 23-27, 2007, and to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from April 22-23, 2007 to meet with collaborators to work on the final analysis of the Candidemia surveillance stud [...] |
2007-04-04 19:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA598 |
OPPOSITION DEPUTY BLAMES LULA FOR AIR TRAFFIC [...] (C) Summary. Federal Deputy Antonio Carlos Magalhaes Neto ("ACM Neto"), of the Democrats party ("DEM," formerly called the Liberal Front Party, PFL), of Bahia believes President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defused a ticking bomb in the military this week by reversing his decision not to punish [...] |
2007-04-05 18:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAIR BR |
| 07BRASILIA60 |
BRAZIL: FISCAL PACKAGE CLAIMS FIRST BUREAUCRATIC VICTIM [...] (SBU) Summary: The fiscal battle over President Lula's planned package of economic measures -- which the GoB is now referring to prosaically as a "package to accelerate growth" (PTAG) -- has claimed its first bureaucratic victim. Finance Ministry Treasury Secretary Carlos Kawall (under-secreta [...] |
2007-01-11 14:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA600 |
BRAZIL: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS STRIKE, MAY BE PROSECUTED [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 30, between 120 and 200 air traffic controllers (ATCers) initiated the strike that they had been obliquely threatening for months, marking another tense chapter in Brazil's civil aviation history. Due to the military's control of the ATC system, this action was consid [...] |
2007-04-05 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV OTRA ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA607 |
BILATERAL ENGAGEMENT RESULTS IN IMPROVED PUBLIC REACTION TO [...] (U) Summary. A number of high level visits by USG officials to Brazil, culminating in two Presidential visits have given us an unprecedented opportunity to get our views into the media. As a result, a more positive tone has started to emerge in the media and public opinion, with residual ske [...] |
2007-04-05 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA617 |
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Internationally, in recent years there has been an emphasis on directing foreign assistance to lower-income developing countries where the levels of poverty are generally more acute. However, this approach may result in insufficient support to the development and poverty eradic [...] |
2007-04-09 21:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA64 |
FRANCE MAKES BRAZIL NUMBER ONE IN LATIN AMERICA [...] (C) French Ambassador to Brazil Antoine Pouillieute met with Ambassador Sobel on January 9, 2007 for a surprisingly frank and substantive conversation. Key themes from the meeting are reported below. BRAZIL -- THE NEW FRENCH PRIORITY 2. (C) Pouillieute noted that his government has a co [...] |
2007-01-12 17:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA661 |
BRAZIL: SUBCABINET LEVEL ECONOMIC TEAM CHANGES [...] (SBU) Summary: With the make-up of President Lula's second-term cabinet now finally finalized (ref B), attention has shifted to some of the second tier positions in government. The Central Bank announced on April 11 that it was asking Lula to nominate Mario Gomes Toros, a former Vice Presiden [...] |
2007-04-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA671 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NASA OFFICIAL BRIDGES [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Nathan Bridges, National and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) official, to Carajas (PA), Brazil, to conduct fieldwork at the Carajas mine in support of the remote spectral characterization of terrestrial life formi [...] |
2007-04-16 13:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
| 07BRASILIA680 |
BRAZIL: MOJ OFFICIALS SUPPORT NEW PRIVATE INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Newly appointed Minister of Justice Tarso Genro joined Vice Minister of Justice Luiz Paulo Barreto in expressing support to representatives of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Rio De Janeiro based Association o [...] |
2007-04-17 18:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA694 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE A/S KARSNER DELEGATION [...] Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Alexander "Andy" Karsner, and his delegation, to Sao Paulo and Brasilia, Brazil, April 22-25, 2007. Members of the Assistant Secretary's delegation include Courtney Gillespie, Michael Mills [...] |
2007-04-19 12:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
| 07BRASILIA697 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Brendan Flannery, Epidemiologist, COCH/NCIRD/OD/HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, from April 23-30, 2007, to meet with current CDC secondee to PAHO in Brasilia for measles and immunizations activities [...] |
2007-04-19 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA698 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL CHILLER [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Tom Chiller, Medical Officer, COGH/NCZVED/OD/HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, from April 22-23, 2007, and Brasilia (DF) April 23-27, 2007 to meet with collaborators to work on the final an [...] |
2007-04-19 18:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA71 |
BRAZIL HOSTS THE I SOUTH AMERICAN FISHERS FORUM ON SOLVING [...] On December 12-14, an OES-sponsored workshop with the slogan "Catch Fish Not Birds" brought together 50 experts from across the world to take a look at the potential to reduce seabird bycatch throughout the South American long-line fishery via the adoption of mitigation measures in South Americ [...] |
2007-01-12 18:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA745 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL NESLUND [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Ms.. Verla Neslund, Special Project Advisor, OD/HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, from May 1-5, 2007, to participate in WHO meeting as CDC foundation representative to ensure greater understanding of the [...] |
2007-04-26 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA751 |
BANCO DEL SUR BECOMES A BRAZILIAN "PEEVE" [...] (C) Summary: The abrasive and high-handed manner in which Venezuelan President Chavez has sought to advance his "Banco del Sur" project has pushed Brazil to the point of seriously considering not joining the Venezuelan's latest flight of fancy. The Brazilians, according to both the IMF resrep [...] |
2007-04-27 17:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EFIN PGOV PREL BR XM |
| 07BRASILIA752 |
BRAZIL: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON IRANIAN [...] (C) Per reftel, Mission officers have received additional and sometimes conflicting information in recent days on the events surrounding the closing of the Iranian Defense Industries (DIO) stand at the Latin American Air and Defense (LAAD) show in Rio on 16-17 April, following the realization [...] |
2007-04-27 18:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA755 |
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS DELEGATION VISITS [...] (SBU) Summary: From April 11-13, FIESP (the Sao Paulo State Industrial Federation) hosted visits to Sao Paulo and Brasilia by a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) delegation led by Governor John Engler, the organization's president. The meetings, which came on the heels of USTR Susan [...] |
2007-04-27 20:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
| 07BRASILIA759 |
BRAZIL: MANAUS MEETINGS, MEANDERINGS AND MUSINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: As Virtual Presence Post Officer, Econoff visited Manaus, State of Amazonas from April 16-19 for public outreach and economic-related meetings. While there, she visited the U.S. Consular Agent in Manaus, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-Amazonas, and the bi-national center, Institu [...] |
2007-04-30 15:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG KPAO OIIP CVIS PGOV SENV BR |
| 07BRASILIA762 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL SAMIRA ASMA [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Samira Asma, Associate Director, Global Tobacco Control Program, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Sao Paulo(transit), May 1; Brasilia, May 1-3; Rio de J [...] |
2007-04-30 19:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA769 |
BRAZIL: SPECIAL 301 DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On April 30, EconOff presented demarche points in reftel to Joao Storti and Renato Pinheiro of the Ministry of External Relations' Intellectual Property Rights Division and to Andre Barcellos, Executive Secretary of the National Council Against Piracy (CNCP). 2. (SBU) The GOB offici [...] |
2007-04-30 22:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR BR |
| 07BRASILIA771 |
MINISTER SILVA ANNOUNCES STRUCTURAL CHANGES AT BRAZIL'S [...] Minister Marina Silva announced structural changes in the Ministry of Environment and at Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency (IBAMA) on April 25, 2007. Four new secretariats were created: Climate Change and Environmental Quality Secretariat(SEMUC)to be headed by Thelma Krug; Water Resour [...] |
2007-05-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
| 07BRASILIA787 |
BRAZIL: MERCK REPORTS IMMINENT COMPULSORY LICENSING [...] (SBU) Merck representatives have told EmbOffs that the GOB informed their company on May 3 that it would initiate a compulsory licensing order for Merck's HIV drug Stocrin (Efavirenz) as early as May 3 or the morning of May 4. According to Merck officials, the GOB communicated that any additio [...] |
2007-05-03 21:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA790 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIALS GREGG, IMAI, [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Edward Gregg, Epidemiologist; Kumiko Imai Senior Service; and Yiling Cheng, Scientist, NCCDPHP/HHSCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, May 6-12, 2007, to participate in a meeting and workshop to discuss the [...] |
2007-05-04 14:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA791 |
BRAZIL: U.S. WTO Proposal Demarche Response [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-04 14:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
| 07BRASILIA792 |
EARTH DAY PHOTO CONTEST ATTRACTS OVER 1,500 PICS FROM ALL [...] SUMMARY: The US Embassy in Brasilia, through its Regional Environmental HUB Office and with indispensable support from the Public Affairs section, celebrated Earth Day 2007 through a countrywide photography contest entitled 'A Snapshot of Brazilian Nature.' With over 1,500 entries from throu [...] |
2007-05-04 14:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KPAO OIIP BR |
| 07BRASILIA793 |
BRAZIL: WTO ARTICLE XXI DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche points to Ronaldo Costa Filho, Chief of the Division of Services, Investments and Financial Issues at the Ministry of External Relations. Costa Filho did not know of any GOB interest in requesting compensatory adjustment at this point. Sobel [...] |
2007-05-04 16:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO BR |
| 07BRASILIA799 |
THE ATLANTIC RAIN FOREST WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING ASSESSMENT [...] SUMMARY: The Brazilian National Network to Fight the Trafficking of Wild Animals - RENCTAS, launched The Atlantic Rain Forest Wildlife Trafficking Assessment Report on May 2, 2007. The report indicated that the poaching and trafficking in wild animals such as monkeys and parrots is reaching [...] |
2007-05-07 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV XM XS BR |
| 07BRASILIA800 |
SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTE SENSING CALLS FOR MORE LATIN AMERICA [...] SUMMARY: The 13th Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing was held from April 23-26 attracting nearly 2,000 participants. While the focus of the event was on increasing regional cooperation on remote sensing technologies through transferring technology, sharing methodologies, and building up r [...] |
2007-05-07 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO TSPA SOCI SENV KSCA EAID XM XS BR |
| 07BRASILIA82 |
MERCOSUL RIO DE JANEIRO SUMMIT: WHITHER MERCOSUL? [...] (SBU) Summary: Mercosul members are facing more than the usual number of institutional challenges as they prepare for the bloc's biannual summit, to take place January 18-19 in Rio de Janeiro. In an implied slap at Mercosul dispute resolution mechanisms, Argentina recently requested WTO consul [...] |
2007-01-17 11:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL ECIN EFIN BR |
| 07BRASILIA822 |
FURTHER INFORMATION ON STRUCTURAL CHANGES AT BRAZIL'S [...] This week new details are emerging about the massive reorganization at Brazil's Ministry of the Environment first announced April 25, 2007 (Ref). The four new secretariats created were Climate Change and Environmental Quality Secretariat (SEMUC), Water Resources and Urban Environments (SRU), E [...] |
2007-05-08 19:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR |
| 07BRASILIA832 |
AMBASSADOR REVIEWS BILATERAL AGENDA WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) On April 25, Ambassador met privately with Lula Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff in the wake of a prior meeting between visiting DOE A/S Andrew Karsner and Rousseff (reported septel). In this subsequent give-and-take session, the Ambassador raised a number of pending issues with Rousseff [...] |
2007-05-09 19:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD OVIP EINV BR |
| 07BRASILIA833 |
BRAZIL: PETROBRAS AND GOB RESPOND TO BOLIVIAN OIL [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivian Government's decree prohibiting Brazil's Petrobras from exporting refined petroleum products (reftel) has drawn an incrementally more robust official response from the Brazilian Government than previous Bolivian actions prejudicial to Petrobras. Foreign Ministry (Itam [...] |
2007-05-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV PGOV PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA834 |
BRAZIL EXPRESSES RESERVATIONS ABOUT SIGNING THE GLOBE MOU [...] SUMMARY: After previously indicating that it was ready to participate in the NASA GLOBE program, a K-12 science program for the schools, the GoB has reversed itself stating that since the United States has not ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity, the GoB could not be sure that the [...] |
2007-05-10 16:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
| 07BRASILIA839 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL FLANNERY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Brendan Flannery, Epidemiologist, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, May 27 to June 10, 2007, to work with current CDC secondee for immunization to Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) o [...] |
2007-05-10 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA840 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL WELLINGTON SUN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Wellington Sun, Dengue Branch, HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, May 23-25, 2007, to attend as a Temporary Advisor at the Regulatory Forum on Clinical Evaluation of Dengue Vaccines, as part of the Sixth [...] |
2007-05-10 17:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA841 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PARASHAR [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Umesh Parashar, Medical Epidemiologist, CCID, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Brasilia, Brazil, May 22-23, 2007, to participate and present at a WHO Meeting on Developing Countries Vaccine Regulators Netw [...] |
2007-05-10 17:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA850 |
BRAZIL: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Per reftel B, on May 8 the senior human rights offfical in the Ministry of External Relations indicated to visiting Ambassador for Social Issues, Grover Joseph Rees, that Brazil will not support Belarus and would support Slovenia and the Czech Republic for he UNHRC. 2. (C) In light of [...] |
2007-05-11 14:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA854 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VISIT OF U/S DOBRIANSKY [...] The U.S. Mission in Brazil welcomes the May 16-17, 2007, visit of Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky and delegation for the Common Agenda for The Environment and other meetings, and grants country clearance to the travelers. During your stay in Brasilia (DF), Bra [...] |
2007-05-14 14:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA OVIP PGOV BR |
| 07BRASILIA855 |
U.S. COMPANIES PRESS TRADE MINISTER ON COMPULSORY [...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 9 meeting with newly-appointed Minister of Trade Miguel Jorge, representatives from the Brazil-U.S. Business Council outlined their thoughts regarding the direction of bilateral trade trends. Chief on their mind was the damage to Brazil's investment climate done by t [...] |
2007-05-14 15:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EIND BR |
| 07BRASILIA858 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIAL PRATT [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Michael Pratt, Lead, Senior Medical Officer, NCCDPHP, HHS/CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to Sao Paulo, May 15; to Brasilia, Brazil, May 15-18; to Curitiba, May 18-20; to Brasilia May 20-23; and, to Sao Paulo, Brazil, [...] |
2007-05-14 17:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA872 |
BRAZIL: PMDB PLAYED HARDBALL WITH AIR TRAFFIC [...] (SBU) Summary. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) leadership used a threat of non-cooperation with the government in the Chamber of Deputies' just-created Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI) on the Air Traffic Crisis to pressure the Lula administration for jobs in the second t [...] |
2007-05-16 15:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PGOV CASC BR |
| 07BRASILIA874 |
BRAZIL'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER SILVA DISCUSSES MINISTRY [...] SUMMARY. During a wide-ranging conversation with Ambassador Sobel and other Embassy staff on May 11, 2007, Brazil's Minister for the Environment, Marina Silva, discussed bilateral and multilateral cooperation. Topics included Brazil's proposal regarding compensated deforestation, Ministry prio [...] |
2007-05-16 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA TRGY BR |
| 07BRASILIA888 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIALS SCHMID AND [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Thomas Schmid, Senior Evaluation Specialist and Eduardo Simoes, Chief, PRC, NCCDPHP, CDC, HHS, to travel to Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 20, 2007 and to Brasilia, Brazil, from May 20-24, 2007, and Sao Paulo on May 24, 2007. The purpose of the trip [...] |
2007-05-18 15:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA890 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR HHS/FDA OFFICIALS TIERNAN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Rose Tiernan, Medical Officer and Robin Levis, Regulatory Coordinator, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA, HHS to travel to Brasilia, Brazil, from May 22-27, 2007. The purpose of the trip [...] |
2007-05-18 17:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA US BR |
| 07BRASILIA905 |
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S A/S KARSNER VISITS BRAZIL TO JUMP [...] (SBU) Summary: During Assistant Secretary Karsner's April 23-25, 2007, visit, he was able to meet with a broad spectrum of policymakers representing state and federal government plus those from the private sector who make up Brazil's biofuel power elite. Beginning with meetings in Sao Paulo w [...] |
2007-05-21 19:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG SENV EAGR ETRD KSCA US BR |
| 07BRASILIA918 |
CVRD EXECUTIVES LAMENT INCREASING CHINESE INFLUENCE OVER [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 18 office call on the Ambassador, CVRD executives expressed their concern about increasing Chinese influence over both natural resources and the distribution/transportation infrastructure needed to export these resources to distant markets. In the future, they war [...] |
2007-05-23 10:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND EINV BR CH |
| 07BRASILIA919 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE CONTRACTOR NOZIK [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. Arthur J. Nozik, Sr Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Manaus, Brazil from August 19-25, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to present a speech on recent published results from NREL's research on multiple exciton generat [...] |
2007-05-23 13:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA920 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NIH DR. KAMHAWI [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Shaden Kamhawi, Staff Scientist, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to Manaus, Brazil, June 3-9, 2007, to meet with Brazilian collaborator to continue Sand Fly Leishmania Program research related to malaria studies. [...] |
2007-05-23 13:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA921 |
"OPERATION NAVALHA": EMERGING POLITICAL SCANDAL [...] (SBU) Summary. A large-scale Federal Police investigation has surfaced a major political corruption scandal involving bribes a construction firm allegedly paid to politicians to guarantee lucrative contracts. The scandal has reached the Cabinet and at least six ministries may be involved. S [...] |
2007-05-23 13:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA934 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NIH/FIC DR. COSTERO-SAINT [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Adriana Costero-Saint Denis, Program Officer, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH, to Manaus, Brazil, June 3-15, 2007, to attend a two-week course, Biology of Disease Vector, at Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. 2. V [...] |
2007-05-24 16:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA94 |
BRAZIL'S APRIL 2007 GLOBE LAUNCH ON TRACK [...] (U) On January 11, 2007, SCI officer met with Rachel Trajber, Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Brazilian Ministry of Education. Trajber has been designated by the Government of Brazil (GOB) as GLOBE country coordinator. GLOBE is a USG sponsored interagency science and education [...] |
2007-01-18 13:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGLB TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
| 07BRASILIA944 |
BRAZIL: Corruption, Public Apathy, Lack of Resources [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 10, Federal Police stationed in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco told EmbOff that public apathy, corruption among state officials, and limited resources have undercut their efforts to stem the flow of pirated goods in the region. Despite a directive from the state's [...] |
2007-05-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA956 |
BRAZIL - SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) Brazil has a close relationship with Cuba and the GoB does not publicly criticize the Castro regime's human rights policies. During the last six months, President Lula and Cuban President Fidel Castro have sparred publicly over Brazil's ethanol policy. Castro echoed Venezuelan President C [...] |
2007-05-25 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ECON ETRD BR CU |
| 07BRASILIA958 |
BRAZIL: NEXT STEPS ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 24, in a joint "NAFTA" approach to the Ministry of External Relations, the Econ Counselors from the U.S. and Canadian Embassies, along with the Commercial Counselor from the Mexican Embassy, met with Evandro Didonet, the Ministry's recently-appointed Chief of its Intern [...] |
2007-05-26 19:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA96 |
SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 87 [...] The following is the eighty-seventh in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views ex [...] |
2007-01-18 16:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA961 |
MEDIA ARTICLE SPECULATES ON WHY BRAZIL COULD NOT LIVE UP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Brazilian newspaper quotes George Washington University director, John Logsdon as saying because of delays and its inability to meet its obligations for the International Space Station (ISS), Brazil has lost its chance to be a space station partner. The article quotes the Brazili [...] |
2007-05-29 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA SENV TBIO KSCA OSCI BR |
| 07BRASILIA984 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NIH OFFICIAL HANDLEY [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Frank Gray Handley, Associate Director for International Research Affairs, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Brasilia, Brazil, from June 10-14, 2007, to participate in the first me [...] |
2007-05-31 17:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA CDC OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA985 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR DOE/FE OFFICIAL MCKEE TO [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Barbara McKee, Director, Office of Clean Energy Collaboration, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE), to Brasilia, Brazil, June 26-30, 2007, to chair the International Energy Working Party on Fossil Fuels Executive Committee Meeting and speak a [...] |
2007-05-31 17:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG SENV KSCA OTRA US BR |
| 07BRASILIA990 |
FEAR OF CHINA CONSTRAINS BRAZIL'S STANCE ON THE DOHA [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian industry leaders and GOB officials have repeatedly underlined that concern about the impact of Chinese imports on domestic manufacturers is a root cause behind their unwillingness to agree to the non-agricultural tariff cuts proposed by both the USG and the EU. Brazil [...] |
2007-05-31 18:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
| 08BRASILIA1000 |
USDA UNDER SECRETARY KEENUM CO-CHAIRS 3RD U.S.-BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Mark Keenum, USDA Under Secretary Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services co-chaired the 3rd U.S.-Brazil Consultative Committee on Agriculture in Brasilia May 19-20, 2008 which was successful in expanding bilateral dialogue and in nudging the agricultural trade agenda with Br [...] |
2008-07-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD BR |
| 08BRASILIA1002 |
BRAZIL: FOUR SENATORS TAKE ON THE FOURTH FLEET [...] (SBU) Summary. Four members of the Senate Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee visited Ambassador Sobel on July 9 to express objections to the re-establishment of the Fourth Fleet, and called on President Bush to reverse it. They asked the Ambassador to transmit their objections [...] |
2008-07-24 16:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL XM BR |
| 08BRASILIA1003 |
BRAZIL,S HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY: FOLLOWING THE [...] (SBU) Bolstered by economic success, the GOB demands equal footing with all nations, especially when it comes to foreign policy, and its human rights policy is no exception. Brazil's Constitution mandates that the second prevailing principle of its international relations is human rights. Even [...] |
2008-07-24 16:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BR |
| 08BRASILIA1035 |
UPDATE AND ACTION REQUEST ON ABADIA EXTRADITION [...] (C) As a follow up to ref a instructions, Post, on July 24, 2008, once again contacted Ministry of Justice Legal Advisor, Rafael Tomaz Favetti regarding the expulsion of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia (Chupeta). Favetti advised Post that he had encountered stiffer opposition within the Ministry t [...] |
2008-07-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM CJAN PREL CVIS SNAR BR |
| 08BRASILIA1036 |
USOAS AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN AUTHORITIES [...] (C) Summary. Brazil's coordinator for the Fifth Summit of the Americas (SOA) told visiting USOAS Ambassador Hector Morales that the Concept Paper provides ample scope for cooperation and the proposed three pillars are very pertinent. Brazil broadly shares U.S. objectives for the SOA, althoug [...] |
2008-07-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECIN EAGR ENRG SENV KSUM XM HA TD |
| 08BRASILIA1048 |
Brazil: Post-Doha - early public reaction [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-31 15:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
| 08BRASILIA1061 |
BRAZIL'S NEXT GENERATION FIGHTER COMPETITION TAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Meeting the July 31, deadline for responses to Brazil's request for information (RFI) on a next generation fighter aircraft (FX2), Boeing and Lockheed Martin submitted their proposals on July 30 and 31 respectively. The Brazilian Air Force (BRAF) is expected to review the propo [...] |
2008-08-05 14:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR BR ETTC |
| 08BRASILIA1069 |
NEXT STEPS ON ABADIA EXTRADITION CASE AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. Post appreciates Department and DOJ assistance in determining next steps on securing the extradition of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia ("Chupeta") and requests the guidance discussed ref A on an urgent basis, as ongoing investigations into Abadia's activities in Br [...] |
2008-08-06 20:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM CJAN PREL CVIS SNAR BR |
| 08BRASILIA1079 |
BRAZIL: MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS ON SHOOTDOWN [...] (C) On August 5, POLMILOFF met with Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Special Advisor Marcos Pinta Gama and discussed U.S.-Brazil cooperation on shootdown-related issues. (Note: Pinta Gama, a key embassy contact, is chief of staff to Secretary General (vice minister) Samuel Pinheiro Guim [...] |
2008-08-08 11:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR MOPS PREL SNAR |
| 08BRASILIA1102 |
BRAZIL GENERALLY SUPPORTS CREATING NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary. At an August 14 meeting with Environment, Science and Technology Counselor, the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division for Disarmament and Sensitive Technol [...] |
2008-08-15 11:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AORC ETTC BR |
| 08BRASILIA1111 |
2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DRAFT DECLARATION OF [...] As per reftel, post discussed preparations for the April 2009 Summit of the Americas with Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs Division of American States Deputy Director Antonio Franca. Franca said that Brazil was still reviewing the draft declaration and would have specific comments later [...] |
2008-08-15 20:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD BR |
| 08BRASILIA1112 |
CLIMATE CHANGE: BRAZIL WILL CONSIDER USG NOMINATION FOR [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Environment, Science and Technology Counselor met on August 15 with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Director of the Division of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development, Cou [...] |
2008-08-15 21:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG KSCA SENV AORC BR |
| 08BRASILIA1113 |
BRAZIL SUPPORTIVE OF ATCM MEASURE ESTABLISHING THE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Environment, Science and Technology Counselor met on August 14 with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Director of the Department for the Environment and Special Themes, Min. Luis Alb [...] |
2008-08-15 21:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY BR |
| 08BRASILIA1118 |
DUE DILIGENCE FOR BRASILIA NOMINEE GOOGLE EARTH OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Post Brasilia reaffirms that the conduct of Google Earth Outreach, building conservation partnerships with indigenous leaders and practitioners in the Amazon forests of Brazil, has been exemplary and deserving of consideration for State's 2008 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). An aw [...] |
2008-08-18 19:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV SENV ETRD BR |
| 08BRASILIA1120 |
CONTROVERSY OVER BRAZIL,S AMNESTY LAW INFLAMES OLD [...] (U) On August 31, Brazilian Justice Mininster Tarso Genro called for prosecution of members of the Brazilian military involved with violations of human rights, including torture, during Brazil,s 1964-85 military government. This would call for a revision of the 1979 law on amnesty which hal [...] |
2008-08-19 15:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR MARR PGOV PHUM |
| 08BRASILIA1122 |
EXPANDING THE ENERGY REALTIONSHIP WITH BRAZIL: KUPFER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Acting Deputy Secretary of Energy Jeffery Kupfer and his delegation visited Brazil August 4 - 7. They met with a wide variety of private sector and government officials to discuss a broad range of energy issues. In Rio on August 4, Kupfer discussed primarily oil issues, in Bras [...] |
2008-08-21 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG EINV SENV KSCA BR IN |
| 08BRASILIA1124 |
SHOOTDOWN: VISIT TO CINDACTA IV [...] In late July, a team from MLO Brasilia and SOUTHCOM visited CINDACTA IV, the regional air traffic control center responsible for almost fifty percent of Brazil's territory and controlling the most commonly used routes for drug traffickers. The team reported that the CINDACTA was working effi [...] |
2008-08-22 13:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR MOPS BR |
| 08BRASILIA1128 |
BRAZIL: Trade, Taxes and Investment - CAMEX Lytha Spindola [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting August 20 between Ambassador Sobel and CAMEX (see para 7) Executive Secretary Lytha Spindola, Spindola hinted strongly that MRE is becoming extremely interested in pursuing 4 plus 1 conversations on trade with the United States. She expressed optimism that forward m [...] |
2008-08-25 16:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
| 08BRASILIA113 |
CODEL NELSON VISIT TO BRASILIA AND BELEM [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Senator Bill Nelson visited Brazil November 27-30, 2007, focusing primarily on environmental issues, biofuels, and national security matters. He met with key Brazilians in the national gove [...] |
2008-01-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP SENV KGHG EAGR TRGY BR |
| 08BRASILIA1151 |
SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 2 VISIT OF [...] (U) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it has ever been, the result of the excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, new cooperation mechanisms on biofuels, business issues, and econom [...] |
2008-08-27 20:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
| 08BRASILIA1159 |
BRAZIL LAUNCHES ITS AMAZON FUND, BUT WHO WILL CONTRIBUTE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On August 1, President Lula signed Decree 6527 calling on the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) to create the "Fundo Amazonia" (or Amazon Fund), a new tool to help reduce Brazil's [...] |
2008-09-02 11:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG EFIN NO BR |
| 08BRASILIA1160 |
BRAZIL: Airport Administrator INFRAERO Meeting [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting between Ambassador Sobel and the head of INFRAERO, Sergio Guadenzi, Guadenzi provided a brief overview of civil aviation administration in Brazil, discussed airport profitability and privatization proposals, reviewed cargo infrastructure, and noted a decision on Gu [...] |
2008-09-02 12:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON BR |
| 08BRASILIA1170 |
SHOOTDOWN: Brazilian Air Defense Procedures [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Paragraph 2 contains an Embassy translation of the text of the procedures under which Brazil's Air Defense Authorities can order a shootdown under Brazilian law. These procedures were provided by the Braizilian Air Force and should be treated as an internal Brazilian [...] |
2008-09-04 16:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER FARC BR |
| 08BRASILIA1172 |
NREL EXPERT ON RENEWABLE ENERGY RECEIVES RAVE REVIEWS IN [...] Renewable energies expert Dr. Doug Arent from the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) spoke at a series of events in Chile and Argentina on energy technology and energy efficiency, issues of primary importance to the national security of these two countries. Dr. Arent's visit was [...] |
2008-09-05 11:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG ECON CI AR XR BR |
| 08BRASILIA1176 |
BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. Brazil biofuels steering committee met at the technical level on August 20 in Brasilia, following the postponement of travel to Brazil by Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Reuben Jeffery. The meeting included a highly constructive private sector element and a very p [...] |
2008-09-05 20:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAGR ETRD ECON EINV BR |
| 08BRASILIA1183 | GEORGIA: BRAZILIAN VIEWS ON SITUATION | ||||