Interview: ‘Financial crisis has highlighted the importance of state, social protection’
The failure of the Washington Consensus is leading countries in Latin America to look for more progressive leaders, says Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet… 19 March 2009The Hindu ‘The financial crisis … Continue reading
IBSA united front at the NSG
The Delhi Declaration of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) forum summit has this interesting line in its paragraph on the peaceful use of nuclear energy: [The leaders] also reiterated the importance … Continue reading
Interlude: Fidel and Gabo
Even as his body recuperates from surgery brought on by acute intestinal crisis and bleeding, Fidel Castro’s mind is as energetic and active as ever. Roughly once a week, sometimes … Continue reading
The Amorim interview: ‘We are changing the world’s geography’
On the eve of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Foreign Ministers meeting in New Delhi, Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim spoke to The Hindu about the future and significance of the … Continue reading
Brazil for IBSA link to Mercosur, SACU
Celso Amorim is the intellectual founder of the IBSA concept. Now he wants the three countries to create a “large economic space” linking Mercosur and Sacu as well. 17 July … Continue reading
Forget the G8, it’s time for a Brics summit
Dateline Brasilia: Instead of waiting like supplicants outside the portals of the G8, Brazil, India, China, and South Africa should realise a summit of their own would transform the world … Continue reading
Myth and reality of ethanol and biofuels
Dateline Sao Paulo: Biofuel from sugarcane may have worked well for Brazil so far but the attempt to expand or replicate the model, especially using corn and other grains, will … Continue reading
Putting people’s health before drug company profits
Dateline Rio: Brazil is being pilloried for joining the ‘Axis of IP Evil’ but by breaking Merck’s patent on Efavirenz, its AIDS control programme will save $30 million every year. … Continue reading
Fidel is recuperating well!
The Juventud Rebelde website has the first photographs of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, recuperating after surgery.
Orden de Bernardo O’Higgins
On March 30, the Ambassador of Chile in India, Jorge Heine, conferred the Orden de Bernardo O’Higgins — one of Chile’s highest civilian honours for a foreign citizen — on … Continue reading
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