Tag: France
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The body of Nelson Marinho Filho, who died when Air France flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, has been buried in Rio – the...
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President Dilma Rousseff has called the recent G20 Summit in France a “relative success.” At a press conference in Cannes, she said, “It hasn’t been a complete...
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil is set to become the world’s sixth economy by the end of 2011, if projections by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and two leading economic consultancies, the EIU...
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Last week a deal that looked set to alter the face of the Brazilian retail sector for good floundered. The proposed merger between Brazilian supermarket chain Pão...
