Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Rousseff

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  Rough inauguration day for new Venezuelan leader

  Inauguration day could have gone better for the man picked to lead Venezuela's socialist revolution for the next six years. Hours before President ... 

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  Venezuela crackdown deemed worst in years

  National Guard troops beat dozens of opposition supporters inside a barracks for refusing to accept the government-certified electoral victory of Hugo ... 

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  BRICS plan development bank to fund infrastructure

  Leaders of five of the world's emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure ... 

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  Chavez body to be put on permanent display

  Hugo Chavez's body will be preserved and forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace from which ... 

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  Brazil moves ahead with Russia missile talks

  Brazil says it is entering talks to buy Russian anti-aircraft defense systems, in part to provide security during the 2016 Olympic Games. 

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  Pro-Cuba protesters halt dissident's Brazil event

  Boisterous protesters backing the Cuban government blocked the Monday screening of a documentary featuring Cuba's best-known dissident, the blogger ... 

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  Inmates moved after bloody Venezuela prison clash

  Venezuelan authorities finished evacuating more than 2,000 inmates on Sunday from a prison where the government said 58 people were killed in one of ... 

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  Venezuela prompted EU to change summit declaration

  Oil-rich Venezuela scored a victory Saturday when it persuaded European delegates at a 60-nation summit to back down on a key point in the gathering's ... 

• Brazil and EU want to retake stalled negotiations

  Brazil and the European Union have agreed to resume stalled free trade negotiations between the EU and South America's Mercosur trade bloc. 

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  Chavez has respiratory infection, now 'controlled'

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a respiratory infection after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba and must have "complete rest" for the next few ... 

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  IOC: 'Time is ticking' for Rio Olympic organizers

  With concern mounting about the pace of progress for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the IOC warned Brazilian organizers Tuesday that "time is ...