Modest gain in Brazil land reform
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Brazil says it has settled 81,000 families on redistributed land, but falls short of its own target.
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SAO PAULO -- Landless farmers invaded a mine, a bank , and other corporate property in Brazil yesterday to protest the impact of big companies on the poor and President Bush's visit to Latin America's largest nation.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - It may be known as the land  of slender supermodels, champion soccer players and itsy-bitsy  bikinis, but Brazil is increasingly fattening up like the  United States.
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Â·  Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit Â·  Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca
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According to anba: Five Arab countries are among the 30 main buyers of Brazilian agribusiness products. Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, together, answered to almost 5.5% of revenues generated by sector foreign sales, which totalled US$ 43.6 billion last year.
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By Alberto Alerigi SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's drive to increasecomputer software exports is beginning to show results and thegovernment expects the sector to sell about $400 million abroadthis year, four times what it exported in 2001.
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CAETES, Brazil  - A woman emerges from the thick  scrub with a bundle of firewood on her back and walks down a  dirt path to her small farm in Caetes, a poor and remote  district in northeast Brazil.
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Brazilian government released federal budget figures Friday showing an unprecedented primary budget surplus of 10.9 billion reals (&#36;3.8 billion) in August, putting Brazil well ahead of performance targets set in a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
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Unexpected successes in curbing inflation and restoring public finances have given a strong political boost to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who seeks reelection on Sunday.
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Brazil's industrial output grew 1.1 percent in August compared to July, the sixth straight month-to-month rise as the economy gathers steam following a recession last year and a slow start in 2004.
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Most parts of the country saw modest economic growth in the past month, although there were pockets of sluggishness as businesses continued to cope with fallout from the troubled housing and automotive industries.
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LOBOS, Argentina  - Every year, rancher Gaston Caset leaves a little less space for cattle on his farm in Argentina's fertile pampas plains, planting more lucrative wheat and soybeans instead.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da   Silva expanded a wide margin over the main rival in Brazil's   presidential race, strengthening his chance of being reelected   in a first round vote, a poll showed on Tuesday.
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Brazil played better, and it didn&#39;t matter. The US women&#39;s soccer team occasionally looked slow, even disorganized, and it didn&#39;t matter.
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Latin America&#39;s agricultural giant won a pair of trade victories against farm subsidies for rich countries after the World Trade Organization agreed that Brazilian farmers have been hurt by government assistance for US cotton farmers and European Union
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Brazil&#39;s unemployment rate fell in July for the third straight month to a seven-month low of 11.2 percent and wages rose, underscoring the strengthening economy, official data showed on Thursday.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Support for Brazilian  President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government rose to 38  percent this month from 29 percent in June, boosted by strong  economic growth, a new poll showed on Friday two weeks before  nationwide local elections.