Pace of Brazil Land Reform Slammed Despite Gains
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil made progress in its  ambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, but  still fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealth  inequality, government data released on Wednesday show.
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Brazil's government suffers a major blow as the Senate  refuses to renew a key revenue-raising tax.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was battling to secure the votes needed to clinch an outright victory in Sunday's presidential election after public disgust over corrupt politics eroded his support in the final days of campaigning.
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The Brazilian government is facing criticism from Latin American countries for its failure to abandon the production of cluster bombs.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's ruling Worker's  Party (PT) was looking to strengthen its hand in its fight to  transform this huge Latin American country with a good  performance in nationwide municipal elections on Sunday.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva was battling to secure the votes needed to clinch an outright victory in Sunday's presidential election after public disgust over corrupt politics eroded his support in the final days of campaigning.
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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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Monsanto, which pushed for lifting Brazil's ban on GM seeds, disputes claims that the new policy will harm the environment.
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ROME, Jun 21 (IPS) - The main reason that Latin America is not making  faster progress towards the Millennium Development Goals adopted  by the international community in 2000 lies in the various forms  of inequality that prevail in the region, former Dutch minister  of development cooperation Eveline Herfkens told IPS Thursday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Stacks of dirty money nabbed in a botched smear campaign covered Brazil's front pages on Saturday as polls showed for the first time that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could be forced to a second round run-off.
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In its first electoral test since taking power 21 months ago, the party of Brazil's left-leaning president emerged stronger from nationwide municipal elections but could not come in first in the country's biggest and most important city, Sao Paulo.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  put in a tepid performance in elections in a state it has run  since the 1920s, as it hit a bump on the long road toward its  goal of returning to power nationally in 2006.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilians lined up to vote on Sunday amid signs that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, though still the champion of the poor and workers, may have squandered his chances of a first-round victory because of scandals over sleazy politics.
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Poverty is "the most destructive weapon of mass destruction," Brazil's president said Monday as world leaders spotlighted the growing gap between rich and poor and the often devastating impact of globalization on millions of people trying to eke out a living.
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By Axel Bugge BRASILIA, Brazil  - Newly surfaced photographs ofa victim of Brazil's 1964-85 military rule have put thegovernment in a quandary -- how to avoid riling the armedforces while satisfying rights groups' demands for answersabout the country's "Dirty War."
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The government pushes on with a controversial land reform policy, saying 500 plots of land are idle.
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In its first electoral test since taking power 21 months ago, the party of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva emerged stronger from nationwide municipal elections but did not win in the country's biggest city, Sao Paulo.