“Brazil” on The Daily Caller

The government of Brazil claimed in a lawsuit that Twitter is undermining the administration’s efforts to combat drunk driving in the South American country, the BBC reported Tuesday. (more)

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A federal court in northeastern Brazil has sentenced a politician to 103 years in prison for killing his running mate so that he could take her place in Congress. (more)

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian federal prosecutors said Wednesday they are seeking $10.6 billion in damages from U.S.-based Chevron Corp. because of environmental harm caused by an offshore oil leak. (more)

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s second largest airline said Wednesday it had agreed to sell a minority stake in the company to Delta Air Lines. (more)

Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter reinvigorated his pursuit Friday for the reasons behind why the administration is providing South American countries money to produce oil. (more)

Despite the fact that President Obama finally released his long-form birth certificate and undeniably is eligible to be president, there are some who believe Obama would be better suited to be the leader of Brazil. (more)

During an interview with NBC News’s Brian Williams, NBC’s Late Night host and comedian Jimmy Fallon began criticizing the president for neglecting his presidential duties. (more)

Energy is inextricably linked to economic growth. (more)

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday told Brazilians he wants to strengthen ties between the two countries, based on shared values and economic partnership. (more)

We are navigating through truly uncharted political and economic territory. Members of the financial cognoscenti have freshly alluded to the notion of the “government bubble” as the next blow to the world economic order. (more)

In August, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that the floods that were ravaging Pakistan at the time were linked to global warming. (more)

Oil has been steadily on the rise since the beginning of 2009. But could it reach mid-2008 levels or climb higher still? (more)

Chinese President Hu Jintao will arrive in Washington today for an official state visit with U.S. President Barack Obama. If the tenor of bilateral relations were based simply on the number of meetings held, you could be excused for concluding that the U.S. and China were among the closest of allies. This week’s visit marks the Chinese leader’s third trip to the United States since President Obama’s inauguration two years ago, while Obama himself has gone to Beijing twice already, and has met repeatedly with his Chinese counterpart at larger summits (most recently in Seoul, South Korea). All the while, the American agenda has remained broadly the same: currency valuation and global trade imbalances — not to mention the never-ending debates over political values and human rights, whether to impose sanctions on Iran, climate change, North Korean aggression and the multi-party talks. What has changed over the years is the tone of the conversation — which has become openly more assertive, on the Chinese side, and disturbingly more subservient on the American side. (more)

TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — As night fell, barefoot volunteers dragged a generator and stadium lights into a town cemetery, where nearly 200 freshly dug graves lay open like wounds in the red clay soil, waiting for some of the hundreds killed by torrential rains. (more)

Listening to the local news on the radio recently, I heard a report about how newly elected Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz plans to save $8 million by, among other things, merging the “Office of Sustainability” with the Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management. (more)

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil’s first female president Saturday, capping a rapid political trajectory for the career technocrat and former Marxist rebel who was imprisoned and tortured during the nation’s long military dictatorship. (more)

I think we will see more of the same in 2011 in Mexico. The drug cartel killing spree raises a number of less discussed considerations. We are told the huge American demand for drugs, both grown and manufactured, creates the problem; perhaps in part, but note that we have a longer, more porous border with Canada and we are not seeing a shoot ‘em up culture arising in Calgary or Toronto over meth or heroin exporting to the U.S. Something else is going on as well. We were also told that the continuation of massive illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. at least had a ‘safety valve’ effect that lessened tensions in Mexico while earning it nation-saving foreign exchange; but after 11-16 million Mexican nationals have fled to the United States the last 20 years, exactly how has that mass flight and ensuing  remittances of an estimated $30 billion per annum made things any better in Mexico? (more)

In a recent address before the National Press Club in Washington, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the United States is in clear danger of losing the “energy race” to China. (more)

Last month American reporters expressed concern at a recent study published by the Conference Board which claimed that the US economy would be overtaken by China in two short years.  This alarming news came just weeks after a ranking of the world’s most powerful people put President Barack Obama at number two — beaten into second place by Chinese premier Hu Jintao. (more)

RIO DE JANEIRO — Soldiers and police crouching behind armored vehicles trained their rifles on dozens of entrances to a sprawling slum Saturday, apparently preparing to invade and try to push drug gangs out an area long considered the most dangerous in Rio de Janeiro, a city set to host the 2016 Olympics. (more)