One of our greatest potentials is precisely the fact that we've mapped out our clean energy,” says Fernando Haddad.

By Fernando Cardoso, Bernardo Caram and Marcela Ayres SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's Finance Ministry on Friday said it had scrapped a higher transaction tax on funds invested abroad after critics inside and outside the government blasted the move as backsliding toward the return of capital controls.

By Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Mankind has no right to leave 733 million people to the scourge of hunger. In a world that annually produces almost 6 billion tons of food,

Brazil went back on a plan to tax transfers to offshore funds after the announcement sparked a currency selloff, with Finance Minister Fernando Haddad saying Friday morning that there was an understanding that it was worth reviewing the idea to avoid speculation.

Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said that the increase in the IOF tax on financial transactions "was debated at the president's (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva) table, who summons the ministers he considers pertinent",

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip them into the registry as if they were from the 1980s and ’90s.

The world's largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the elusive cats in the wild. And at around 70,000sq miles, the UNESCO world heritage site offers plenty of wildlife encounters,

Brazil's Santa Catarina state said it has ruled out an outbreak of bird flu in a commercial chicken farm while the federal government was keeping it on a list of suspected cases pending further tests.

Brazil’s economic activity outperformed expectations in March, underscoring the lingering challenges facing policymakers as they debate whether or not hit pause on their monetary tightening cycle.

Brazilian meat processor JBS ( OTCQX:JBSAY) moved closer to securing a long-sought listing on the New York Stock Exchange, after receiving approval from its minority shareholders on Friday for a dual listing strategy, the Associated Press reported.