End of preview - This article contains approximately 2482 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Economy & Business - February 2004
BRAZIL: Rates and scandal delay recovery
The scandal centres
on Waldomiro Diniz, a former deputy chief of parliamentary affairs at
the presidential palace who was answerable to José Dirceu, the
president's chief of staff. Diniz was sacked after a magazine, Epoca,
published tape and video evidence that he had asked for bribes from Carlos
Augusto Ramos (aka Carlinhos Cachoeira), one of the chief bankers in Rio
of the popular lotteries known as jogo do bicho. The money from Cachoeira
was to be used to fund the Partido dos Trabalhadores' election campaign
in 2002.
- Lula's first political test
- Whacked by interest rates
- BRAZIL: Rates and scandal delay recovery
- ARGENTINA: Better, but
- CHILE : Riding the boom
- PARAGUAY: Soya problems
- URUGUAY: Decent export performance
- VENEZUELA: Statistical maze
- COLOMBIA: Fretting about the exchange rate
- ECUADOR: Pretty steady
- PERU: Toledo reshuffles cabinet again
- BOLIVIA: Business split over government plan
- COSTA RICA: Government threatens
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Inflation worries
- GUATEMALA: Fiscal problems
- EL SALVADOR: Exports fail to keep pace with imports
- HONDURAS: Government clinches with IMF
- NICARAGUA: IMF steps up the pressure
- PANAMA: Banks provide example
- BRAZIL: Nestlé fights anti-trust ruling
- MEXICO: Pulling in investment
- NICARAGUA: América Movil to buy Enitel
- BANKS: Bradesco buys
- MEXICO: Courts order sugar mills to be denationalised
- METALS: Riding the boom
- ENERGY: The implications of the Opec decision
- MEXICAN AGRICULTURE: The Nafta conundrum
- Commodity briefs...
- ARGENTINA: Government blinks, under IMF pressure