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		<title>Brazil scandal draws in Lula&#8217;s chosen successor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The expected ruling party candidate in Brazil&#8217;s 2010 presidential election has been drawn into a scandal by an accusation that she tried to stop a probe into the finances of the Senate chief&#8217;s family.
The alleged involvement of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva&#8217;s chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, underlines the growing risks posed by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No French access to Brazil plane crash autopsies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8217;s chief air disaster investigator said on Wednesday he was unhappy that a French pathologist had not been allowed to take part in autopsies in Brazil of bodies recovered after an Air France plane crash.
Brazilian and French ships are still searching for wreckage and bodies from the plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China, Brazil Sign Oil Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has agreed to lend $10 billion to Brazil&#8217;s Petrobras, in return for guaranteed oil supply over the next decade. The deal was among a host of agreements signed during Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva&#8217;s state visit to China, which ends Wednesday. 
Brazil&#8217;s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva toasts with China&#8217;s President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Of Brazil VI</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restoration of Civil Rule 
In 1985 Tancredo Neves was selected as Brazil&#8217;s first civilian president in 21 years; he died before taking office, and José Sarney became president. Faced with resurgent inflation and a huge foreign debt, Sarney imposed an austerity program that included introducing a new unit of currency. A new constitution providing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Of Brazil V</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vargas&#8217;s Second Presidency 
Getúlio Vargas returned to power as president in January 1951, after defeating two rival candidates by a large plurality in elections held the previous October. Vargas formed a coalition cabinet representative of all major parties. The government took immediate steps to balance the national budget and develop a program to reduce living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitory Of Brazil IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Early Republic 
Instituted without compensation for the slave owners, emancipation alienated the powerful landed interests from the government. Moreover, sections of the Roman Catholic clergy were hostile to certain of Pedro&#8217;s policies, many leading army officers were secretly disloyal, and large sections of the populace favored a republic.
Fonseca and Peixoto 
In November 1889 a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Of Brazil III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sojourn of the Portuguese Court 
The Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) profoundly altered the course of Brazilian history. Early in November 1807, Napoleon dispatched an army across the Spanish frontier into Portugal. The Portuguese regent, Prince John, and most of his court embarked from Lisbon shortly before the arrival of the French army and sailed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Of Brazil II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish Rule and Dutch Incursions 
Philip II of Spain inherited the Portuguese crown in 1580. The period of Spanish rule was marked by frequent aggressions against Brazil by the English and Dutch, the traditional enemies of Spain. A Dutch fleet seized Bahia in 1624, but the city was recaptured by a combined force of Spaniards, [...]]]></description>
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