NEWS -- THIS WEEKS MAIN EVENTS IN BRAZIL
A selection of main news stories in Brazil, featuring stories of general interest, government activities and economic headlines. A "People" section is also to be included.
Political and Social Issues that are making news.
National and International crisis and their affect on Brasilian Government and Society.
NATIONAL ISSUES
- Crime and Public Security
- Empoyment
- Inflation and growth
- llicit drugs: limited illicit producer of cannabis, minor coca cultivation in the Amazon region, mostly used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian and Colombian cocaine headed for the US and Europe; increasingly used by Andean traffickers as a way station between Peru and Colombia
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
- Relations with Neighboring Countries, particularly Columbia and Venezuela (in turmoil).
- International Debt and IMF (International Monetary Fund)
- Disputes-international: short section of the boundary with Paraguay, just west of Salto das Sete Quedas (Guaira Falls) on the Rio Parana, has not been precisely delimited; two short sections of boundary with Uruguay are in dispute-Arroio Invernada (Arroyo de la Invernada) area of the Rio Quarai (Rio Cuareim) and the islands at the confluence of the Rio Quarai and the Uruguay River
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