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On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

## [latam] BRAZIL - COUNTRY BRIEF PM

Released on 2012-08-02 04:00 GMT

Email-ID | 2038816
Date | 2010-12-02 21:57:46
From | paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com
To | rbaker@stratfor.com, latam@stratfor.com
List-Name | latam@stratfor.com

BRAZIL
ECONOMY
Consumer prices in Brazil are under control despite a recent uptick, and
the inflation pressure from food prices will ease next year as those costs
drop, the country's finance minister, Guido Mantega, said on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0222461620101202
ENERGY
Brazila**s Senate plans to reduce the amount of time that mining companies
have to explore minerals deposits in a bid to accelerate fertilizer
production, Senator Edison Lobao said in an interview.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/brazil-senate-plans-to-cut-time-to-explore-deposits-lobao-says.html
Brazilian miner Vale (VALE5.SA: Quote), the world's largest iron ore
producer, on Thursday inaugurated a $140 million copper project in Chile,
part of the company's efforts to diversify away from the iron business.
http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFN0220413420101202
MILITARY
Brazil has deployed a 1,500-strong security force to patrol borders with
Paraguay and Bolivia to curb the smuggling of weapons and drugs by
organized crime, O Estado de S. Paulo reported.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/brazil-reinforces-borders-with-paraguay-bolivia-estado-says.html
Brazil prices under control, food to drop-Mantega
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0222461620101202
BRASILIA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Consumer prices in Brazil are under control
despite a recent uptick, and the inflation pressure from food prices will
ease next year as those costs drop, the country's finance minister, Guido
Mantega, said on Thursday.
"Inflation is under control, it's not going to go outside the target and
the government will do what's necessary to keep it that way," he said.
Brazil's inflation target for this year and next is 4.5 percent, plus or
minus 2 percentage points.
The central bank uses that target as a guide in setting its benchmark
interest rate, the Selic. Policymakers will meet Wednesday, Dec. 8, to
consider changing the rate from its current 10.75 percent -- one of the
highest in the world.
"If you look at the IPCA (price index) and take out food and fuel,
inflation is below 5 percent," he said.
Food and fuel costs tend to be among the most volatile, making it harder
to identify trends.
"We don't have to worry about this because there will be a drop in food
prices next year," Mantega said, adding that wholesale prices for some
food items have already signaled lower retail prices to come.
Brazil's inflation rate has spiked recently, reaching 5.47 percent in the
12 months through mid-November, and investors have recently more
aggressively priced in interest rate hikes in coming months.
Paulo Gregoire
STRATFOR
www.stratfor.com
Brazil Senate Plans to Cut Time to Explore Deposits, Lobao Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/brazil-senate-plans-to-cut-time-to-explore-deposits-lobao-says.html
Dec 3, 2010 2:28 AM GMT+0900
Brazila**s Senate plans to reduce the amount of time that mining companies
have to explore minerals deposits in a bid to accelerate fertilizer
production, Senator Edison Lobao said in an interview.
Lawmakers will propose limiting the period on exploration contracts to as
few as 20 years, said Lobao, 73, the former energy minister who said he
will probably return to the post on Jan. 1. Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silvaa**s administration is preparing proposed mining
legislation that includes a 35-year deadline.
a**We want to set rigid time limits to force companies to explore instead
of speculate,a** Lobao said yesterday in an interview in Brasilia.
The legislation, which Lula will likely send to congress for approval this
year, is part of a plan to help Brazil reach self-sufficiency in
fertilizer output within 10 years, Lobao said. The stricter time limit
would be in line with countries such as Australia, the worlda**s biggest
supplier of seaborne iron ore, which also grants 20 years to explore
deposits, he said.
Lobao said yesterday he may be named Mines and Energy Minister by
President-elect Dilma Rousseff, who takes office on Jan. 1. Lobao stepped
down in March to seek re-election as senator for the northeastern state of
Maranhao.
To contact the reporter on this story: Katia Cortes in Brasilia Newsroom
at kcortes@bloomberg.net
Paulo Gregoire
STRATFOR
www.stratfor.com
Brazil iron giant Vale diversifies with Chile copper
http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFN0220413420101202
SALAMANCA, Chile Dec 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale (VALE5.SA:
Quote), the world's largest iron ore producer, on Thursday inaugurated a
$140 million copper project in Chile, part of the company's efforts to
diversify away from the iron business.
The Tres Valles operation, Vale's first project in Chile, includes two
mines and a processing plant with capacity to produce 18,500 tonnes of
copper cathodes per year, equivalent to 0.34 percent of world No.1
producer Chile's annual output.
The new project highlights Vale's drive to increase its copper business.
The company expects to produce 332,000 tonnes of copper in 2011 and then
more than double it to 691,000 tonnes in 2015.
Vale has copper production in Brazil and in Canada. It is developing a
joint venture copper mine with Africa Rainbow Minerals in Zambia with an
estimated production capacity of 45,000 tonnes per year.
Copper represented less than 3 percent of Vale's revenues in the third
quarter of 2010, compared with around 60 percent for iron ore in the same
period, according to the company's earnings statement for that period.
Vale has identified copper and fertilizers as key areas of expansion for
the company. (Reporting by Brian Ellsworth; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
Paulo Gregoire
STRATFOR
www.stratfor.com
Brazil Reinforces Borders With Paraguay, Bolivia, Estado Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/brazil-reinforces-borders-with-paraguay-bolivia-estado-says.html
Dec 2, 2010 10:56 PM GMT+0900
Brazil has deployed a 1,500-strong security force to patrol borders with
Paraguay and Bolivia to curb the smuggling of weapons and drugs by
organized crime, O Estado de S. Paulo reported.
More than 80 percent of the arms and drugs smuggled into Brazil enter the
country through those borders, the Sao Paulo- based newspaper reported,
citing Brazila**s Federal Police.
The Federal Police has coordinated an operation to reinforce border
security since March, Estado said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Juan Pablo Spinetto in Rio de
Janeiro at o jspinetto@bloomberg.net
Paulo Gregoire
STRATFOR
www.stratfor.com
Paulo Gregoire
STRATFOR
www.stratfor.com