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Alexei Barrionuevo is a Brazilian news journalist who is the Rio de Janeiro and South America correspondent for the United States newspaper The New York Times. He commenced his role in February 2005 and since then has written a large number of articles.

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Brazil’s President Elbows U.S. on the Diplomatic Stage

BRASÍLIA Brazil’s ambitions to be a more important player on the global diplomatic stage are crashing headlong into the efforts of the United States and other Western powers to rein in Iran’s nuclear arms program. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian and ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Barack Obama,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Mahmoud Abbas,  Shimon Peres

Brazil Looks for Answers After Huge Blackout

RIO DE JANEIRO Officials were searching for answers early Wednesday after a power failure blacked out large swaths of Brazil and Paraguay for more than two hours late Tuesday. The failure of three transmission lines at the world’s largest operating ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Paraguayan President Replaces Military Leadership

SÃO PAULO, Brazil Fernando Lugo, the president of Paraguay, swore in new commanders of the military on Thursday, just a day after he abruptly removed the leaders of the army, navy and air force amid speculation of a possible coup attempt that had ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alfredo Stroessner

Chilean Leader’s Legacy Is Upended Traditions and Balanced Books

SANTIAGO, Chile At first, breaking the gender barrier in South America did not go smoothly for Michelle Bachelet. In 2006, she had just captured the world’s attention, becoming the first woman to be elected president of this deeply conservative country. ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Bachelet,  Ricardo Lagos,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Augusto Pinochet

Ex-Guerrilla Vies for Presidency of Uruguay

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay A Socialist former guerrilla fighter was battling a conservative former president for the presidency of Uruguay on Sunday in what analysts said was a referendum on the current leftist government. José Mujica, a Socialist senator who ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Luis Alberto Lacalle,  Johns Hopkins University,  In Style,  Danilo Astori,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Check In, Check Out | Latin America Issue: Hotel Review: cE Hotel de Diseño, Buenos Aires

Visitors to Buenos Aires have plenty of interesting hotels to choose from if they wish to avoid the stuffy corporate scene, with stylish boutiques popping up everywhere. But with hipness and desirable location sometimes comes sacrifice, and the 28-room ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Elvis Presley

Outburst of Violence in the Newest Olympic City Rattles Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO Just over two weeks ago, this striking city landed the 2016 Olympic Games, the first ever in South America, setting off a sweaty, impromptu beach party that lasted most of the weekend. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil sobbed ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  International Olympic Committee

Argentine Congress Passes Media Bill

RIO DE JANEIRO Argentina’s Congress approved a controversial bill that will give the government more control over the broadcast media, handing a victory to the president and her husband, the country’s former leader, who have blamed media coverage they ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  Cristina (musician),  Committee to Protect Journalists

Giants in Cattle Industry Agree to Help Fight Deforestation

RIO DE JANEIRO Environmental groups hailed a decision this week by four of the world’s largest meat producers to ban the purchase of cattle from newly deforested areas of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest. At a conference on Monday in São Paulo organized by ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Greenpeace,  Adidas,  Nike,  McDonald's,  Wal-Mart

Dancing Into the Evening, Brazil Celebrates Its Arrival on the World Stage

RIO DE JANEIRO Carnaval came four months early to Brazil this year. There was pride and the feeling that something powerful had just happened to the country. The International Olympic Committee’s decision to entrust the games to Brazil the first in ...

From ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, The New York Times,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  George W. Bush,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

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