With 3,266,199 square miles of terrestrial territory, Brazil is the 5th largest country by landmass behind Russia, China, and the US of A. While Russia is in a league of its own with two and a half million square miles more than the second largest country in the world, with just 428,761 additional square miles…
Even as the country looks forward to hosting both the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, tourism brought 5.4 million visitors in 2011, and with those visitors an additional $6.775 billion added to the economy. According to a 2011 study by the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) which looked at attractiveness…
With the introduction of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, influence from outside powers in Central and South America had been strategically limited to the United States. It is a doctrine that shaped the Cold War, and has served to deter international meddling in Central and South America. Recently, influence is growing from unexpected regions; notably, from…
Mercosur is a full customs union encompassing Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay. Additionally, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia and Perú are associate members of the union, and as such, participate in the economic union, but not the unified customs system. While Venezuela signed into the union in 2006, their membership has been blocked ever since by…
Moving from seventh to sixth globally, Brazil has now passed Britain’s economy in terms of nominal GDP. Brazil’s industrial sector accounts for nearly 30% of total GDP, and the country became self sufficient of oil 2006.
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