President Lula
The president, will undergo a series of exams on Saturday at the Sao Paulo Heart Institute, a spokesman at the president’s press office said.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is doing well but must undergo more medical exams at the weekend, his press office said on Friday, a day after he was briefly hospitalized for high blood pressure.
Lula, aged 64, canceled his trip on Thursday to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, after he was briefly taken to hospital due to unusually high blood pressure. (more…)
Brazil’s unemployment rate fell 28.7 percent during President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s seven-year administration, according to a study released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Thursday.
The unemployment rate averaged 8.1 percent last year, up from 7.9 percent in 2008. The increase is attributed to the impact of the international financial crisis on the country’s economy, which lowered job growth in the first half of the year.
Despite the crisis, the unemployment rate in 2009 was lower than the ones registered from 2003 to 2007. (more…)
