The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also known as Itamaraty, is the government department responsible for advising the President and conducting Brazil's foreign relations with other countries and international bodies.

Among the international players were China's Sun Wen, Pu Wei, Fan Yunjie, Zhang Ouying, Gao Hong, Zhao Lihong, and Bai Jie ; Germany's Birgit Prinz, Conny Pohlers, Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert ; Norway's Hege Riise, Unni Lehn, and Dagny Mellgren ; Brazil's Sissi, Kátia and Pretinha ; and Canada's Charmaine Hooper, Sharolta Nonen, and Christine Latham.

Internationally, they are amongst Brazil's most successful clubs with seven international titles, including three Copa Libertadores and two Intercontinental Cups.

Its researchers are Brazil's the fourth most productive in terms of articles published in indexed international journals of science.

On those occasions, he never abandoned his belief in diplomacy as the means to handle international matters, thus helping establish Brazil's reputation as a peace-loving nation.

Meanwhile, Brazil's international agenda incorporated new perceptions.

This new emphasis of Brazil's international policy was followed by an appraisal of relations maintained with the United States in the previous year.

The expansion of Brazil's international agenda coincided with the administrative reform of the Ministry of External Relations.

These were found both among the wealthier parts of the population, as businessmen controlling Brazil's international trade, and the lower ones, as tradesmen and free urban workers ( the Brazilian élite was mostly rural ).

Following Brazil's summer international games, he was seriously linked with a move to Greek club Panathinaikos.

By 1970 the airport was Brazil's major international and domestic air-hub.

On January 20, 1977, when the airport was receiving all of Brazil's major international flights, this new terminal was opened and all scheduled passenger flights were transferred to the new building.

After the World Cup and the international retirement of Dida, the competition to become Brazil's new first-choice goalkeeper began.

An economist and political scientist, he is an alumnus of The Rio Branco Institute ( Instituto Rio Branco ), the graduate school of international relations and diplomatic academy of Brazil's Ministry of External Relations.

Ecuavisa dedicates a great portion of its programming to international shows, mainly telenovelas from Telemundo and Brazil's Rede Globo, such as " El Clon " and " Bellisima ".

He has performed at many international festivals, playing with Peter Gabriel, Gilberto Gil ( currently Brazil's minister of Culture ) and Ray Lema: fr: Ray Lema.

The scandal, which had at that time not yet involved Brazil's finance minister who is often claimed to be popular with the international finance community, threatened Antonio Palocci's standing after lawyer and former advisor Rogério Tadeu Buratti testified that Palocci was involved in corrupt activities while mayor of Ribeirão Preto in the mid-90's.

Hortência's first international experience came in 1976, when Brazil's women's national basketball team won the South American juvenile championship in Paraguay.

Bilateral relations between the countries have recently increased, as a result of Brazil's new South-South foreign policy aimed to strengthen South American integration.

Meanwhile, in Brazil, relations between Pedro and Brazil's agricultural magnates had become strained.

Following the Wall Street panic, the government attempted to please foreign creditors by maintaining convertibility according to the money principles preached by the foreign bankers and economists who set the terms for Brazil's relations with the world economy, despite lacking any support from a single major sector in Brazilian society.

The third military government ( 1969 – 74 ), led by general Emilio Garrastazu Médici and guided by directives already adopted in the previous period, intensified the transformation process of Brazil's foreign relations.

Nevertheless, its importance to the Portuguese-Italian trade relations should not be understated ; this map provided the Italians with knowledge of Brazil's coastline and that of much of the Atlantic Coast of South America long before other nations even knew South America extended so far to the south.

Brazil's armed forces are the largest in Latin America, with 327, 710 active-duty troops and officers.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

Brazil's political, business, and military ventures are complemented by the country's trade policy.

Atypically, Brazil's preventive police are known as Military Police.

In practice, however, Brazil's indigenous people are still face a number of external threats and challenges to their continued existence and cultural heritage.

They are played either at Mineirinho, home of Brazil's national volleyball team, or at Minas Tênis Clube.

Both cities are located in the ABCD Region, home to most of Brazil's automobile manufacturing facilities ( such as Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and others ) and are among the most industrialized in the country.

Many of Brazil's streets are in disrepair and very bumpy.

On June 15, 2011, the eight ministers of Brazil's Supreme Court ( STF ) that participated in the trial were unanimous in free demonstrations for the legalization of drugs, such as the Marcha da Maconha (, Marijuana Walk ) in Brazil ( part of the Global Marijuana March ), in which they decided that the demonstrations are an exercise of freedom of expression and not incitement to crime, as argued judges who have banned the march in the past.

Headquartered in São José dos Campos, Embraer is the third-largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world, and the fourth-largest aircraft manufacturer after Canada's Bombardier when business jets are taken into account, and it is Brazil's top exporter of industrial products.

They play in the Campeonato Carioca, Rio de Janeiro's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league, and are one of the only five clubs to have never been relegated, along with Santos, São Paulo, Internacional and Cruzeiro.

According to Brazil's national act number 5, 700 of 1 September 1971, the flag portrays the stars as they would be seen by an imaginary observer an infinite distance above Rio de Janeiro standing outside the firmament in which the stars are meant to be placed.

Aircraft manufactured by Brazil's Embraer, Canada's Bombardier Aerospace, and the Airbus A318 are being considered for the replacement.

" There are more than 450 companies that are responsible for half of Brazil's exports in this sector.

" There are more than 450 companies that are responsible for half of Brazil's exportation in this sector.

In Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, especially in the city of Salvador, black-eyed peas are used in a traditional street food of Nigerian origin called acarajé.

There is prejudice about " African cults " in Brazil's south, but there are Catholics, Protestants and other kinds of Christians who also believe in the Orishas, and go both to Churches and Terreiros.

Along a roughly 500-mile portion of Brazil's Atlantic coast that runs from north of Rio de Janeiro up to the region south of Bahia, the sands of old beaches are naturally radioactive.

Brazil's silver medals in the 1984, 1988 and 2012 are the best they have achieved, and the men's team failed to qualify in 1992 and 2004.