<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365</id><updated>2011-11-27T15:23:53.773-08:00</updated><category term='texto_BBC'/><category term='texto_Financial_Time'/><category term='AFRF'/><category term='ESAF'/><title type='text'>Inglês Concurseiro: ESAF, Cespe e artigos</title><subtitle type='html'>COMO PARTICIPAR? Sugestões, elogios, críticas para o ingconcurseiro@gmail.com</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-8206214550681741071</id><published>2010-03-09T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T13:49:36.984-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Provas DNPM</title><content type='html'>Pessoal,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segue em anexo as provas do concurso do DNPM..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tem para todos os cargos, com gabarito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.4shared.com/file/237793394/67728dd5/DNPM.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5126544317751881365-8206214550681741071?l=inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.4shared.com/file/237793394/67728dd5/DNPM.html' title='Provas DNPM'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/8206214550681741071/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5126544317751881365&amp;postID=8206214550681741071&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/8206214550681741071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/8206214550681741071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2010/03/provas-dnpm.html' title='Provas DNPM'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-4023721803278263024</id><published>2009-08-22T11:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-22T11:24:50.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blackwater's dark heart (O coração obscuro/negro da Blackwater)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Aug 21st 2009 WASHINGTON, DC&lt;br /&gt;From Economist.com&lt;img class="gl_color_fg" border="0" alt="Cor do texto" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;New revelations about an American private-security contractor(Novas revelações sobre um empreiteiro de segurança privada americana)THE “war on terror” has left many blots on America’s reputation—weapons of mass destruction, Abu Ghraib prison, Guantánamo Bay—and one stain continues to darken with time. This week the New York Times reported that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had once hired Blackwater, a private-security contractor, in connection with a plots to assassinate al-Qaeda operatives. It was the latest in a string of controversial news. This month Erik Prince, Blackwater’s founder and chairman, was accused of facilitating or committing murder. Blackwater released a statement calling the allegations “unsubstantiated and offensive”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A “Guerra do Terror” deixou muitas manchas na reputação da América (entenda-se Estados Unidos) – armas de destruição em massa, a prisão de Abu Ghraib, Baia de Guantánamo – e uma mancha continua a escurecer com o tempo. Essa semana, o NYT reportou que a CIA, uma vez no passado, contratou a Blackwater, um empreiteiro de segurança privada, com conexão a planos de assassinar “operários” do Al-Qaeda. Foi a última em uma série de notícias controversas. Nesse mês, Erik Prince, o fundador e presidente da Blackwater, foi acusado de facilitar ou cometer assassinato. A Blackwater emitiu um comunicado chamado as alegações de “sem substância e ofensivas”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Blackwater is not the only security contractor in the Middle East. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that America spent between $6 billion and $10 billion on the services of these firms from 2003 to 2007. But Blackwater is the most prominent. In 2004 insurgents in Fallujah killed four of its employees, burned their bodies and hung two from a bridge over the Euphrates. The sight of charred American bodies caused uproar at home. Marines stormed Fallujah days later. By 2007 Blackwater was accused of being a perpetrator. The company’s employees opened fire on a busy square in Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqis, claiming they were ambushed. The incident strained America’s relations with Iraq. Blackwater exemplified an American effort gone terribly wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A Blackwater não é a única empreiteira de segurança no Oriente Médio. A Secretaria de Orçamento do Congresso estima que os Estados Unidos gastaram entre $6 bilhões e $10 bilhões nos serviços dessas firmas de 2003 até 2007. Porém, a Blackwater é a mais proeminente. Em 2004, insurgentes em Fallujah mataram quatro de seus empregados, queimaram seus corpos e penduraram dois em uma ponte sobre o Rio Eufrates. A visão de corpos americanos queimados causou ruído em casa. Dias depois, os Marines varreram Fallujah. Em 2007 a Blackwater foi acusada de ser uma criminosa. Os empregados da companhia abriram fogo em uma praça lotada em Bagdá matando 17 iraquianos, alegando que foram emboscados. O incidente causou tensão nas relações dos EUA com o Iraque. A Blackwater exemplificou um esforço americano que saiu terrivelmente equivocado.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;The latest revelation is that the CIA hired Blackwater in 2004 for a multimillion-dollar plan to locate and kill members of al-Qaeda. In June a horrified Leon Panetta, the new director of the CIA, called an emergency meeting to brief Congress on the programme, which had been kept secret. According to the New York Times, Blackwater helped with training, planning and surveillance. It is unclear whether the CIA intended to use Blackwater to carry out the assassinations—no suspected terrorists were killed under the auspices of the programme. But the scheme adds to doubts over the role of private-security firms in the war and efforts to hold contractors accountable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A última revelação é que a CIA contratou a Blackwater em 2004 para um plano de muitos milhões de dólares para localizar e matar membros do Al-Qaeda. Em junho, um horrorizado Leon Panetta, novo diretor da CIA, convocou uma reunião de emergência para falar resumidamente ao Congresso do programa, o qual fora mantido em segredo. De acordo com o NYT, a Blackwater ajudou com treinamento, planejamento e vigilância. Ainda é incerto se a CIA pretendia usar a Blackwater para levar a cabo assassinatos – nenhum suspeito de terrorismo foi morto protegido pelo programa. Porém, o esquema adiciona dúvidas sobre o papel das firmas de segurança privada na guerra e (sobre) esforços para manter os empreiteiros sob controle.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;A case in court in Washington, DC, may eventually shed some light on the way the company works. In December 2008 federal prosecutors charged five Blackwater employees with manslaughter for the Baghdad shootings in 2007. A sixth employee has already pleaded guilty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Um caso na corte em Washington poderá eventualmente “dar uma luz” sobre o modo como a companhia opera. Em Dezembro de 2008, promotores federais acusaram cinco empregados da Blackwater de homicídio doloso pelos tiroteios em Bagdá em 2007. Um sexto empregado já se confessou culpado.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;In the meantime, Blackwater faces some of the most serious allegations yet. A group of Iraqis, aided by the Centre for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based human-rights pressure group, is suing Blackwater for war crimes, wrongful death and more. In sworn statements submitted for the case on August 3rd, two former employees allege that Mr Prince may have helped to murder at least one person who had divulged, or was about to divulge, damning information to the government. He denies the claims. The affidavits also claim that Mr Prince smuggled weapons into Iraq and that he “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Enquanto isso, a Blackwater ainda enfrenta algumas das mais sérias acusações. Um grupo de iraquianos, assistidos pelo Centre for Constitucional Rights –, um grupo de pressão sobre direitos humanos estabelecido em Nova Iorque, está processando a Blackwater por crimes de guerra, mortes injustificadas e mais. Em depoimentos juramentados enviados para o caso em 3 de Agosto, dois antigos funcionários alegam que o Sr. Prince pode ter auxiliado a assassinar pelo menos uma pessoa que tenha divulgado, ou estava prestes a divulgar, informações incriminadoras para o governo. Ele nega as acusações. Os depoimentos também declaram que o Sr. Prince contrabandeou armas para o Iraque e que ele “vê a si mesmo como um cruzador cristão encarregado de eliminar muçulmanos e a fé islâmica do globo.” )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;With these cases plodding through America’s courts, security contractors continue to work abroad. Blackwater no longer has an operating licence in Iraq—local officials refused to renew it—and the firm has lost a big contract to defend diplomats. But many former employees of Blackwater are now working for the new holder of that contract, Triple Canopy. And Blackwater has rebranded itself as Xe Services. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Com esses casos se arrastando lentamente através das cortes americanas, os empreiteiros de segurança continuam a trabalhar no exterior. A Blackwater não possui mais uma licença para operações no Iraque – oficiais locais se negaram a renová-la – e a empresa perdeu um grande contrato para defender diplomatas. Porém, muitos empregados antigos da Blackwater estão trabalhando agora para o novo detentor do contrato, Triple Canopy. E a Blackwater mudou a sua marca para Xe Services.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;As the number of contractors in Afghanistan grows, the mistakes of Iraq may be repeated. Training for Afghanistan’s security contractors is weak and efforts to monitor them are disjointed, according to a report released in June by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, a bipartisan group set up by Congress. Four Xe employees are under investigation for the death of an Afghan man in May. Critics may be gladdened to learn that there is at least some semblance of oversight. The main body charged with supervising contractors in Afghanistan is also a contractor. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A medida que o número de empreiteiros cresce no Afeganistão, os equívocos no Iraque podem ser repetidos. O treinamento para os empreiteiros de segurança no Afeganistão é fraco, e os esforços para monitorá-lo são desordenados, de acordo com um relato emitido em Junho pela Comission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, um grupo bipartidário estabelecido pelo Congresso. Quatro empregados da Xe Services estão sob investigação pela morte de um afegão em maio. Os críticos podem ficar alegres ao descobrir que há, pelo menos, alguma aparente supervisão. O principal órgão encarregado de supervisionar os empreiteiros no Afeganistão também é um empreiteiro.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5126544317751881365-4023721803278263024?l=inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.4shared.com/file/126920169/91e0f1a9/Blackwater.html' title='Blackwater&apos;s dark heart (O coração obscuro/negro da Blackwater)'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/4023721803278263024/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5126544317751881365&amp;postID=4023721803278263024&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/4023721803278263024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/4023721803278263024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2009/08/blackwaters-dark-heart-o-coracao.html' title='Blackwater&apos;s dark heart (O coração obscuro/negro da Blackwater)'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-5600269774140901596</id><published>2009-08-18T19:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-18T20:16:34.727-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Vocabulário de Câmbio e Comércio Exterior</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Depois de uma ótima dica do colega &lt;em&gt;Canabrava, do &lt;/em&gt;forumconcurseiros, lembrei de um dicionário de Câmbio e Comércio Exterior disponível na página de COMEX do Banco do Brasil e resolvi postá-lo aqui, pois trata-se de mais uma ferramenta na nossa caminhada rumo à RFB, ao Bacen, ao MPOG - vida nada mole de concurseiro :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download &lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/126024077/c6ec4147/vocabulario_cambio_e_comercio_exterior.html"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;(Fiz o download e converti para .pdf, para facilitar o trabalho)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Também converti para PDF dois "minidicionários" que o grande Canabrava postou no fórum e, gentilmente, autorizou-me a publicar: o primeiro deles é específico de Comércio Exterior, e o segundo possui um vocabulário interessantíssimo para áreas fiscais, áreas de gestão e para concurseiros da ESAF :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Minidicionário 1 - Download &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/126026770/f7ce0aea/vocabulario_COMEX.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;aqui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Vocabulário 2 - Download &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/126028364/e6e205d/vocab_receita.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;acolá&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5126544317751881365-5600269774140901596?l=inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/5600269774140901596/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5126544317751881365&amp;postID=5600269774140901596&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/5600269774140901596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/5600269774140901596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2009/08/vocabulario-de-cambio-e-comercio.html' title='Vocabulário de Câmbio e Comércio Exterior'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-8919111065368025726</id><published>2009-08-16T16:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T17:10:04.651-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BBC - Colombia-US base accord reached</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Colombia-US base accord reached &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Acordo de base Colômbia-Estados Unidos alcançado)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accord poderia ser substituído por agreement, pact, settlement &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colombia says it has completed talks with Washington on allowing US troops to use seven of &lt;strong&gt;its &lt;/strong&gt;military bases. Under the deal, the US military will be able to operate on Colombian soil &lt;strong&gt;to&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;tackle&lt;/strong&gt; drug-trafficking and terrorism. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notar que o pronome possessivo"its" em negrito refere-se à Colômbia (tropas americanas a usar sete das SUAS bases militares).. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to tackle = poderia ser substituído por "deal with (lidar com)", "stop", "bring down", undertake.. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;significa acabar, lidar com, parar (atividade do tráfico de drogas e terrorismo), acabar, extinguir..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Colômbia afirma que completou as conversas com Washington permitindo tropas americanas a usar sete das suas bases militares. Sob o acordo, as forças americanas estarão aptas a operar em solo colombiano para acabar com o tráfico de drogas e terrorismo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A number of &lt;/strong&gt;South American countries have condemned the plan and Argentina has said the bases are "not &lt;strong&gt;helpful&lt;/strong&gt;". Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has expressed fears the move would amount to preparation for an invasion of &lt;strong&gt;his &lt;/strong&gt;country by US forces. Colombia's foreign ministry said that Bogota had agreed the text of the deal with the US. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A number of = poderia ser substituída por several, many (contáveis), quite a few..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;helpful = nome/substantivo (help) + ful (sufixo) = adjetivo &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;his = novamente o possessivo "dele".. refere-se ao presidente Hugo Chavez.. (ao país dele pelas..)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Diversos países sulamericanos condenaram o plano, e a Argentina(!) disse que as bases não "são úteis". &lt;em&gt;(apenas um comentário de português: a vírgula depois de plano separa duas orações com sujeitos diferentes e por este motivo foi utilizada.. se fosse retirada afetaria a correção do texto..) &lt;/em&gt;O presidente venezuelano Hugo Chavez expressou temores que o movimento somará na preparação para uma invasão do país dele pelas forças americanas. O Ministro das Relações Internacionais disse que Bogotá aceitou o texto do acordo com os Estados Unidos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"This &lt;strong&gt;agreement&lt;/strong&gt; reaffirms the &lt;strong&gt;commitment &lt;/strong&gt;of both parties in the fight against drug-trafficking and terrorism," the ministry said in a &lt;strong&gt;statement&lt;/strong&gt;. The deal will now be reviewed in both countries before being signed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;verbo + sufixo (ment) = agree+ment, commit+ment, state+ment =&gt; substantivo, ou seja.. VERBO+MENT = substantivo (acordo, comprometimento, declaração)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Este acordo reafirma o comprometimento de ambas as partes na luta contra o tráfico de drogas e o terrorismo", disse o ministro em uma declaração. Agora, o acordo será revisado em ambos os países antes de ser assinado.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;'Climate of unease' (Clima de desconforto)&lt;br /&gt;Last week, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe visited several of his South American neighbours to try to calm fears over the proposed deal with Washington. On Monday, South American leaders at a regional summit had reiterated concerns over the deal. Mr Chavez warned that "the winds of war were beginning to blow" across the region. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Semana passada, o presidente colombiano Alvaro Uribe visitou diversos dos seus vizinhos sulamericanos para tentar acalmar os temores sobre o acordo proposto com Washington. Na segunda-feira, líderes sulamericanos, em uma reunião regional, reiteraram preocupações sobre o acordo. Sr. Chavez advertiu que os "ventos de guerra estavam começando a soprar" pela região.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, &lt;strong&gt;called for &lt;/strong&gt;a meeting between US President Barack Obama and the region's leaders, saying the "climate of unease disturbs me".&lt;br /&gt;Washington wants to use Colombia as a regional hub for operations &lt;strong&gt;to counter &lt;/strong&gt;drug-trafficking and terrorism. The US has been forced to look for a new base for such operations after Ecuador refused to renew the lease on its Manta base, which the US military was using. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;called for = require, demand, request for, ask for..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to counter = combater, fazer oposição, se opor a, retaliar..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;O presidente brasileiro, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, convocou uma reunião entre o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, e os líderes regionais, dizendo que "clima de desconforto me perturba". Washington deseja usar a Colômbia como um hub regional para operações retaliar/combater/fazer oposição ao tráfico de drogas e ao terrorismo. Os Estados Unidos foram forçados a procurar uma nova base para tais operações depois que o Equador recusou renovar o aluguel da sua Base Manta, que o força militar americana estava usando.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5126544317751881365-8919111065368025726?l=inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.4shared.com/file/125527219/71a3b68/Colombia-US_base_accord_reached.html' title='BBC - Colombia-US base accord reached'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/8919111065368025726/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5126544317751881365&amp;postID=8919111065368025726&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/8919111065368025726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/8919111065368025726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2009/08/bbc-colombia-us-base-accord-reached.html' title='BBC - Colombia-US base accord reached'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-3722610664465364689</id><published>2009-08-12T18:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T21:09:05.790-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Brazil actively develops green energy</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"   lang="PT-BR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"   lang="PT-BR"&gt;Notícia   original - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/09/content_11851132.htm"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"   lang="PT-BR"&gt;Xinhuanet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"   lang="PT-BR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 3pt;"&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; height: 3pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; 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  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;color:black;"   &gt;2009-08-09 12:34:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in; width: 26%;" width="26%"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in; width: 12%;" width="12%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 80%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="80%"&gt;  &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 15pt;"&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in; height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;  &lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 97%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="97%"&gt;  &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style=""&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;    &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;BRASILIA,   Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Brazil has been focusing on the research and development   of renewable energy since the 1970s and has achieved remarkable results. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(O Brasil tem   focado na pesquisa e desenvolvimento de energias renováveis desde os anos 70   e tem atingido extraordinários resultados)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Latest research   results revealed that thanks to the country's application of a variety of   renewable energy and its arduous efforts to protect its rain forest, the   carbon dioxide emission in Brazil has reduced 2 billion tons over the past   four years. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(Os últimos   resultados de pesquisas revelaram que graças à aplicação do país de uma   variedade de energias renováveis e seus árduos esforços para proteger sua   floresta tropical, a emissão do dióxido de carbono no Brasil reduziu em 2   bilhões de unidades nos últimos quatro anos)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Covering a total   area of 8.51 million square kilometers, Brazil has a &lt;b style=""&gt;rangeland&lt;/b&gt; of more than 200 million hectares, a farmland of 6.2   million hectares and 100 million hectares of unexploited land. It has the   natural resources to expand the plantation of &lt;b style=""&gt;energy crops&lt;/b&gt; in addition to ensuring grain production. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Rangeland = terras utilizadas para pastagem de   animais&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(Cobrindo uma   área total de 8.51 milhões de quilômetros quadrados, o Brasil tem uma área para   pastagem de 200 milhões de hectares, área cultivável de 6.2 milhões de   hectares e 100 milhões de hectares de terras inexploradas. Ele (Brasil) tem   recursos naturais para expandir a plantação de safras de colheitas   específicas voltadas à produção/geração de energia &lt;i style=""&gt;– aqui, apesar de estar expresso em duas palavras “energy crops”,   temos um significado mais amplo -, &lt;/i&gt;em adição a garantir a produção de   grãos).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;The Brazilian   authorities have been encouraging its people to use fuel ethanol through   government subsidies, quotas and price interventions &lt;b style=""&gt;as well as&lt;/b&gt; helping enterprises get loans from international   financial institutions.&lt;b style=""&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;as well as =   poderia ser substituída por: in addition to, and also, e and likewise. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;“and price   interventions &lt;b style=""&gt;in addition to&lt;/b&gt;/&lt;b style=""&gt;and also/and likewise&lt;/b&gt; helping”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;A ESAF adora   esse tipo de substituição (“a expressão &lt;i style=""&gt;as   well as&lt;/i&gt; da linha tal, poderia ser substituída, sem prejuízo ao   significado e correção do texto...”)&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(As   autoridades brasileiras têm encorajado sua população a usar etanol combustível   através de subsídios governamentais, cotas e intervenções de preço, e também   ajudando iniciativas obterem empréstimos de instituições financeiras internacionais).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;In &lt;b style=""&gt;cities&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b style=""&gt;and towns&lt;/b&gt; with a population of more than 1,500, gas stations are   required to install ethanol petrol pumps and those &lt;b style=""&gt;who do not follow the rule will be punished accordingly.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;cities and towns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt; = na língua inglesa é muito comum a diferenciação de que &lt;i style=""&gt;town &lt;/i&gt;é para cidades pequenas, menores   que as &lt;b style=""&gt;cities&lt;/b&gt; propriamente ditas e   um pouco maiores que os &lt;b style=""&gt;villages&lt;/b&gt;   (vilarejos). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(Nas cidades   com uma população superior a 1.500, é requerida, aos postos de combustíveis,   a instalação de bombas de álcool combustível, e aqueles que não cumprem a   regra serão punidos de acordo.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Obs.: Soa   estranho e até equivocada a tradução de “aqueles que não cumprem a regra   serão punidos de acordo, porém esta é a maneira fiel explicitada pelo tempo   verbal do texto.. Mais coerente seria traduzirmos como &lt;i style=""&gt;“aqueles que não cumprirem a regra serão...”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;As the interest in   fuel ethanol grows in many countries, the Brazilian government has formulated   an even more ambitious plan to produce fuel ethanol. Under the project,   Brazil's annual fuel ethanol production &lt;b style=""&gt;aims&lt;/b&gt;   to &lt;b style=""&gt;increase&lt;/b&gt; to 35 billion liters   in 2013, doubling its current production of 17 billion, and about 10 billion   will be exported. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;to aim =   poderia ser substituída por: intends (pretende), aspires (aspira a), hás the   objective (tem o objetivo), hás the goal (tem a meta)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;to increase =   poderia ser substituída por &lt;b style=""&gt;raise,   elevate, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;heighten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(Como o   interesse em álcool combustível cresce em muitos países, o governo   brasileiros formulou um plano até mais ambicioso de produzir álcool/etanol   combustível. Sob o projeto, a produção anual de etanol combustível do Brasil   pretende aumentar para 35 bilhões de litros em 2013, duplicando a produção   atual de 17 bilhões, e em torno de 10 bilhões serão exportados.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;In recent years,   Brazil has also actively developed its biofuel technology. To encourage the   use of biofuel, the government in 2003 announced a plan to boost &lt;b style=""&gt;nationwide&lt;/b&gt; production and use of   biodiesel. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Quando o   autor utiliza o “wide”,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;ele tem o   objetivo de esclarecer que é por toda largura do, por toda extensão de..&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Ex: worldwide   web – rede que se estende por todo o mundo; nationwide production - &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;produção que se estende por toda a nação.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(Nos últimos   anos, o Brasil tem ativamente desenvolvido também a sua tecnologia de   biocombustíveis. A fim de encorajar o uso do biocombustível, o governo, em   2003, anunciou um plano para aumentar a produção e o uso do biodiesel em todo   o país.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Starting from July   1, 2009, the Brazilian biodiesel law increased the percentage of biofuel   mixed in diesel oil to 3 percent from the previous 2 percent, and in 2010,   the percentage will be increased to 5 percent. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(A partir do   dia 01 de julho de 2009, a lei brasileira do biodiesel incrementou a   porcentagem de biocombustível misturado ao óleo diesel para 3% dos anteriores   2%, e em 2010, a porcentagem será incrementada para 5%)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;With government   support, Brasil Ecodiesel was established in 2003. In 2006, the company   developed into the largest biodiesel company in Brazil with an annual   production capacity of 840 million liters and six branches in the country. It   is estimated that the company's annual production would reach 1 billion   liters in 2008 and 2.4 billion liters in 2013. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(Com o   suporte governamental, a Brasil Ecodiesel foi estabelecida em 2003. Em 2006,   a companhia se transformou na maior empresa do Brasil de biodiesel, com uma   capacidade de produção anual de 840 milhões de litros, e seis “filiais” no   país. É estimado que a produção anual da companhia chegará a 1 bilhão de   litros em 2008, e 2.4 bilhões de litros em 2013.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;Meanwhile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;, the biodiesel project initiated by   the Brazilian government has also lifted many agricultural households out of   poverty. Brasil Ecodiesel has signed contracts with many farmers, pledging to   purchase their agricultural produces and provide seeds, farm tools and   technical support for them.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;meanwhile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt; = poderia ser substituída por “at the same time”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;(Neste meio   tempo/Enquanto isso, o projeto de biodiesel iniciado pelo governo brasileiro tem   retirado muitas famílias dedicadas à agricultura da pobreza. A Brasil   Ecodiesel assinou contratos com muitos agricultores comprometendo-se a   comprar suas produções agrícolas e a fornecer sementes,   implementos/ferramentas agrícolas e suporte técnico a eles – &lt;i style=""&gt;agricultores&lt;/i&gt;.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;By far&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;, nearly 100,000 Brazilian &lt;b style=""&gt;agricultural households&lt;/b&gt; have participated in the national project   on the production and use of biodiesel and the country's &lt;b style=""&gt;oil-plant&lt;/b&gt; plantation has exceeded 500,000 hectares.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;by far&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt; = utilizando   uma considerável margem na estimativa..&lt;span style=""&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;neste caso, por exemplo, podem ser 115mil, 90mil, 110mil &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;so far =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt; até agora (poderia ser substituída por &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;up until now, until this   moment, thus far&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;oil-plant =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;"&gt; são plantas/sementes   das quais extrai-se óleo vegetal (mamona, caju, soja)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"   lang="PT-BR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;(De longe,   aproximadamente 100 mil propriedades agrícolas participaram do projeto   nacional de produção e uso de biodiesel, e a plantação de oil-plants já   superou os 500mil hectares.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5126544317751881365-3722610664465364689?l=inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.4shared.com/file/124692266/b8090807/Brazil_actively_develops_green_energy.html' title='Brazil actively develops green energy'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/3722610664465364689/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5126544317751881365&amp;postID=3722610664465364689&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/3722610664465364689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/3722610664465364689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2009/08/brazil-actively-develops-green-energy.html' title='Brazil actively develops green energy'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-1908473846457815230</id><published>2009-08-08T21:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T20:54:28.323-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='texto_Financial_Time'/><title type='text'>Brazil enforces smoking ban in São Paulo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bef7cbb6-82b9-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 70px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_S9GBy-0Pm7M/Sn5idEFgOUI/AAAAAAAAAJY/wufGAnKc8LI/s200/FT.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367836057324763458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A smoking ban comes into force in the Brazilian state of São Paulo on Friday, adding to what has become one of the world’s toughest anti-smoking campaigns.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Um banimento ao fumo se torna efetivo no estado brasileiro de São Paulo, na sexta-feira, acrescentando ao que se tornou numa das mais duras campanhas anti-fumo do mundo. &lt;o:p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:100%;color:red;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Brazil was among the first countries in the world to print disturbing images on cigarette packs in an effort to persuade smokers not to light up. The images, in use since 2001, have coincided with a steady fall in the number of smokers in the country, from 34 per cent of the adult population in 1989 to 15 per cent last year, although the part played by the images is hard to gauge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Brasil estava entre os primeiros países do mundo a imprimir imagens perturbantes nas embalagens de cigarro em um esforço de persuadir os fumantes a não “iluminar” (fumar). As imagens, em uso desde 2001, coincidiram com uma forte queda do número de fumantes no país, de 34% da população adulta em 1989 para 15% no último ano, embora a parte desempenhada pelas imagens seja difícil de mensurar. &lt;o:p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:100%;color:red;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The ban in São Paulo state is being introduced by governor José Serra, who as health minister was responsible for the nationwide on-pack campaign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;O banimento em SP tem sido introduzido pelo governador José Serra, que como Ministro da Saúde foi responsável pela campanha nacional nas embalagens.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:100%;color:red;"  &gt;Smoking bans have been tried in São Paulo city in the past but they were half-hearted affairs that expired under leg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:100%;color:red;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;al challenges and public indifference. This time, the state government says 90 per cent of the population supports the ban, which will outlaw smoking in all public or private spaces “of collective use”, such as bars, restaurants, shops, offices and shared areas in apartment buildings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Banimentos ao fumo foram tentados na cidade de São Paulo no passado, porém eles foram “assuntos sem energia” que expiraram abaixo de desafios legais e indiferença do público. Desta vez, o governo do Estado afirma que 90% da população apóia o banimento, que declarará ilegal fumar em ambientes públicos e privados “de uso coletivo”, tais como: bares, restaurantes, lojas, escritórios e áreas compartilhadas em prédios de apartamentos. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It will be enforced by fines on establishments of about R$800 to R$1,600 for first offences, rising thereafter. But the state says it will rely as much on support as enforcement. About 80 per cent of bars and restaurants have already implemented the ban, the state said, which is supported by a majority of smokers as well as non-smokers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ele (banimento) reforçar-se-á por multas aos estabelecimentos de R$800 até R$1600 pela primeira transgressão, elevando-se após. Porém, o estado afirma que o banimento dependerá tanto do apoio quanto da coerção. Em torno de 80% dos bares e restaurantes já implementaram o banimento, disse o Estado, o que é confirmado pela maioria dos fumantes quanto dos não-fumantes.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;In spite of what appears to be the success of Brazil’s on-pack campaign, doubts remain about its effectiveness and new images introduced in May are especially disturbing. Only three – the least disturbing of a new set of 10 – are in widespread use, although from this week all 10 will be in circulation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Apesar do que aparenta ser o sucesso da campanha “na embalagem” do Brasil, dúvidas restam sobre sua efetividade e novas imagens introduzidas em Maio são especialmente perturbantes. Somente três – as menos perturbantes de um novo grupo de dez – estão em larga utilização, embora a partir desta semana todas as 10 estarão em circulação.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Initial research suggests the new images are having an impact. In a poll carried out in three big Brazilian cities by the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, an organisation of tobacco control researchers, 62 per cent of smokers said the warnings made them think about the dangers of smoking, 48 per cent said they made them more likely to quit, and 39 per cent said they had decided not to light up after looking at the images during the previous 30 days.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Pesquisa inicial sugere que as novas imagens estão tento um impacto. Em uma pesquisa realizada em três grandes cidades brasileiras pela &lt;i style=""&gt;International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, &lt;/i&gt;uma organização de pesquisadores de controle de tabaco, 62% dos fumantes afirmaram que os avisos os fizeram pensar sobre os perigos de fumar, 48% disseram que os tornaram mais prováveis de parar, e 39% afirmaram que decidiram não fumar depois de olhar as imagens durante os 30 dias anteriores. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;But the ITC also warned that smokers habitually avoided looking at the images – printed only on the back of packs – by leaving their packs face up, and called for them to be printed both front and back.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:100%;"   lang="PT-BR"&gt;Porém a ITC também advertiu que fumantes habitualmente evitaram olhar para as imagens – impressas somente na parte de trás dos pacotes – deixando os maços “de cara para cima” e exigiu que as imagens sejam impressas em ambos os lados: frente e verso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--– google_ad_section_start –--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;inglês, questôes resolvidas, esaf, concurso, textos traduzidos, artigos traduzidos, concurseiro, cespe, questões comentadas, inglês para concurso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--– google_ad_section_end –--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5126544317751881365-1908473846457815230?l=inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.4shared.com/file/124693056/281ce8cf/Brazil_enforces_smoking_ban_in_So_Paulo.html' title='Brazil enforces smoking ban in São Paulo'/><link rel='enclosure' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2009/08/financial-times-brazil-enforces-smoking.html' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/1908473846457815230/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5126544317751881365&amp;postID=1908473846457815230&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/1908473846457815230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/1908473846457815230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2009/08/financial-times-brazil-enforces-smoking.html' title='Brazil enforces smoking ban in São Paulo'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_S9GBy-0Pm7M/Sn5idEFgOUI/AAAAAAAAAJY/wufGAnKc8LI/s72-c/FT.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-8613658491438790690</id><published>2009-08-08T19:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-12T18:55:37.642-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='texto_BBC'/><title type='text'>BBC - Venezuela returns Colombia envoy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8191057.stm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 32px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_S9GBy-0Pm7M/Sn5jnu0RElI/AAAAAAAAAJo/4idmSvPh6nM/s200/BBC.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367837340105511506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;table  align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="226" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46175000/jpg/_46175470_007763174-1.jpg" alt="President Hugo Chavez 7.8.09" border="0" vspace="0" width="226" height="170" hspace="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;div class="cap"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;President Chavez is a strong opponent of Colombia's ties with the US (Presidente Chavez é um forte oposicionista aos laçoes da Colômbia com os &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;EUA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;         &lt;!-- E IIMA --&gt;  &lt;!-- S SF --&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="first"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is sending his ambassador back to Colombia following a diplomatic row. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="first"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(O presidente Venezuelano Hugo Chavez afirma que ele está enviando o embaixador de volta à Colômbia seguindo um embate diplomático)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Mr Chavez recalled Ambassador Gustavo Marquez last week after Colombia said rocket launchers found in a rebel camp came from Venezuela.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(Sr. Chavez retornou o embaixador Gustavo Marquez na última semana depois que a Colômbia afirmou que os lança-foguetes encontrados em um campo de rebeldes vieram da Venezuela)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Relations between the two countries are also tense over Colombia's plans to allow US troops on its military bases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(As relações entre os dois países também estão tensas sobre os planos da Colômbia de autorizar tropas americanas em suas bases.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Mr Chavez has said he fears the move amounts to preparation for an invasion of his country by US forces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sr. Chavez disse que ele teme que a medida agregue a preparação para uma invasão do seu país pelas forças americanas)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;!-- E SF --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;"Go back to Bogota, Gustavo. Go to work, and you have a lot of it," President Chavez told Mr Marquez during a televised meeting at the presidential palace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;("Volte para Bogota, Gustavo. Vá ao trabalho, e você tem um monte dele". Presidente Chavez disse ao Sr. Marquez durante um encontro televisionado no palácio presidencial.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;"We certainly don't have in our plans a break-up of our relations with Colombia," he added.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Nós certamente não temos, em nossos planos, um rompimento de nossas relações com a Colômbia," acrescentou ele.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Weapons found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(armas encontradas):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Mr Chavez withdrew his ambassador on 29 July after the Colombia government said weapons bought by Venezuela from Sweden in the 1980s had ended up with Colombian Farc guerrillas.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Mr Chavez retirou seu embaixador no dia 29 de Julho depois que o governo colombiano disse que as armas compradas da Suécia pela Venezuela nos anos 80 acabaram com as guerrilhas colombianas da Farc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;The Venezuelan leader denied the claim and accused Colombia of acting "irresponsibly".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(O líder venezuelano negou a ameaça e acusou a Colômbia de agir irresponsavelmente.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;In March last year, President Chavez broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia and recalled his ambassador following a cross-border attack by the Colombian military on a group of Farc rebels on Ecuadorean territory.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Em março do último ano, o Presidente Chavez rompeu relações diplomáticas com a Colômbia e chamou seu embaixador de volta seguindo um ataque além-fronteira pelos militares colombianos a um grupo de rebeldes da Farc em território Equatoriano.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;The action triggered one of the worst diplomatic disputes in the region since the end of the Cold War.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(A ação desencadeou uma das piores disputas diplomáticas na região desde o final da Guerra Fria).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe has just returned from a tour of South American nations, in which he has tried to allay fears over his plans for US troops to use military bases inside Colombia.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(O lider colombiano Alvaro Uribe recém retornou de um ""tour" pelas nações Sul-Americanas, no qual ele tentou amenizar medos sobre os planos dele para as tropas americanas utilizarem as bases militares dentro da Colômbia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;The US wants to use Colombia as a regional hub for operations against drug-trafficking and terrorism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Os Estados Unidos desejam utilizar a Colômbia como um centro regional para operações contra o tráfico de drogas e terrorismo).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Washington has been forced to look for a new base after Ecuador refused to renew the lease on its Manta base, which the US military was using.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;(Washington foi forçada a procurar por uma nova base após o Equador ter recusado a renovar o empréstimo de sua Base Manta, que estava sendo utilizada pelos militares americanos)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5126544317751881365-8613658491438790690?l=inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.4shared.com/file/124693692/87491f68/Venezuela_returns_colombia_envoy.html' title='BBC - Venezuela returns Colombia envoy'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/feeds/8613658491438790690/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5126544317751881365&amp;postID=8613658491438790690&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/8613658491438790690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5126544317751881365/posts/default/8613658491438790690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inglesconcurseiro.blogspot.com/2009/08/bbc-venezuela-returns-colombia-envoy.html' title='BBC - Venezuela returns Colombia envoy'/><author><name>Inglês Concurseiro</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794163218945074251</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_S9GBy-0Pm7M/Sn5jnu0RElI/AAAAAAAAAJo/4idmSvPh6nM/s72-c/BBC.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126544317751881365.post-1978877364056696533</id><published>2009-08-08T17:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T17:40:23.307-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AFRF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ESAF'/><title type='text'>Prova AFRF 2002.2 - 1o texto</title><content type='html'>Read the text below in order to answer questions 21 to 23.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Election fears harm Brazilian economy&lt;br /&gt;(Temores eleitorais prejudicam a economia do Brasil) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;1. Brazil’s presidential election does not take place until October, but investors are already voting with their feet at the prospect of victory for the leftwing opposition candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;(A eleição presidencial brasileira não ocorerrá até Outubro, porém os investidores já apostam na perspectiva de vitória do candidato esquerdista de oposição, Lula)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;2. The presidential contender from the Workers’ Party, better known simply as Lula, holds a commanding lead over José Serra, the ruling Social Democratic party candidate. The possibility that Lula, a former metalworker, will become leader of Latin America’s most important economy has got the markets – which consider him a leftwing firebrand – rattled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;(O competidor/candidato à presidência do Partido dos Trabalhadores, melhor conhecido simplesmente como Lula, mantém uma poderosa liderença sobre José Serra, o candidato do partido governante. A possibilidade de Lula, um antigo metalúrgico, tornar-se líder da mais importante economia da América Latina agitou os mercados - os quais consideram-no um radical esquerdista)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;3. Stocks have tumbled and the currency, the real, has slumped in recent weeks. Last week, credit rating agencies – which access the ability of borrowers to repay their debt – downgraded Brazilian debt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;(As ações caíram e a moeda, o Real, "despencou" nas recentes semanas. Semana passada, as agências de análise de crédito - as quais analisam a habilidade dos devedores de pagar seus débitos - rebaixaram o Brasil.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;4. Investors fear that if Brazil goes off the rails, the rest of Latin America will descend into chaos as the economic contagion spreads. Although Argentinians are suffering terribly from economic turmoil and a once-proud country is reverting to a barter economy, Argentina’s problems have not spread to the rest of the continent so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;(Os investidores temem que se o Brasil sair dos trilhos o resto da América Latina descenderá ao caos, a medida que o contágio econômico se espalhe. Embora os argentinos estejam sofrendo terrivelmente com o tumulto econômico e o "uma vez orgulhoso" país esteja voltando a ser uma economia primária, os problemas da Argentina não se espalharam ao resto do continente até o momento)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21- According to the text, Lula’s possible victory in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;(De acordo com o texto, a possível vitória do Lula na iminente eleição presidencial):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) would avoid economic turmoil. (irá evitar "bagunça" econômica)&lt;br /&gt;b) might relieve the economic pressure. (pode aliviar a pressão econômica)&lt;br /&gt;c) would hardly impact the national economy. (atingirá duramente a economia nacional)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;d) already worries the markets.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;(já preocupa os mercados) - parágrafo 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e) would underpin the national growth. (irá servir de base para o crescimento nacional)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Comentário: no terceiro parágrafo é dito que as ações despencaram e no quarto que os investidores temem....)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22- The author says that the Brazilian currency has slumped in recent weeks, which means it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;a) has suddenly fallen. (caiu repentinamente)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b) has rallied. (reviveu)&lt;br /&gt;c) has not been hit. (não foi atingida)&lt;br /&gt;d) could have been depreciated. (poderia ter sido depreciada)&lt;br /&gt;e) has reached its highest quotation. &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;(alcançou sua mais alta cotação)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Comentário: nesta questão a ESAF só quer saber se sabemos o que significa SLUMP (desmoronar, cair, despencar)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23- Argentina’s present economic situation is referred to as:&lt;br /&gt;A atual situação econômica é referida como&lt;br /&gt;a) affluent. (afluente, rica, abundante)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;b) harrowing. (assustadora, angustiante)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c) thriving. (próspera)&lt;br /&gt;d) smooth. (estável)&lt;br /&gt;e) impeccable. 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