Brazil water project, long delayed, gets election year boost

CABROBO, Brazil (Reuters) - In 2006, then President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, a native of Brazil's historically drought-plagued northeast, pushed through an idea that long-suffering residents of the region had been hearing about for more than a century.

Maersk bullish on Latin America, eyes Mexico's deep water oil

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk sees big investment potential in Latin America, including deep water oil projects and ports in Mexico, its chief executive said on Tuesday.