{"id":212928,"date":"2019-04-25T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=212928"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:36:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:36:04","slug":"brazilian-mayor-seeks-out-arab-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-mayor-seeks-out-arab-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian mayor seeks out Arab investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Gisele Tonchis (<em>pictured<\/em>), the mayor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lourdes.sp.gov.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lourdes<\/a>, S\u00e3o Paulo\u00a0visited the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0this Wednesday (24). Earlier this month, had Tonchis attended a lecture on Arab trade and investment by the Chamber\u2019s CEO Tamer Mansour during company Alta Noroeste\u2019s 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Business Meeting, in Ara\u00e7atuba.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor explained that Mansour\u2019s address made her envision an opportunity to bring to fruition projects designed to develop the municipality. \u201cWe have projects in poultry farming, logistics, one on fish which is at its early stages, and we are seeking investors. So we have come to the Chamber in order to introduce our plans for those fields,\u201d Tonchis told ANBA.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor was welcomed to the Arab Chamber by Mansour himself. The municipality of Lourdes, which Tonchis explained was emancipated 27 years ago, already sustains an agribusiness agreement with China. As of this month, Gisele Tonchis is also head of the Baixo Tiet\u00ea Watershed Committee, comprising 42 municipalities whose economies revolve around agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>She said the idea is to start out by bringing investment into Lourdes, and then branch out into other cities across the Baixo Tiet\u00ea area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-212919\">Thais Sousa\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While paying a visit to the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Lourdes city mayor Gisele Tonchis presented agribusiness projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":212919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[422,238,8332,3245,542,8329,41050,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-212928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities","8":"tag-arab","9":"tag-agribusiness","10":"tag-farming","11":"tag-fish","12":"tag-logistics","13":"tag-lourdes","14":"tag-peixes-en","15":"tag-sao-paulo"},"wps_subtitle":"While paying a visit to the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Lourdes city mayor Gisele Tonchis presented agribusiness projects. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}