21.   Several Brazilian states have sold, or plan to sell, their power distribution companies, as well as their power generators.

22.   Six Brazilian states have received legislative approval to sell controlling stakes in their utilities to private investors.

23.   The bank, the biggest in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, held two out of three deposits in the state.

24.   The company plans to have offices in each Brazilian state by next year.

25.   The fifth bidder, Cia. Paranaense de Energia, known as Copel, is a utility in which the southern Brazilian state of Parana owns a controlling stake.

26.   The new state-controlled company created subsidiaries in each Brazilian state and started putting the various local companies under its control.

27.   The utility is the major electricity distributor in Minas Gerais, the second-largest industrialized Brazilian state.

28.   The World Bank on Thursday froze development loans to two Brazilian states that are locked in an economic war with the central government.

29.   Tomorrow, the group visits Telecomunicacoes do Parana SA in the Brazilian state of Parana.

30.   Police found the body of a Dutch tourist in rocks near the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, police said Saturday.