Brazil plans to impose strict quality controls on imports from China and other Asian nations to prevent an influx of cheap goods, the newspaper O Globo yesterday. Border control would ensure that imports from Asia, particularly China, meeting the standards established by the National Institute of Metrology (Inmetro) and meets the safety standards applied to domestic products at retail. Read Article
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BMI, which has 5 years of existence and is the largest fast food operator in Latin America. In the fight for the ‘lovers’ burgers in Colombia, market worth some 446,000 million pesos, considering the big names will come a new player.This is Carl’s Jr., a U.S. firm with over 56 years of existence and that […]
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At least twenty people suffered minor injuries in the toes and hands when attacked by a river cadumen de palometas (of the family of the piranha), a South American Southern Cone fish, when taking bath in South Brazil, firefighters reported. The attack occurred late on Sunday in two bathing areas Toropí River, which crosses the […]
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The cruise ship MSC Armonia, where a waitress of 30 years suffered a severe respiratory illness infected with influenza B virus for which she died on Saturday in Brazil, tied this morning in Montevideo and then continue their way to Buenos Aires, where is scheduled to arrive tomorrow at 9 am. The ship’s captain had […]
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Peru is considering the purchase of ten Super Tucano aircraft from Embraer, while working with his neighbor to strengthen surveillance in the border jungle, said on Tuesday the Minister of Defence of Brazil, Celso Amorim. The official said the Peruvian Army is also interested in purchasing military transport aircraft Embraer KC-390 and armored ground vehicles […]
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Consistently, the media blamed Brazil to Paraguay to be the mecca of counterfeiting, piracy and smuggling. Announced with great fanfare the seizure of large quantities of electronics, drugs and cigarettes. However, do not say is that this business was initiated by the “Brazilian brothers” in Paraguay. The fierce attack on the illegality is simply because […]
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The death of two journalists in a week in Brazil has sounded alarms and increased concern in the government of Dilma Rousseff. The murder, last Thursday, Randolfo Mario Marques Lopes, who was kidnapped along with his girlfriend at home and whose bodies were found in a street in Barra do Pirai in the state of […]
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The Chamber of Deputies approved a rule that gives tax breaks to the Brazilian defense industry as part of a government effort to revive the sector. The law, passed Tuesday night, suspending the application of the tax on industrialized products weighing on parts, components, equipment, supplies, raw materials and services used by defense companies recognized […]
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Members of the Military Police on strike on Sunday came in a caravan in the coastal cities of southern Brazilian state of Bahia could see that his movement has no popular support and indignation not only by the chaos caused in a tourist area, on the eve of Carnival, local media reported. The wage floor […]
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The arrival in La Paz for a second indigenous march in just over three months on Monday revived a dispute over a road in the jungle of Bolivia, whose construction was halted after a similar protest from other indigenous groups, and revealed the division of the basis of government support. The new protest calls the […]
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Secretary of Foreign Trade of Argentina, Beatriz Paglieri, met Monday with his Brazilian colleague, Tatiana Prazeres, to analyze the impact of new controls on imports arranged by Buenos Aires in bilateral trade, official sources confirmed. As reported by the Argentine government on their official website, the meeting will be held in Argentina’s capital and there […]
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The government auctioned Rousseff two air terminals in Sao Paulo and Brasilia. The Argentine consortium Corporation of America won concessions. Grants to individuals totaled to 24.534 million reais ($ 14.305 million dollars). The Brazilian government seeks an injection of private capital to modernize airport infrastructure in the country collapsed to look at the 2014 World […]
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Army troops took control of the state of Bahia, the fourth most populous and one of the most tourist of Brazil, following a military police strike that lasted five days and unleashed a wave of violence with 81 dead, officials said Sunday. Some 2,600 members of the Army, Navy and National Security Force were sent […]
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The Episcopal Pastoral Council of Brazilian Bishops Conference issued an official statement, signed by General Secretary Archbishop Leonardo Steiner, on the occasion of the celebration of the National Day to Combat Work Slave, held on January 28. The note describes the slave labor as “abhorrent practice.” Brazilian bishops reiterate the note to support all efforts […]
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The defense ministers of Brazil, Celso Amorim, and his counterpart from the Republic of Surinam, Lamure Latour, agreed to maintain closer cooperation between the two countries in the military in combating transnational crime and in the area of training. For projects to modernize the Suriname, Minister Amorim called for the secretary of the Ministry of […]
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he sudden building collapse kills 17 people in the Olympic City. A sewer explodes and seriously burning a couple of American tourists. Another explosion destroyed a downtown restaurant and fly through the air makes three workers. A tram is one of the main attractions for tourists is derailed, killing five people and wounding dozens. A […]
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A Brazilian drug dealer is giving free cocaine to addicts in exchange for tattooing his name on their body, police said Monday. About 70 people in the village of Itapetinga have tattooed the name “Freudenthal” in the body, authorities said in the northeastern state of Bahia. Read Article
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Large-scale social mobilisation, including street protests and parallel activities, is the only thing can save the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) from ending in nothing but frustration, according to activists and analysts. A repeat of the failure of recent conferences to negotiate an international climate change pact seems inevitable, said Cândido Grzybowski, the […]
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Brazil is a country of the middle class. Six out of every ten Brazilians 16 or older already belong to this group, according to Datafolha. With 90 million people, a number larger than the population of Germany, the Brazilian middle class, however, is far from being homogeneous. The variety of indicators for income, education and […]
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Rio de Janeiro. Anonymous group of hackers attacked early Saturday the government websites of the Federal District of Brasilia and a Brazilian singer to protest against the closure of Megaupload.com. Anonymous posted Twitter messages telling attacks that lasted two hours to one hundred sites Brasilia ‘df.gov.br’, belonging to the government of the federal capital from […]
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The Grupo Pão de Açúcar, the largest retailer in South America, has selected the SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand solution to monitor and manage carbon emissions and energy consumption in each of its 1,832 stores. The solution from SAP AG will help the group, long recognized as a sustainability leader for retailers both in Latin America […]
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The governments of the United States, Brazil and Bolivia signed in La Paz yesterday finally to verify agreement with the UN as an observer, the destruction of illegal plantations of coca leaves to manufacture cocaine base, after several failed attempts to sign it for almost a year. Read Article
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Facebook surpassed Orkut as the social network with most visitors in the Brazilian internet in December, according to data of North-American consulting company comScore. Mark Zuckerberg’s social network had 36.1 million visitors last year, while its competitor Orkut, of Google, registered 34.4 million visitors. Facebook visitors almost tripled compared to December 2010 figures, when it […]
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Brazil is preparing to exploit minerals at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, in international waters. The feat is unprecedented in two respects. The country has never ventured to exploit minerals riches (except petroleum) at such a depth, up to 6000 meters below sea level. The country also has never claimed to the international community […]
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According to a report by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, the passenger demand is growing year after year, although the rates are increasingly expensive. Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and Cuiabá are the most affected by the phenomenon. During the World Cup 2014, 16 airports will be most used by visitors. Among them, […]
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Before the São Paulo Police operation that surrounded the ‘Crackland’ last week, Folha checked neighborhoods such as Vila Mariana, Bixiga, Paraíso, Penha and Bela Vista, in the past six months. In those places, Folha reporters found houses and apartments where a scheme, unknown to authorities till then, took place – the private ‘Cracklands’. Read Article
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(FROM NOV. 2011)INFOBAE reported, given the lack of job opportunities, more than 300 thousand citizens of that country and regularized their immigration status in the South American nation so far in 2011. The good momentum within the economy is the big attraction for skilled foreigners. About 328,826 Portuguese regularized their immigration status in Brazil in […]
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A participant in the Brazilian version of reality TV show Big Brother is being investigated for allegedly raping a fellow housemate while she was apparently asleep during the taping of the program. Police have questioned male model Daniel Echaniz, 30, who was shown in live images in bed with 23-year-old Monique Amin apparently having sex […]
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According to informe21.com, on January 11, 2012 a woman attempted to kill her husband in a particularly unique manner. The woman residing in Rio Petro, Brazil attempted to poison and kill her intimate partner by putting poison in her vaginal area while seducing the man to perform oral sex thus ending his life. The husband […]
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The discovery of five bodies has risen to thirteen the number of deaths caused by the landslide occurred Monday in the district Jamapa in Sapucaia City, located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro (southeast), confirmed on Tuesday Defense Civil. Heavy rains in recent weeks have hit Rio de Janeiro triggered landslides in two […]
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Read Article Emergency Messge for U.S. Citizens: Brazil, Flooding in Rio de Janeiro State Floods Western Hemisphere > Brazil 1/6/2012 This message is to alert U.S. citizens to severe flooding in the northern and northeastern parts of the state of Rio de Janeiro. We recommend that U.S. citizens avoid travel to the affected area at […]
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Peruvian State will strengthen its presence in the Amazonian Trapezium, in the frontier with Colombia and Brazil, aiming to face drug trafficking, which has gone up in said area, Peru’s national commission for the development of life without drugs (Devida) stated Thursday.Devida’s President Ricardo Soberon said that there is a strong multisectoral commitment to correct […]
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Beginning in January 2012, the murders caused by traffic accidents will be included in the Electronic Data Collection, the SSP (Department of Public Safety) of São Paulo, as a new criminal modality. According to the department, the move sets a new methodology in the civil police units, as fatal crashes, caused by drunk drivers, began […]
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An anaconda four feet long was found in 16 km of highway GO-040, in Aparecida de Goiania, around 22h on Tuesday (27). When crossing the track, the snake was spotted by a motorist who reported the incident to the agents who were in the police station nearby. The site is bounded by the Golden creek […]
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The State Environmental Institute (INEA) has today (27) Flood Warning System in Petropolis, a city in the mountain region of Rio affected by strong January this year. The system operates 24 hours a day and consists of 20 rainfall stations, which measure the intensity of rainfall and river water, which measure the flow capacity of […]
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The Brazilian government has expressed confidence that in the next four years, Brazil will replace France as the world’s fifth largest economy as revealed by noticias.lainformacion.com. It has already replaced the United Kingdom as the sixth largest world economy, and President Rousseff and Minister of Finance Guido Mantega are confident that Brazil will surpass France […]
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The second defense industrial conglomerate in the world has ratified the contract announced in the last LAAD to update the M-113 of the Brazilian Army. The amount to invest seems to have descended from the original $ 48 million to about 42 in the end, but basically modernizing about 150 vehicles, of the 376 initially […]
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As part of the regulations of the initiative Minha Casa, Minha Vida*, the Brazilian government is planning to give 3% of the newly constructed living spaces to the elderly and 3% to those with disabilities. The participants will have to register in the national registry of social programs, CadÚnico according to economia.ig.com.br. Read Article ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ […]
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Killed 5 members of a family of tourists from Argentina, in a serious accident which occurred around 7 am today on the highway BR290, which links the cities of Rosario do Sul and Sao Gabriel, near the border with Argentina. Read Article
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According to the USDA, production of liquid milk in Brazil will increase by two per cent in 2012, bringing total production to 31.3 billion litres, writes James O’Donnell for Bord Bia. The Brazilian dairy industry will experience strong domestic demand for liquid milk products resulting from the greater purchasing power of the country’s population. While […]
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Emirates is preparing to launch daily services to the 2014 FIFA World Cup host city from 3rd January 2012. The new direct service to Rio de Janeiro, with an onward extension to Buenos Aires, will provide seamless connections to Emirates’ network of more than 100 destinations worldwide. Starting 3rd January 2012, EK 247 will leave […]
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Economists said it was going to happen and now it has: Brazil has passed the UK as the world’s sixth-largest economy. The Center for Economics and Business Research said European countries have fallen back in its latest World Economic League Table, while Asian countries are gaining, reported the BBC. A report from the International Monetary […]
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Argentina and Brazil began Wednesday to define products that will raise import tariffs, in an attempt to protect its industry from the global financial crisis. The customs union Mercosur, comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay on Tuesday authorized each of its members to raise tariff rates of 100 positions to avoid a flood of goods […]
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Federal police in Brazil on Wednesday recommended the indictment of several Chevron and Transocean officials involved in an oil spill in early November for environmental crimes and withholding information in an investigation. Read Article
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The US state has informed that the US Mission to Brazil processed a record number of visa applications – 820,000 – in fiscal year 2011, a 42 percent year-over-year increase. To meet the surging demand for US visas in Brazil, the Department of State is deploying waves of temporary employees to the US Embassy in […]
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Brazilian Federal Police concluded in a probe on the November 8 oil spill that the local president of US oil giant Chevron and 16 other oil executives committed environmental crimes, according to local media. Read Article
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FALKLAND islanders yesterday vowed to defy a South American “blockade” aimed at strangling their economy. Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay have banned ships flying the Falklands flag from docking in their ports.The provocative move sparked calls yesterday for Britain to send a nuclear submarine to the south Atlantic in a show of force. Read Article
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The oldest favelas emerged in the late nineteenth century in Rio de Janeiro, then capital of Brazil, and then spread throughout the country. Residents are often unhealthy conditions and a shortage of basic services, according to the Brazilian Government. 6% of Brazilians, 11.4 million people live in slums or informal settlements that are often unsanitary […]
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Leaders of the countries of Mercosur (including Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez) are soon to meet to discuss tariffs, the commissioning of the Banco del Sur, and will also sign a free trade agreement with Palestine per infobae.com. Another main topic will be the effects of the international financial crisis on Mercosur’s member […]
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Terra.com.ar reported that about 15 thousand workers of the main Brazilian airports threatened to carry out a general strike on 22 if the entrepreneurs do not agree to negotiate a wage increase over 6 percent. The president of the National Confederation of Workers in Civil Aviation (Fentact), Celso Klafke, told the Brazilian state news agency […]
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Brazilian airline TAM and Turkish Turkey, forming part of the Star Alliance, signed an agreement to share flights and increase the choice of destinations in South America and Europe, today announced the first company. Under the agreement, “each of the companies can market seats on certain flights operated by alliance,” TAM said in a statement. […]
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During the year, the Brazilian Armed Forces covered a swath of 6,000 kilometers long and 150 kilometers wide (an area of approximately 900,000 square kilometers, equivalent to one third of the continental Argentina) on the borders with Bolivia, Paraguay and part of Peru. “Agata 3 is a deterrent to show that the Brazilian state exists […]
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Increasing threats against judges in Brazil The number of Brazilian judges received death threats in Brazil increased 50 percent over the past four months, according to a report commissioned by the National Judicial Council (CNJ). Of the 100 judges in the criminal spotlight in August, went to 150 today, according to the report released on […]
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Brazilian linking illegal gambling syndicates from Russia and Israel The Brazilian Federal Police is investigating the possible relationship between Russian and Israeli mafia illegal gambling in Rio de Janeiro, money laundering, smuggling and sale of explosives, according to a report published on 11 by the newspaper “O Globo”.The Federal Police investigations point to an alleged […]
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Brazilian police investigating the theft of 50 metric tons (55 U.S. tons) of corn that were stolen from a moving train in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo. Thieves smeared grease on the tracks, which caused it to spinning the wheels of the carriages 54 and that it lost speed as the criminals removed the […]
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Brazilian Senator Jorge Viana, rapporteur for the controversial reform of the forestry law approved this week in the Senate, today responded to criticism from environmentalists and said the new rules will allow to recover 35 million hectares of degraded forests. “It will be the largest program of recovery of vegetation cover has been known in […]
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Brazil’s Meat Foods, the market leader in Brazil, Argentina acquired Quickfood, Paty owns the brand, in an exchange of assets with Marfrig, its main competitor, the companies said today in a statement. The asset swap was due to restrictions imposed by the agency competition to the merger of Brazilian companies Sadia and Perdigao, which originated […]
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The murder of Argentine Alejandro Fabian Gugliesi at the seaside resort of Guaruja Sao Paulo, which occurred on Saturday night, put the Brazilian police in a case that could be related to drug trafficking. The man, 40, was shot dead in a condominium home “Jardim Acapulco”, where he lived with a Colombian, who was also […]
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Brazil last a rule that regulates the deforested until 2008 – Environmentalists see it as an unprecedented attack, farmers are celebrating – Is it just realism or suicide?Brazil was until recently no example in the fight against illegal logging. The area deforested in the Brazilian Amazon fell from 29,059 square kilometers per year in 1995 […]
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Executive Director Michaela Couto of the Brazilian Union of Music Publishers tells the O Globo newspaper that negotiations with Apple Inc. are at an “advanced stage” and that iTunes could be launched in Brazil by mid-December. Read Article
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The bank was already in April the first of his country in acquiring an American institution, the Eurobank (Florida). In the new phase, the plan includes New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. “To keep our customer base in Brazil, we find it important to be not only a regional bank, but simply a world.” So […]
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The Brazilian government announced the construction of a new technology park in the state Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), which allow the country to sixfold increase its production of vaccines and biotech medicines currently producing monopoly of multinationals. At a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, the Health Minister, Alexandre Padilha, in the presence of President Dilma […]
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Some 6,500 Brazilian soldiers and ships supported by aircraft launched a major operation against illegal drug trafficking, weapons and goods at the borders with Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay, an official confirmed Thursday. Read Article
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CAUSE OF DEATH NOT GIVEN – Ship had been on Red Alert. Hace 1 h 48 min An American tourist died during a cruise from Uruguay on Tuesday that docked at the port of Rio de Janeiro, said in a note to the federal police is investigating the cause of death. The ship, with over […]
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Brazil will need more than 701 new aircraft by 2030, more than 100 cars, valued at 82,000 million dollars (60.562 million euros), as reflected in the latest Global Market Forecast (GMF, for its acronym in English) by Airbus. The European manufacturer estimates that Brazil will become the fourth largest air transport market in the world […]
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The representative in Bolivia of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Peruvian Cesar Guedes, yesterday told the media that there is concern that after “being an emerging market,” America now accounts for 20% of consumption drugs worldwide, with a tendency to go up. Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, according to Guedes, “emerging” […]
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In the last week, the population of the city of Rio de Janeiro has experienced a high expectation of victory in the fight against drug trafficking from the arrest of Antonio Bonfim Lopes, alias “Nem”, the leader in selling drugs in the Rocinha favela – the largest in Brazil and one of the largest in […]
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The Brazilian Federal Police opened an investigation against the U.S. oil company Chevron, responsible for an oil spill in the Atlantic off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The company, meanwhile, said it began sealing a crack in the offshore well in the Frade field. “There are facts inconsistent. Employees of the platform informed us […]
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The Special Operations Battalion Brazil Police (BOPE, for its acronym in Portuguese) has arrested nine suspected drug traffickers in the favela of Rocinha, the largest of Rio de Janeiro, where he seized a large arsenal of weapons. Read Article
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At least ten people were killed and 37 injured in a road accident at the height of Pindamonhangaba municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo (southeast), as reported by the State Traffic Police (TRE, for their Portuguese acronym). Fatalities are nine adults and one child. Of all the injuries, there are 16 serious […]
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In just two hours without firing a shot, the Brazilian authorities today regained control of the Rocinha favela flagship of Rio de Janeiro, and two other neighborhoods in which for decades the power was exercised by drug trafficking. With a lightning operation that did not find the least armed resistance, more than 1,500 members of […]
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Alien Spotted In Amazon from Mike Cohen Page In this Amaz-alien footage, a lone unidentified being stands in the jungle of Brazil just feet away from a mesmerising bright flashing light. In what could be some of the best proof that man is indeed being visited by aliens from another planet, the tiny creature even […]
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Brazil Police on Thursday seized Bonfim Antonio Lopes, alias Nem, the drug kingpin “most wanted Rio de Janeiro” the sources said security force. Nem served as the leader of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio, in the southeast. Through a statement, the Brazilian police confirmed the arrest of Nem, 35, around midnight on Thursday “in […]
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Perfil.com reported that Brazil has acted fast to help tourists from Argentina visiting Brazil and issues with money exchange. Argentines will be able to use their debit cards in pesos to retrieve Brazilian reales from ATM machines. Because of the growing obstacles in Argentina to purchase dollars and other foreign currenicies this new service should […]
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President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela Brazil will advise on the construction of small buildings on a slope. El primer mandatario nacional explicó que los planes piloto se realizarán en Caracas y Vargas. The national president explained that the pilot schemes will be held in Caracas and Vargas. Read Article
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A cameraman for the Brazilian TV network Bandeirantes died on Sunday shot dead in a police operation in a slum in the western suburbs of Rio, the group said in a statement. Wounded in the chest, Gelson cameraman Domingos, 46, who covered the operation of the Special Operations Battalion (Bope) in the favela of Antares, […]
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It was the serotype 4 and the institution urged governments to step up efforts to reduce the risk of infection and disease-related death.”This year outbreaks of dengue with a total number of cases and deaths that exceed recorded historical data on Paraguay, Panama and the Caribbean countries and territories, English and French. There was also […]
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Near midnight on a Saturday a group of men in overalls entered a bank in the Brazilian equivalent of Wall Street, saluted the guard and said they were there to fix the alarm. More than 10 hours later they had perpetrated one of the largest bank robberies in Brazil, pouring more than 100 safety boxes […]
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Belém .- The ship sailed up the river Guamá on Guayará Bay and leaves behind the urban area to approach the coast of dense vegetation. Moisture and nearly 40 ° C punish the body. On the Furo of Patience, Patience, or hole, one arrives at Boavista community, home to caboclos, Amerindians are descended from the […]
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Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900. THREE VOLUME SET [Hardcover] – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Joanne Pillsbury (Recording Time- 01:31:16 ) Recorded October 28, 2011. Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press (2008) – Published in Collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. PURCHASE BOOK:Guide to […]
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Party government proposes to establish, by legislative decree, ceilings on grain prices of beans, rice, sugar and millet. The FMLN presented yesterday a piece of correspondence to the Legislature to enact “Transitional provisions for the stabilization of prices of basic grains and white sugar.”The Left Party wants than by legislative decree put “limits” to the […]
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Brazil extended until June 2012, the Armed Forces operations in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, military occupation for almost a year in order to ensure security in these areas before the 2014 World Cup, the government said Monday. “We know that the work of pacification of the communities is among the primary tasks of […]
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Aborted highway project through TIPNIS, now Brazil’s government hopes the highway linking the departments of Cochabamba and Beni is realized at the mercy of an alternative route that satisfies all stakeholders. The construction of the road, valued three years ago at $ 415 million was awarded, precisely in 2008, Brazil’s OAS on the basis of […]
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Brazil will double its production of benznidazole, a drug against Chagas disease, and plans to deliver aid agencies tablets 3.425 million until the end of the year, announced Health Minister Alexandre Padilha. Medications will see patients from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela and Uruguay, according to the Brazilian government official, the only country in the […]
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The Labor Minister Carlos Lupi, attributed to the processing industry to reduce the generation of jobs in September. This compared with the same month last year. Commenting on the behavior of the creation and disappearance of jobs in the ninth month of this year, Lupi said that economic sector lost 30,000 jobs in September, which […]
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In July 2010, Peru and Brazil signed an energy agreement to develop five mega projects in the Peruvian Amazon with a total estimated potential of 6700 MW. The idea is not only satisfy domestic demand but also the energy demand in Brazil. The question many are asking is, at what cost?. According to many analysts […]
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Three key indicators of reduced crime in Rio de Janeiro in the first seven months of this year, reflecting an improvement in security conditions in the city prepares to host the 2012 Olympics and the World Football 2014. Read Article
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Brazil’s National Advertising Council denied a request Thursday to ban a television ad featuring lingerie-clad supermodel Gisele Bundchen after a government agency called it sexist. “The stereotypes in this ad campaign are common in society, easily identifiable and do not denigrate women,” the council’s members said. Read Article
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The Brazilian government is ready to offer technical co-operation to Pakistan through sharing of knowledge, technology and expertise in agriculture and ethanol on the request of Government of Pakistan, said Bruno de Amorim Maciel, Project Analyst, Ministry of External Relations, Brazil during a press conference. Read Article
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff wasted little time firing her top aide in May when the country’s biggest newspaper reported that he had received $4 million in unexplained income. Rousseff didn’t stop with her chief of staff. In quick succession, she let go of three other ministers publicly accused of everything from receiving kickbacks to charging […]
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The Taiwanese company Foxconn announced that only finalize details needed to set up two factories in liquid screens in the country. Meanwhile, on Friday the Minister of Science and Technology, Aloízio Mercadante reported that negotiations are so advanced that the Asian company talks with several regional governments to choose the region where the first factory […]
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Removals of communities, books that will change the daily lives of thousands of residents, unnecessary expenditures, investments without public consultation, building and renovating stadiums exorbitant, social cleansing. There are many complaints already formulated by grassroots organizations at the approach of the World Cup to be held in 12 cities in Brazil in 2014. In addition […]
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A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed a petition Thursday seeking to annul the residency visa granted to a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted in his homeland of four murders carried out in the late 1970s. Prosecutor Helio Heringer said the visa granted in June to Cesare Battisti should be annulled because it violates Brazil’s Foreigner’s […]
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Brazil received in three days, two containers with 46 tons of trash from the U.S. hospital in the port of Suape, near Recife (Pernambuco state, northeast), said Friday customs inspection to the Brazilian press.Waste (gloves, masks, syringes, surgical pajamas, sheets and dirty towels, etc.) were imported by the Brazilian company clothing Capibaribe-Santa Cruz in textile […]
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Gas Leak Suspected: At least three men were killed Thursday and another 13 people were injured, three of them in serious condition due to an explosion in the center of Rio de Janeiro that caused serious damage to a building and other structures affected. The dead were employees of Philae Carioca restaurant opposite the busy […]
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Embraer today announced an order for 13 Legacy 650 executive jets of Minsheng Financial Leasing Co., Ltd, China. The company said deliveries of the aircraft would begin this year and extend over the next five years. The contract value was not reported, but the aircraft’s list price is $ 30.24 million. Read Article
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A senior Brazilian police officer has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a judge who investigated police corruption. Lt Col Claudio Luiz de Oliveira was detained Tues Sept 27 here and arrest orders have been issues for at least six other policemen in the city(Rio). Prosecutors say Col Oliveira ordered the killing […]
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Japan’s number two automaker plans to invest US$1.5 billion to build a factory in Brazil that might produce electric cars. “They’re talking about producing 220,000 cars per year … budget cars, electric cars, three or four models” and the most likely sites for the plant are in Rio de Janeiro state. An official announcement is […]
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Maria Nilza Simões, 51. a jealous Brazilian woman who could not tolerate her man’s (rural worker Virlan Anastacio) double life with a second lover, appealed to her life’s savings to have the competitor for the same love, Erenildes Aguiar Araújo, better known as Lupita disappeared. Read Article
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