Brazilian authorities are trying to extinguish a 60-year-old family feud they say has led to at least 95 murders. Police say they sent 130 lawmen into six rural communities in northeastern Brazil to make arrests meant to end the bloodshed involving the Oliveira, Veras and Suassuna families. Read Article
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Employees of private and public banking sector in Brazil have launched a general strike aimed at pressuring the sector employer to receive better wages. The conflict threatens to halt for an indefinite period the Brazilian financial sector. Unemployment, general and indefinite, has been convened by the National Confederation of Workers of Finance Branch, the union […]
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The government reported on new measures after banning imports of live animals and beef from Paraguay, following the outbreak of disease that country announced last week. Additionally, “activities were defined as a health alert” in the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul and Parana, the latter two border […]
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Brazilian diversified mining group Vale, the world’s second largest miner in terms of market capitalisation, has announced that it has started up a demonstration plant to test and further develop a unique Brazilian technology which can produce pig iron without using a traditional blast furnace. Read Article
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Brazil has for centuries been a leading producer and exporter of the world’s breakfast, or soft, commodities — orange juice, coffee, sugar and cocoa. But over the past two and a half decades since opening to foreign investment, Latin America’s largest economy has also become a leading producer of important grains and meats, through investments […]
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The Brazilian government gave the green light to build in the Amazon region of Belo Monte megapresa. He argues that the country needs to produce more electricity to power its booming economic development. But experts say Brazilian and foreign irreparable damage this will cause to the environment and habitat destruction of Aboriginal communities that are […]
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A British couple lost in the Amazon rainforest were rescued by Brazil marines after they used a satellite mobile phone to call a friend in England.Read Article
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The group is a remnant of the exterminated band led by the then leader, Valdecir Pinheiro dos Santos. Conocidos delincuentes son los que tuvieron en cautiverio por seis días a Dalia María. Known offenders are those who were in captivity for six days Dalia Maria. Days after the kidnapping occurred on the morning of Aug. […]
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Brazil’s army began on Friday gave a mega security operation on the Triple Frontier, with the aim of curbing illegal activities as smuggling and drug trafficking and weapons. The Brazilian general Ajax Porto Pinheiro, one of the persons responsible for operating Agate 2, announced that the controls in the area where forces are deployed will […]
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According to AFP, tTwo Brazilians were accused of international trafficking, after being discovered while trying to bring Venezuela adolescents for sexual exploitation, according to the Office of the State of Rondonia (north) on Monday. The suspects, one of them the run-Venezuela tried to take three teenagers and a woman for the purpose of sexual exploitation, […]
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Against a background of high mortality rates from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Brazil, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is to deliver an educational programme at the 66th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. This meeting is the largest cardiology conference in Latin America and will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from […]
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Indians oppose the construction of a route segment that the Bolivian government funded building projects in Brazil. Aparentemente, la carretera partirá en dos el Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS), que ocupa un millón de hectáreas ricas en flora y fauna y habitadas por varias etnias amazónicas. Apparently, the road split in two Isiboro Secure National […]
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Revistagobierno.com reported that Brazil’s Guarani Indians demanded that the energy giant Shell to stop using their ancestral lands for the production of ethanol. Vilhalva Ambrosio, a Guaraní man of one of the affected communities, said Survival International : “Shell should leave our land … the companies should stop using Indian land. We want justice, we […]
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According to revistagobierno.com in preparation of Carnival it hopes and prevent the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unwanted pregnancies, the Minister of Health, Alexandre Padrilha and working group are distributing free condoms 84 million male during the festival as a basis for national prevention campaign against AIDS, aimed at […]
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EMOL.com reported that U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Thomas Shannon, said the country suffered from “widespread corruption” in a diplomatic cable written over a year and a half, during the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, recently released by the WikiLeaks site. “The persistent and widespread corruption affects all three branches of government,” Shannon wrote […]
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EMOL.com reported that Brazilian authorities confirmed today that a meningitis outbreak killed three people and led to the hospitalization of another four in the popular resort of Costa do Sauipe, on the coast of the northeastern state of Bahia. According to the Ministry of Health of Bahia, the first cases were detected last week and […]
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The Brazilian Amazon lost in one month about 593 square miles of forest, according to official documents. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has increased sixfold since last year, as revealed by satellite images of the Brazilian government. These photographs show that between March and April 2011 destroyed 593 square miles of forest, compared […]
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UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones and Brazilian telecommunications companies and its subsidiary Oi GlobeNet today signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation. The Antiochian company president, Horacio Velez de Bedout, said that with the signing of the agreement “aims to work on issues of common interest to the companies as 4G services, TV over IP, providing technological […]
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Young people, workers, housewives, women who suffer every day with the sexist oppression took to the streets of Bethlehem to put their banners and their claims. Many men also wrote the act, showing that sexism is not a struggle of women against men, but a political struggle of all workers against the capitalist system. Altogether […]
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The Brazilian Army today sent 11 riflemen and 100 armored vehicles to the favelas of Complexo do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro, where an intense gun battle between troops of this force and drug traffickers last night left a teenager dead and injured adult.Ana Lucia da Silva, 15, died after being shot in the head during […]
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Rousseff: “serious” shortage of physicians in Brazil. The President announced a plan to resolve a situation that is worse in the countryside. Once approved, the new graduates should make a period of social service in cities located in the rural areas of Brazil. Read Article
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A delegation of the Communist Party of Viet Nam headed by Deputy Director of the Party Central Committee’s Office Hoang Cong Hoan attended events in Brasilia , Brazil from Sept. 1-4. The Vietnamese delegation attended an international seminar on the situation in Latin America and upcoming presidential elections on Sept. 1 and the extraordinary congress […]
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The “collapse of the bees,” is known as the phenomenon of disappearance of bees from hives with no apparent cause or explanation, is worrying producers worldwide. They are primarily responsible for the balance of plant through pollination. It was in order to prevent this phenomenon reaches Rondônia that environmentalists and farmers created the Meliponinae Beekeepers […]
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Brazil’s population increased 0.85 percent in the last year and totaled 192 376 496 inhabitants in July according to a forecast released yesterday by the state Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). With its more than 192 million people, the largest Latin American country almost equal to the sum of the populations of other […]
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Here in Latin America’s economic giant, the prevailing image of China has been that of an unquenchable consumer and the manufacturer of all things cheap. But the opening of 55 glitzy JAC Motors dealerships in Brazil, all selling sleekly designed cars built in China, has helped Chinese officials and businessmen present a different image of […]
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Terremark, a Verizon (NYSE: VZ) subsidiary, has completed the expansion of its São Paulo, Brazil data center, a move that reflects its growing presence in the Latin American business services market. Read Article
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Brazil won’t acknowledge terrorists, raises global concerns as host of World Cup and Olympics. Even as the world has cracked down hard on terror, some countries have refrained from adopting anti-terror laws. Their stance has racked up consternation at a time when terrorism is a global concern, especially with Brazil now set to host the […]
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Brazil’s government will reclaim promising oil exploration blocks won by companies in a bidding round five years ago but never formally leased to the winners, the country’s energy minister said. Read Article
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Brazil’s central bank slashed its key interest rate to 12 percent from 12.5 percent on Wednesday in a shock decision that it said reflects a mounting global slowdown as well as weaker growth in Latin America’s largest economy. Read Article
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Online movie rental company Netflix will announce its arrival on the Brazilian market on 5 September, IDG News reports. The official announcement will be made by Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of the company. Read Article
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Brazilian scientists uncovered evidence of the existence of an underground river that runs beneath the Amazon River to 4000 meters deep, said the newspaper “O Estado de Sao Paulo”. According to experts of the National Observatory (ON), the river would be 6 000 km long and run from west to east, in the same direction […]
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On Tuesday, August 23, Vilagra officially moved up from vice mayor to take office as the mayor after the City Council removed Helio Santos for corruption (in a session that lasted most of the weekend, August 20-21). Among various questionable activities, Helio was accused of embezzlement at the local water company (“Sinasa”). However, it was […]
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The Fire Department confirmed that at least four people died following the accident involving a tram in Santa Teresa, in the center of Rio de Janeiro, in the afternoon (27). The corporation reported that approximately 30 people were injured. The victims are being taken to the Hospital Municipal Souza Aguiar, also at the center. The […]
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National Newspaper Association in its annual Press Freedom lamented the sharp rise in cases of violence against media representatives in Brazil, because between August 2008 and July 2010, there has been only one murder. Read Article
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Global popular fashion chain Zara has been accused of having sweatshop-like conditions at some of the factories in South American it subcontracts from. The Brazilian Ministry of Labor is investigating the Spain-based brand due to the discovery of a contractor in São Paulo employing predominantly Bolivian immigrants working under unsafe conditions. According to the parent […]
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Corn plantings in Argentina and Brazil will grow faster than the dominant soybeans crop in the 2011-12 marketing year, Hamburg-based researcher Oil World said. Corn planting in Argentina will rise 13 percent to a record 4.9 million hectares (12.1 million acres), and the soybean area will climb 2.2 percent, Oil World said in a report […]
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Despite record crops globally and in Brazil, demand for high-quality coffee beans fuels a price rally. Conventional wisdom among coffee traders has been that Brazil is the driving force for coffee prices — and with good reason. Historically, Brazil has been the world’s largest coffee producer. However, the market could be changing. Read Article
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Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4), Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, is building the biggest sugar cane-ethanol plant as the country seeks to stabilize prices for the renewable fuel and fight inflation, said Salim Morsy, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Read Article
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Google’s popular, and controversial services, Street View is all set to explore some unexplored, never-thought-of options. Expanding its services further, Google would soon roll out Street View services in Amazon, Rio Negro rivers in North West Brazil. Beginning soon, Google with help from Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon (FAS), a charity group will start photographing […]
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The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, reached out to political allies to stem a growing rebellion within her coalition after the resignation of a fourth minister threatened to further tense already strained relations. Agriculture Minister Wagner Rossi resigned last week following corruption allegations against his aides and at the same time increasing tensions within the […]
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BASF will invest in a world-scale production site for acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers (SAP) in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil.The investment marks the first acrylic acid and superabsorbents plant in South America. With an investment volume of more than €500 million, it is the largest investment in BASF’s century-long history in South America. Read […]
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Brazil’s government on Monday auctioned rights to the first major airport to be operated by a private company as the country moves to pick up the pace of investment in its air travel infrastructure ahead of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament. Read Article
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Dozens of environmental activists gathered in front of the Commercial Office of Brazil yesterday, urging the Brazilian government to put a stop to the recently approved construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam, which they say will destroy much of the Amazon rainforest. Read Article
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Brazil’s hotels are likely to set a record for growth in demand this year, spurring international chains to double their market share in South America’s largest country within a decade, Jones Lange LaSalle Hotels said. Read Article
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When illegal loggers with their guns pointed him to the head, Miguel de Lima Nilcilene tried to run but his legs betrayed him. “Never mind, said one of them will not die today.” His knees trembled as the gunman was “a month to remove the association and stop bothering us. And if you try to […]
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Brazil’s communications minister says President Dilma Rousseff has not decided whether she or her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will be their party’s candidate in the 2014 election. In an interview published Wednesday in the Brazilian newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo, Paulo Bernardo said Rousseff would be the likely candidate if she desires to […]
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Deputy Minister of Tourism of Brazil, Frederico Silva da Costa, and 34 officers were arrested on a charge of embezzlement of public funds related to the travel industry. Presumably the derivation of $ 3 million in an agreement rating of tourism professionals. Read Article
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The trade surplus for all of Latin America with the United States went up 2.9% in June, according to abc.com.py. The total trade surplus for the first six months of 2011 totaled $38.644 million compared to $35.830 million last year, but not all countries experienced a gain. Mexico’s trade surplus increased from $32.884 million for […]
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Bombardier announced on Wednesday announced it will be opening its first regional support office in Latin America. The new facility will be located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is expected to be in service by the end of 2011. Read Article
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Nine construction workers were killed early this morning when an elevator collapsed in the building they were working on in Iguatemi, a commercial district of Salvador, the capital city of Bahía, Brazil, according to abc.com.py. The workers were on the 20th floor when the cable snapped for unknown reasons. An engineer working at the construction […]
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These children end up on the street for various reasons—poverty, deaths in the family, lack of educational opportunities, marginalization, sexual abuse in the home (often by fathers and step-fathers). Usually very poor and desperate, these kids depend on this kind of work for survival. Many of them support their families by prostituting, and it’s also […]
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A journalist has been gunned down in Brazil’s west-central state of Mato Grosso, the fourth to be killed in the country for his work this year, according to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch. Read Article
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According to Peru21.pe a Brazilian seminarian, Joao Carlos Junior, 17 years old drowned in ocean off Santa Maria beach this past Friday, July 29th. Junior was part of a group of seminaries from the Order of the Sodality of Apostolic Life who were vacationing in Peru and planning to go to Cusco. Peruvian police say […]
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•According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 90% of Brazilians are not practicing healthy diets with sufficient nutrients due to a lack of fruits and vegetables. •El Espectador reports that 400 grams of fruit and vegetables is what the WHO and the Brazilian Dietary Guide recommends. •The Analysis of Personal Dietary Consumption in Brazil was […]
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According to ElUniverso.com seven press associations from South American countries stand with the Ecuadorian press organization, El Universo, condemning the attack on freedom of expression by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. On the 20th of July an Ecuadorian court found El Universo opinion editor and three directors guilty of slander against Correa, sentencing them to three […]
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The U.S. House of Representatives released a report this month focusing on Lebanese and Iranian terrorist groups, specifically Hezballah, that have established networks in South America at the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay and in Venezuela, reports infobae.com. The Triple Frontier is already a haven for organized crime and trafficking, and the Islamist […]
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Police in Brazil have indicted three people for the killing of a couple of prominent environmental activists in the Amazon three months ago. The campaigners were shot dead in a forest reserve in the northern state of Para. Read Article
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According to a recent report by Correio Braziliense, the Federal Police say the increased use of maritime routes to smuggle arms is a significant development in arms trafficking into Brazil. Police identified Santos, in Sao Paulo, and Paranagua, in Parana – the country’s two biggest ports – as major points of entry for arms. They […]
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The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported today that the unemployment rate during the month of June was the lowest the country has seen in 10 years, according to abc.com.py. The unemployment rate of the economically active part of the population was at 6.2% this June, compared to 7% last year and 11.6% […]
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The luxury hotel Santa Teresa Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro was targeted early Monday according to terra.com. The criminals robbed at least 15 tourists. Nationalities included U.S. Spanish, Dutch, and Brazilian. The assault included the taking of cameras, cell phone, cash, and laptops. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday. The assailants included […]
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They call it El Puente Billinghurst: a bright orange, half-mile suspension bridge, straddling the thick, murky waters of Peru’s Madre de Dios River.But the Billinghurst is no ordinary bridge. When it is inaugurated later this month it will signal the realisation of a long-held dream: the completion of a 1,600-mile (2,600km) road cutting through some […]
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Civil society organisations* from Latin America, Europe and around the world have issued an open letter calling on the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation to reject a proposal to finance Calyx Agro, a company that acquires farmland in Latin America on behalf of wealthy foreign investors. Read Article
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ElComercio.pe reports that the governments of Peru, Brazil and Chile have found 5,000 stolen vehicles belonging to the three countries in Bolivia. An amnesty decree, signed by Bolivian President Evo Morales, concerning about 130,000 undocumented automobiles helped the three governments locate the stolen property. Officials say that joint operations by all four countries also helped […]
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The “Protect Our Airport” Program currently in place in the Mexico City International Airport will be copied by 67 other airports in Latin America, according to NSS Oaxaca. Brazil will be modeling their airport security measures on the Mexico City program for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. The program’s success has […]
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•Tourists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela may enter Colombia for the World Cup U-20 beginning July 29 without passports, reported Terra.com. •According to the director of the Administrative Security Department, people from these nine countries need only submit their respective national identity cards. •Proexport, which promotes tourism in Colombia, […]
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Sixteen people died when a small plane crashed this morning near Recife, Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil, according to abc.com.py. The plan was headed to Natal, but crashed 10 minutes after takeoff. The wreckage caught fire and there were no survivors. Read Article
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he wave of attacks on official websites on the Internet has also affected the Brazilian government. Between 22-27 June, the websites of the Presidency of Brazil Portal, IRS, Petrobras and the Ministry of Sports and Culture – as well as from the website of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) – were “victims” […]
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Officials and legal advisers to the Itaipú Binational Entity, the hydroelectric dam between Paraguay and Brazil, have announced today that they will keep their doors open in terms of the information available about the company to the public, per abc.com.py. This announcement has arrived in the wake of claims that the company has been unconstitutional […]
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According to ElComercio.pe eight countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela will begin a joint study of water resources and deforestation in the Amazon region next August, announces the Treaty Organization of the Amazonian Region (ACTO). Officials say this is the first regional project of deforestation that can quantify and compare […]
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•Alfredo Nascimento, head of the Ministry of Transportation of Brazil, has resigned after having been accused of embezzlement. The ministry was in charge of infrastructure projects involving the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. •According to El Pais, the Brazilian media is accusing him of having embezzled 4% of funds from the multimillion infrastructure […]
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A Wikileaks document released this week shows that U.S. Officials are intent on working with Brazil to combat drug trafficking, according to abc.com.py. The documents dated March 2009 talks about the importance of increasing funds to Brazil, the dominant country in South America and a leader in the fight against drugs. At the time of […]
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Documents revealed by Wikileaks this week show that Brazil gave $1.7 million to the Paraguay Armed Forces in 2005 to keep military and political officials in the country happy, according to abc.com.py. The money was meant to ease complaints Paraguay had about the management of the bi-national dam and power plant, Itaipú. As stated in […]
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•Latin America has become a destination for laundering money from trafficking of narcotics, kidnapping, and other illicit activities more than any place in the world, and afterwords, they go to European countries. •According to hoyveracruz.com.mx, countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil have become hotspots for laundering money using casinos, lotteries and even churches. […]
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A classified U.S. diplomatic document written in June 2005 and released today by Wikileaks states that Brazilian diplomats are distrustful of Paraguay’s commitment to the fight against trafficking along their border, according to abc.com.py. Brazil is extremely devoted to securing their borders with Paraguay and the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil against drug, […]
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Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life – Recorded interview with author Dr. Amy Chazkel (Recording Time – 01:17:01) PURCHASE BOOKLaws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (Radical Perspectives) The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle […]
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Brazilian federal police officers today seized 1.2 thousand kilos of marijuana, more than a ton, that had been brought into the country from Paraguay, according to abc.com.py. The drugs were transported in 2 cars on the Tabaí-Canoas road in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Investigators believe the shipment was destined for Canoas, Brazil. Read […]
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A FRENCH tourist died on Friday after falling off a tram tour in Rio while trying to take a picture as the streetcar passed through a traditional aqueduct, police told local Brazilian media. Read Article
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•Brazilian minister of Defense Nelson Jobim is discussing a mutual agreement for protection of the border against crime, particularly the Amazon Rainforest area, with Colombian minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera per El Universal. •Although no specific details have been released, one of the main points of the plan are to make sure that criminals do […]
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Two Brazilian migrants living in Paraguay were killed this morning near the town of Ponta Porá, Brazil, according to ultimahora.com. According to police, the brothers were riding a motorcycle 50 meters away from the border cities of Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay and Ponta Porá, Brazil when they were shot and killed by three people. One […]
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•Various studies state that over 2 million Colombians are living outside of Colombia against their will as refugees of violence, and there is even a day dedicated to refugees. •State policies of Latin American countries promise these refugees rights and protections, but they tend to arrives in areas already ridden with problems. •El Espectador’s article […]
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•The Presidential Comission for Disarmament, Control of Arms and Munitions will set up different working meetings or workshops focusing specific issues of arms and munitions per el-nacional.com. •One topic will be the production, importation, and distribution of arms. •Another topic will be the registration, destruction, and auditing of seized arms. •Other topics will focus on […]
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•In Peking, Colombia’s portafolio.co spoke with Enrique Dussel, the director of the Center of Chinese-Mexican Studies of Unam, who gave his view on how Latin America should approach Chinese business and involvement in the area. •One improvement he suggests is the increase of foreign exchange students between the two regions. •Lingual and cultural understanding is […]
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A serbian crime gang was seized by Brazilian federal police, showing an increasing problem for South America — foreign mafia groups (like the serbian) are increasingly using Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as corridors to export the continent’s cocaine to Europe and elsewhere. Read Article
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Russia is banning meat and other livestock product imports from 89 manufacturers in three Brazilian states for not meeting Russian standards on June 15, Alexei Alexeyenko, spokesman for Russian food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, told Interfax. Read Article
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Thirty years after he first visited Brazil’s Amazon to observe natural gas seeps, geologist Marcio Mello is back to fulfill what he gleefully calls his “destiny” — to lead a rush for the region’s oil. Mello, chief executive of the recently listed firm HRT (HRTP3.SA: Cotización), has convinced a range of investors — including one […]
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GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. (GOL – Analyst Report) recorded a y-o-y demand growth of 12.3% and 16.7% on its domestic and international route network, respectively. GOL’s total load factor reached 62.9% in May, up 5.0 percentage points year over year while yield remained close to R$19.00 cents. The company aims to improve aircraft productivity […]
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A gold rush that accelerated with the onset of the 2008 global recession is compounding the woes of the Amazon basin, laying waste to Peruvian rain forest and spilling tons of toxic mercury into the air and water. Read Article
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Italy has recalled its ambassador to Brazil after the South American country’s leading court barred the extradition of an Italian fugitive who was convicted of four murders in the 1970s. Read Article
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After its friendly match against Uruguay (1-1), the Dutch national team immediately flew back to Rio de Janeiro before volcanic ash from Patagonia would render the flight impossible. Once there, the Dutch footballers went out for a night on the town. Read Article
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Of the 58 Brazilian Santos fans and 3 bus drivers arrested in Paraguay for theft, vandalism and battery after a soccer game last month, only 27 will be released and deported to Brazil at this time, according to abc.com.py. The decision made by the Paraguayan Directorate of Immigration this week states that the remaining 31 […]
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has rejected the extradition to Italy of a former far-left militant and ordered his immediate release in a case that has heightened tensions with Rome. Italy immediately denounced the ruling on Wednesday with Giorgia Meloni, the youth minister said that the latest move to free Cesare Battisti, who has been sentenced to […]
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As part of a military operation called Frontera Sur, Brazil has deployed troops to the cities Foz de Iguazú and Guaíra along the southern tri-border the country shares with Argentina and Paraguay to help fight crimes like drug trafficking and the smuggling of people and goods. Of Brazil’s 4 thousand men army, 800 are stationed […]
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F-AIR 2011, an international aeronautics fair, is to have more than 10 countries including the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela and Peru participating to display the technological advances in the field of aeronautics in each country.The fair will be held in Rionegro, Antioquia at the Aeropuerto Internacional José María Córdoba. According to the article from infodefensa.com, Colombia […]
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Police arrested the 61 Brazilian Santos fans and their bus drivers after a semifinals soccer game of the Copa Libertadores against Paraguayan team Cerro Porteño yesterday. On their way home to Brazil after the tie game, the fans attacked local fast food joints in San Lorenzo, outside Asunción, with firecrackers, sticks and stones, damaged equipment […]
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A recent comScore study shows that in April of this year more than 11.6 million Latin Americans, 10% of those with internet access, are using coupon sites. Internet coupons are very new to Latin America and started gaining popularity last year when Groupon and Groupalia were emerging in the region. According to the report, Groupon […]
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Brazilian police have arrested nearly 30 people in connection with a series of ATM heists that have left some poorer parts of Sao Paulo with scant access to cash. Five current or former police officers were arrested in the sting Tuesday — and investigators suspect another two dozen police could be involved. Read Article
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A Brazilian environmentalist was killed Friday in the Amazon Rainforest region, three days after the murders of two other environmental activists in the area, authorities said. Adelino Ramos, known as Dinho and a leader among local impoverished farmers, was killed Friday morning while selling vegetables produced in the farming settlement in Porto Velho in the […]
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The first Asian factory of industrial and residential lifts in Brazil will be built in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, it was announced Sunday in Seoul, Korea by the Hyundai Group.Read Article
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