The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is investigating whether or not the CIA sent money to Federal Police officers who investigated members of the Islamic community and terrorist organizations in the triple border between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Former police chief Queiroz Protógenes was charged with the task to find the source of the money that […]
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•A study by Cepal states that China invested $15.251 billion USD in 2010, which was 9% of Latin American income making it the third investor in the region per opinon.eluniversal.com. •99% of Chinese investment was focused on Argentina and Brazil in 2010. •In 2011, China is planning to invest $22.74 billion dollars with Brazil receiving […]
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Toyota factories in Brazil and Argentina will shut down for three days in June due to a parts shortage from Japan as a result of the massive March earthquake. The site in Sao Paulo that produces Corolla sedans will stop business on June 27. The factory in Buenos Aires that produces the Hilux pickup truck […]
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Argentina and Brazil are making big sales as Egypt begins to buy large quantities of soybean oil from the South American countries in place of the more expensive sunflower oil. Oil analyzers Oil World says Egypt could import 290 thousand tons of soybean oil from January to May of 2011, compared to 157 thousand tons […]
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It is my second attempt to reach Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, home to a staggering array of flora and fauna. Years ago, I skipped a night bus to Campo Grande, the region’s capital, in order to spend more time exploring the waterfalls down south in Iguazu. The bus, I later found out, had […]
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A 59-year old Argentine woman was killed after being hit by a car in the Jureré Internacional Beach, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Yesterday, the woman, her daughter and a young man were crossing the Buzios Av. around 10 pm when a Space Fox car hit the three of them. Read Article
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The Marginal Pinheiros is the route where most crimes occur in Sao Paulo. It reveals that the survey done by the military police and obtained exclusively by G1 . The study shows the 40 runners in the capital city reported that more thefts of various kinds in the first three months of this year. (See […]
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They begin arriving in early evening. These are children, adults and squalid women, some pregnant women, who form a battalion of crack addicts who walk toward the sidewalk stunned the parking lot of a supermarket in the center of Duque de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense. Under Secretaries of Social Promotion and community councils, the scene […]
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Brazil’s environment agency Ibama has cracked down on deforestation – but in some regions it is on the rise again Illegal loggers, and ranchers who clear the forest for cattle unlawfully, are being targeted by Ibama, Brazil’s environmental protection agency. Read Article
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Three Dutch tourists were arrested in Copacabana last Tuesday because they were naked on the beach. A good tip for the Europeans planning to go to Brazil is not to get carried away with the feeling of “freedom”. Brazilian law is very strict when dealing with nudity and unless you’re wearing something (no matter how […]
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A TAM plane made an emergency landing at Luis Eduardo Magalhaes airport after a passenger threatened to blow up the aircraft late on Friday (20). The man said he was with a bomb and the commander of the flight 3603 signaled a clear threat to the control tower in Salvador. The 129 passengers were evacuated […]
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Manaus – A new line of research will point out if there was human error in the crash of an aircraft of the Air Taxi Amazonaves in the last 21 days in Manaus, in the Regional Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Seripando 7). The first report issued by the Seripando 7 concluded that there […]
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Thousands of people – more than 5000, according to organizers, and 2500, according to the Military Police – participated in this Wednesday, the Ministries, in Brasilia, the 2nd National March against Homophobia and the adoption of Bill 122, which criminalizes homophobia. Read Article
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RIO – Niteroi already has eight cases of dengue type 4 confirmed by laboratory tests. The city was the first outside of North and Northeast regions of the country to register these viruses. Like all the state’s population is susceptible to the virus 4, this increases the chances of a major epidemic in Rio next […]
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In a decade working as a nanny, Andreia Soares finally clambered up the ladder into Brazil’s middle class. Andreia Soares played with a child at her employer’s home. The training she has received has helped her command higher pay. With the money she saved, she bought a two-bedroom apartment with granite kitchen countertops and a […]
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The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, workers set fire to some 50 buses and other vehicles, work installations and even their own lodgings, which were built to house […]
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An endangered baby black lion tamarin monkey has been bred in a Jersey zoo, the first to have been born outside its native Brazil for eight years. Video – Article
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The global skills shortage is worsening, with more than one-third of companies reporting difficulties filling positions because of a lack of talent – the highest level in four years, according to a survey by ManpowerGroup, the recruitment company. Read Article
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Many modern intellectuals (leftist economists and political scientists of various nationalities) have been advocating the readiness of Latin America, under Brazil’s leadership, to take the helm of the region’s defense, against the so-called imperialist powers of the West, and take every step to brainwash the local members of the elite, encouraging them to embrace the […]
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Although gay rights organisations in Brazil are celebrating a historic triumph, legal recognition of civil unions by the Supreme Court, they say the struggle is far from over. Read Article
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They represent just seven percent of the workers building the Santo Antonio hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River, which cuts across the Amazon jungle in northwest Brazil. But the women workers total 1,200, and many of them have had to break down barriers to jobs seen as the preserve of men. Read Article
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Security and defense, migration, the financial crisis and climate change will be on the agenda when MEPs and their Latin American counterparts meet 17-19 May in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the fifth plenary of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat). A key issue will be negotiations for a free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur […]
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Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state recorded in March the lowest murder rate in 20 years, according to a report released on Monday by the Public Security Institute (ISP). Despite the fall, the figures are still high. Read Article
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Official confirmation has been given of Sumitomo Rubber’s plans for Brazil; in July the Japanese firm will establish Sumitomo Rubber do Brasil Ltda, a Panara state-based subsidiary responsible for manufacturing and selling tyres in Brazil. With an investment of some 560 million real (£211 million), Sumitomo Rubber do Brasil will erect a factory to produce […]
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Rapid expansion in trade and investment between the two emerging economies has brought tensions, especially from Brazilian manufacturers who complain that cheap Chinese imports are destroying their competitiveness. Read Article
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Argentine Minister for Industry, Debora Giorgi will meet in coming hours with Brazilian Ambassador, Enio Cordeiro, to schedule a series of meetings to address trade disputes between the two neighbouring countries and main Mercosur associates. Read Article
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The new Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has decided that in the case of large construction projects, especially infrastructure and hydroelectric sites in isolated regions of the country, there should be a greater presence of the government. Read Article
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Retail sales in Brazil advanced for an 11th-consecutive month in March as the festive mood of the Carnival holiday caused consumers to open their pocketbooks, but there are signs that spending could be easing. Retail sales in March climbed a seasonally adjusted 1.2% from February, the Brazilian Census Bureau, or IBGE, said Thursday. Read Article
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Prosecutors say one of Brazil’s largest steelmakers is polluting a major source of water in Rio de Janeiro with coal residues. The prosector’s office of Rio de Janeiro state says on its website that one of four landfills of the Companhia Siderurgica Nacional contains more than 500,000 tons of toxic residues that seep into the […]
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The so-called Highway to China is one of the first infrastructure projects in Brazil built on a scale to match anything in the Asian nation from which it takes its nickname. Officially known as the Açu Superport, the facility stretches into the sea off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro and is […]
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A group of mothers held a group session on breastfeeding in São Paulo, in the Brazilian Southeast, as a protest. The “Mamaço” (Big Breastfeeding Event), as the event was called, happened in events center of Itaú Cultural, on Avenida Paulista, a public space sponsored by Itaú, one of Brazil’s largest financial institutions. Read Article
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After being involved in a truck crash a bull finds itself trapped inside a clothing store. Dramatic video shows bull breaking through the plated glass establishment.
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A bill being debated in Brazil’s Congress has sparked fierce clashes between environmentalists and supporters of farmers and ranchers over how to regulate the country’s vast but vulnerable wilderness. After 20 hours of debate, a vote on the controversial measure in the Chamber of Deputies was postponed Thursday until next week. The bill would then […]
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An air force pilot died Thursday when his warplane crashed in northeastern Brazil, an air force spokesman told Efe. The A-29 turboprop plane went down near Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte, a state in extreme northeastern Brazil. Read Article
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Brazil is tightening requirements for imports of cars in a move that sparked complaints from Argentina, its biggest supplier of the product. Imports to Brazil will need a special license that can take as long as 60 days to be approved, the Trade Ministry said in an e-mailed statement. Read Article
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Over the next 20 years air carriers in Latin America will require 2,180 new airplanes worth approximately USD210bn as growth in air travel in the region is expected to outpace the world average, Boeing has forecast. Latin American air travel is expected to grow by approximately 70% over the next two decades, driven by an […]
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London-based BP this week received approval from Brazil’s ANP energy regulator for its purchase of assets from US-based Devon, a deal signed in 2010, but put on hold following the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Read Article
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One of the most stark statements before the tribunal was presented by Sofia Scasserra, an economic advisor to the Argentine Federation of Commerce and Service Workers (FAECYS). According to Scasserra, Wal-Mart’s worst impact was not on wages — but on the nation’s supply chain — resulting in “a detrimental effect on the business middle class.” […]
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Soybean crop prospects in Brazil and Argentina, the second- and third-biggest exporters of the oilseed behind the U.S., have improved, researcher Oil World said in a report Tuesday. Growers in Brazil will produce 73 million metric tons of soybeans, up from a record 68.7 million tons a year ago, and farmers in Argentina will harvest […]
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At the moment, bankers in Brazil are making more money than their peers in New York, according to a top Wall Street headhunter whom we caught up with last week. This makes some sense, as São Paulo finished six spots ahead of the Big Apple on a recent list of most-expensive cities, while Rio de […]
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Foxconn Technology Group will likely be manufacturing Apple iPads and iPhones in Brazil as early as July, according to the local Folha de São Paulo daily. Read Article
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Last year, foreigners seeking to buy large plots of land began running into legal roadblocks, after the attorney general’s office reinterpreted real estate law amid concern over property speculation by overseas investors. Read Article
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Whirlpool Corp. (WHR – Analyst Report) recently announced a 30% hike in its investments in Brazil for 2011. The company’s total investment in the Latin American country amounted to about $180 million last year. Rising material costs and maturation of the established markets remain the primary headwinds for the company. Read Article
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Netflix, the film and television subscription service, is working on a push into Latin America and is close to announcing deals with three of the continent’s biggest broadcasters to begin streaming programming online in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Read Article
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Brazil’s high court formally opened deliberations Wednesday on granting gays and lesbians the right to form civil unions, and on guaranteeing them the same legal rights as other couples. President Dilma Rousseff’s top prosecutor Attorney General Roberto Gurgel has backed the plan. Read Article
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In the darkened theater, a mother rocked her baby while another breastfed her little girl. It’s part of a new trend in Brazil where moms go to the movies with baby bottles, diapers and toys. “Getting out of the house with a baby requires a certain amount of organization,” said Irene Nagashima as she placed […]
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Fabricio Mendes remembers a time when just walking around his neighborhood was a matter of life or death. Drug traffickers roamed freely and guns were plentiful. That was before Alemao, a gritty community of narrow winding streets lined with haphazard houses, was “pacified.” In late November 2009, the government announced that police would move into […]
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As a part of the move, the Northfield-based Kraft Foods (NYSE:KFT) will build a new $80 million manufacturing plant in Pernambuco, Brazil. Read Article
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The president and CEO of Walmart International, Doug McMillon, announced today, during his visit to Brazil, the company’s investment plans for 2011. There will be 80 new stores which will open with an investment of R$ 1.2 billion over the year. “Brazil is an extremely strategic market for Walmart. With the economic stability of the […]
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Warren Buffett’s search for deals in Brazil and China may put companies from Marcopolo SA to Odontoprev SA and Lonking Holdings Ltd. on his wish list. Read Article
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The outlook for the international airline industry remains uncertain amid a volatile political situation in the Middle East, high oil prices and uneven global economic growth, says Frederico Curado, chief executive of Brazil’s Embraer. Read Article
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Brazilian police say at least four soccer fans have been shot during a fight before a match. Police say 80 fans have been detained after the incident Sunday in which six other people were hurt. Read Article
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The president of Brazil’s only public golf course is threatening to “lay down kids” in the middle of the fairways to keep government bulldozers from entering the property, constructing a new highway and destroying the course. Read Article
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IndyCar’s São Paulo 300 was postponed until Monday because of heavy rain. IndyCar officials made the call after the race on the streets of São Paulo was stopped for more than two hours and track conditions failed to improve. Only 14 laps were completed, 11 under the yellow flag, with the pole-sitter Will Power leading. […]
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Revenues at General Electric’s Latin American operations surged 30 per cent in the first quarter of this year from the same period in 2010 and should continue to climb as the rapidly growing region rushes to improve its creaking infrastructure, the US industrial group has told the Financial Times. Read Article
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Big banks are finding their way to Latin America and Brazil, a strategy to help these financial behemoths reduce dependence on the U.S. Banking shares and exchange traded funds (ETFs) may harness this growth, particularly as relations with Brazil intensify. Read Article
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Amyris Inc. (AMRS), a U.S. biotechnology company, built its first industrial-scale facility to produce from sugar-cane syrup a compound that can be converted into a renewable fuel, tapping Brazil’s expansive cane industry for feedstock. Read Article
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Mubadala, the investment vehicle of Abu Dhabi, planning a $13 billion investment package in a variety of industries in Brazil, Arabian Business reported a senior government official as saying on Saturday. The announcement, which was initially made through the Arab Brazil News Agency (ABNA), came after Waleed al-Muhairi, the head of the public joint stock […]
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With the increase in Brazil’s currency and inflation it now can cost $15.00 to attend a movie.Read Article
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Brazil ranks third in the list with 23.7% usage, Venezuela, fifth with 21% and Argentina, seventh with 18%, almost one out of five in the population use Twitter. Read Article
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It’s a dead-slow news day in Brazil, so it’s as good a time as any to revisit one of the weirder aspects of life here: the truly crazy rates consumers here pay when they borrow money. We’ve written about this before, but it’s something you almost have to see to believe. Read Article
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Google has agreed to redo its online map of Rio de Janeiro after being criticized for giving undue prominence to the city’s notorious favelas, rather than its iconic beaches and other tourist attractions. Read Article
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A group of 18 international insurance associations have written to the Brazilian government to voice their concern that two reinsurance regulations recently enacted in Brazil will have a negative impact on the country’s insurance market. Read Article
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Heavy rains have caused floods, blackouts, landslides and at least one death in Rio de Janeiro.The city’s emergency operations center reports on its website that the storm Monday night flooded several downtown streets and the Maracana stadium, site of the final game of the 2014 World Cup and major ceremonies of the 2016 Olympic games. […]
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Toyota is shutting an assembly plant in Brazil for three days over the next four weeks, cutting production by about 1,200 cars, because of a shortage of parts due to the Japanese earthquake. Argentina production is also impacted. Read Article
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Brazil (Rio de Janeiro state). 22 Apr 2011. According to data released by the Rio de Janeiro state Secretariat of Health from 2 Jan – 16 Apr [2011], 56 882 suspected dengue cases have been registered. In addition, 39 [dengue] deaths were confirmed. Currently, there are 18 municipalities in an epidemic situation in Rio [state]. […]
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On Tuesday November 10, 2009 a massive power failure left an estimated 60 million people in eighteen Brazilian states without electricity as a result. This wasn’t the first time Brazil had experienced a massive power failure but officials certainly hope it will be the last. Read Article
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Nestled between Flamengo, Lapa, Santa Teresa and the waterfront, Glória enjoys a superb location and views of the Guanabara Bay. Its 10,000 residents stroll through the main corridor, Rua da Glória, which connects with two important streets, Rua do Catete and Rua da Lapa, brimming with grocery stores, restaurants, pharmacies and snack shops filled with […]
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Most have heard about the Real Estate boom in Brazil, and there remains plenty of debate if the market is due to burst or hold. Rental prices have also ballooned, with no signs of abating before the 2016 Olympic Games. We have published a series on what it costs to rent in Rio and São […]
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General Motors Co. said Monday that it has promoted the head of its Mexican operations, Grace Lieblein, to run its unit in Brazil. Lieblin, who has led GM de Mexico since December 2008, will take over as president and managing director of GM do Brasil on June 1. She replaces Denise Johnson, who left GM […]
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Capital Economics points out to fiscal policy which it describes as “too loose” and the country’s savings rate, “very low by international standards” which makes the problem “structural” rather than cyclical as the Brazilian government tends to argue. Read Article
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The Xingu river flows around small isles and islands and across rapids and waterfalls in Brazil’s Amazon jungle, and has a dramatically reduced flow during dry season. Navigating it presents constant hurdles and risks. Read Article
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Transportation Minister Alfredo Nascimento Brazilian considered “disturbing” delays in the expansion work of nine of the 13 airports planned for the 2014 World Cup, which were revealed Thursday in a study by research institute IPEA. Read Article
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AEL Systems SA, the Brazilian subsidiary of Elbit Systems has signed a strategic agreement with Embraer aircraft during the show LAAD 2011 for joint exploration of the unmanned systems market, including the possibility of creating a company majority of whose capital would be jointly owned by Embraer. Read Article
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Foxconn in planning to invest as much as 12bn US dollars in Brazil, according to President Dilma Rousseff currently on an official visit to China. Taiwan-based Foxconn operates the majority of its factories in China, producing goods for firms like Apple, Hewlett Packard and Dell. Read Article
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Equipment, connected to a central, lets you compare the images captured by the device to a database of those wanted by the Justice Department. Do not be surprised to find police officers wearing glasses with highly futuristic technology in the coming concerts, religious gatherings, festivals or football games opened in Sao Paulo. It is with […]
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In the wake of the works of the third largest dam in the world, labor strife and the outbreak of violence will come to the region of the Xingu River in Para. When you start building at least 100,000 people will migrate to the region. Some talk on the double. In addition to possibly facing […]
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The murderer Realengo School in Rio de Janeiro, Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, said “Muslim”, but the Islamic religious authorities denied any link with the 23 year old man killed 12 children on Thursday, according to reports from local press. Read Article
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On the day that Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, shocked Brazil by causing one of the greatest tragedies ever known in the country , an administrative assistant with a similar name and also a resident of the western zone of Rio de Janeiro, in the studied area, now has his Orkut profile hunted by netizens […]
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At least 15 people were killed on Thursday and 15 others were injured in a traffic accident between two trucks, a car and a bus on the BR-153, Goias, which connects the cities of Uruaçu and Porangatu. Four other people were seriously injured by the crash and were sent to hospitals. Read Article
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The House of Representatives approved Tuesday a bill that authorizes the federal government, through the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES) to finance up to $ 20 billion high-speed rail linking Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paul. The bill passed with votes from the ruling group, which imposed most of the opposition and […]
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Warning: Graphic Video of Shooting today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The shooting took place at: Tasso da Silveira school.
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In the weeks since a motorist mowed down dozens of cyclists in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the incident has becoming a rallying flag in the fight to create a more bike-friendly city. Read Article
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The Brazilian government is tightening safety procedures at its two nuclear power stations. Although this South American country is not prone to earthquakes or tsunamis, it is not exempt from natural disasters like landslides and flooding that could jeopardise evacuation plans if a radiation leak occurred. Read Article
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The County Department of Health and Civil Defense of Rio de Janeiro has mapped 11,354 possible outbreaks of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits dengue. The sweep took place today during the morning a big group effort. Read Article
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The Federal Police has evidence that al Qaeda and other extremist organizations use the four country to spread propaganda and plan attacks, finance operations and attract militants. Read Article
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Al-Qaeda operatives are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading news magazine reported on Saturday, renewing concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for militants. Veja magazine, in its online edition, reported that at least 20 people affiliated with Al-Qaeda as well as the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, the […]
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In Brazil’s federal highway, a truck can drive a distance equivalent to Brasilia to Belo Horizonte, or of St. Louis to Bethlehem without passing through any post despite its load. With 57,000 kilometers of federal roads under the responsibility of the Ministry of Transport, today the country has 70 weigh stations – one station every […]
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The state of Rio has ten municipalities with dengue epidemic, three more than last week. Joined the list of cities with many cases of the disease Cabo Frio, Silva Jardim and Lamb. Already included a list of the most affected as Jesus of Itabapoana, Canterbury, Saint Anthony of Padua, Mage, Mangalore, and Guapimirim Seropédica. According […]
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China is rapidly expanding its presence in Brazil, surpassing the United States as the South American giant’s biggest biggest investor and trade partner, a report released Wednesday said. Read Article
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Brazil’s central bank Wednesday raised its inflation forecast and cut its growth outlook for this year but said the situation is improving and that it may be able to scale back efforts to tame rising prices. Read Article
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Police forces of Bolivia and Brazil left yesterday resulted in the seizure of more than two tons of coca paste and cocaine hydrochloride, four buildings, six firearms and 36 vehicles and seized 35 people, among Ecuadorians, Colombians, Brazilians and Bolivians. Read Article
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The booming ethanol industry is causing a dramatic transformation of the agricultural activity in large parts of southern Iraq. This is especially true in the state of Sao Paulo is experiencing a unique economic and social development while consolidating its position as the most marked regional sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil, Ribeirao Preto being […]
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Police chiefs from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay discussed the border security. Was conducted Wednesday in Santana Do Livramento, an international police force in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. The event organized by the Military Brigade of Rio Grande Do Sul, through the Regional Command West Frontier located in the Brazilian city, had as main objective to […]
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A tourist was killed this morning in front of his family on a Canasvieiras beach , north of the island of Santa Catarina, in the municipality of Florianópolis, when he tried to prevent theft of his vehicle. He had just arrived and was looking for a hotel with his wife and two children. Read Article
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The freezing of the Defence Budget of the Government of Dilma Rousseff affect Prosub, National Submarine Construction, conducted in collaboration with France for the assembly of Scorpene submarines and nuclear technology development. Read Article
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As the nuclear crisis intensifies in Japan, thoughts have turned to the atomic power industries in other countries and to questions of safety. There are 439 nuclear reactors the world over, six of which can be found in Latin America. Argentina was the forerunner in this regard and currently has two plants in operation. A […]
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