On March 7, 2013, O Imparcial reported that the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão will receive close to R$200 million in 2013 from oil royalties. This estimate comes after local authorities defeated a veto from President Dilma Rousseff, which would have distributed the royalties differently. The old estimate would have given municipalities in the state […]
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On March 6, 2013, Estado de Minas reported that Federal Police in the state of Minas Gerais are in contact with the Spanish National Police over a woman who recently denounced a man with whom she lived in Spain. Police in Spain arrested the man and questioned the woman, who is said to have been […]
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On March 7, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that nine managers from the Paraná Sanitation Company (Sanepar) were indicted yesterday and will be questioned for their role in recent pollution episodes in the Iguazu River, which runs through the state of Paraná. They will be questioned along with 30 other employees, previously indicted by Federal […]
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On March 7, 2013, Hoje Em Dia reported that the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, reported another rise in dengue cases. In just one week, the city reported 1,630 cases that could be attributed to the disease. Pampulha alone reported 291 cases this week, the highest among any part […]
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On March 5, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that it has arrested two Argentine men on a bus headed from São Paulo to Salvador after a routine check. Early Tuesday morning, police seized ten kilograms of cocaine from one of the man’s bags. Upon questioning the passengers, police connected the bag to a […]
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On March 7, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Marco Feliciano (PSC-SP), a pastor the Assembly of God church network, was confirmed this morning in a controversial vote held by current members of the federal government’s Human Rights Committee. In a vote of 11-0 (one abstained), Mr. Feliciano was elected the leader in […]
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On March 6, 2013, A Tarde reported that residents of a quilombo community in Bahia are protesting against actions recently taken by the Brazilian Navy to take land claimed by the residents in Simões Filho, part of the Salvador Metropolitan Area. Close to 400 protesters stood in front of the Federal Attorneys’ Office today, requesting […]
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On March 5, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that three officials at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport were arrested on Tuesday and were accused of stealing perfume, jewelry, and other valuables from the luggage of passengers. Reports state that the employees opened the bags while still in the airplane, out of the sight […]
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On March 5, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Federal Highway Police seized five trucks on the highway in São Paulo state on Tuesday, netting a grand total of six million contraband cigarettes. According to police, the cigarettes are from Paraguay. The bust was made in the region of Presidente Prudente, in […]
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On March 2, 2013, Gazeta de Limeira reported that police discovered and seized some 90 kilograms of explosives near the city of Limeira, about 150 kilometers northwest of São Paulo. Authorities received an anonymous tip that there was a large cache of explosives near Limeira, and so two teams of São Paulo Special Tactics Unit […]
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On March 3, 2013, A Tarde reported that political parties in Brazil, through free radio and television ads, have cost the federal government some R$6.8 billion over the past ten years. In practice, the Brazilian government pays subsidies to television networks to air political party advertisements close to the election season. The expense to the […]
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On March 3, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that a woman was arrested in the state of Mato Grosso yesterday trying to transport about 14 kilograms of cocaine paste. Federal Highway Police arrested the woman in the region of Primavera do Leste, about 230 kilometers from Cuiabá, the capital. The drugs were headed for Barra […]
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On March 4, 2013, NE10 reported that six murders occurred in the small Brazilian town of Caruaru, Pernambuco state. One murder happened this morning, two on Sunday, one on Saturday, and two on Friday. On Friday, two young men were killed in front of one of the victims’ houses when two men on a motorcycle […]
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On March 1, 2013, G1 reported that police in the Brazilian state of Amazonas will implement a laboratory that will function until July to combat money laundering. The measure comes as part of an agreement with the state’s Public Safety Commission and the federal Justice Department, in which 16 different laboratories will be established in […]
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On March 3, 2013, The Americas Post reported that the Brazilian government has agreed to use Israeli security drones in order to monitor violent and suspicious activity during this June’s Confederations Cup. FIFA has already expressed its concerns about the violence in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and so the government has agreed to […]
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On March 1, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Christian Social Party (PSC), poised to head the Brazilian government’s Human Rights Commission, will nominate evangelical pastor Marco Feliciano to head the corpus. Feliciano has faced criticism in the past for making derogatory comments towards homosexuals and blacks. The PSC serves as part […]
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On February 25, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that police arrested a 30 year-old man in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul after they found a large amount of marijuana beneath the cabin of his car. Police also said that he was driving without a license, and could not be identified at the scene. […]
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On March 1, 2013, G1 reported that two major Brazilian corporations, Vale and Petrobras, lost big in the Brazilian stock market (BM&FBOVESPA) in the first two months of 2013. Economic reports indicate that Petrobras, one of the largest corporations in the world, posted losses of nearly R$54 billion (R$200.9 billion), while Vale lost about R$22.75 […]
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On February 25, 2013, G1 reported that officers with the Brazilian National Security Force are teaming up with the National Environmental Institute to launch Operation Green Wave (Onda Verde), with the objective to curb illegal deforestation practices in the rainforest. Units will be concentrated in two cities in the state of Mato Grosso: Juina and […]
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On February 28, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that five Paraguayan women and one Brazilian were rescued by local police early this morning from a brothel in Naviraí, Mato Grosso do Sul, about 360 kilometers from the state capital of Campo Grande. Two of the women complained to local police that the owner of a […]
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On February 26, 2013, Agência Rio reported that Fernando Collor de Mello (PDT), President of Brazil from 1990 to 1992 and current Federal Senator from Alagoas, was elected President of the Senate’s Infrastructure Committee, considered to be the third-highest ranking committee. The committee is responsible for vetting and approving nominations for various government regulatory agencies. […]
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On February 28, 2013, R7 reported that the number of dengue cases in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has surged to 48,720 cases as of the end of February. This number already has passed the number of cases reported in the state in all of last year (46,681). The city of Uberaba alone has […]
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On February 28, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that health officials in Campinas, São Paulo state, have concluded an investigation into a string of tuberculosis cases centered around the maternity unit at the Mother Theodora Hospital. They investigated roughly 1,000 babies, born between January and June, 2012, who could have had contact with […]
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On February 28, 2013, A Crítica reported that nine policemen in Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, were arrested this morning for suspected involvement in a drug trafficking scheme. The policemen are accused of aiding and abetting a string of drug traffickers throughout the north and west zones of the city, as well as re-selling […]
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On February 27, 2013, G1 reported that health officials in Natal, capital city of Rio Grande do Norte, declared that as of February 22, there have only been 123 cases of dengue in the city of Natal, a drop of nearly 83%. According to minister of the local Zoonosis Control Center, Isabelle Ribeiro, residents are […]
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On February 27, 2013, Terra reported that Marina Silva, former Environment Minister, has established her own political party at a registration office in Brasília. She also served from 1995 to 2011 as a Federal Senator from the state of Acre. The new political party, Rede Sustentabilidade, by law needs 500,000 signatures before it can be […]
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On February 25, 2013, Mais Goiás reported that George Morais Ferreira, former mayor of the city of Trindade, Goiás, had his political rights suspended for five years after he was found guilty of administrative fraud. Ferreira failed to declare deductions from the salaries of public workers in the appropriate amount of time. Once informed that […]
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On February 22, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police announced that it was launching a new investigation (Operation Hyena II) in the state of Piauí to combat fraud in income tax filings to earn undeserved refunds. Five arrest warrants have already been issued, and 20 federal agents are on the case. The report states that there […]
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diariocontraste.com reported that 84.6% of the cases occurred in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Parana, Espiritu Santo, Mato Grosso and Goiás, all of the south, southeast and center-west of the country , according to the epidemiological balance released by the Ministry. “The situation of these eight […]
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On February 25, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that they arrested a woman yesterday morning with 30 kilograms of crack inside of a styrofoam box. She was traveling on a bus headed from São Paulo to Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte. During a random search of the passengers’ belongings, police […]
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On February 24, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, Paraná, 13 deaths were recorded over the weekend, including the death of a twelve year-old girl. The murders were spread throughout the area, but half of the deaths occurred in Curitiba (3) and Pinhais (3). Noteworthy was the death of […]
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On February 25, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that a 14 year-old girl has disappeared from the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, Ceará, after being lured by a man on Facebook. Larissa Gadelha de Sousa disappeared on Tuesday morning, after she left for school. Since Tuesday morning, the family has heard nothing of her whereabouts. The […]
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On February 24, 2013, Zero Hora reported that police arrested a 46 year-old man on drug trafficking charges in the city of Passo Fundo, in the north of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He was caught during the early hours of Sunday morning with about five and a half kilograms of cocaine. The […]
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On February 25, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Brazilian government resists a recent G-20 manifesto produced with the backing of the United States that denounces corruption and seeks measures to crack down on it in the group’s member states. Brazil is upset with the lack of clarity in some of the […]
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On February 22, 2013, Rondonoticias reported that a local policeman was among 19 arrested in a local sting in the town of Ariquemes, a town about 200 km south of Porto Velho, the state capital of Rondônia. The arrest was part of a larger operation, Operação Afrodite, in which police monitored the actions of ten […]
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On February 22, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that state police in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul arrested two men who were illegally transporting contraband cigarettes. The arrest was made in Camapuã, about 130 kilometers north of the capital city of Campo Grande. The men were arrested in a large truck and […]
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On February 22, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that there were 100 murders reported in the metropolitan region of Belém, state capital of Pará, between January 2 and February 15 of this year. The rate is equal to about two murders per day. The murders do not favor a certain kind, and there seems to […]
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On February 22, 2013, Conexão Tocantins reported that an investigation has been launched by the State Attorney General’s office in Tocantins regarding a series of bids granted to a construction company with connections to ex-mayor of Palmas Adjair da Lima. The company in question is CLS Engenharia Ltda., and authorities are looking into a diversion […]
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On February 22, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that a search done in one of the state penitentiaries in the Brazilian state of Ceará produced an interesting find: police discovered a stash of drugs and no less than 210 cellular phones. The search was conducted after the prisoners decided to start a hunger strike, as […]
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On February 22, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that three policemen were injured Thursday night in a series of shootouts that took place between two favelas in Rio de Janeiro. A local peacekeeping unit was on patrol in Parque Proletário, Zona Norte, when officers attempted to stop a duo on a motorcycle. The […]
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Brazil and Russia signed several agreements in different fields geared to increase trade and to advance in defense, energy and agriculture cooperation, including the purchase of Russian anti aircraft missile batteries on condition that Moscow agrees to transfer technology. Brazil is beefing up its air defenses before the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the […]
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On February 21, 2013, A Tarde reported that Carmem Topschall, a businesswoman in the Brazilian state of Bahia, is defending her innocence as she is investigated for an illegal adoption scheme that carries human trafficking charges. She faced questioning this morning related to the children, who she says she legally adopted from the town of […]
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On February 21, 2013, Em Tempo Real reported that Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was received this morning at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, in the federal capital of Brasília. There she spoke about the hardships she has faced as a result of the policies of the Castro government, while at the same time addressing concerns […]
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On February 20, 2013, NE10 reported that a joint effort between civil and state police in the state of Bahia resulted in the seizure of over one ton of marijuana, which would have been dealt in Salvador, the capital. Five people were arrested during the three-day operation. Part of the drugs were found in a […]
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On February 21, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that civil police in Curitiba will investigate the deaths of patients since 2006 at Curitiba’s General Evangelical Hospital on suspicions that the Chief of Medicine at the time, Virginia Helena Soares de Souza, made decisions to cut off life support without consent. To clarify, a police spokesperson […]
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On February 21, 2013, PB Agora reported that a justice in Paraíba has ordered that the former mayor of the city of Olho d’Agua, Júlio Lopes Cavalcanti, repay R$240,000 for failure to properly monitor improvements done to a local housing project to accommodate residents with Chagas’ Disease. The city had created a bidding process in […]
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On February 21, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Olympic Champion and São Paulo city legislator Aurélio Miguel (PR) will be investigated by the legislature for corruption. This measure also marks the first time in 14 years that the city’s Magistrate Office endorsed the measure, giving strength to a growing case for the […]
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On February 19, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that federal prosecutors are investigating a case in São Paulo state involving accusations of slave labor. Police caught five Bolivian laborers that authorities say were subject to slave conditions working in a sewing factory in Americana. The women worked for a children’s clothing company, of […]
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On February 20, 2013, iBahia produced a report through the research agency Imazon, which points out that deforestation rates rose 6% last year throughout Brazil. The degradation of the forest accounts for the equivalent of 1 million tons of foregone carbon dioxide consumption. The report also gave some figures for January: the majority of deforestation […]
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On February 19, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police conducting a massive operation in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina arrested 147 people since last weekend with possible links to the attacks. On Tuesday they arrested Maykon Aurelio Saturnino, 29, in Florianópolis, the capital, believed to be the ringleader of many of […]
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On February 18, 2013, G1 reported that a pair of nightclub owners from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, are being transferred to Belém, the state capital of Pará, to face human trafficking charges. The duo owned nightclubs in Altamira, about 900 kilometers from Belém, and was arrested last Wednesday. They face charges of […]
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On February 19, 2013, Zero Hora reported that police in Porto Alegre arrested some 26 people connected to a string of gas station attacks throughout the city. Through the arrests, 140 policemen were utilized, 14 guns and 2 vehicles were seized. Two other recently stolen cars were later found. The police action also recorded the […]
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On February 18, 2013, A Gazeta reported that police arrested members of two gangs specializing in carjacking this past weekend in Vitória, the capital of the state of Espírito Santo. In all, six men were arrested, and four cars and one gun were seized. A spokesman for the local robberies unit, André Cunha, said that […]
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On February 19, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that the state of Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil, has less than one doctor per 1,000 inhabitants, among the lowest of all states. Although the capital city of Fortaleza has around three doctors for every 1,000, other parts of the state have rates as low as […]
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On February 18, 2013, D24AM reported that federal prosecutors are traveling to the Brazilian state of Pará to investigate a ring of sexual abuse cases that occurred at the Belo Monte plant, situated between Altamira and Vitória do Xingu. To this day, the report cites 32 women and adolescents who were freed in the past […]
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On February 18, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that the Brazilian city of Cuiabá reported seven murders over this past weekend. Five of the murders were gang-related and execution style, raising the number of gang-related murders this year to 29. The murderers of those five are believed to be hired guns. One man was murdered […]
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eltiempo.com.ve reported that a Brazilian national tourist was shot dead on Saturday night on a stretch of highway Cantaura-El Tigre.The tourist was identified as Ernandez Da Silva Gomes (51 years), who died instantly, at 9:30 pm, after receiving a gunshot…………he had stopped on the highway to urinate. His family was in the vehilce. Read Article
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On February 18, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Yoani Sánchez, famous anti-Castro blogger and columnist for the Estado, encountered numerous protest groups upon landing in Salvador da Bahia this morning. Off of the airplane, she encountered pro-Castro forces blocking her path to speak with reporters and the media. Earlier during her stay, […]
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On February 18, 2013, R7 reported that a man in Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Gustavo Pereira da Silva, was arrested yesterday after he attempted to rape a homeless woman. Police also reported that he was under the influence of crack at the time. He also made threats as he was […]
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On February 18, 2013, Diário Catarinense reported that police will begin to escort buses throughout the Florianópolis region starting today, after a deadly wave attacks that have swept the area in the past month. Bus terminals will also close earlier: certain terminals within the city will close at 11pm, while terminals such as the one […]
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On February 18, 2013, G1 reported that local police are investigating environmental crimes in northeastern Pará, possibly linked to the Renato Chaves Science Center in Ourém. Police are specifically investigating the illegal extraction of sand and gravel. One local farmer said he noticed a white coloration in the water in a nearby creek, and that […]
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On February 14, 2013, the Federal Highway Police of Brazil seized a stash of 800 kilograms of marijuana, along with a Romanian-made rifle, near Ourinhos, São Paulo state. The bust was made after police boarded a Mercedes-Benz truck on the Trans-Brazilian Highway (BR-153). The truck had plates registered to Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, a […]
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On February 18, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the state of São Paulo paid administrators within its Regional Tribunal some R$5.3 million in the month of December, including a payment of over R$300,000 to one administrator. The report says that the compensation program, VPNI, allowed certain payments due to the administrators to […]
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On February 18, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a gang of 30 thieves stole an entire truckload of electronics from a stash in Campinas. The thieves loaded the goods into six separate cars and nine separate trucks and drove off. They entered the secure compound using a car owned by the security […]
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On February 13, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the annual Carnaval celebrations generated the most trash ever recorded in the history of the season. Comlurb, the city’s trash collection agency, reported that it picked up 700 tons of trash, compared to 643 last year. The […]
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On February 14, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that recent statistics published by the state of São Paulo’s Polícia Militar show a 13% drop in deaths caused by drunk driving during the Carnaval season. The amount of those injured also fell by 57%. The report gives credit to enhanced monitoring: the amount of […]
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On Feburary 15, 2013, Terra reported that police arrested a city councilman in Goiânia, capital of the state of Goiás, on corruption charges. Paulo Borges (PMDB) was arrested this morning and was charged with participating in a scheme in which the councilman traded kickbacks for project guarantees. The police operation was part of Operation Jeitinho, […]
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On February 12, 2013, G1 reported that police in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul concluded Operação Viagem Segura, a four-day operation meant to control crime during the annual Carnaval season. During the time period police arrested some 495 motorists due to driving under the influence. Police also monitored nearly 84,000 vehicles […]
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On February 7, 2013, G1 reported that the Regional Electoral Tribunal (TRE) of Ceará has ordered for the second time the removal of Carlomano Marques (PMDB), convicted in December of 2012 for a vote-buying scheme. The courts sent the letter on Thursday to Zezinho Albuquerque (PSB), president of the state’s lower house, to remove Marques […]
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On February 9, 2013, Notícias do Acre did a report on deforestation practices within the state of Acre, in the extreme northwest of Brazil. The report states that deforestation in Acre accounted for some 20.000 square kilometers, which represents about 2.7% of the Amazon region and about 13.7% of the state. The report also states […]
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On February 10, 2013, D24AM reported that police discovered 27 kilograms of marijuana on BR-319, valued at R$40,000. Police also arrested three individuals and charged them with drug trafficking. The drug was being transported by means of motorcycle between Porto Velho, Rondônia, and Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas. The action inflicted significant damage on […]
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On February 11, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Brazilian political parties made contributions totaling some R$61 million to political campaigns other than their own in the year 2012. The largest contributions were made by the Workers’ Party (PT), who gave some R$6 million to three political parties who agreed to support the […]
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At least four dead and six people were injured early today in a fire at a float during a parade of carnival samba schools of the Brazilian city of Santos, firefighters reported. The fire started just before 1:30 local time (3.30 GMT) when one of the coaches of the school Sangue Jovem (Young Blood) touched […]
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On February 11, 2013, Exame reported that the city of Sorocaba, São Paulo State, reported 41 cases of dengue during the week of Carnaval. This number raises the amount of cases reported in the area to 91 for the year, well below last year’s total of 25. Authorities are blaming the rainier-than-usual season paired with […]
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Euronews.com…..With the Rio Carnival taking place from February 8 to 16, expert on international tourism marketing Martine Ainsworth-Wells offers a look at some of the developments taking place in the city and the hottest up-and-coming areas. On July, 2012, UNESCO granted the city of Rio World Heritage status as an urban and cultural landscape. Rio […]
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Narcs Paraguay, with support from the Brazilian police, destroyed 309 hectares of marijuana in Amambay department, on the border with Brazil, reported the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad). These illegal crops were eliminated in the three days of a joint operation between the Paraguayan and Brazilian authorities carried out in forested regions Capitan Bado, Amambay, 600 […]
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On February 11, 2013, A Crítica reported that an 83 year-old man from Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, was arrested by local police yesterday. He was suspected of sexually assaulting a 14 year-old indigenous girl. The tip came after a local restaurant owner accused the man of assault after he claimed the young girl […]
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On February 11, 2013, Jornal do Brasil reported that a farmer in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul was fined R$34,000 after police discovered that he had illegally cleared land. The deforestation was found this Sunday after local Environmental Police did a check along the Paraguay River, which separates Brazil from Paraguay. Police […]
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On January 27, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that in the city of Cuiabá, capital of the state of Mato Grosso, local police provided shelter for 450 victims of child abuse in 2012. Most of the crimes that required shelter were sexual in nature. The unit also conducted some 619 investigations of child abuse, compared […]
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On February 11, 2013, G1 reported that police in the state of Rio Grande do Sul performed over 4,000 breathalyzer tests on motorists traveling to and from Carnaval over the weekend. In the end, they took some 400 drivers off of the roads. Of those 400, 136 were processed and fined, as part of the […]
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On February 7, 2013, G1 reported that police in the Brazilian state of Goiás discovered a stash of nearly 100 kilograms of marijuana. The drugs were found in Cachoeira Alta, some 350 kilometers from Goiânia, the state capital. The marijuana was wrapped into 104 packets using wrapping paper, made to look like birthday presents. The […]
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On February 8, 2013, Exame reported that the Women’s Rights Division in Brazil, through the federal Ligue 180 (Dial 1-8-0) Campaign, registered some 58 accusations of trafficking between February 3 and February 7. This number nearly matches the entire total from last year. All of the reports are passed on to the Polícia Federal, where […]
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On February 8, 2013, the Polícia Militar of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul reported that it arrested a man yesterday with about 193 kilograms of marijuana in the trunk of his Hyundai. The arrest happened in Amambaí, some 350 kilometers south of Campo Grande, the state capital. The suspect said he picked the […]
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On February 8, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a federal judge in Santo André, São Paulo state, sentenced former Federal Senator Luiz Estevão de Oliveira Neto and his wife, Cleicy, to four years, eight months in prison for tax evasion. The couple failed to pay taxes to the tune of R$57 million […]
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On February 8, 2013, just two days before Carnaval, A Tarde reported that the Bahian capital of Salvador had a particularly violent Wednesday night, as shootings were recorded throughout the metropolitan region. Two people died earlier that afternoon after they were shot in a marketplace. Police also registered three additional homicides during the night, in […]
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On February 8, 2013, Paraíba.com.br reported that an accountant from Brasília was shot while meeting with his girlfriend in the northeastern city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. Police said that Sandro Alex de Jesus César, 33, was at a restaurant Thursday night with his girlfriend when they heard shots. Before they could reach the restaurant’s entrance, […]
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On February 7, 2013, Cidade Verde reported that a couple and a teenager were arrested Thursday with some 200 kilograms of marijuana, hidden in a bushy area. The arrest was made in Timon, a city in the state of Maranhão just across the river from Teresina, the state capital of Piauí. The drugs had a […]
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On February 6, 2013, G1 reported that in the state of Paraíba, agents from the state’s Accounting Department will be deployed to towns affected by the severe drought to see how various municipalities are spending money. The big question the municipalities have to face is whether or not they are using the drought money on […]
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On February 8, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the cost of living in the city of São Paulo faced its steepest rise in ten years. Between December 2012 and January 2013, the cost-of-living index (ICV) rose some 1.77%. Among the big gainers include various foods including potatoes, whose prices rose around 21%. […]
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On February 8, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that between Friday and Tuesday of next week, police throughout the state of São Paulo will be conducting blitzes in order to enforce the Lei Seca. Aside from performing breathalyzer tests to catch drunk drivers, police will also have devices to test for marijuana and […]
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On February 7, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the number of phone calls received by the federal Dial 1-0-0 campaign in Brazil rose 58.3% in 2012. According to the Ministry of Human Rights in Brasília, the department received 130,000 complaints last year, as opposed to around 82,000 the year before. The head […]
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On February 7, 2013, Tribuna Hoje reported that Melissa Freitas, dancer and winner of the second annual Gay Carnaval Princess award, was attacked and beaten by two men in Rio de Janeiro after leaving a session at a local samba school. Freitas was beaten and thrown from a footbridge by two men, whose motive to […]
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On February 7, 2013, A Notícia reported that in the southern state of Santa Catarina, violence is on the rise. Police have counted 74 incidents in the past eight days, including eight attacks through the night. The most recent, an attack on a band bus in São João Batista (75 kilometers northwest of Florianópolis), left […]
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On February 7, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police seized some 400 kilograms of cocaine base in the town of Porto Feliz, Sorocaba region, en route to Brazil from Paraguay. The traffickers were using a twin-engine plane when the aircraft crashed in a sugar plantation. The suspects attempted to flee with some […]
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On February 1, 2013, the Christian Post (Portuguese) reported that police in Foz de Iguaçu arrested a female Evangelical pastor and charged her with drug trafficking. An anonymous tip brought police to the pastor and a previously undisclosed safe house, where they also found in the house weapons, drugs and money. Police also arrested three […]
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On February 4, 2013, Em Rondônia reported that police seized a vehicle containing 30 kilograms of marijuana en route to the city of Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondônia. The stop was made in Itapuã do Oeste, about 115 km from the capital. The driver said that he came from Campo Grande, […]
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On February 7, 2013, Terra reported that the Federal Highway Police (PRF) will deploy some 10,000 agents to keep an eye on the roads during the annual Carnaval celebration, in order to enforce Brazil’s new drinking and driving law, the Lei Seca. Anyone stopped who refuses to take or fails the sobriety test at the […]
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huffingtonpost.com —- Rio de Janeiro has in recent years evicted drug dealers from hillside slums, carved fast-moving bus lanes into sclerotic streets, and cracked down on unauthorized food vendors along the city’s 58 miles (93 km) of beaches. Now, as they gear up for the 2013 Carnival, officials are taking aim at another old Rio […]
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On February 6, 2013, NE10 reported that a man from Rio Grande do Norte will face charges after he photographed his own son, 16 years of age, having sex with a 12 year-old girl. Joelito Pedro da Silva, 41, of Nova Cruz (90 kilometers from Natal), was arrested by local police after the son sent […]
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