By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Starting on June 15th, the FIFA Confederations Cup will turn the sporting world’s attention to Brazil, as the cup will feature all regional football champions plus world champion Spain in the preparatory tournament for the World Cup. To visit each of the six host cities, [...]
By Jack Whibley, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With all the FIFA football (soccer) developments happening, one might forget that on August 5, 2016 the Games of the 31st Olympiad will begin in Rio. Some 10,500 athletes will compete in 28 sports, in 35 venues spread across four Olympic Zones: the Barra Zone, [...]
Opinion, by Alfonso Stefanini RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – I will do my best to refrain myself from using a white elephant idiom in the next couple of hundred words, though tough, I will try. Futebol, aka “soccer,” is the most popular sport in Brazil for good reasons: people love it and it is part [...]
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) shows that Brazilian companies need to work more than their counterparts around the world to pay their taxes. A middle-sized company has to work 2,600 hours to be able to afford its contributions to the government, according [...]
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The oil and gas industry is an ever-rising sector in Latin America and of great importance to the countries’ economies. It is therefore with anticipation that the 19th Latin America Upstream Conference and the ninth Latin Petroleum Strategy Briefing will be held in Rio de [...]
The American Society of Rio de Janeiro is immensely saddened to report that our community has lost one of its most beloved members. Marion Way, a longstanding Society member, Governor and head of our charity committee, died of heart failure after a long illness. He was 82 years old, having come to Brazil in 1962 [...]
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