By Maria Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The state of Rio issued 2,091 land titles to residents in the iconic favela Rocinha last Friday. These are the first of 9,000 titles the Instituto de Terras e Cartografia do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, (ITERJ – Institute of Lands and Cartography of the [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The city of Rio de Janeiro launched a program aimed at monitoring the behavior and conduct of the bus drivers that navigate Rio’s streets, according to a statement released last Friday. This measure comes in the midst of a recent uptick of accidents and [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Dropping an empty soda can on the busy streets of Copacabana could earn you a pricey R$157 fine this year, as Rio de Janeiro will begin to issue fines for those caught littering public spaces in July, city officials announced last month. The initiative, [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazilian state-controlled oil and gas giant Petrobras has said it will keep its promise to invest R$97.7 billion (US$48 billion) in petroleum and natural gas exploration and production in the country this year, affirmed its financial director, Almir Barbassa, at the company’s first trimester [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Walgney Assis Carvalho, a photojournalist from the state of Minas Gerais, was shot at point-blank range by a hooded man as he exited a restaurant in the Ipatinga area last week. Carvalho is the fourth journalist believed to have been killed due to his [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Sixty-four out of the 71 national and international companies that filed requests with the Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) will be allowed to bid for Brazilian exploration blocks this May, the oil regulator announced. This represents a modest increase from the 61 firms that [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Poor track maintenance may have been behind three SuperVia train derailments in the last two weeks, the rail network’s concessionaire admitted in a press release last Friday. SuperVia also said it has established an internal committee to investigate the accidents, which led to delays [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A number of companies created to make use of Brazilian mining giant Vale’s iron ore have shut down their operations in Carajás, home to the world’s largest iron ore mine, located in the northern state of Pará. Seven out of the ten companies that [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Both Brazilians and foreigners are preparing to declare their annual income as the April 30th deadline to file taxes with the Receita Federal (Federal Revenue) nears. Under Brazilian law, all Brazilian citizens who received an annual taxable income above R$24,556.65 in 2012 are required [...]
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Mayor of Rio Eduardo Paes issued a decree banning public transport vans from operating in most of the city’s Zona Sul (South Zone) yesterday. This comes as the final measure in a week marked by attempts to crack down on van networks in the [...]
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