By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – At long last the eagerly anticipated Carnival parades of 2012 at Rio’s Sambódromo happened with spectacular performances by the Special Group schools Sunday, February 19th and Monday, February 20th. Opening the Parade on Sunday was newly qualified Renascer de Jacarepaguá, last year’s Access Group champion. [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With the official dates of Carnival 2012 almost upon us, all eyes turn to the Grupo Especial (Special Group), the largest and most accomplished samba schools in the world. The crème de la crème of Rio’s samba schools will be parading at the Sambódromo on [...]
By Luke Milner, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Saturday January 28th, Guido Mantega, the Brazilian Finance Minister, reportedly dismissed Luiz Felipe Denucci Martins, the Head of Casa da Moeda do Brasil (the Brazilian Mint), following accusations that Denucci was receiving bribes and depositing them in off-shore bank accounts. According to Folha de [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rio’s booming construction industry has been given a fearsome wake-up call after the collapse of three buildings – one twenty stories high – last Thursday evening on Avenida Treze de Maio, in downtown Rio, killed at least seventeen people. Questions are being asked as to [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff summoned her government to the annual ministerial meeting on Monday to take stock of the past year, and set out plans and goals for 2012, she must have been only too conscious of the balancing act her government will [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government is looking to change the way its immigration policy is oriented towards highly-skilled foreign professionals wanting to work in the country. Some commentators say that Brazil wants to lure skilled workers from Europe made unemployed in the economic downturn, at the [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s Minister for National Integration Fernando Bezerra Coelho has become the latest in a string of President Dilma Rousseff’s ministers to have come under fire following allegations of corruption. The minister is facing accusations of favoritism towards his home state, the northeast state of Pernambuco, and of [...]
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President Rousseff spoke on Monday, January 2nd in her Cafe com a Presidenta program reflecting that 2011 was a good year for Brazil, and that the country is entering an era of prosperity. She pointed out that in the year in which almost every country [...]
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – For the third year running The Rio Times looks back on twelve months of news in and about the foreign community in Rio de Janeiro. While Rio has a long history, and a bright future, the year of 2011 certainly feels like a turning point. [...]
By Sam Cowie, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – 2011 saw Brazil take the fight against corruption to a new level – with huge increases in the recovery of stolen funds and seven high-ranking members of President Dilma Rousseff’s administration dismissed following allegations of corruption, since she took office in January 2011, Brazilian Labor Minister [...]
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