Rio’s Olympic Legacy and Vila Autódromo
By Luke Milner, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – At the nineteenth session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 27, 2012, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the President of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralymic Games Organizing Committee, spoke during a panel discussion on Sport and Human Rights. Nuzman emphasized [...]
Fire at Brazil EACF Antarctica Base
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A fire broke out at Brazil’s Antarctic research station, Comandante Ferraz (EACF), on Saturday killing two people and forcing the evacuation of around forty more by helicopter. The two victims have been named as Carlos Alberto Vieira Figueiredo and First Sergeant Roberto [...]
Unidos da Tijuca Wins 2012 Carnival: Daily
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In a competition that was as spectacularly contested as ever, Zona Norte (North Zone) samba school, Unidos da Tijuca, has been named the winner of Rio’s Carnival of 2012 with 299.9 points. Pulling itself up from a close second to Beija-Flor in [...]
Rio’s 2012 Carnival at the Sambódromo
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 [...]
Finance Ministry Manages Denucci Scandal
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 [...]
Rio Responds to Building Collapses
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 [...]
Brazil’s Annual Budget Planning Season
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 [...]
Brazil Work Visas for Foreign Professionals
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 [...]
Another Brazil Minister Accused of Corruption
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 [...]
President Rousseff’s 2012 Domestic Focus
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 [...]
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