By Leo Byrne, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – An attack on two UPP (Police Pacification Unit) officers last Friday in the Morro São João favela of Engenho Novo is the latest in a recent spate of violence directed at Rio’s pacification forces. The attack took place at around midnight on March 27th in [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Thousands of demonstrators gathered in sixteen Brazilian cities on Saturday, March 9th, continuing the protests against the recent election of Marco Feliciano as President of the Human Rights Commission. A controversial figure, Rep. Feliciano (PSC-SP) is a evangelical pastor accused of making homophobic and racist [...]
By Anna Kaiser, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President Dilma Rousseff announced that Brazilian flags will fly at half-mast for three days to mourn the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who lost his two year long battle with cancer Tuesday afternoon in Caracas. Chávez held rule in the Latin American petroleum-producing power [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reiterated his support for Brazil’s incumbent president, Dilma Rousseff, to run for a second term in office in the 2014 presidential elections. Lula told friends that he has no intention of running in an attempt to [...]
By Leo Byrne, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The government’s campaign to curb crack cocaine use that was launched late last year is failing to deliver on its targets. As of the start 2013, the program Entitled ‘Crack, É Possível Vencer’, which aims to treat crack addiction through the combined effort of four [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Six of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s overseas trips in 2013 have already been announced and appear to show greater attention to Africa and the BRICS group of emerging nations. As with the fifteen countries she visited in 2012, there will be a clear focus on economics [...]
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It is that time again for our traditional round-up list of the most interesting foreigners in Rio for 2012. Now in our fourth year, the ranking remains decidedly unscientific, and as foreign interest builds in Rio and our news coverage expands, it is harder to [...]
By Andrew Willis, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A result of the ongoing battle over oil royalties paid in Brazil, is an increased attention to royalties paid in the mining and hydroelectricity energy sector. Meanwhile, the long-running dispute over oil royalties took a further twist on December 17th when a supreme court [...]
By Mary Carroll, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A week after the arrest of the president’s ex-chief of staff of the Presidency in São Paulo, Rosemary Noronha claims she is innocent amid accusations of influence peddling and corruption. Noronha insists that she never engaged in any illegal activities during her time as chief [...]
By Nicole Froio, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Around 100,000 people are expected to protest in the city center of Rio today against the bill that would redistribute an estimated R$77 billion the state by 2020 from oil royalties. According to calculations made by State Secretary of Economic Development, if the bill passes [...]
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