News Source: Japan Today
| about 1 month ago
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says Rio de Janeiro is capable of hosting a safe 2016 Olympics and the city will show it deserved to win the games. At the launch of a gym and a cultural center inside a city slum on Wednesday, Silva said...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The president insisted he would take "care" to see Rio cleaned up its violent image before the games. In order to do so the president said "it is important to have a strategy." He promised the government would help deliver one as he made a visit to...
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
The residents of Santa Marta, one of this violent city's many hillside slums, had never seen someone quite like the new police captain, a woman who strolled its maze of passageways to shake hands and ask residents what services the government might...