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Dark Night in Rio
Millions of people in two of Brazil’s most populous cities lit candles and opened their windows late Tuesday evening, waiting for the lights to return after a huge hydroelectric power plant failed. The blackouts affected Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paula...
Tags: Power Outage, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, itaipu dam, Hydroelectricity, Paraguay
Brazilian power cut leaves 60 million in the dark
São Paulo :: Brazil | 19 days ago
Credibility
It was a typical Tuesday night in South America's largest nation. In Sao Paulo, maids and security guards made their way home after another day's grind. In Rio, samba musicians began taking to the stage, their faces glazed in sweat from the tropical heat.
Tags: Brazil Looks, Paraguay, Itaipu Binacional, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, massive blackout, hydroelectric plant, largest city, transmission lines, Brazil, São Paulo, Furnas, Blackouts, Hydroelectricity, Energy in Brazil, Electricity sector in Paraguay, Itaipu, Paranￃﾡ, Paranￃﾡ River, Environment, Power outage, Samba, Sￃﾣo Paulo, States of Brazil, Failure, Luiz Inￃﾡcio Lula da Silva, Paraguay￢ﾀﾓBrazil relations, Southern Brazil blackout, Mato Grosso, HVDC Itaipu, Energy development
Veja Magazine Update
Once again, we revisit Veja Magazine to analyze the week’s events. The interview this week was with Bruno Senna, the nephew of Brazil’s foremost sporting hero after Pele. He has just been drafted onto a Formula I team and seems a...
Tags: military coup, Brazil, Senna, Formula One, astronauts, Mars, Lula, World Cup, Rio de Janeiro, Olympics
SA World Cup rail project delayed
Cape Town :: South Africa | 21 days ago
Credibility The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg says the news is a blow to South Africa's hopes of a successful event. In another development, a World Cup organiser has hit out at spiralling accommodation prices for the event. Organising committee boss Danny Jordaan...
Tags: world cup, South Africa, Danny Jordaan, Rio de Janeiro
Madonna wants to help Rio slums, says governor
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 21 days ago
Credibility Madonna, who has promoted school building in the African country Malawi, is now turning her star power onto projects to improve the notorious slums of Rio de Janeiro. The 51-year-old star is in Rio to visit some of the Brazilian city's slums, or "favelas",...
Tags: Madonna (entertainer), Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian, social projects, Sergio Cabral
Brazil crime wars: Spiderman's story of drugs and Jesus in Rio's slums
Santos :: Brazil | 25 days ago
Credibility If you add them all up I control 15 communities," boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4x4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian capital's most wanted drug lords,...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Spiderman
Brazilian Arrives at his Funeral a bit Confused
As uncommon as it is to watch your own funeral, it happened on Monday in Rio de Janeiro. Ademir Jorge Gocalves, 59, shocked his morning family by showing up very much alive at his funeral. Brazilian custom is to bury the deceased the very next day....
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Funeral, Dia de Finados
Courting goodwill in Rio's mean streets
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | about 1 month ago
Credibility 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 deliver....
Tags: Rio de Janeiro
BRAZIL- Rio offered $58.3m to fight gang violence
Lausanne :: Switzerland | about 1 month ago
Credibility President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with Rio de Janeiro state governor Sergio Cabral and made the offer on October 19, Reuters said. The clashes, between October 17 and 18, in two slums resulted in the deaths of three police officers, 12 drug traffickers...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, IOC
Rio''s Olympic dreams challenged
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | about 1 month ago
Credibility Rio de Janeiro's image of fun and sun that helped it win the 2016 Olympics has been marred by a resurgence in drug-related violence that raises questions over the city's preparedness. Pictures of a downed police helicopter in flames in one of Rio's numerous...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro
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