Brazil News | RIO DE JANEIRO – Utility regulators in Rio de Janeiro today fined the city’s gas company for an explosion last year that seriously injured two Americans. The Ohio couple was vacationing in Brazil and staying in the … Continue reading
Brazil News | FORTALEZA, Brazil – Businessman Roberto Lima received a traffic ticket in the mail Tuesday citing him for not wearing a helmet while driving a Fiat Uno sedan. The ticket arrived on Tuesday afternoon and the date of … Continue reading
Brazil News | CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – A man was arrested last Thursday afternoon in Ponta Pora, 324 km (201 miles) from the capital, on the border of Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraguay, after running a police checkpoint in … Continue reading
Brazil News | HAMAMATSU, Japan – Toyota unveiled on Tuesday the version of the Prius hybrid set to go on sale in Brazil during the second half of 2012, reported a G1 journalist who traveled to Japan at Toyota’s invitation. … Continue reading
Brazil News | FORTALEZA, Brazil – The Federal Police of Ceará arrested a man on Monday afternoon with 15.5 kilos (about 34 lbs) of pure cocaine at the Pinto Martins International Airport in Fortaleza. According to the Federal Police, the … Continue reading
Brazil News | RIO DE JANEIRO – The ferryboat Gavea I, carrying 907 passengers across Guanabara Bay from Niteroi slammed into a pier near the passenger terminal in Rio de Janeiro early Monday afternoon. A spokesman for the company that … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – A disc jockey died on-air Monday morning during his daily show on Educadora FM Iacanga, in the interior of the state, 392 km (244 miles) from the capital. Jeltro Pereira Barbosa, 68, known as … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – A baby fur seal that was found six months ago on a beach in Peruibe, on the southern coast of the state, will be returned to sea on Monday. Worn down from an infection, … Continue reading
Brazil News | RIO DE JANEIRO – On Saturday night in Rio, Cariocas lit the iconic floating Christmas tree—the largest in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. At 279 feet tall, weighing 542 tons, and decorated with … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – The Court of Justice upheld a 2004 judgment against an American Airlines pilot who made an obscene gesture to a group of Federal Police. The pilot, Dale Robbin Hersh flipped off seven PF agents … Continue reading
Brazil News | RIO DE JANEIRO – The trail of the woman known as the “Big Lottery Widow” will resume on Monday. Adriana Ferreira Almeida, 34, is accused involvement in the killing of her common-law husband after he won U.S. … Continue reading
Brazil News | CURITIBA, Brazil – This year, the Federal Police (PF) recorded an increase in the number of arrests of drug traffickers at the airport in Iguassu Falls, in the western part of the state. According to the agency, … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – For twenty-two years Brazilian fans of the wildly popular animated TV sitcom “The Simpsons” have wondered about the beer that the show’s patriarch Homer guzzles by the bucketful. The wait ends this week as …
Brazil News | MANAUS, Amazonas – A 16-year-old boy was beaten to death and another was seriously wounded after being shot on Saturday night, in the Cidade Nova neighborhood of Manaus. According to the Military Police (PM), the two victims … Continue reading
Brazil News CURITIBA, Brazil – Brazil’s first Holocaust museum was inaugurated today in the capital city of the southern state of Parana. The museum was created by the Jewish community to keep alive the memory of the tragedy perpetrated by … Continue reading
