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
Brazil News | CURITIBA, Brazil – A viewer of RPC-TV caught on cell-phone video the moment of impact when a motorcyclist collides with a truck, near the km 325 marker on BR-277 in Guarapuava. The accident happened on Saturday morning, … Continue reading
Brazil News | SALVADOR, Brazil – About 300 canaries were seized in the municipality of Itanhem, 550 miles from the state capital, Salvador. During the raid, which police carried out last night and into this morning, four suspects were arrested … Continue reading
Brazil News | CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – Federal Highway Police (PRF) on Wednesday arrested a 47-year-old Bolivian woman carrying 21 beets which were hollowed out and stuffed with pure cocaine. The arrest was made at a highway checkpoint at the … Continue reading
Brazil News | BRASILIA – Rapid growth of world population, which recently exceeded 7 billion, creates the need to double food production by 2050, when world population is expected to reach 9 billion. Combining this phenomenon with higher urbanization and … Continue reading
Brazil News | PORTO ALEGRE, Rio Grande do Sul – A cold-blooded killer entered a hospital in southern Brazil Monday afternoon and—apparently guided by somebody on a cellphone—maneuvered himself to the room where a patient was recovering from a Saturday … Continue reading
