Escaping Prisoner Caught After Getting Stuck

by Michael Hone Posted on August 31, 2012

Brazil Human Interest News

Prisoner caught escaping after getting stuck in wall
Stuck in Prison Wall (photo: maispb.com.br)

RIO DE JANEIRO – A detainee got wedged in a hole he carved in the wall of the Guaraciaba do Norte Prison, in the interior of Ceara, before dawn Friday, reported online media. The prisoner made a hole and tried to escape but got stuck with part of the body outside and half inside the prison.
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Yoki Foods CEO Death Photos Published

by Michael Hone Posted on August 30, 2012
Last updated: September 2, 2012 at 16:09 pm

Brazil Crime News

Crime Scene and ME Photographs of Marcos Matsunaga on Web
Crime Scene and ME Photographs of Marcos Matsunaga

RIO DE JANEIRO – A website published police photographs of body parts belonging to slain food industry executive Marcos Matsunaga Thursday, reported Brazil’s Portuguese-language site G1, part of Globo TV.

The multimillionaire business person, CEO of Yoki Alimentos, which sold to General Mills for close to one billion dollars shortly after he disappeared in May died at the hands of his wife who confessed the killing to police.
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Sao Paulo Police Arrest ‘Granny Crack’

by Michael Hone Posted on August 24, 2012

Brazil Crime News

Sao Paulo police arrest 'Granny Crack,' 64
Sao Paulo police arrest ‘Granny Crack,’ 64 (photo: PM/estadao.com.br)

SAO PAULO – Civil Police arrested a 64-year-old drug dealer known as ‘Granny Crack,’ Friday morning in central Sao Paulo, reported online media. Police, armed with a search warrant, entered the woman’s apartment and found 100 rocks of crack hidden inside a teddy bear.
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Russian Consulate Vandalized in Porto Alegre

by Michael Hone Posted on August 24, 2012

Brazil News

Russian consulate in Porto Alegre Vandalized (photo: G1/RBS TV)
Russian consulate in Porto Alegre (photo: G1/RBS TV)

RIO DE JANEIRO – Friday morning, somebody vandalized the building housing the Russian consulate in Brazil’s southernmost capital city, Porto Alegre. According to reports in online media, slogans painted on the facade of the building, in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, demand freedom for members of the jailed punk band Pussy Riot and called Russian president Vladimir Putin a fascist.
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Ahmadinejad Gift to Rio ‘Unwrapped’

by Michael Hone Posted on August 22, 2012
Last updated: August 23, 2012 at 17:14 pm

Brazil Diplomacy News

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gift to Rio de Janeiro unwrapped (photo: Folhapress)
Iranian Gift to Rio (photo: Folhapress)

RIO DE JANEIRO – The City of Rio de Janeiro finally “unwrapped” the monument given it by the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during Rio +20, reported Brazil’s largest circulation newspaper. The Middle East leader presented the statue to the city during the U.N. Conference on the Environment held here in June. The city will not hold an official inauguration ceremony.
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Locals Loot Chocolate from Overturned Big Rig

by Michael Hone Posted on August 22, 2012
Last updated: August 23, 2012 at 17:48 pm

Brazil Human Interest News

Locals loot overturned big rig carrying a load of chocolate products (photo: Paulo Barbosa/Rota 51)
Residents make of with chocolate (photo: Paulo Barbosa/Rota 51)

RIO DE JANEIRO – Residents of a town in Bahia state plundered the contents of a semi-truck Wednesday morning, making off with a load of chocolate, reported online media. The truck and its trailer overturned on the BR-101 highway, near the town of Eunapolis, southern Bahia, reported the Federal Highway Police (PRF).
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Planalto Announces Qualcomm 4G Accord

by Michael Hone Posted on August 21, 2012

Brazil Technology News

Qualcomm reaches accord with Planalto
Qualcomm reaches accord with Planalto

RIO DE JANEIRO – Tech giant Qualcomm announced Tuesday it aims to develop chips that can operate in different frequency bands for the Brazil market. The chips will allow mobile devices, which operate on the 4G system, to transmit data at frequencies specified by the Brazilian government.
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Widow Ordered to Share Husband’s Pension

by Michael Hone Posted on August 21, 2012

Brazil Human Interest News

Widow must share husband's civil service pension with his mistress
Plaintiff and Lover (photo: TV Anhanguera)

RIO DE JANEIRO – A judge in central Brazil has ordered a widow to share her late husband’s civil service pension with the dead man’s mistress. The plaintiff in the suit told TV Anhanguera that she never felt like the “other woman” in the relationship, which lasted 15 years and ended with the death of her lover.
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Pit Bull Survives Vicious Porcupine Attack

by Michael Hone Posted on August 20, 2012

Brazil Dog News

Pit Bull in Brazil Survives Vicious Porcupine Attack
Pit Bull in Brazil Survives Vicious Porcupine Attack (Photo: Maikon Leal/Coxim Agora)

RIO DE JANEIRO – A motorcycle shop owner in South-Central Brazil opened business Monday to find his watchdog injured with over a thousand porcupine spines, reported online media. The barbs, which peppered the pit bull’s face, snout, front legs and shoulders, required urgent veterinary attention.
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Santos’ Historic 101-Year-Old Streetcar No. 32

by Michael Hone Posted on August 19, 2012

Brazil Travel & Tourism News

Santos' Historic 101-year-old Streetcar No. 32
Santos’ Streetcar No. 32 (photo: City of Santos)

SAO PAULO – Streetcar No. 32, 101-years-old and operating in the center of Santos, on the Sao Paulo coast, is the oldest in Brazil. Recently restored, appearing as if it just arrived from the Scottish plant that manufactured it a century ago, the tram ferries tourists and locals alike to historic locations in the city center.
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