BELEM, Brazil – About 300 Indians and environmentalists protested on Friday morning against construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Altamira, Pará. The demonstration occurred on top of a cofferdam, a kind of earthen dam, built on the Xingu River by the Construction Consortium of Belo Monte (CCBM).
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen is the highest paid model in the world for the sixth consecutive year, according to the American magazine “Forbes.”
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Alcântara Cyclone Space, the bi-national company created in 2007 by Brazil and Ukraine, has fallen on hard times. The two allies formed the partnership to launch commercial satellites from the Alcântara Launch Center in Northeastern Brazil.
SAO PAULO – Elize Matsunaga, 30, who admitted to killing her husband and cutting his body to pieces, advertized herself as a “very loving blond” on an escort service website, reported online media. Elize left the profession after meeting Mark Matsunaga, heir to Yoki Foods, which recently sold for nearly one billion U.S. dollars.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Police in Southern Brazil will charge an elderly woman with murder after she shot dead a man who invaded her home on Saturday, reported online media. According to her family, the 87-year old pensioner thought the intruder came to rob her.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Firefighters battled a Sunday morning fire that started on the 17th floor of a highrise office building on Avenida Rio Branco, in downtown Rio at about 7 am. Six trucks, a Magirus ladder truck and 30 men responded but the equipment didn’t reach the 17th floor, delaying the start of work, reported online media.
SAO PAULO – Police in São Paulo pulled over the car driven by Elize Matsunaga the night she carried her husband’s body parts packed in suitcases, reported Folha de São Paulo on Friday. On Wednesday, Elize Matsunaga admitted to police that she shot her husband, CEO of billion-dollar food-giant Yoki Foods, then dismembered his body and dumped the pieces in the woods.
