Art Performance Alluding to Torture is Closed in Rio
The closing of an exposition alluding to torture during Brazil’s military dictatorship years has received widespread criticism. Officials, however, say...
January 14, 2019Topic
Politics
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Gives Go Ahead for Boeing-Embraer Deal
President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that the federal government will not oppose the merger agreement between Brazil’s Embraer and...
January 11, 2019
Rio’s Mangueira Samba School to Honor Marielle Franco this Carnival
One of Rio’s most iconic samba schools, ‘Estação Primeiro de Mangueira’ (First Station of Mangueira) have chosen to pay tribute...
January 11, 2019
Rio Court Blocks R$45.6 Million of Former Governor’s Assets
At the request of the Rio de Janeiro Prosecutor’s office a court blocked the assets of former state governor, Luiz...
January 10, 2019
U.S. Government Shutdown Reduces Operations in Brazil
The political crisis in the United States over the building of the US-Mexican border wall has affected Americans and would-be...
January 10, 2019
President Bolsonaro Announces Brazil Leaving Global Migration Pact
Less than a month after adhering to the United Nations’ Global Pact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, Brazil’s new...
January 9, 2019
Brazil Sends Troops to Halt Criminal Gang Violence in Fortaleza
Ceará state transfers twenty leaders of organized crime jailed in the state to federal prisons to try to curb the...
January 7, 2019
Tourists Robbed at Gunpoint on Rio’s Corcovado Trail
Three men robbed approximately forty tourists hiking the trail that connects Parque Lage and the Corcovado mountain in Zona Sul...
January 4, 2019
Far-Right President Bolsonaro Sworn in as President in Brazil
Vowing to bring Brazil together as a nation, Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as the country’s 38th President on Tuesday,...
January 2, 2019