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Made Popular Nov 6 2009
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“If you add them all up I control 15 communities,” boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian city’s most wanted drug...

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Brazil’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.
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Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been sheltering since September in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa. The de facto leaders of...
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The world ranking for freedom of press in 175 countries as reported by French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), earlier this month, has some surprises. Brazil went...
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Jay, Brasilia
is now one of the strongest bastions of agribusiness on a global level. The world’s tenth largest economy, Brazil is now the nation which suffers the greatest...
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Brazilian-American Maria Petrúcia Ribeiro da Silva, 68, died soon after arriving in Rio de Janeiro from New York aboard TAM Airlines. Despite warnings about her...
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At least five inmates have burned to death in a fire at a prison in north-eastern Brazil, officials say. They said about 40 other prisoners were injured at the jail in...
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All the bureaucracy and corruption the world knows about that plagues Brazilian life and the economy in particular is preventing Brazil from becoming the main port of...
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Just two weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said between delirious sobs in Copenhagen that the International Olympic Committee’s decision to...
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Although there are different evaluations of how much impact the newly House-approved Statute of Racial Equality will have on the reality of racism in Brazil, the...
made popular Oct 20 2009
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May 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out in the cold.

 
 
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Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the “Theater of the Oppressed,” died Saturday. He was 78.

 
 
May 2 2009 by AP0 Comments

Officials say floods and mudslides from heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have killed at least 14 people in the last month and driven tens of thousands from their homes.

 
 
May 1 2009 by AP0 Comments

Brazil’s Supreme Court has struck down a press censorship law enacted during a nearly quarter-century military dictatorship.

 
 
Apr 29 2009 by AP0 Comments

Reports of debt slavery reached record numbers in Brazil last year, and most of the cases were connected to the nation’s booming sugarcane ethanol sector, according to a report released Wednesday by a watchdog group.

 
 
Apr 22 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Brazilian official says there should be a negotiated end to a custody battle between a U.S. father and a Brazilian stepfather over a boy.

 
 
Apr 22 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Brazilian court has freed an Amazon rancher accused of masterminding the 2005 murder of a U.S. nun and rain forest activist.

 
 
Apr 17 2009 by AP0 Comments

The monkey business is about to end for some Brazilian primates.

 
 
Apr 15 2009 by AP0 Comments

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he won’t run for president again in 2014.

 
 
Apr 15 2009 by AP0 Comments

Likening the global financial crisis to a sinking ship, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lashed out once more Wednesday against rich nations for provoking the world’s economic woes and called for a new economic order based on input from all n

 
 
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