Brazil’s Rousseff Urges Cabinet to Reduce Spending
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, asked cabinet ministers to maintain strict control over government spending and combat corruption, during a meeting with her new cabinet members on Tuesday, January 27th. This is Rousseff’s first cabinet meeting since she started her second term in office, on January […]
Brazil’s Petrobras Releases Third Quarter of 2014 Results
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – After twice postponing the release of the third quarter financial results for 2014, Brazilian oil giant Petrobras released the report early Wednesday (January 28th) morning. The results show a net profit of R$3.084 billion. These results represent a 38 percent decline from the second quarter […]
Kandinsky Exhibition Opens in Rio de Janeiro at CCBB
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The exhibition, “Kandinsky: Tudo Começa num Ponto” (Kandinsky: All Begins at a Point) opens today, Wednesday, January 28th in the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro (CCBB) and will run through March 30th. Curated by Evgenia Petrova and Joseph Kiblitsky, the free […]
Carioca Cricket Club Hosts Launch Event in Ipanema
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The sport of cricket, a ball-and-bat game invented in England, is growing in popularity in Rio de Janeiro. The city’s team, the Carioca Cricket Club (CCC), invites everyone interested to join them for the 2015 season at the opening event on January, 29th. The CCC, […]
Second Water Reservoir that Feeds Rio Drying Out
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The water and electricity crisis in the Southeast of Brazil continues as the Santa Branca reservoir in the interior of São Paulo state has reached water levels below the need for the generation of electricity. It is the second of the four reservoirs that feed […]
Hotels and Hostels Are Booking Fast for Carnival 2015 in Rio
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian Hotel Industry Association in Rio de Janeiro (ABIH-RJ) has announced that 60.76 percent of all hotel beds in Rio de Janeiro have been booked for Carnival 2015. The survey was conducted between January 13th and 18th, exactly a month before the festivities begin. […]
Twelve People Hit by Stray Bullets in Rio Over Last Ten Days
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Since the beginning of the year, various cases of people hit by stray bullets within the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area have made the headlines, leading to the impression that violence is rising in the city. Within just the last ten days, twelve cases have […]
Brazil Registers Record Deficit in Current Accounts
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s current accounts in 2014 registered a record deficit of US$90.948 billion, according to data released by Brazil’s Central Bank (CB) on Friday, January 23rd. The result was well above 2013’s deficit of US$81.108 billion and the highest registered since the CB started the series […]
Vila Isabel Samba School Ready for Carnival 2015
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Well known for their sambas de enredo (Carnival theme songs) G.R.E.S. Unidos de Vila Isabel will enter the famed Sambódromo in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, February 15th as the fourth samba school to compete in the Grupo Especial (Special Group) for the 2015 […]
Foo Fighters Play in Rio de Janeiro at the Maracanã
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Fronted by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the American rock band Foo Fighters will perform live at Rio de Janeiro’s famed soccer (football) stadium, Estádio do Maracanã tonight, Sunday January 25th. The show is part of the Sonic Highways World Tour, in support of […]
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