Accidents Decline with Reduced Speed Limits in São Paulo
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Despite complaints by automobile drivers in São Paulo City about the reduction of the speed limits on major thruways, the city’s traffic engineering department (CET) says accidents have dropped by nearly thirty percent on the Tiete and Pinheiros Marginais (São Paulo’s beltway) since the measure […]
Brazil’s Petrobras Approves IPO of BR Distribuidora
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The board of directors at Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras, announced that it had authorized the sale of 25 percent of stock from its subsidiary, BR Distribuidora. The state-owned oil giant wants sell part of its stock to improve the company’s financial situation. For the first […]
Food Bikes Festival Returns to Rio in Barra da Tijuca
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Food Bikes Festival will return to Rio Design Gourmet in Barra de Tijuca for its third edition on August 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Created by chef Patricia Metre, the festival aims to showcase vendors and chefs using more gourmet elements and techniques […]
Botafogo: Rio’s New York-Esque Neighborhood
By Georgia Grimond, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Botafogo, a network of streets that spans from the Lagoa to its beach that looks onto Sugar Loaf, has been tentatively referred to as Bota-Soho in the press recently. Though the name is a bit wide of the mark, comparing this neighborhood with one […]
Olympic Road Cycling Test Event in Rio Deemed a Success
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – One year before the 2016 Olympic Games hit Rio de Janeiro, the city hosts a series of test events to evaluate facilities, locations and to test-run the organization of the biggest sporting event in the world. This weekend, cyclists raced the roads from Copacabana […]
Protesters Take to the Streets in Brazil Against Rousseff
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Protesters took to the streets in hundreds of Brazilian cities on Sunday, August 16th to demonstrate against the Rousseff Administration and corruption, many calling for the impeachment of the President. The largest crowd was seen in São Paulo city, where official sources say more than […]
Recession in Brazil Might Continue Until 2016
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Analysts of the Brazilian economy have changed their forecast for 2016 for the first time to negative, assuming a contraction in GDP for the second year in a row. So far, estimates had always predicted a negative GDP for 2015, but a return to […]
Book Trilogy Connects Brazil’s Political History With Music
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Journalist Franklin Martins recently released his third volume of “Quem foi que inventou o Brasil? – A música popular conta a história da República” (“Who invented Brazil? – Popular music tells the story of the Republic”), a trilogy of books (in Portuguese) that follows […]
Brazil Tops the Medal Tables at the Parapan Am Games
By Georgia Grimond, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s para-athletes will be celebrating today after winning an historic number of medals at this years’ Parapan American Games. After a week of fierce competition in Toronto, Canada, the Brazilian team topped the leaderboard taking home a total of 257 medals, including 109 gold, […]
Rio Hosts Another 2016 Olympic Sailing Test Event on Bay
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – While controversy swirls around the issue of polluted water quality at the site of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, test events continue and a new sailing race started yesterday (August 15th) and will continue through August 22nd. Three hundred and eighty athletes […]
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