Invasão Baiana Music Festival To Take Over Rio de Janeiro
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Festival Invasão Baiana, a four-night series of events in celebration of contemporary Bahian music, music from the Brazilian state of Bahia, begins today, Saturday, August 15th at Praça do Centro Cultural Correios. The festival will take place on two consecutive weekends, on August 15th, […]
Rousseff Speaks to Social Movements Ahead of Protests
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Representatives from dozens of social movements met in Brasília on Thursday (August 13th) to show solidarity with Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, before scheduled mass protests in the country’s major cities against the government on Sunday, August 16th. Rousseff, who was present at the meeting, heard […]
New Series of Argentine Film Screenings in Rio de Janeiro
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Beginning August 18th, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro in Centro will screen seventeen films from Argentina as part of the series, Cinema Argentina Rebelde (Rebel Argentina Cinema). Continuing through August 30th, the series will include films never before shown in Brazil, as well as, […]
Dunga Makes Surprise Changes to Seleção Squad Ahead of Friendlies
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazilian national football (soccer) team coach Dunga has called up 24 players for the next friendly games in September, the last tests ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifying games. The squad contains several surprises, as Kaká, Hulk, Gabriel Paulista and Lucas were included, […]
Residents of Rio Gain a “New” Beach in Zona Sul
By Georgia Grimond, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With almost every square inch of Rio’s heavenly coastline accounted for, the discovery of a small beach in Vidigal came as a surprise to local residents. The little bay was revealed when a house on Avenida Niemeyer was demolished in July to make way for […]
Brazil’s Angra 3 Nuclear Reactor May be Delayed
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Four companies being investigated for bribes in the Operação Lava Jato (Operation Carwash) have announced they are withdrawing from the consortium for the construction of nuclear plant Angra 3, scheduled to go into operation in 2018. Engineering giants Odebrecht, Camargo Correa, Andrade Gutierrez and Queiroz […]
IOC Will Not Test Olympic Waters in Rio for Viruses
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Representatives of the International Olympic Committee have visited Rio de Janeiro for the ninth time to evaluate progress of the preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games and have ruled out testing the waters in the city for viruses. Controversy about the water quality in […]
Brazil Finished First at Boccia With Six Golds at Parapan Games
By Georgia Grimond, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As the boccia competition drew to a close on Tuesday, August 12th, at the Parapan Am Games in Toronto, Brazil topped the leaderboard with six golds and three bronzes, ahead of hosts Canada who won only one gold, four silvers and a bronze. Colombia finished […]
Margaridas Women’s March Takes Thousands to Streets of Brasília
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – As many as 70,000 women, many wearing the symbol of the movement – a straw hat with flowers on it – descended on Brasília on Tuesday (August 11th) for the fifth March das Margaridas (March of the Daisies). During the event, marchers want to call […]
Moody’s Downgrades Brazil’s Credit Rating
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Credit ratings agency Moody’s downgraded Brazil’s ratings on Tuesday (August 11th) from Baa2 to Baa3, but improved the country’s outlook from negative to stable. According to the ratings agency, a weaker economic performance, a lack of political consensus over fiscal reforms and the government’s rising […]
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