Brazil’s Petrobras to Layoff 5,000 Third-Party Workers
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – With plans to drastically reduce its expenses, but finding no support from falling international oil prices and a plummeting Brazilian currency, the country’s oil giant, Petrobras, is taking drastic measures. The company’s executive directors approved last week the non-renewal of third-party contracts, which in practice […]
Free Film Criticism Course Offered in Rio to Accompany Festival
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With the 17th edition of Festival do Rio, Rio de Janerio’s international film festival beginning on October 1st and continuing through October 14th, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro will offer a timely free film criticism from October 6th through 9th with film screenings proceeding […]
Hidden Camera Video of Brazilian Paralympians Goes Viral
By Georgia Grimond, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In August a hidden camera captured three of Brazil’s para-athletes training in a local gym as part of a marketing viral campaign. In the footage, viewers can see how regular gym-goers were first surprised and confused, and then clearly impressed by the strength capability […]
Festival do Rio Announces Complete Film Programming
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Following the announcement of the selections for Première Brasil, the competitive section for Brazilian cinema in the Festival do Rio, Rio de Janeiro’s International Film Festival, organizers recently revealed the complete programming schedule for the festival. The Festival do Rio will return for its […]
Brazil’s Mais Médicos Programs Celebrates Two Years
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government’s Programa Mais Médicos (More Doctors Program) is completing two years this semester and despite the early criticism it received, the Rousseff Administration says the program is a huge success. According to data from the Ministry of Health, during these two years, 18,240 […]
Rock in Rio 2015 Begins Today in Rio’s Barra da Tijuca
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Back for its sixth edition in Rio de Janeiro where it began in 1985, the Rock in Rio music festival starts today, Friday, September 18th. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the festival will continue on the 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th […]
Renowned Private Mansion in Rio Donated to Art Museum
By Georgia Grimond, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Hidden behind high walls and a canopy of lush trees is a remarkable large pink mansion in Rio, which since the 1960s has been home to Jorge and Odaléa Brando Barbosa. Now the house is set to be open to the public as Odaléa, […]
Rio 2016 Olympic Games Will Open Up 90,000 Jobs in City
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – With a little more than ten months to go before the start of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, organizers have announced the opening up of more than 90,000 temporary jobs in the city in 2016. According to the Rio […]
Funds for Educational Programs Likely to be Reduced in Brazil
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Education Minister of Brazil, Renato Janine Ribeiro admitted it will be difficult to obtain the annual target of ten percent of the GDP to be used in education next year, due to the current economic scenario faced by Brazil. The government official, however, said […]
Analysts Say Brazil’s Economic Measures May Not be Enough
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – As Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her economic team try to convince Brazil’s Congress to approve unpopular austerity measures to try to halt the economy from further disintegration, international financial analysts say that these actions may not be enough to bring the country’s economy back […]
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