Recent News Headlines : Duque De Caxias - Brazil
SAMBA TROUPE'S POLITICAL PLAN FOR RIO CARNIVAL IGNITES FIRESTORM WITH FARM LOBBY
A samba school's decision to focus on indigenous people and deforestation at this year's carnival has caused anger among agribusinesses in Brazil... READ MORE›
BRAZILS SCANDALS CASCADE ACROSS LATIN AMERICA
Another former president, Alan Garcia, oversaw the bidding for a subway line in Lima, which Odebrecht won and constructed... READ MORE›
MURDERS, ROBBERIES OF DRIVERS IN BRAZIL FORCE UBER TO RETHINK CASH STRATEGY
As recently as October, Uber denied there was a problem with cash payments in Brazil... READ MORE›
TOO MUCH WATER IS DILUTING JUICE FROM WORLD'S NO. 1 ORANGE CROP
Drought cut yields in the main growing areas of Sao Paulo and the Triangulo Mineiro region in Minas Gerais state... READ MORE›
PANAMA CHARGES TWO MOSSACK FONSECA PARTNERS OVER BRAZIL LINK
In last April's Panama Papers leaks, more than 11 million documents from Mossack Fonseca were released... READ MORE›
ESPIRITO SANTO POLICE RETURN TO WORK AFTER MURDER WAVE
More than 1,000 officers return to work in Espirito Santo state after 144 people are killed during eight-day strike... READ MORE›
PERU'S FUGITIVE EX-PRESIDENT BELIEVED HOLED UP IN SAN FRANCISCO, WAS NO-SHOW IN ISRAEL
But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said Toledo was not on the flight from San Francisco that landed Sunday night... READ MORE›
BRAZIL STATE'S POLICE REJECT ACCORD TO END STRIKE
The strike in Espirito Santo inspired a handful of much smaller family protests in neighbouring Rio de Janeiro state on Friday and Saturday... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S CORRUPTION SCANDAL SPREADS ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA
Odebrecht agreed to pay 3.5bn in penalties to authorities in Switzerland, the US and Brazil to settle the case... READ MORE›
HOW BRAZIL'S LEFT AND RIGHT WANT TO CHANGE CARNAVAL
For decades, the telltale sign that Carnaval season had begun was the appearance of the Globeleza dancer during commercial breaks on Brazil's major TV network, Globo... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SUPREME COURT JUDGE CALLS FOR DRUGS LEGALIZATION TO BEAT GANGS
A rising number of Brazil's conservative and evangelical politicians are vowing a tougher stance on drugs, however... READ MORE›
PARATROOPERS JOIN PATROLS IN BRAZIL CITY AS VIOLENCE CLAIMS OVER 100 RIO MAY NEED ARMY NEXT
More than 100 people have been reported killed in violence and looting during a six-day strike by police in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, with sch... READ MORE›
BRAZIL TO BOOST TROOP DEPLOYMENT IN TROUBLED STATE
Meanwhile, there were continuing fears and rumours in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second most populous city, that police could start a copycat strike on Friday... READ MORE›
OVER 100 DEAD IN BRAZIL STATE AS POLICE STRIKE SPURS ANARCHY
Most of the violence was centered in the state capital Vitoria, a wealthy port city ringed by golden beaches and filled with mining and petroleum companies... READ MORE›
BRAZIL STATE FACES DEADLY CHAOS AMID POLICE STRIKE
In Espirito Santo, however, relatives and sympathisers are blockading police stations, and officers inside are making no effort to come out... READ MORE›
BRAZIL YELLOW FEVER 'KILLS HUNDREDS OF MONKEYS'
Millions of Brazilians have been vaccinated as health authorities scramble to prevent the outbreak from turning into an epidemic... READ MORE›
THE PANIC IS OVER AT ZIKA'S EPICENTER. BUT FOR MANY, THE STRUGGLE HAS JUST BEGUN.
Of the more than 2,600 cases of Zika-related congenital syndrome confirmed so far in the Americas, nearly 2,400 are in Brazil... READ MORE›
BRAZIL AND COLOMBIA PLEDGE TO FIGHT DRUG TRAFFICKING
We cannot let peace in Colombia be cause for concern in the region, said Colombian Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas... READ MORE›
FIRST IMAGES OF UNIQUE BRAZILIAN CORAL REEF AT MOUTH OF AMAZON
The mouth of the Amazon river basin is also the habitat of the American manatee, the Amazon river's yellow turtle, dolphins and the river otter... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ORDERS 11.5 MILLION YELLOW FEVER VACCINE DOSES
There have also been three confirmed cases in Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous state, and one each in Espiritu Santo and Bahia, which both neighbour Minas... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SEES SHARP RISE IN YELLOW FEVER CASES
Two million doses of yellow fever vaccine are sent to Minas Gerais state after a rise in cases... READ MORE›
MATT DAMON LEANS ON DAVOS DELEGATES TO SOLVE WORLDA??S WATER SHORTAGE
But that did not stop the Hollywood A-lister Matt Damon taking centre stage to launch a campaign to combat water scarcity... READ MORE›
FRENCH COURT TELLS TUV TO PAY DAMAGES
The commercial court in Toulon, southern France, said TUV Rheinland must pay 3,000 euros to each of the 20,000 plaintiffs... READ MORE›
BRAZIL JUDGE TEORI ZAVASCKI DIES IN PLANE CRASH
Petrobras Brazil judge Teori Zavascki dies in plane crash... READ MORE›
CLASHES GRIP BRAZIL PRISON WHERE 26 KILLED
At least 33 inmates dead in northern Roraima state, just days after prison clashes between rival gangs killed 56 people... READ MORE›
LAMBADA SINGER LOALWA BRAZ FOUND DEAD IN BRAZIL
International hit Lambada was released by French group Kaoma in 1989, with Braz providing the Portuguese vocals... READ MORE›
GANGS CLASH INSIDE BRAZIL PRISON WHERE 26 MASSACRED THIS WEEK
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters into the yard of the Alcacuz prison in northeastern Brazil as helicopters buzzed overhead... READ MORE›
BHP BILLITON AND VALE REACH SETTLEMENT WITH BRAZIL OVER DAM DISASTER
Last May, Brazilian authorities filed a lawsuit over a mining dam rupture that killed 19 people and left hundreds homeless in the Minas Gerais region... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN POLICE THWARTS NEW PRISON RIOT
Also on Tuesday, Brazil's federal government authorized Armed Forces to be deployed in prisons to carry out inspections and search for weapons and other forbidden materials... READ MORE›
DOZENS KILLED AND WOUNDED IN ALCACUZ PRISON RIOT
The outbreak of violence at Brazil's prisons began January 1, when 56 inmates were killed in the northern state of Amazonas... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Duque De Caxias
BRAZIL CHAPECOENSE FOOTBALL TEAM IN COLOMBIA AIR DISASTER
The team had been due to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana, against Medellin team Atletico Nacional... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN SOCCER TEAMS PLANE CRASHES
In the world of Brazilian soccer, Chapecoense was an upstart from a humdrum city... READ MORE›
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ARE KEY TO PRESERVING FORESTS, CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY FINDS
As this report shows, if Brazil enhances its respect for indigenous peoples' rights, they will be able to contribute more to the Paris agreement... READ MORE›
COLOMBIA PLANE CRASH: CHAPECOENSE TEAM AMONG 81 ONBOARD
Medellin's airport confirmed that the aircraft, which made a stop in Bolivia, was transporting the first division Chapecoense team from southern Brazil... READ MORE›
A HALF-MILLION BRAZILIANS WANT TO BREAK AWAY AND FORM A NEW COUNTRY
The south of Brazil was colonized by immigrants from Italy, Portugal and Germany, and many take pride in a European sense of organization... READ MORE›
56 KILLED, MANY BEHEADED, IN GRISLY BRAZIL PRISON RIOT
Sao Paulo, Brazil - A prison riot in the Brazilian Amazon has left at least 56 people dead with some bodies decapitated and burned, officials said... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS ARE BEWILDERED BY ZIKA'S PATH ACROSS LATIN AMERICA
This may also help explain the relatively low number of babies born with Zika-related birth defects outside northeast Brazil... READ MORE›
BRAZIL OPENS LATIN AMERICA'S FIRST ELEPHANT SANCTUARY
The first elephant sanctuary in Latin America has opened in Brazil to provide a home for an estimated 50 circus animals from across the region... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SENATE APPROVES AUSTERITY PACKAGE TO FREEZE SOCIAL SPENDING FOR 20 YEARS
But we can't let this paralyze Brazil, Temer tweeted on Tuesday... READ MORE›
MURDER OF BRAZIL OFFICIAL MARKS NEW LOW IN WAR ON AMAZON ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Last month federal inspectors shut it down and fined its operators 50m reais 16m for breaching restrictions which barred the mine from any deforestation... READ MORE›
FLIGHT WAS TAKING BRAZILIAN TEAM TO GAME OF THEIR LIVES
On Sunday, Chapecoense nearly defeated famed Sao Paulo club Palmeiras, which won 1-0 to claim its first Brazilian league title in decades... READ MORE›
NETFLIX WANTS THE WORLD TO BINGE-WATCH
Five years after the company's inauspicious arrival, Brazil has become Netflix's largest market outside the English-speaking world... READ MORE›
CHAPECOENSE PLANE CRASH: FOOTBALL RALLIES AROUND BRAZILIAN TEAM
Chapecoense's goalkeeping coach Marcelo De Quadros Kunst stayed in Brazil with players who did not travel to Colombia... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SAYS GREEK AMBASSADOR MURDERED BY WIFE'S POLICEMAN LOVER
Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was missing since Monday night... READ MORE›
BRAZIL WORRIES THE 'CHINA OF SOUTH AMERICA' IS EATING ITS LUNCH
Added to that is the fact that Paraguay's capital, Asuncion, is closer to Brazil's industrial heartland of Sao Paulo than many of the country's state capitals... READ MORE›
LIFESTYLE PROBLEMS OF BRAZIL'S ELITE: WHAT TO TELL THE KIDS WHEN DAD GOES TO JAIL
A magazine article on a wide-reaching corruption scandal's psychological impact on jailed parents' children was met with outrage and ridicule across social media... READ MORE›
HUNGRY VENEZUELANS FLOOD BRAZILIAN TOWNS, AS THREAT OF MASS MIGRATION LOOMS
Brazilian government services are buckling under the weight of the sudden influx of Venezuelan migrants... READ MORE›
BRAZIL TO TRANSFER GANG LEADERS AFTER PRISON MASSACRE
Four inmates were found dead in another prison in the rural area of Manaus on Monday... READ MORE›
VENEZUELANS ARE FLEEING TO BRAZIL FOR MEDICAL CARE OVERWHELMING ITS HOSPITALS AND MORGUES
A spiraling economic crisis and hyperinflation have cleaned Venezuelan hospitals of needles, bandages and medicine... READ MORE›
'PUSHED WITHOUT PUBLIC DEBATE'
Brazil is a very divided country, but one of the few things that unites people is the wish for better public services... READ MORE›
'TRAGEDY OF HUGE PROPORTIONS': BRAZILIAN SOCCER CLUB'S MOMENT OF GLORY ENDS IN DEADLY PLANE CRASH
The team's ascent from the depths of Brazilian soccer was the talk of the South American sporting world... READ MORE›
COLOMBIA PLANE CRASH: FLIGHT DATA EXAMINED AS CHAPECOENSE FANS MOURN
Emotional pain resonated across the region over the loss of much of the Chapecoense soccer team from southern Brazil... READ MORE›
'A GOOD CRIMINAL IS A DEAD CRIMINAL'
In a single day, 20 June, Fortaleza registered three fatal lynchings... READ MORE›
'WE'RE GOING TO RESIST': BRAZIL'S INDIGENOUS GROUPS FIGHT TO KEEP THEIR LAND IN FACE OF NEW LAW
The moves represent the most worrying regressions of our recent history, said Mauricio Guetta, a lawyer for Socio-Environmental Institute, a Brazilian non-governmental group... READ MORE›
DOZENS KILLED IN PRISON RIOT IN BRAZIL CITY OF MANAUS
In another prison in Amazonas, 87 inmates escaped in the first hours of Monday, Fonte said... READ MORE›
MACAP JOURNAL THERES NO LAW ON THE AMAZON RIVER PIRATES TERRORIZE SHIPS BY NIGHT
Macap Journal Theres No Law on the Amazon River Pirates Terrorize Ships by Night... READ MORE›
BERTA CACERES MURDER: INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS LAUNCH NEW INVESTIGATION
Her murder triggered widespread international condemnation, including unsuccessful efforts by US lawmakers to withhold American aid until the government approved an international team of investigators... READ MORE›
GREEK AMBASSADOR 'MURDERED BY WIFE AND HER LOVER'
The envoy, Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was killed on Monday by the officer, Sergio Gomez Moreira, Rio homicide division chief Evaristo Pontes told a news conference on Friday... READ MORE›
PLANE WITH BRAZIL'S CHAPECOENSE SOCCER TEAM CRASHES IN COLOMBIA, 75 DEAD[1]
Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were on board a plane carrying 81 people that crashed in Colombia killing 76 people, police said on Tuesday... READ MORE›
ONCE UNDERFED, BRAZIL'S POOR HAVE A NEW PROBLEM
Once underfed, Brazil's poor have a new problem obesity... READ MORE›