Brazilians Are Getting Fatter, Obesity Rates Up
Come on Brazil, you are killing me softly baby! You are letting Rio de Janeiro become just another over-priced and an over-commercialized Brazilian “South Beach Miami”, you have occupied the favelas with what seems like no real plan to bring about substantial and long-term change for residents past the World Cup and The Olympics, you [...]
Police Capture “Blonde Gang” Ring Leaders (VIDEO)
Only in Brazil will you find a gang of hot blonde stick up chicks. The “Blonde Gang” is a group of attractive, educated, middle class blondes that are suspected of committing more than 50 kidnappings and robberies around Sao Paolo. Police have caught the suspected ringleaders, a Brazilian couple who went on the run changing up their appearances to try and avoid being captured.
Feds File Charges For Crimes Committed During Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
Brazilian Federal prosecutors have just announced that they will be filing charges for abuses that were committed during Brazil’s 20-year military dictatorship rule. The prosecutors first action will be the filing of five kidnapping charges against Sebastiao de Moura, a retired military colonel involved in repressing the leftist Araguaia guerrilla movement in the Amazon between [...]
Ricardo Teixeira, Head of Brazilian Soccer Federation Calls It Quits
Ricardo Teixeira the Head of the Brazilian Soccer Federation and the 2014 World Cup Organizing Committee has officially called it quits. His letter of resignation was ready today by the new guy on the job, Sao Paulo Governor Jose Maria Marin. Teixeira had just taken a leave of absence last week, but this announcement made [...]
Locals Save Trapped Dolphins in Arraial do Cabo (VIDEO)
This is a really cool video caught by German tourist Gerd Traue who just happened to be at the right place at the right time when he was in Arraial do Cabo, Brazil. Gerd was able to film this footage of a pod of about 30 dolphins who came to close to shore and got trapped in shallow water
Police In Salvador May Have Executed 30 Civilians
I just read a shocking report by CBS News that law enforcement officials in the state of Bahia and city of Salvador may have executed up to 30 civilians in cold-blood. The police strike in Bahia State lasted for 12 days and sent the area in a state of chaos with murders, lootings, and roving [...]
Help Us Stop The Belo Monte Dam Project
Our friends over at Avaaz.org are asking for your help in stopping the Belo Monte Damn Project in Brazil’s Amazon and we fully support their efforts. Here’s what is happening according to Avaaz… Belo Monte would be a project bigger than the Panama Canal, flooding at least 400,000 acres of rainforest, displacing 40,000 indigenous and [...]
Rio de Janeiro Police Strike Is Over!
The state police strike that started last Thursday in Rio de Janeiro has ended yesterday and police are returning to work right before Carnival kicks off this week. Police throughout Brazil had been striking for better pay and benefits. The state legislature did vote to give Rio police a staggered 39 percent raise right before [...]
Two Journalist Murdered In Less Than A Week
This past Thursday the body of 50 year-old, Brazilian journalist Mario Randolfo Marques Lopes was found in the city of Barra do Pirai, located in Rio de Janeiro State. Lopes was the editor of Vassouras na Net. The details of the incident are still sketchy, but Lopes and his girlfriend Maria Aparecida Guimarães were both [...]
