News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Governor Witzel and Mayor Crivella to Collect Homeless in Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Rio de Janeiro state and municipal governments plan to submit street dwellers to medical evaluations in order to determine potential causes of compulsory hospitalization. ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: The Best Hotels in Rio de Janeiro
A view of Rio de Janeiro from the top of Corcovado mountain ... the Fasano is their hotel of choice. As the first building in Brazil designed by Philippe Starck, the Fasano revolutionized Ipanema with ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Death From Above: The Use of Police Helicopters in Rio de Janeiro
SEE ALSO: Police Exercise License to Kill in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Past use of the helicopters as observation platforms could be defended as part of a coordinated police action. But their current ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Brazil: Rio governor brands rise in police killings as 'normal'
Wilson Witzel's tough-on-crime stance has found favour with many voters concerned by insecurity [File: Adriano Machado/Reuters] Amid a soaring number of police killings in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Historic Villa Riso Lists For $21.2 Million in Rio De Janeiro
Cesarina, who died in 2018 at age 78, was one of Brazil’s pre-eminent pianists ... first São Conrado neighborhood buildings constructed in the nascent town of Rio de Janeiro. The villa offers ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Former Rio de Janeiro governor says he paid $2 million to the Olympics committee to win the fight to host the 2016 games
A former governor of Rio de Janeiro state, who is currently in jail ... "Even if that had happened, corporate corruption is not a crime in Brazil." Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: UFC 237 draws announced 15,193 attendance in Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO – Saturday’s UFC 227 event drew an announced attendance of 15,193. No live gate was announced, which is customary with UFC shows in Brazil. UFC officials announced the tallies at the ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Brazil’s politicians promised to get tough on crime. Now police in Rio are killing nearly 5 people per day
Protests erupted in one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums after police allegedly shot ... crime politicians into office — and has led to a spike in police killings. Brazil’s president, the former army ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Qatar get set for Brazil friendly in Rio de Janeiro
Qatari football players taking part in a training session in Rio de Janeiro yesterday, ahead of Wednesday's friendly against Brazil. The match serves as preparation for the Copa America, which ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: EXCLUSIVE-HOST HOTELS PLANS TO SELL 3 PROPERTIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO, WHERE OCCUPANCY RATES PLUNGED AFTER OLYMPICS -SOURCES
EXCLUSIVE-HOST HOTELS PLANS TO SELL 3 PROPERTIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO, WHERE OCCUPANCY RATES PLUNGED AFTER OLYMPICS -SOURCES ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian newspaper owner killed in ambush in Rio de Janeiro state
Robson Giorno, owner of online newspaper O Maricá in the city of the same name in the state of Rio de Janeiro, was shot three times and killed outside his house on May 25. According to police, Giorno ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Alert: Large Rock in Rio de Janeiro Likely to Fall at Any Moment
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Breaking News out of Vidigal in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A massive rock that had been broken loose by the recent rains and mudslides is due to collapse any minute. ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian journalist Robson Giorno shot and killed in Rio de Janeiro state
São Paulo, May 30, 2019 -- Authorities in Rio de Janeiro must make every effort to find and prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalist Robson Giorno, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Brazil police shoot dead eight in Rio biggest slums
(AFP) AFP, Rio de Janeiro Tuesday, 7 May 2019 Text size A ... whose assassination last year shocked Brazil and prompted major street demonstrations, was from Mare. The city council member was ...
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Brazil police shoot dead eight in Rio favela: official
Brazilian police shot dead eight people in one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest slums on Monday, an official said, just days after figures showed a record number of killings by state officers in the first quarter. "We confirm that eight suspects were killed in an operation in Mare," a police
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Militias Become Luxury Real Estate Barons in Rio de Janeiro
A series of revelations about how militias in Rio de Janeiro are laundering large quantities of money through illegal real estate shines a light on the impunity with which these groups operate and the protection they receive from the state.
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Vinyl Fair Comes to Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo this Sunday
This Sunday, April 28th, The twenty-first Feira de Vinil (Vinyl Fair) will be bringing music enthusiasts to the Beco do Pinheiro in Flamengo from 11AM until 7PM, with over sixty vinyl vendors from both Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in attendance, plus special musical guests, DJs, a Cineclube and much more.
News Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Brazil reports record number of killings by police in Rio state
Police in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state killed a record number of people in the first quarter of the year, an average of five per day, officials said Friday. The period coincided with the first three months of rule by Governor Wilson Witzel, who was elected in large part due to his support for the