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Fur bikinis? Brazil is new horizon for booming fur trade
PARIS — Fur on Copacabana beach? Why not. Boosted by a 10-year surge in sales to Asia, the global fur industry is primed to take on what it sees as the markets of tomorrow. Hobbled during the anti-fur 1980s and 1990s, the trade has rebounded as all but a few…
Chevron fined $17.5 million over Brazil spill
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian authorities said Monday they were slapping a $17.5 million fine on US oil firm Chevron in connection with a major spill off Rio de Janeiro state last year. Magda Chambriard, director general of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), told a press conference that the new…
In body-conscious Brazil, half are now overweight
One of the world’s most body-conscious countries, Brazil is now threatened by growing obesity rates, with half of the population already overweight. As a result of an unbalanced diet and a rise in more sedentary lifestyles, Brazil, which moved 30 million people out of poverty and into the middle class…
Brazil is world’s largest crack market: study
SAO PAULO (AFP) – Brazil is the world’s largest market for crack and the second for overall cocaine use, researchers from the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) said Wednesday. A survey by UNIFESP’s National Institute of Science and Technology for Public Policy on Alcohol and Other Drugs found that…
Two killed in Brazil slum drug sweep
Two people were killed Saturday during a counter-narcotics operation by an elite police in a Brazilian slum, angering residents who blocked a main road into the city. The mayor’s central operations office in Rio de Janeiro reported that Brasil Avenue, which runs from the international airport downtown, was blocked for…
Amazon tribe massacre alleged in Venezuela
Village of 80 people was firebombed from the air, say activists, by illegal gold miners based in neighboring Brazil A massacre of up to 80 Yanomami Indians has taken place in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas, according to claims emerging from the region, prompting the government to send in investigators.…
Brazil court orders work on Amazon dam suspended
BRASILIA — A federal court in Brazil on Tuesday ordered that work on the huge Belo Monte dam in the Amazon be suspended, saying native communities affected by the controversial hydroelectric project must be heard. The regional federal court ruled that the construction of the dam across the Xingu River,…
Violent disputes over indigenous lands increase across Brazil
SAO PAULO — Violent disputes over indigenous land have been growing across Brazil, sparking heightened militancy by native tribes angered by broken promises of compensation and slower government registrations. A report by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), cited by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper on Sunday, said the number…
U.S. presses Brazil to take larger role in war on drugs
LA PAZ — Brazil should play a more dynamic role in the war on drugs in Bolivia since 60 percent of the latter country’s cocaine winds up in the former, a US diplomat has said. Under the principle of shared responsibility, Brazil should play a bigger part in discouraging Bolivia…
Brazil to breed GM mosquitoes to combat dengue
Brazil said it will breed huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes to help stop the spread of dengue fever, an illness that has already struck nearly 500,000 people this year nationwide. Dengue affects between 50 and 100 million people in the tropics and subtropics each year, causing fever, muscle and…
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