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Rio police tear gas thousands at protest demanding health care and education
Police deployed tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse around 3,000 protestors from outside Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium ahead of the Confederations Cup match between Italy and Mexico on Sunday. The demonstrators were attempting to enter the stadium in protest at the vast sums of money spent on the…
Rio mayor sorry for punching man in face after being called ‘turd’
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro apologized on Monday after punching a constituent in the face for calling him the Portuguese equivalent of “excrement.” According to 247 Brasil, Mayor Eduardo Paes was dining at the Japanese restaurant Yumê in the Jardim Botanico neighborhood when Bernardo Botkay called him a “turd.”…
Forget feathers and beads: At Basel’s carnival Fasnacht, it’s all about politics
Forget feathers and beads: At Basel's carnival Fasnacht, it's all about politics New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Venice: All play host to the annual glittering, colorful, and wild extravaganza known as Carnival. But in Basel, Switzerland, the world’s only Protestant masque, celebrations take on a new twist – they get…
Mass ceremony in Brazil’s Rio celebrates same-sex unions
Nearly a hundred same-sex couples in Rio de Janeiro legalized their unions — to a status just shy of marriage in the Latin American country — in a group ceremony Sunday, local media reported. The 92 couples pledged themselves to “stable unions,” though the G1 web site noted the ceremony…
Rio’s iconic cable car extends service on 100th anniversary
Rio’s famed Sugarloaf cable car, one of the world’s most visited tourist landmarks, fetes its 100th birthday Saturday with plans to extend its service to other neighboring hilltops. Inaugurated on October 27, 1912, the cable car ferries visitors to the top of the Sugarloaf Mountain, the 395 meters (1,250 feet)…
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…
Brazil to deploy world’s first floating oil terminal
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras said Tuesday it will deploy the world’s first floating oil terminal capable of refueling tankers on the high seas. “The new technology will ensure lower costs, by reducing the distance covered by oil transport vessels,” the company said in a statement.…
Brazil drug gangs move to ban crack
Crack is whack, and even the most powerful drug gangs in Rio aren’t disputing that fact. Amid a painful and violent uptick in crack-cocaine usage and facing increasingly successful police strategies pushing them out of the favelas, the most powerful drug gang in Brazil’s capital of Rio de Janeiro has…
UN aims at universal access to clean energy by 2030
RIO DE JANEIRO — UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday outlined plans at the Rio+20 summit to provide universal access to energy by 2030, with tens of billion of dollars in funding from business and investors. The initiative aims to ensure universal access to clean and efficient energy for 1.3…
Smarter lighting would save $110 billion, summit told
RIO DE JANEIRO — Efficient lighting would save $110 billion a year worldwide, according to a UN-led study published at the Rio+20 summit on Thursday. Yearly savings in phasing out incandescent bulbs and making other simple changes would amount to around five percent of global electricity consumption, it said. It…
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