Brazil

Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:15 UTC
Brazil has a new Miss Bum Bum: Dai Macedo and her 107 cm behind

The Miss Bum Bum 2013 winner is 25-year-old Dai Macedo of Brazil. Dai Macedo, who was the representative for the state of Goias in central Brazil, was one of fifteen finalists that participated in the competition in Sao Paolo last week.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 06:58 UTC
Brazil's ex-president Jango Goulart remains receive full military honors 27 years later

Brazil on Thursday paid homage to Joao Goulart, ousted as Brazilian president ahead of the 1964-85 military dictatorship, after his remains were exhumed to determine if he was poisoned. The exhumation took place at the Sao Borja cemetery near the Uruguayan and Argentine border, and flown to the capital Brasilia.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 06:54 UTC
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon increased by a third over the past year

Deforestation in the Amazon increased by nearly a third over the past year, according to Brazilian government figures released this week, confirming a feared reversal in what had been steady progress over the past decade against destruction of the world's largest rainforest.
Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:30 UTC
Business climate in Latam receives 'unfavorable' assessment from Brazil's leading foundation

The business climate (ICE) in Uruguay was down in the third quarter of the year, which means the country dropped from position 5 to 7 in the ranking of the eleven economies contemplated in the index elaborated by the Brazilian Getulio Vargas Foundation and Germany's respected IFO.
Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:25 UTC
Brazilian former president Goulart remains exhume for toxicological tests

The remains of former Brazilian President Joao Goulart (1961/1964) were exhumed Wednesday due to suspicions that he may have been murdered on orders of the military regime that once ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.
Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:17 UTC
Brazil politics fat cats to jail confirms the Supreme Court in landmark judgment

In a landmark judgment, Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld more than a dozen jail terms handed down in a political corruption scandal which broke in 2005.
Tuesday, November 12th 2013 - 23:54 UTC
Brazil and Peru seal strong integration and cooperation alliance

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and Brazil's Dilma Rousseff agreed on Monday to promote regional integration and trade as they marked the 10th anniversary of the bilateral strategic alliance. Rousseff arrived Monday in Lima on her fourth visit to Peru since Humala took power.
Monday, November 11th 2013 - 18:48 UTC
“Big Brother” is watching you in Rio do Janeiro: over 700.000 cameras in the city

Rio do Janeiro that will host the 2014 World Cup and the Olympic Games in 2016 is watched by an estimated 700.000 cameras from private security systems, revealed on Sunday O'Globo one of Brazil's main media conglomerates. According to a report from the Electronic Security Systems companies, the market expands 10% annually and there is one camera for every nine 'cariocas'.
Monday, November 11th 2013 - 16:03 UTC
Mid-Atlantic ridge with iron-rich waters extending from Brazil to Namibia discovered

At the slow-spreading mid-Atlantic ridge in the South Atlantic Ocean an iron cloud spreads for more than 1,000 kilometers across the Atlantic from west of Namibia, Africa, to northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The iron-rich waters flow 1,500 to 3,500 meters beneath the surface of the ocean. The complete extent and shape of the iron plume remains to be discovered.
Monday, November 11th 2013 - 13:21 UTC
Brazil's 2013/14 crop estimated to reach in excess of 192.4 million tons

Brazil's coming 2013/14 grains and oilseeds harvest has been estimated between 192.4 and 196.6 million tons with an increase in the range of 3% to 5.3% over the previous crop which reached 186.8 million tons.