Tag: Maranhao

• Thursday, April 29th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  STF magistrate rules census must go ahead in Brazil

  

  Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Marco Aurélio Mello Wednesday acquiesced to an appeal from the northeastern State of Maranhão and order the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro to carry out a national census.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Outrage in Brazil at the killing of an indigenous “guardian of the forest”

  

  Activists expressed outrage on Sunday at the killing of an indigenous “guardian of the forest” in Brazil's Amazon and called on the government to thwart illegal loggers in the region. Paulo Paulino Guajajara and another tribesman, Laercio Guajajara, were ambushed by loggers late Friday as they patrolled the Arariboia territory in the northeastern state of Maranhao.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  Some 50 armed men storm a town and empty two banks in the north of Brazil

  

  A gang of some 50 armed individuals attacked on Sunday night two banks, as well as military and police barracks, in a city in the northeast of Brazil, burning vehicles and causing a shooting that left three suspects dead.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2013 - 09:06 UTC

  Brazil's worst rocket launch tragedy had French spies as 'potential culprits'

  

  Brazil’s intelligence agency monitored French spies it suspected of involvement in the 2003 explosion at a satellite launch base, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper said Tuesday, and though it was finally determined they played no role.