Tag: Rio de Janeiro

• Monday, May 4th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro's anti confinement rally in Brasilia attracts thousands

  

  Brazil's President Jail Bolsonaro railed against the country's lockdown on Sunday in a speech to thousands of anti-confinement demonstrators as the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections passed 100,000, with more than 7,000 deaths.

• Friday, April 24th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  With oil royalties plummeting, Rio state challenged by investment funds

  

  Already grappling with one of Brazil’s most severe outbreaks of the novel coronavirus and a budget deep in the red, Rio de Janeiro state faces a potential threat to its solvency at the hands of investment giants PIMCO and Dodge & Cox.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Drug gangs impose a strict curfew in Rio do Janeiro's favelas to combat “the disease of the rich”

  

  The “baile funk” dance parties have been called off. Some open-air drug markets are closed for business. Gangs and militias have imposed strict curfews. Coronavirus is coming, and Rio de Janeiro's lawless favelas are gearing up for the onslaught.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 08:19 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro authorities order people out of the beaches and closed Christ the Redeemer statue

  

  Anyone hoping to escape wall-to-wall coronavirus coverage with a day at the beach can forget about it in Rio de Janeiro, where authorities armed with megaphones blared out messages on Monday ordering everyone home.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Brazilian football suspended; Flamengo's coach tested positive for coronavirus

  

  Flamengo coach Jorge Jesus has tested positive for coronavirus and is under quarantine in Rio de Janeiro while doctors perform a second confirmatory test, he and his club said on Monday.

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Suspect of killing Rio city council shot dead in the north of Brazil

  

  A suspect in the 2018 assassination of an outspoken Afro-Brazilian member of Rio de Janeiro's city council was shot dead on Sunday after he fired on police sent to arrest him, Brazilian authorities said.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  “Contaminated drinking water” in Rio: run on bottled-water in supermarkets

  

  Widespread complaints over foul-smelling drinking water in Rio de Janeiro have triggered a run on supermarket bottled water, though the public utility denied any health risk on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:25 UTC

  Swiss tourist in critical condition after mistakenly entering a favela

  

  A septuagenarian tourist to Rio de Janeiro is in critical condition from a gunshot wound after mistakenly entering one of the city's favelas. Police said in a statement that they rescued two Swiss tourists injured in a mugging on Sunday night.

• Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Fire bomb attack on Netflix Rio office to protest a special Christmas depicting Jesus as gay and with a boyfriend

  

  Police are investigating a fire-bomb attack on the Rio de Janeiro office of a production company behind a controversial Christmas special aired on streaming service Netflix.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil: Investigation into one of Bolsonaro's sons using public funds to hire “ghost staff”

  

  Brazilian prosecutors have started a new investigation into the eldest son of President Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he embezzled public money by hiring “ghost employees”, officials said.