Tag: Sao Pablo

• Thursday, November 22nd 2012 - 18:56 UTC

  Street killings and violence in Sao Paulo knock out the state’s head of security

  

  The head of the Sao Paulo state police who held the post for seven years quit Wednesday amid a surge of deadly violence in Brazil’s largest city and the industrial and financial hub of the country.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  Drug lords continue to challenge Sao Paulo city: 20 killings over the weekend

  

  A wave of killings and attacks which is pounding the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo became even more violent over the weekend with at least twenty homicides reported in the metropolitan area according to the Military Police and Civilian Police releases.

• Monday, November 5th 2012 - 13:10 UTC

  Lawless Sao Paulo: 22 people killed over the weekend including the 90th cop

  

  Law and order seems out of control in Brazil’s largest city and financial hub. To the usual appalling crime statistics follows a rash of police officers killings. This weekend an off duty military police officer was the twenty second murder victim and the 90th killed in the city so far this year.

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2012 - 03:59 UTC

  Despite Dilma, Lula and Cardoso, Sao Paulo city could end with an outsider as mayor

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff joined her mentor Lula da Silva in a political rally in support of the Workers Party candidate for mayor of the city of Sao Paulo in next Sunday’s municipal elections when 140 million Brazilians are registered to vote.

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 09:24 UTC

  Sao Paulo: 46 same-sex couples register their civil union and receive religious blessing

  

  The Brazilian state of Sao Paulo organized a collective ‘gay partnership day’ in which 46 couples had their relationship registered as a civil union, followed by a religious blessing and an all night party.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 03:57 UTC

  Brazilian population increases “one Uruguay” in two years, and totals 194 million

  

  The Brazilian population amounts to 193,946,886 people, according to estimates from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), based on the 2010 Census, as released in Brasilia last week.

• Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 20:02 UTC

  Sao Paulo benefits from Argentina’s lack of “legal and economic security”

  

  The President of Investe São Paulo -the gateway for companies that intend to settle their operations in the Brazilian state- referred to the ongoing foreign investment boom in the neighbouring country is due in part to the “lack of both legal and economic security that Argentina and its government have.”

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Sao Paulo and Santiago, most attractive cities in Latam for urban investment

  

  Brazil’s Sao Paulo is the most attractive city for investments in Latin America followed by Santiago de Chile and Mexico City according to the latest results from a paper by Colombian and Chilean experts released on Tuesday in Bogotá.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 04:19 UTC

  Emirates Airlines inaugurates Dubai-Buenos Aires daily flights 3 January

  

  Emirates Airlines will fly on a daily basis between Dubai and Buenos Aires, with a call at Rio do Janeiro, as of next January 3, it was announced in the Argentine capital by Richard Vaughan Senior Vice-president for Commercial Operations.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 04:11 UTC

  Brazil after billions of dollars to give airports on concession

  

  Brazil’s secretary of civil aviation, Wagner Bittencourt, has confirmed that the government is looking for at least 1.3 billion dollars for the São Paulo–Guarulhos Airport concession.