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Brazil is pushing Venezuela to probe the alleged murder of around 80 indigenous people in the country’s remote southern Amazon region. Illegal Brazilian gold miners reportedly crossed the border by helicopter and massacred the area's population. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry asked Venezuela’s government to provide them with information that Brazilian nationals were involved in an attack on Yanomami Indians. In testimony presented to Venezuelan authorities on Monday, Yanomani leaders claimed that illegal Brazilian miners – known as ‘garimpeiros’ – opened fire from a helicopter and threw explosives at a large hut where around 80 people were living. Tribespeople who visited the site of the alleged attack said that they found the charred bodies of the dead and the burnt remains of the hut. “The three survivors of the attack said that the Irotatheri community of approximately 80 people came under attack. This figure has not been confirmed,” Luis Shatiwe, Executive Secretary of the Yanomami Horonami Foundation said. The tribespeople said the attack occurred after the garimpeiros tried to sexually assault some of the Yanomami women, Shatiwe said. “When the Yanomami tried to resist, the miners began to talk amongst themselves and mobilize to attack and destroy the community,” Shatiwe said, citing eyewitness accounts. The alleged massacre was perpetrated in early July, but was only brought to light by indigenous rights groups at the beginning of this week. Prior to now, the isolation of the border region prevented members of the Yanomami tribe from alerting authorities......
ON AUGUST 15th Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, invited private operators to invest in the country’s roads and railways. This week’s issue of The Economist reports on her government’s plans to privatise infrastructure, and explains why this is a moment of truth for the president. It also looks forward to Rio de Janeiro's Olympics, and includes articles on the dwindling fortune of Brazilian magnate, Eike Batista, public transport in Argentina’s capital, and Mexico’s long presidential handover.
The new Transparency Portal is reported to have published the wages of approximately 700000 civil servants of the executive branch of Brazil's government.
DEISE GRAVINA, an engineer by training, had long dreamed of getting women onto Brazil's building sites. But on a continent known for its machismo, that dream seemed far from reality. Though (as we report in this week's ...
So, let's say you're the nation-state of Brazil. And let's say that you're really keen on celebrating this year's exchanging of the national flag at the Praça dos Três Poderes in the capital city. Obviously you're going to need to ...
The Brazilian government says huge hydroelectric projects underway in Amazonia will provide environmentally friendly electricity across the country. The.
Brasilia, June 29 (IANS/EFE) President Dilma Rousseff Thursday unveiled a 115-billion-reais ($57 billion) loan programme aimed at reinforcing agriculture's role as a lever of Brazilian economic growth.
Brazil and China agreed to a R$60 billion currency swap, shoring up their economies and increasing liquidity in the wake of continued global instability.
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Challenging on-site machismo FOR Adriana Graciano, leaving her violent partner meant losing custody of her children to him, since she lacked both a job and a home.
Latin American Herald TribuneBrazilian oil giant cuts output targetsFox NewsBrazil's Petrobras said Monday that it is cutting its crude-oil output projection for 2020 from 4.91 million to 4.2 million barrels per day as part of a move toward ...Brazil...
In Kenya, the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) extended an $80 million (Sh6.7 billion) soft loan to the government to assist in the mechanization of agriculture and $150 million (Sh12.6 billion) for the ...
Brazilian prisoners are now able to shorten their sentences by reading books and writing essays about them. …four days less for every book they read. Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil's most notorious ...
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"Acá se está haciendo un esfuerzo, que no es fácil, de actualizar el modelo y traer cambios que ellos mismos reconocen que son necesarios" para "estimular la economía", y "Brasil busca ayudar en todo ese esfuerzo de modernización", dijo en una entrevista con Efe el embajador brasileño en La Habana, José Felicio. Según el diplomático, durante la visita de Pimentel las partes expresaron también su intención de fijar "un programa de cooperación en el área económico-comercial" para "los próximos cuatro o cinco años" en sectores como la salud o la agricultura. Entre los campos explorados están el envío de médicos cubanos a zonas remotas de Brasil y la transferencia de tecnología por parte de Cuba para la producción de medicamentos que no se producen en la nación sudamericana. A cambio, los brasileños pueden ofrecer asesoramiento en la rotación de los cultivos de maíz y soja, y en la gestión del azúcar con cogeneración de energía eléctrica, entre otros campos. "Toda Latinoamérica tiene una posición unánime en relación al bloqueo" de Estados Unidos a la isla y "la manera de ayudar a reducir los perjuicios de ese bloque es con apoyo económico, financiero", argumentó Felicio. Los primeros detalles del paso del ministro brasileño por Cuba fueron divulgados el jueves por la noche por la televisión estatal de la isla cuando reveló que el funcionario extranjero se acababa de reunir con Raúl Castro al final de una visita al país iniciada el martes.,,,,,
Favela Painting is the amazing social project of Haas&Hahn, the working title of artistic duo Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn.
All mobile carriers operating in Brazil have been recently forbidden to sell discounted smartphones tied to one-year contracts. State institutions have deemed this practice to be a tie-in sale, apparently an unlawful practice in ...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Maceió is the state capital with the lowest percentage of tobacco use in Brazil.
Brazil is considering a request by Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4), the country's state-owned oil company, to increase the amount of ethanol added to gasoline, said two government officials with knowledge of the discussions.
Brazil: Killing of human rights defenders Mr Almir Nogueira de Amorim and Mr João Luiz Telles Penetra. By Frontline Defenders Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com. Mr João Luiz Telles Penetra ...
Daily News 16:27 29 Jun. Brazil's Batista buffeted. THE PORT, energy and shipbuilding empire of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista is feeling heightened pressure from an abrupt drop in investor confidence.
In Brazil, Petrobras may want to return the ethanol blend in gasoline back to 25%, up from the current 20%, in an attempt to help ease gasoline imports. More on the story. Share · Print Friendly ...
Rather than advising governments on what should work, as the west does, Brazil exports success – its south-south co-operation is based directly on what has already workedTechnical advice and capacity building have been central to much of western...
Soares had on Dr. Ricardo Augusto Felicio, a professor at U. of Sao Paulo, specializing in the study of Antarctic climate. His faculty webpage says he engages in 'demystifying anthropogenic climate change and its ideology ...
Ricardo Augusto Felício, 'has a PhD in Geography, by the University of São Paulo, Brazil, study of dynamic climatology in Antarctica · Skepticism spreads to Brazil: 'Mark yet another day in the Diary of How the Skeptics Won.
The South African Senior Men's National Team, Bafana Bafana, has secured an international friendly match against 2014 FIFA World Cup hosts Brazil. This high-profile clash will be played in Sao Paolo, Brazil on Friday, ...
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