Tag: Rio

Disneyland? No, Happiest Place on Earth is Rio, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, in southeast Brazil, tops the Forbes list of the world's happiest ...

Boom Times for Rio, Brazil: US$ 70 Billion to Be Invested in 3 Years

Exploration of oil in Campos Basin, the Petrobras investment, the construction of the Angra ...

Study of a Murder in Rio, Brazil

This is the story of a “victim” of sorts, in the bawdy, colorful, often ...

Brazil Vows Inspiration and Social Change If Chosen to Host 2016 Olympics

During a presentation for Olympic Family members and international sports figures at Sport Accord ...

Brazil-EU Summit to Be Held in Rio, in December

Brazil and the European Union are going o promote their second joint summit on ...

World Cup: Rio, Brazil, Gets US$ 25 Million to Repair Its Roads

In preparation for the 2014 World Cup to be held in the city of ...

Big Oil in Brazil Opposes Rio Threat to End Tax Exemption

An initiative by Rio de Janeiro state government to withdraw from Brazil's nation-wide treaty ...

Police agents in Rio, Brazil, on favela shootout

All Is Peaceful in Rio, Brazil, After a 25-dead Bloody Tuesday

After a day that saw 25 people dead, most of them gang members according ...

João Hélio Fernandes, the 6-year-old boy killed in Rio, Brazil

Medieval Murder in Brazil Highlights Rio Brutality

With only days remaining until the start of Carnaval, and after weeks  of  escalating ...

Rio Body Count, a site in Brazil to measure violence in dead people

Rio, Brazil, Gets Its Own Body Count Site: 44 Dead in 4 Days

Like US General Tommy Frank, who told reporters covering the Iraq war, "We don't ...