Tag: rio

Brazil’s Carnaval: Easy on the Eyes, Hard on the Heart

Seven of Rio’s top-tier samba groups wrapped up their parading Monday morning, driving out ...

Stones Roll Their Biggest Show Ever in Rio, Brazil

Just a week before Carnaval, the Rolling Stones drew an estimated one and a ...

American Journalist Warns Against Rio, Brazil, Until City Becomes Safer

American Stefanie Michaels, international travel expert and journalist returned from Brazil this month with ...

Brazil: Rio Wants All Buses Running on Biodiesel by the 2007 Pan American Games

A pilot bus run on biodiesel, a mixture that is 95% diesel oil and ...

20 Minutes and Tickets for Brazil’s Carnaval Were Gone

Tickets for Rio’s famous Carnaval parade, the centerpiece of Brazil’s annual pre-Lenten festival, sold ...

Brazil Earmarks US$ 164 Million for Pan American Games Security in Rio

Over the next two years the Brazilian federal government plans to spend US$ 164.63 ...

Progress Killed Carnaval in Brazil

The “Tríduo momesco” (King Momo’s Triduum) was the dressed-up name, pretentious.  It became inappropriate ...

Brazil’s Carnaval: a Primer

Carnival is Rio’s main event. It happens at the peak of summer, when Cariocas ...

Brazil: In Morrinho the War Never Ends

It’s midmorning in Morrinho. Three figures peer down from a concrete rooftop at the ...

With an Eye on Tourism Brazil Fights Crime

The president of the Brazilian Tourism Agency (Embratur), Eduardo Sanovicz, said that various measures ...