Brazilian soccer coach Scolari low on credit with Brazil bankers
He suggested that bank workers have an easy life compared to his multi-millionaire footballers. Not smart, angering the ruling elite. bertb news feed
View ArticleU.S. Government Lends $105M to Brazil to Build Aquarium.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an agency of the federal government, is lending 5 million to the Brazilian state of Ceara to help build an aquarium in its capital city of Fortaleza. WT news feed
View ArticleBrazil Drought and Heat Waves Raise Risk of Power Rationing.
For the first time since 2002 Brazil may be forced to introduce power rationing, as high temperatures and a relentless drought in the Northeast have severely diminished reservoir levels. President...
View ArticleBrazil landless leader Cicero Guedes shot dead in Rio.
Non-governmental organisations say the number of landless activists killed over the past years has fallen but that the number of death threats issued against them has almost tripled. bertb news feed
View ArticleBrazil: U.S. State Department Employee Strangled at Hotel
This could turn out to be of interest. bertb news feed
View ArticleBrazil in talks with Havana to hire 6,000 Cuban doctors
The Cuban health professionals would be deployed in areas where there is a shortage of medical facilities. Income from Cuban medical staff working overseas, particularly in Venezuela, is a key source...
View ArticleRumors spark bank run, break-ins in Brazil.
Rumors that Brazil’s social security fund called Bolsa Familia was to be cancelled led thousands of people to rush to withdraw money from a Brazilian bank over the weekend. WT news feed
View ArticleBrazil: transport fare increases spark protests (Euronews video)
Hikes in bus and metro fares sparked protests on June 13 in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Thousands of people, many of them students took to the streets. There were some clashes with police. WT...
View ArticleBrazil protests spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio.
Another protest against rising prices. Could it be that the substantial higher oil prices from 2008 onward are only now starting to hurt people worldwide? bertb news feed
View ArticleMass protests expose anger at the way Brazil is run. (Euronews video)
It began as a protest over rising public transport costs but is fast spreading into a far wider revolt — over corruption, public services, and spending on the football World Cup. WT news feed
View ArticleBrazil Contemplating Rebuilding Internet to Dodge NSA
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/08/16/can_a_country_dodge_the_nsa_by_rebuilding_the_internet Interesting News Items
View ArticleGuardian: NSA Spying On World Leaders! Presidents Of Mexico And Brazil At The...
The National Security Agency’s spy program targeted the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents. In the case of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, the NSA accessed the content of his...
View ArticleBrazil Government Backs Natives On Land Demarcation
Brazilian authorities on Friday sided with protesting natives and slammed as unconstitutional an amendment that would give lawmakers authority to approve and demarcate indigenous lands. Conscious Life...
View ArticleBlack Bloc anarchists hijack Brazil teacher protests
The violent scenes in the heart of Rio de Janeiro on Monday night have rather clumsily been blamed on “protesters” in general by the Brazilian media – in particular those organisations which are seen...
View ArticleBrazil crime gang threatens ‘World Cup terror’
Brazil’s powerful PCC crime syndicate has threatened to launch terror-style attacks during the World Cup and presidential polls next year, the daily O Estado de Sao Paulo reports. The Daily Star...
View ArticleBrazil To Build Its Own Email System To Avoid NSA Spying
In the wake of the National Security Agency spying scandal, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff now wants her country to build its own email system in order to avoid spying by the NSA. Rousseff led the...
View ArticleProtesters clash with police in Brazil
Protesters clad in black fight police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo at the close of a march by striking teachers, damaging buildings until they dispersed with tear gas. The Daily Star >> Live...
View ArticleTIDBIT: BRAZIL AND GERMANY UNITE TO DRAFT UN RESOLUTION CONDEMNING NSA SPYING
This is an interesting story: again I won’t comment but to say that I’ve been predicting a slow, gradual German drift into the BRICSA orbit: Brazil, Germany Drafting UN Anti-Spying Resolution To...
View ArticleAt least 11 dead after heavy rains in northeast Brazil
At least 11 people die and six are still missing after torrential rains lash in Brazil’s northeastern Bahia state, a Civil Defense official say. The Daily Star >> Live News
View Article3MIN Earth and Space Weather News Dec 9, 2013: Sahara Dune Shift, Brazil...
Earth and Space Weather News Dec 9, 2013: Sahara dune movement, rain causes landslide in Brazil; Slow ice growth on the Atlantic side of the Arctic, Antarctic ice extent remains high; Earth receives...
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