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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Thursday, November 21st, President Jair Bolsonaro accused the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel, of manipulating the investigation of the Marielle Franco case and said that his life has "turned to hell" since the election of his former ally. "This is the work of a governor who has […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Four men charged with homophobia were indicted in Rio de Janeiro for bodily injury against three people. The crime occurred after two women kissed across a bar in Flamengo, in the city's South Zone. According to 'Extra', prosecutor Sauvei Lai reported that on the day of the crime, Joao Pedro […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Michel Temer became president, Lula was arrested and released, Jair Bolsonaro was elected, and three and a half years after being impeached, Dilma Rousseff continues her battle to nullify the impeachment proceedings that toppled her from the presidency of the republic. Rousseff describes it as one of her last . […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The three major Latin American engines, on which depend almost two-thirds of the region's GDP (Gross Domestic Product), are at a standstill. Far from Jair Bolsonaro's triumphalism during the campaign, Brazil will barely get its head out of the water and grow 0.8 percent in 2020; Mexico will recover a […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Trade unions, student groups, indigenous peoples and Colombian environmentalists planned a strike on Thursday, November 21st, with marches in the capital and in other cities to reject measures such as labor and social welfare reforms being proposed by president Ivan Duque. Demonstrators demand that the government, which is facing a […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Most people don t have much cause to think about urban planning - until it fails, and city life descends into chaos. Amazing then, to learn that Rio de Janeiro - already one of the most chaotic cities on the planet - is considering an initiative that effectively abandons the fundamental […]

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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - This week the exchange rate between the Brazilian real and the US dollar surged, with the Brazilian currency falling by 0.30 percent on Monday to R$4.20/US$1. But as Brazilians planning to travel abroad over the end-of-year holidays worried about the higher dollar, Brazil s Central Bank remained relatively calm, monitoring how the […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Education Minister Abraham Weintraub said Brazil should finish last in Latin America in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an examination conducted as a sample among 15-year-olds. Coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the assessment results will be released in December. He said that poor […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The presumption of innocence is one of democracy s fundamental components — no country without it can rightly call itself a democracy. Yet, the question has vexed courts the world around, including most recently Brazil, where it may yet cause an institutional crisis. First How: constitutional histories Brazil s 1988 Constitution copied […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Catholic Church in Latin America is now the centerpiece of the "third wave" of child abuse cases, after the first one that broke out in 2002 in the United States and the one that ensued in Europe and Oceania. This is the conclusion of Child Rights International Network (CRIN […]

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