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Brazil: Whether it's a cultural experience or slum tourism, many tourists now add a trip to Rio de Janeiro's infamous favelas, or shantytowns, to their itineraries. Before 2010, the low-income hilltop neighborhoods were dangerous places controlled by drug...
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America Movil binds Brazil units closer with Wi-Fi offering
ReutersRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Carlos Slim's America Movil subsidiaries in Brazil announced on Thursday a new combined broadband service, increasing their operational integration ahead of an expected corporate merger in the country. Mobile carrier Claro,...Tags: Corporate Officers, Economy, Business and Finance, Carlos Slim, Telecommunication Service, Brazil
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With poor infrastructure and instruction, education woes the Achilles' heel of Brazil growth
Associated PressSEROPEDICA, Brazil (AP) — There's a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other unidentifiable detritus of years'...Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Environmental Issues, Teachers, Conservation, Education
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Brazil port strike enters second day as Congress debates reform
ReutersSAO PAULO (Reuters) - Stevedores at Brazil's Santos and Rio de Janeiro ports entered the second day of a strike to protest proposed legislation that may open terminals to new private-sector investments. The strike began unexpectedly at midday on...Tags: Labor Disputes, Labor Legislation, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Career and Workplace
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Brazil port strike enters 2nd day as Congress debates reform
Reuters* Stevedores at Santos and Rio de Janeiro ports on strike * Stevedores at Paranagua call off strike; port returns to normal * Congress to resume debate over port reform bill Wednesday SAO PAULO, May 15 (Reuters) - Stevedores at Brazil's Santos and...Tags: Labor Disputes, Labor Legislation, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Career and Workplace
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Brazil March oil, gas output falls to lowest in 43 months -ANP
Reuters* Output falls from Petrobras, Shell, Statoil-run fields * BG Group surpasses Statoil to become No. 2 producer RIO DE JANEIRO, May 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's output of oil and natural gas fell in March to its lowest level in more than 3-1/2 years, as...Tags: Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Norway, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, BG Group Plc.
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Catholic church excommunicates Brazil priest for liberal views
Reuters* Priest defends homosexuality, open marriages * Excommunication follows warnings to toe Church line By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO, April 30 (Reuters) - The Catholic Church has excommunicated a Brazilian priest after he defended homosexuality, open...Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Brazil, Francis I, Science and Technology
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Travel Picks: Top 10 street-food cities
ReutersLONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Quick, cheap and chock full of flavor, street food gives hungry passers-by a lot to love in locales around the world. Trying the local open-air fare is also a key ingredient to sampling any city's culture. That's why online...Tags: Breads, Foods and Beverages, Customs and Tradition, Boston, China
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Brazil's OGX to sell 40 pct stake to Lukoil in rescue plan -report
ReutersBRASILIA, April 21 (Reuters) - OGX Petroleo e Gas SA , the flagship of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista's troubled EBX group, is negotiating the sale of a 40 percent stake to Russia's Lukoil in a rescue plan that also involves Malaysia's Petronas, a...Tags: Malaysia, Russia, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Newspaper and Magazine, Brazil
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Remembering the whimsical, electrifying work of a genius
Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at 104, was one of my heroes. Not for his politics, of course — he was, to the...Tags: Building Material, Brasilia (Brazil), Arts and Culture, Brazil, United Nations
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Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104; modernist Brazilian architect
Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...Tags: Arts and Culture, Fidel Castro, Brazil, Robert Hughes, The Washington Post
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As police move in on Rio's favelas, a drug lord seeks amnesty
World NowSAO PAULO, Brazil -– As authorities move to bring some of Rio de Janeiro’s worst slums under their control, the leader of a powerful drug-trafficking gang there has announced he wants to turn over his weapons and the territory he commands to...
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