Brazil struggles to halt murders of Sao Paulo police
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The murder of a female police officer in front of her daughter in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city and financial capital, has increased pressure on President Dilma Rousseff and...
View ArticleRio Olympics, World Cup at risk with royalty bill, governor warns
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is under pressure to veto an oil royalty bill that will slash the revenues of Rio de Janeiro state and put the 2016 Olympics and the 2014 World...
View ArticleBrazil swears in first black supreme court president
Brazil judge Joaquim Barbosa took the oath of office as Brazil’s first ever black head of the Supreme Court on Thursday, in a historic ceremony attended by President Dilma Rousseff and other top...
View ArticleBrazil doctor faces murder charges after allegedly killing patients to open...
Prosecutors believe 56-year-old doctor Virginia Soares de Souza and her team routinely administered muscle relaxants and reduced patients’ oxygen supply while they were on life support, causing them...
View ArticleBrazil’s president Dilma Rousseff addresses nation
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View ArticleProtests continue in Brazil
|| Related Brazil protests explode into mass demonstrations 21/06/2013 00:55 CET Massive protests continue across Brazil 21/06/2013 05:36 CET Young professionals join Sao Paulo protests 21/06/2013...
View ArticleOver 250,000 protesters flood Brazilian streets rallying against corruption...
Demonstrations were punctuated with outbursts of violence in some cities as police cracked down on activists with rubber bullets and tear gas. In the cities of Belo Horizonte and Salvador the protests...
View ArticleNSA spied on Latin America for energy and military intel
Brazilian daily, O Globo, which obtained the cables released by former CIA employee Edward Snowden, published a report on Tuesday detailed the National Security Agency’s initiatives in Latin America....
View ArticleBrazil may reject US fighter jet deal over NSA spying scandal
The US had planned to sell Brazil – a country in the process of revitalizing its Air Force – 36 fighter jets in a deal worth more than US$4 billion. But when US Secretary of State John Kerry meets...
View ArticleNSA spied on Brazil, Mexico presidents – Greenwald
Guardian reporter Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, told Globo’s news program ‘Fantastico’ that a document dated June 2012 shows that Mexican President’s emails were being read through a month...
View Article‘Sept 7 Op’: Brazil protests turn violent as police fire tear gas, rubber...
Demonstrators staged the protest on the downtown avenue where the military was holding its Seventh of September parade. The protesters, many of whom wore masks, invaded stands in the parade area,...
View ArticleNo economic espionage? NSA docs show US spied on Brazil oil giant Petrobras
Brazil’s biggest television network Globo TV reported that the information about the NSA spying on Petroleo Brasileiro SA came from Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who first published secrets...
View ArticleBrazil sees internet superhighway without US patrols
Following shocking revelations that the National Security Agency had gained access to the emails and telephone calls of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, as well as her top advisors, Rousseff...
View ArticleSpying scandal sends US influence on Latin America into nosedive
America for the Americans – this is a cornerstone of United States’ foreign policy. That doctrine, introduced 190 years ago by President James Monroe, means this: foreigners keep out of the US’...
View ArticleUndermining privacy creates self-censorship, eliminates democracy
Speaking at the opening day of the UN General Assembly, Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, has slammed the US for “violating human rights” and “international law” in view of the global cyber...
View ArticleGreenwald, Scahill vow to unmask NSA’s ‘US assassination program’
“The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don’t want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency...
View ArticleNETmundial: Internet must remain free of government meddling and should be...
The two-day forum in Sao Paulo was called by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff following the outrage sparked by allegations of mass global surveillance by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last...
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