Tag: Rio de Janeiro

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Truckers strike crippling Brazil, despite authorization to use military force to clear highways

  

  A truckers protest over diesel prices that has crippled key sectors of Latin America's biggest economy dragged into Friday night, putting drivers in a standoff with Brazilian President Michel Temer who authorized military force to clear highways. The protest will stretch into its sixth day on Saturday.

• Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

  Military option in Brazil: hard-line ex general with presidential aspirations surfaces

  

  Antonio Hamilton Mourao, a reserve general in Brazil’s military, has joined the Brazilian Labour Party (PRTB) days before the deadline, which would allow him to run for president in the October’s general elections. His registration was made public Wednesday, shortly after presidential hopeful Joaquim Barbosa confirmed that he would not be a candidate in the election.

• Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  If visiting Brazil get yellow fever shots, recommends CDC, outbreak has spread to urban areas

  

  Travelers to Brazil are being warned to vaccinate themselves against yellow fever due to an outbreak of the disease in urban areas, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned in a press release on Friday.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 09:36 UTC

  Rio's military intervention questioned following the killing of a popular councilor and activist

  

  Crying, chanting and screaming in anger, thousands gathered in front of the Rio de Janeiro state legislature on Thursday to say goodbye to a black city councilwoman shot in the head four times, a brazen murder that shocked Brazil and raised questions about the effectiveness of a military intervention in the country's second biggest city.

• Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Temer insists with a vote in Congress on pensions' reform next October

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer said that he could lift the federal military intervention in Rio de Janeiro state by October to allow for a pension reform vote in Congress.

• Wednesday, February 21st 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  “What a shot”, the folklore side of rampant violence in Rio do Janeiro favelas

  

  A viral music video called “What a shot” is stirring debate in Brazil about the glamorization of crime and freedom of expression, as surging crime in Rio de Janeiro has led the government to put troops in charge of security in the tourist city. The hit by Jordana Gleise de Jesus Menezes - known as JoJo Todynho - has spawned myriad parody videos on YouTube since it was released in December.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Brazilian Army law and order experience in Rio, is tempting other states

  

  Brazilian leaders said on Monday that the use of the military to combat rising violence in Rio de Janeiro could serve as a model for other violent areas of Brazil. The armed forces officially took over Rio’s police on Friday under a decree signed by president Michel Temer. The measure still requires congressional approval, and the lower house was to debate it late Monday.

• Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Temer announces the creation of a public security ministry

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer has announced the creation of a public security ministry after giving the military full control over security in crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro. Temer came to the city to meet Governor Luiz Fernando Pezao, several ministers and General Walter Souza Braga Netto, who will lead the operation and who was in charge of coordinating security when the city hosted the 2016 Olympic Games.

• Saturday, February 17th 2018 - 09:42 UTC

  Temer has Rio do Janeiro under full military control to combat gang violence

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer on Friday handed the military full control of security in Rio de Janeiro in an increasingly desperate fight to tame runaway gang violence. Army patrols are already used in Rio's gang-ruled favelas, but a decree signed by Temer will now give the military full control of security operations in Rio state, which the president said had virtually been seized by organized crime gangs.

• Friday, January 26th 2018 - 09:42 UTC

  Massive vaccination, 23.8 million, against yellow fever in Sao Paulo and Rio do Janeiro

  

  Brazil launched a mass immunization campaign that will deliver fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine to residents of 69 municipalities in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The strategic plan for the campaign was developed with support from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It will be the world’s largest vaccination campaign, to date, using fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine.