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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 10:49 UTC

Tag: Sao Paulo

  • Monday, August 26th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Arson suspected: Lula holds emergency meeting to address unusual number of fires

    The unprecedented number of fires in São Paulo is believed to have been caused deliberately

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday held an emergency meeting with Environment Minister Marina Silva to discuss the crisis triggered by a large series of fires in the state of São Paulo and elsewhere believed to be the result of arson. Two suspects were arrested this weekend.

  • Tuesday, August 13th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Scammers pose as relatives of Voepass victims to ask for money

    Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira e Costa met Monday with relatives of the victims of the crash

    São Paulo's Attorney General (MPSP) Monday took down 12 fake social media profiles claiming to be relatives of victims of the doomed Voepass flight to ask for monetary assistance, Agencia Brasil reported. The scammers used photos of the victims in the process, it was also explained. The maneuver was detected with assistance from the MPSP's virtual crimes CyberGaeco unit.

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Passenger misses doomed Voepass flight for drinking coffee

    “He was doing his job and he saved my life,” the survivor told a local TV crew )TV snapshot)

    Passenger Adriano Assis got delayed drinking coffee and missed the boarding call for the Voepass Linhas Aereas flight that plunged to the ground some 89 kilometers from its final destination at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport. Hence, the total number of casualties was corrected to 61 (57 passengers and 4 crew members) instead of 62.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:33 UTC

    Covid-19 cases on the rise in Sao Paulo and in the region

    It is possible to have both viruses at the same time: Covid-19 and dengue

    Authorities in the city of São Paulo have reported that the number of Covid-19 cases more than tripled between the first epidemiological week of 2024 (Dec. 31, 2023, to Jan. 6, 2024) and the sixth (Feb. 4 to 10) after growing from 881 detections to 3,443, according to the interactive panel of the Municipal Health Department (SMS).

  • Monday, November 27th 2023 - 08:07 UTC

    Brazilian drug gang goes global, The Economist reports

    Gakiya said he was targeted by the PCC

    According to an article in The Economist last week, Brazil's largest drug gang now has links throughout Europe. The First Capital Command (PCC), a gang officially born after a deadly football match between prison inmates in São Paulo in August 1993, has grown to some 40,000 life members and another 60,000 “contractors,” which would make it one of the world's largest criminal groups.

  • Thursday, November 16th 2023 - 09:59 UTC

    Heat and negligence leave 2-yr-old dead in São Paulo

    The victim was forgotten inside the school bus in scorching heat all day long

    Two-year-old Apollo Gabriel Rodrigues was pronounced dead on arrival at a São Paulo hospital on Wednesday after being neglected by the school bus driver and his wife, who left him in the vehicle all day in scorching temperatures.

  • Monday, November 6th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    Storm in São Paulo leaves at least 7 people dead

    Parts of the State still have electricity and water supply problems

    Local authorities confirmed Sunday that the death toll from the storm that hit São Paulo last Friday had risen to 7, Agencia Brasil reported. The latest victim accounted for was a crew member of a boat that sank off Ilhabela while two survivors from the same vessel had been rescued, according to the State’s Civil Defense.

  • Tuesday, October 24th 2023 - 09:21 UTC

    New school attack leaves one student dead in Brazil

    “We are appalled at yet another terrible attack in our schools,” São Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas wrote on X

    At least one student was killed and three other people were injured during a shooting spree at a public school in São Paulo, Brazilian authorities said. “During the shooting attack, three students were hit. One student died and three others are being treated at the Sapopemba General Hospital, one of whom was wounded while trying to flee during the attack,” the São Paulo State Governor's office explained in a statement.

  • Saturday, October 7th 2023 - 09:14 UTC

    False bomb threats affect flights from Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires

    Both flights were carrying Argentine fans who supported Boca Juniors against Palmeiras on Thursday evening

    Argentina's Airport Security Police (PSA) Friday enacted its explosives deactivation protocol at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Airport after two flights inbound from Sao Paulo's Guarulhos were said to be carrying a bomb aboard each. Two simultaneous bomb threats were received at the Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 call center, it was reported.

  • Friday, August 4th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Brazil's black movement calls for end to Operation Shield

    “The residents are absolutely frightened, terrified,” said Elaine Mineiro

    After police action resulted in the killing of at least 16 people in Guarujá, where extra-judiciary executions are also said to have taken place, members of the South American country's black movement staged a demonstration Thursday in front of the Public Security Secretariat (SSP) in downtown São Paulo, Agencia Brasil reported.

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