brazil incidents

These are a few of the typical headlines from internet articles AND Youtube videos... that I see EVERY year when there is a snowfall in Brazil. Yes, because it DOES snow in Brazil every year. In the Northern Hemisphere Summer, obviously, because it's the Southern Hemisphere winter! :rolleyes...

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-positive-coronavirus-intl/index.html Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. Let's hope this leads to Bolsonaro and Brasil taking the pandemic more seriously.

We've all heard of this guy, right? The guy who does magic tricks to deceive people into thinking he's healing them? Well... one of the guys anyway. Turns out he has a nasty habit of sexually abusing people as well. Miracle healer accused of sex abuse by 300+ women hands himself in

Reads like the plot of a movie.

Right before the 2016 Olympics, the Federal Police of Brazil, with ABIN (the inteligence agency) and the army started an operation called "Hashtag". It was aimed at a local group that was related to ISIS. In April, their facebook, twitter and other social media were being monitored. In July...

The incident is a couple days old but evidences are being revealed which show that the claim of armed robbery in Rio may be a fabricated story. The swimmers have given conflicting statements and the timelines given are messed up. Now there is video of them arriving back at the Olympic Village...

Although people are innocent until proven guilty, his subsequent actions do not sound like those of someone with nothing to hide: Rio venues have been so sparsely filled, I'm surprised he found a market. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37107450

Anyone else been following the political situation in Brazil lately? I've seen some headlines about it, but I admit that my knowledge of what is happening there is pretty shallow. I would like to learn more though. The latest development is that President Dilma Rousseff has been impeached...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karQQb-B8Uk Thoughts etc...?

So what? ;)

When you think Chavez is running out of surprises... A little background first. Every year, Rio holds a parade that comprises 14 samba schools, in a show that lasts two nights. Those samba schools are created and managed, mostly, by slum-dwellers. It is indeed a testament not only of their...

http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Offbeat/0,,2-1343-1347_1449431,00.html How has this guy managed to keep his job? According to a google search on the name of the town, Bocaiuva do Sul, he's banned birth control, handed out free Viagra, and banned smoking in an effort to increase his...