Tuesday night, a Bope (Rio’s special police force unit) officer was pulled out of his car and shot six times in Rio de Janeiro. The officer died on the scene.
Wednesday morning another three Military Police Officers were killed in Campo Grande, West side of Rio.
If all of this wasn’t bad enough, during Bope’s operations to find [...]
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Tropa de Elite
Posted in Brazil on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
2014 World Cup in Brazil
Posted in Brazil on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
FIFA officially announced this Tuesday that Brazil will be hosting the 2014 world cup.The meeting held in Zurich, Switzerland was attended by Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, several Brazilian senators, and Brazilian soccer personalities (The cost of their trip is covered by the Brazilian government.).The last world cup held in Brazil took place [...]
It rains bullets in Rio
Posted in Brazil on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stray bullets keep raining down on Rio de Janeiro’s future. And in the Marvelous City when it rains, it pours.
Yesterday an 8-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet at her school in Jacarezinho Favela.
Joceline Gomes Paranhos was rehearsing a dance presentation in the school’s soccer court when the bullet hit her in the back.
Gomes’s teachers [...]
Dichotomy Between the Rich and Poor
Posted in Brazil on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
September 14, 2007
Espirito Santo do Pinhal, Brazil
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…Brazil… I love this country so much, it hurts to have to hate it!
Today I was at my house talking to our construction worker and he told me that this guy from Pinhal (My home city) put a 180 000 Reais ($90 000 Canadian dollars) light fixture in his [...]
The Marvelous City in a not so Marvelous War
Posted in Brazil on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last year the Washington Post printed a story on the city of Rio de Janeiro that started as so;
From 2002 to 2006, 729 Israeli and Palestine minors were killed as a result of the violence in Israel and the occupied territories around it according B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group. During the same time period [...]
