(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, JUL 24 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made official his candidacy for the presidential elections in early October, today during the Liberal (Pl) party congress in Rio de Janeiro. General and former Defense Minister Walter Souza Braga Netto will be the PL’s candidate for vice president. The advisers to the […]
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Football: Fred greets at the Maracana in front of 63 thousand fans
(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, JUL 10 – At 38 and after 19 in his career, Brazilian striker Fred said goodbye to professionalism with a match in front of Fluminense fans gathered in the legendary Maracana stadium. Entering the field in place of the German Argentine Cano, in the 78th minute of the match against […]
Vidal arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he will sign for Flamengo
(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, JUL 06 – Arturo Vidal, a midfielder who played for Juventus, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Inter, among others, has arrived at the Tom Jobim airport in Rio de Janeiro, where he will meet the Flamengo management for discuss his increasingly probable passage in the ranks of the Rossonero Carioca. Vidal, […]
Smallpox in monkeys: in Brazil the number of cases has risen to 77
(ANSA) – BRASILIA, 04 JUL – In Brazil, the number of infected with monkeypox has risen to 77, mostly people who have entered the country from Europe, while another 29 are under observation: CNN Brasil reports. Sao Paulo, the most populous state, has registered 52 infected, and at least three of them are patients who […]
F1: Piquet apologizes to Hamilton, ‘neguinho’ mistranslated
(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, 29 JUN – Former Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet, three-time F1 champion, apologized “with all his heart” to seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, after calling him “neguinho ‘”. “I sincerely apologize to all the people who have been hurt, including Lewis, who is an incredible driver,” the 69-year-old Brazilian said in a […]
Brazil: More than 500 dengue deaths in five months
(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, JUN 15 – Brazil recorded 504 deaths from dengue in the period from January 1 to June 4, according to the epidemiological bulletin released by the Ministry of Health. The State of Sao Paulo leads the ranking, with 180 deaths. Then come Santa Catarina (60), Rio Grande do Sul (49), […]
Blitz agents in a favela in Rio, girl shot in the head
(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, 02 JUN – A 4-year-old girl was hit in the head by a bullet during a firefight between criminals and police in a ‘favela’ in Rio de Janeiro: little Alice Rocha was hospitalized in serious condition at dawn today at the Miguel Couto hospital, in the south of Rio, where […]
Bolsonaro praises police blitz with 22 dead in Rio favela
(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, MAY 25 – The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, congratulated the police officers of the Special Operations Battalion (Bope) of Rio de Janeiro who yesterday led a blitz against drug trafficking in the favela of Vila Cruzeiro in which 22 people died. “Congratulations to the Bope warriors and the Rio de […]
Brazil: freezing cold, sub-zero thermometers in some states
(ANSA) – BRAZIL, MAY 18 – A wave of polar cold hit São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian states, where the lowest temperatures of the year and even the first snowfalls were recorded. This morning the thermometers recorded 6 degrees in the Greater Sao Paulo regions, the lowest temperature of the year reported […]
Brazil: elections, Bolsonaro equals Lula in Rio in the polls
(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, MAY 18 – Voting intentions are growing for Jair Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro, the second most important state in Brazil, ahead of the presidential elections on October 2: the current right-wing leader, candidate for re-election, he equaled his main opponent, former left-wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with […]