Brazil’s Annual Budget Planning Season
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff summoned her government to the annual ministerial meeting on Monday to take stock of the past...
View ArticleFacebook Overtakes Orkut in Brazil
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Facebook has overtaken Orkut as Brazil’s most visited social networking site, according to analytics firm comScore. The figures...
View ArticleBrazil Public Spending Up 10% in 2012
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Public spending in Brazil increased by 10.7 percent in 2012, according to figures revealed by the Integrated Financial...
View ArticleLula Backs Rousseff for Second Term
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reiterated his support for Brazil’s incumbent president, Dilma Rousseff, to run for...
View ArticleMinha Casa Minha Vida Fraud in Brazil
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Ministry for Cities has announced it is launching an inquiry into accusations that former civil servants defrauded the...
View ArticleRio Police Operations to Secure Cristo
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With the FIFA Confederations Cup and World Youth Day (WYD 2013) set to arrive in Rio, the city has seen pacification operations in...
View ArticleRumor Sparks Mass Withdrawals: Daily
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – A rumor that the Bolsa Família anti-poverty program was set to close led to hundreds of thousands of families withdrawing the state...
View ArticleDilma Rousseff Announced as PT 2014 Presidential Candidate
By George Utley and Maria Creamer, Contributing Reporters RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On June 21st President Dilma Rousseff was officially announced as the Worker’s Party (PT) 2014 presidential candidate...
View ArticleThe Cineclube Screens “Passo a Due”, Saturday, July 19th: Daily
By Sarah Brown, contributing reporter RIO DE JANIERO, BRAZIL – This Saturday “The House” plays host to Cineclube, an event that screens various thought-provoking documentaries which touch upon social...
View ArticleBrazil’s President Rousseff Vows to Fight for Bolsa Familia
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize a project by a House of Representatives delegate...
View ArticleHow Expatriates in Rio de Janeiro Find Home Away From Home
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Living abroad can be challenging at the best of times. However wonderful life is in one’s adopted country, and however acclimated someone...
View ArticleRio Provides Basketball School to 500 Students Across State
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The basketball school Escolinha FlaBasquete, set up by the State Department for Sports, Leisure, and Youth, in partnership with Flamengo...
View ArticleChild Education Center Celebrates 10 Years in Rio’s Complexo da Maré
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The NGO RioSolidario celebrated the ten year anniversary of its children’s education space in Complexo da Maré, having served over 2,000...
View ArticleRio’s American Society Offer Guided Tour Around the Municipal Theater
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This Friday, September 21st, at 4PM, the American Society of Rio de Janeiro are organizing a guided tour in English around Rio’s famous...
View ArticleNew Rio Language Exchange Group ‘Mundo Lingo’ Launches
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – ‘Mundo Lingo’ is a new language exchange group that recently launched in Rio de Janeiro, and which aims to attract expatriates and...
View ArticleBritish Group New York Brass Band Team Up with Favela Brass at Rio’s Carnival
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This Carnival has been a very special one for Yorkshire-based jazz group ‘New York Brass Band.’ For the first time in the band’s history...
View ArticleBusiness Leaders from Cambridge University Visit Rio NGO EduMais
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Friday, March 8th, students of Rio-based NGO EduMais were visited by a team of business leaders from Cambridge University’s Judge...
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Dilma Rousseff Announced as PT 2014 Presidential Candidate
By George Utley and Maria Creamer, Contributing Reporters RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On June 21st President Dilma Rousseff was officially announced as the Worker’s Party (PT) 2014 presidential candidate...
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The Cineclube Screens “Passo a Due”, Saturday, July 19th: Daily
By Sarah Brown, contributing reporter RIO DE JANIERO, BRAZIL – This Saturday “The House” plays host to Cineclube, an event that screens various thought-provoking documentaries which touch upon social...
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Brazil’s President Rousseff Vows to Fight for Bolsa Familia
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize a project by a House of Representatives delegate...
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