Tag: rio
Brazil’s Carnaval: Easy on the Eyes, Hard on the Heart
Seven of Rio’s top-tier samba groups wrapped up their parading Monday morning, driving out ...
Stones Roll Their Biggest Show Ever in Rio, Brazil
Just a week before Carnaval, the Rolling Stones drew an estimated one and a ...
American Journalist Warns Against Rio, Brazil, Until City Becomes Safer
American Stefanie Michaels, international travel expert and journalist returned from Brazil this month with ...
Brazil: Rio Wants All Buses Running on Biodiesel by the 2007 Pan American Games
A pilot bus run on biodiesel, a mixture that is 95% diesel oil and ...
20 Minutes and Tickets for Brazil’s Carnaval Were Gone
Tickets for Rio’s famous Carnaval parade, the centerpiece of Brazil’s annual pre-Lenten festival, sold ...
Brazil Earmarks US$ 164 Million for Pan American Games Security in Rio
Over the next two years the Brazilian federal government plans to spend US$ 164.63 ...
Progress Killed Carnaval in Brazil
The “Tríduo momesco” (King Momo’s Triduum) was the dressed-up name, pretentious. It became inappropriate ...
Brazil’s Carnaval: a Primer
Carnival is Rio’s main event. It happens at the peak of summer, when Cariocas ...
Brazil: In Morrinho the War Never Ends
It’s midmorning in Morrinho. Three figures peer down from a concrete rooftop at the ...
With an Eye on Tourism Brazil Fights Crime
The president of the Brazilian Tourism Agency (Embratur), Eduardo Sanovicz, said that various measures ...
