Brazil News

Mensalão is the name given to a corruption scheme by which members of the Government used public money and influence to pay Representatives to vote in favor of the Government.
The Attorney General filed a criminal suit charging 40 people of being involved with the scandal.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court accepted the charges against the 40 people; […]

Newspaper O Globo conducted an online survey, by which supporters of Vasco da Gama could vote for the “best Vasco team of all times“; the most voted players were: first, Roberto Dinamite; second, Romário; third, Juninho Pernambucano.
The best Vasco da Gama team of all times was:
1) Barbosa, the goalkeeper. Played for Vasco 12 years, in the […]

Brazil is one of the countries in the World where the action of hackers is most intense. Below, some news about the hackers in Brazil.

August 17th 2007. Police arrests hackers who stole money from bank accounts.

The Police arrested today 29 members of a gang which stole about R$ 10 million (aprox. US$ 5 million) from […]

In July of 2007, the Pan American Games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
During the Games, the news announced that four athletes would have deserted. Two of them are starting new life and career in Brazil.
The other two deserters were boxing fighters, Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz; both had World and Olympic titles; […]

Below, some recent relevant news about Health in Brazil.

August 9th 2007. Strike of doctors in Pernambuco comes to an end. After an strike which lasted almost one month, doctors of public Hospitals in the State of Pernambuco reached an agreement with the Government and will go back to work.

Strikes are not uncommon, but this one […]

Richarlyson, aged 24, is a football player of São Paulo FC, one of the most important teams in Brazil.
By the end of June 2007, there were rumors that a professional football player would declare publicly his homossexuality. A director of Palmeiras, another major team in São Paulo, was being interviewed in a sports show. When […]

There are a few institutions which conduct periodic surveys about the popular ratings of President Lula. Some of the most well regarded institutions are Ibope, Datafolha and VoxPopuli. Apparently, all best practices and statistics models are followed; there are no strong evidences that any institution produces biased survey results. Sizes of the sample for national […]

The University of Shangai, China, released its yearly list of the top 500 Universities in the World. The best University in the World is Harvard, followed by Stanford and the University of California in Berkeley, in the USA. There are 17 American Universities in the top 20; the non-USA ones are Cambridge (#4), Oxford (#10) […]

Some phrases by President Lula. More recent phrases at the top, older phrases at the bottom.

Sept. 1st. 2007. “No one has more ethics and moral than the Worker’s Party“. Lula at the opening of the Worker’s Party 3rd Convention, just a few days after the Supreme Court accepted criminal charges against ex-leaders of Worker’s Party.
August […]

International organization Reporters Without Borders, who advocates freedom of press, made public on August 2nd an “Appeal to President Lula and ruling party chief over media hostile move“.
After a succession of events where the Government showed leniency with corruption and/or administrative incapacity (the last of which was the lack of administrative action which resulted […]