2011年6月19日星期日

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazilian demonstrations call for legal marijuana (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:43 PM PDT

Two women hold an allusive sign during the March for Freedom to demand the legalization of the use of marijuana on June 18 at the Copacabana beach promenade in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian demonstrators held marches on the weekend calling for marijuana to be legalized after the country's top court ruled the gatherings could go ahead in the name of freedom of speech.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)AFP - Brazilian demonstrators held marches on the weekend calling for marijuana to be legalized after the country's top court ruled the gatherings could go ahead in the name of freedom of speech.


Police, soldiers take over Rio slum (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:17 PM PDT

Officers from the Military Police's Special Operations Batallian (BOPE) advance through Rio de Janeiro's Morro da Mangueira shantytown. Hundreds of Brazilian police and soldiers backed by helicopters and armored vehicles swept in Sunday to take over a crime-ridden Rio slum as part of a pacification plan ahead of the football World Cup in 2014.(AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)AFP - Hundreds of Brazilian police and soldiers backed by helicopters and armored vehicles swept in Sunday to take over a crime-ridden Rio slum as part of a pacification plan ahead of the football World Cup in 2014.


Brazilian police aid threatened farmers in Amazon (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:32 AM PDT

AP - Members of Brazil's national police force are protecting the families of small farmers receiving death threats after a series of killings apparently linked to the conflict over land and logging in the Amazon.

Police raid Rio slum to secure Maracana stadium (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:09 AM PDT

AP - Brazilian police are raiding another slum dominated by drug trafficking gangs in an ongoing program to bring peace to areas near Maracana stadium ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

Brazil land barons seen behind Amazon killings (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:43 AM PDT

Handout picture taken in 2011 in the state of Para, northern Brazil of Amazon rainforest activists Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, 52 (left) and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, 51. The couple were ambushed and shot dead in southwestern Para, on May 23, 2011.(AFP/Ho)AFP - Nearly a month after the murder in Brazil's Amazon of an activist couple believed to have been threatened by land and logging barons, the investigation has gone nowhere.


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