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/ 27 November 2007
A stadium collapse that killed seven people highlighted the crumbling state of Brazil’s soccer arenas less than a month after the country was chosen to host the 2014 World Cup, architects said on Monday. The victims fell 15m through a 3m wide hole that opened in the concrete stands of the Fonte Nova stadium in Salvador.
The survival of Brazil’s flagship airline Varig is on the line as a group of employees scramble to raise money for a first payment on the carrier, which faces liquidation if the money isn’t paid or another suitor doesn’t emerge. The workers’ group faces a Friday deadline to make the -million payment.
A bankruptcy court judge has postponed Monday’s scheduled auction of Brazil’s debt-ridden flagship airline Viacao Aerea Rio-Grandense (Varig), the company said on Friday. The auction was rescheduled at the request of potential buyers, Varig said in a statement.
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/ 28 February 2006
Rio happily swapped a group of ageing British rockers for scantily clad dancers and the relentless beat of hundreds of drums on Monday as Brazil’s top-tier groups faced off in the yearly carnival’s annual samba parade. For two nights, 14 of the city’s top-tier samba groups present 80-minute parades costing about -million each.
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/ 25 January 2006
Environmentalists were caught off guard when South American leaders announced plans to build a massive natural-gas pipeline through the Amazon rainforest. Proponents say the -billion project, still in early planning stages, would help satisfy the growing regional demand for gas.
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/ 28 January 2005
Plans to build an underwater branch of the Guggenheim museum are dead in the water, Rio’s mayor said on Thursday. ”The first project offered lots of risks, even functional ones since it was a submerged museum,” said Cesar Maia. Plans for the Rio Guggenheim were attacked almost as soon as they were unveiled.
Inmates at a prison near Rio de Janeiro who shot and killed a guard and held 21 hostages agreed on Monday to a fresh round of negotiations with police on how to end the three day-old revolt, which also left nine other jailers and inmates injured. Fourteen inmates managed to escape, three of whom were recaptured by police.