http://www.mail.com/locations/2270-brazil.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/2270-brazil.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862470-bolivia-mining-town-erects-huge-statue-virgin.html ORURO, Bolivia (AP) — The Carnival celebrations in this Andean mining city already rival Brazil's Rio de Janeiro for color and culture, if not for size. Now Oruro has erected a huge statue of the Virgin Mary that's a little taller than Rio's famed Christ the Redeemer. Oruro formally dedicated the new statue Friday as it kicked off its Carnival celebration... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862470-bolivia-mining-town-erects-huge-statue-virgin.html 2013-02-01T17:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1859432-brazil-nightclub-fire-prompts-regional-reaction.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities inspected and shuttered night spots around the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces after a deadly nightclub fire left 235 people dead and shocked the nation. Officials in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico followed Brazil's example and tightened scrutiny on their own nightclubs. ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1859432-brazil-nightclub-fire-prompts-regional-reaction.html 2013-01-31T20:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855590-brazil-nightclub-owner-blames-country-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to "the whole country," as well as to architects and inspectors charged with making sure the building was safe, his lawyer said Wednesday. Attorney Jader Marques said his client, Elissandro Spohr, "regretted having ... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855590-brazil-nightclub-owner-blames-country-fire.html 2013-01-30T23:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1854380-mexico-breaks-up-alleged-border-sex-slavery-cult.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, Mexican immigration authorities said Tuesday. The "Defensores de Cristo" or "Defenders of Christ" allegedly recruited women to have sex with a Spanish man who claimed he was the reincarnation of Christ, according to an... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1854380-mexico-breaks-up-alleged-border-sex-slavery-cult.html 2013-01-30T08:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852862-brazil-police-outdoor-flare-started-club-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, according to a police inspector leading the investigation into this weekend's deadly blaze. Inspector Marcelo Arigony told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that members of th... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852862-brazil-police-outdoor-flare-started-club-fire.html 2013-01-30T01:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this Brazilian college town. It was grubby and wrinkled, as Halana Pinheiro Rubim alternately smoothed it out on her knees, tracing out the names, then clutched it and cried. "Luiza Al... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html 2013-01-29T23:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1855032-fallout-nightclub-fires.html Investigators are determining the causes of a nightclub fire that killed at least 234 people in southern Brazil early Sunday, with criminal charges and other consequences likely. Here's a look at the legal and political fallout from some of the biggest nightclub fires of the past two decades: — A 2009 fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, kill... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1855032-fallout-nightclub-fires.html 2013-01-29T22:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852340-alarm-1-exit-brazil-nightclub-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The nightclub Kiss was hot, steamy from the press of beer-fueled bodies dancing close. The Brazilian country band on stage was whipping the young crowd into a frenzy, launching into another fast-paced, accordion-driven tune and lighting flares that spewed silver sparks into the air. It was another Saturday night in Santa Maria, ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852340-alarm-1-exit-brazil-nightclub-fire.html 2013-01-29T03:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851210-neglect-errors-to-blame-brazil-nightclub-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — There was no fire alarm. There were no sprinklers or fire escapes. And when a band member tried to put out a fire that had been started by pyrotechnics, the extinguisher didn't work. All the elements were in place for the tragedy at the Kiss nightclub early Sunday. The result was the world's worst fire of its kind in more than a... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851210-neglect-errors-to-blame-brazil-nightclub-fire.html 2013-01-28T20:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850734-arrests-brazil-fire-funerals.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian police say they've made three arrests and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people. Inspector Ranolfo Vieira Junior said at a Monday press conference that the arrests are for investigative purposes. He says the detentions have five-day limits. He declined to ident... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850734-arrests-brazil-fire-funerals.html 2013-01-28T13:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1848980-brazil-nightclub-fire-kills-than-230-people.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The bodies of the young college students were found piled up just inside the entrance of the Kiss nightclub, among more than 230 people who died in a cloud of toxic smoke after a blaze enveloped the crowded locale within seconds and set off a panic. Hours later, the horrific chaos had transformed into a scene of tragic order, wi... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1848980-brazil-nightclub-fire-kills-than-230-people.html 2013-01-28T06:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1848786-world-gun-rules-results-vary-wildly.html OOI, Japan (AP) — After a tragedy like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the statistic is always trotted out. Compared to just about anywhere else with a stable, developed government — and many countries without even that — the more than 11,000 gun-related killings each year in the United States are simply off the charts. To be sure, ther... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1848786-world-gun-rules-results-vary-wildly.html 2013-01-28T00:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1849686-brazil-blaze-recalls-pain-ri-fire-survivors.html Argentina, a year later. Thailand in 2008. Russia in 2009. For survivors of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that was one of the deadliest in U.S. history, the fire in Brazil that killed hundreds Sunday is the latest in a series of reminders that no matter how far away, those who ignore the lessons of their tragedy can pay a horrible cost. ... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1849686-brazil-blaze-recalls-pain-ri-fire-survivors.html 2013-01-27T20:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847420-europes-emigrants-face-red-tape-latin-america.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Geologist David Rodriguez and actress Cristina Pascual, two of the nearly six million Spaniards left jobless in the European recession, fled to Latin America last year, figuring their futures would be brighter in the booming economies on this side of the Atlantic. Instead, they found themselves stuck, facing so many bureaucratic hur... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847420-europes-emigrants-face-red-tape-latin-america.html 2013-01-26T05:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847174-brazil-bar-codes-sidewalks-tourist-info.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city. The first two-dimensional bar codes, or QR codes, as they're known, were installed Friday at Arpoador, a massive boulder that rises at the en... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847174-brazil-bar-codes-sidewalks-tourist-info.html 2013-01-26T02:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1843178-republic-airways-buys-jets-brazils-embraer.html SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian planemaker Embraer said Thursday it signed a contract with Republic Airways Holdings Inc. for the sale of 47 E-175 passenger jets for an estimated US$2 billion. Embraer says in a statement that the agreement includes options for an additional 47 aircraft, which would bring the total value of the deal to approximately US$4 billio... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1843178-republic-airways-buys-jets-brazils-embraer.html 2013-01-24T16:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1838258-rio-de-janeiros-favelas-find-place-city-maps.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Look at most maps of Rio de Janeiro. The beaches are easy to spot, as are the iconic ocean-front neighborhoods of Copacabana and Ipanema. In the middle is a vast forest. What's less identifiable are the blank swaths with no streets, landmarks or other signs of human habitation. Those spots are in fact some of the city's densest neigh... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1838258-rio-de-janeiros-favelas-find-place-city-maps.html 2013-01-22T17:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1837658-brazil-police-inspector-removed-post.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Rio de Janiero police inspector has been removed for making disparaging remarks about female officers on his Twitter account. Inspector Pedro Paulo Pontes Pinho tweets that he has "14 women under my command and only one has the talent, courage and determination needed for police work." Martha Rocha is the head of Rio's civil police... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1837658-brazil-police-inspector-removed-post.html 2013-01-22T14:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1830558-brazil-judge-orders-50-shades-grey-removed.html SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge has ordered the erotic trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" taken off the shelves of bookstores in the city of Macae, or at least wrapped to prevent minors from opening them. A statement by the Rio de Janeiro State Judiciary Department says Judge Raphael Queiroz Campos issued the order after he saw children in one of city's bo... Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1830558-brazil-judge-orders-50-shades-grey-removed.html 2013-01-18T21:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1830308-with-olympics-mind-rios-love-hotels-clean-up.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One worker strips mirrored paneling off the ceiling, as another pries up the fiberglass shell of a whirlpool bath. A third man takes a sledgehammer to a life-size statue of Venus de Milo posing topless with a swirl of plaster robes hanging from her waist. The Shalimar love hotel is going family-friendly. Like about a third of the cit... Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1830308-with-olympics-mind-rios-love-hotels-clean-up.html 2013-01-18T17:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1824580-brazilian-website-creates-fake-girlfriends.html SAO PAULO (AP) — Want to make your ex-girlfriend jealous? Need to show your friends you are in a serious relationship when you aren't? A Brazilian website says it has the answer: fake girlfriends. NamoroFake.com.br says that for 40 reals ($20) it will create a fake girlfriend and post her profile on Facebook during seven days. Without revealing numbers, t... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1824580-brazilian-website-creates-fake-girlfriends.html 2013-01-16T14:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1822690-rains-bring-relief-to-brazil-energy-sector.html BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Recent rains have brought some relief to the depleted reservoirs of Brazil's hydroelectric plants but have done little to dispel concerns over the country's ability to fulfill its energy demands for the year. A hotter than usual summer and lack of rain have caused water levels at hydroelectric dams in most of the country to drop to... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1822690-rains-bring-relief-to-brazil-energy-sector.html 2013-01-15T18:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1819568-weather-medium-suspends-deal-with-rio-city-hall.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Meteorologists in Rio de Janeiro will have to go back to predicting weather the old-fashioned way — through traditional scientific methods — after the weekend resignation of a medium who says she can tap into an ancient spirit to figure out when it's going to rain, and even control weather patterns. Medium Adelaide Scritori ended her... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1819568-weather-medium-suspends-deal-with-rio-city-hall.html 2013-01-14T17:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1819770-shooter-kills-2-brazil-pre-carnival-party.html SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police are searching for a gunman who fired into a crowd at a pre-Carnival street party, killing two and wounding 10 other people. Such violence is highly unusual before and during Carnival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors annually. A police spokesman in the city of Novo Friburgo, about 80 miles (130 kil... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1819770-shooter-kills-2-brazil-pre-carnival-party.html 2013-01-14T16:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1817346-rio-slums-no-go-to-must-buy.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Five years ago, Rio de Janeiro's "favela" hillside slums had such a bad rap that they were virtual no-go zones, where drug lords laid down the law and outsiders set foot at their peril. But since 2011, police have seized control of dozens of favelas from drug gangs, and things have changed so dramatically that some of the slums are n... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1817346-rio-slums-no-go-to-must-buy.html 2013-01-13T13:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1816358-brazil-indigenous-squatters-resist-eviction.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in riot gear surrounded a settlement of indigenous people next to Rio de Janeiro's storied Maracana stadium on Saturday, preparing to evict them as soon as an expected court order arrived. The site commander, police Lt. Alex Melo, explained officers were "waiting for the order, and understand it can come at any time." But the ... Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1816358-brazil-indigenous-squatters-resist-eviction.html 2013-01-12T21:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1814372-brazil-police-artists-death-suicide.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Artist Jorge Selaron may have taken his own life by setting himself on fire on the very steps of his masterpiece, a brilliantly colored public staircase that became a symbol of Rio de Janeiro, the homicide police chief said Friday. The body of Selaron, a Chilean who had adopted Rio as his home, was found early Thursday morning lying ... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1814372-brazil-police-artists-death-suicide.html 2013-01-11T19:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1812208-artist-selaron-dead-work-brazil.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The candy-colored steps of a staircase in Rio's bohemian neighborhood of Lapa were the life work of Chilean artist Jorge Selaron and a symbol of his adopted city. On this gray, rainy Thursday, they became his memorial. The painter, who turned the 215 steps into a kaleidoscope of brightly hued tiles from all over the world, transformi... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1812208-artist-selaron-dead-work-brazil.html 2013-01-10T23:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1811856-brazil-hacker-posts-alleged-data-ex-president.html BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A hacker has posted what appears to be private information of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the Internet to protest a major corruption scandal which he says "will end in nothing." The addresses of properties said to be owned by Silva, phone numbers, companies registered in his name and his taxpayer number were poste... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1811856-brazil-hacker-posts-alleged-data-ex-president.html 2013-01-10T18:17:00Z