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  • CNN Reporter Bruna Macedo Mugged at Knifepoint During Live Report

    07/02/2020 10:47:59 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/02/20 | Pam Key
    0:55 Live on CNN Brasil, reporter Bruna Macedo was robbed at knifepoint during her report on rising water levels from heavy rain at Bandeiras Bridge in São Paolo on Saturday. Macedo greeted the man, who pulled out a knife. As Macedo stepped back, the camera cut to the scene of a rain-soaked street. Macedo then handed the robber two mobile phones. After the robbery, host Rafael Colombo said, “It was impossible to understand at the time what was happening if it was a homeless person passing by. But after what happened, we cut the image.” He continued, “He threatened, and...
  • World Cup 2014: Monorail partial collapse kills one in São Paulo

    06/10/2014 8:04:54 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 06/10/2014
    One person dies and at least two others are injured after a beam falls at the construction site of a monorail project in São Paulo. One person has died and at least two others were injured after a beam fell at the construction site of a monorail project in São Paulo, it was reported. The accident happened at around 5.20pm local time on Monday in the south of the city, which is due to host the opening match of the World Cup on Thursday, according to news website G1. The monorail had been due to be finished and running before...
  • Murder Rates Have Climbed So High In São Paulo That Residents Fear Being Out After Dark

    11/17/2012 12:00:15 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 11/17/2012 | The Economist
    BETWEEN 1999 and 2011 São Paulo's murder rate fell by almost three-quarters, turning what had been one of Brazil's most dangerous states into one of its safest. Now the violence is rising again. In the past two months more than 300 people have died in the state capital in an undeclared war between police and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), a drugs gang, twice the tally for the same period last year. More than 90 police officers have been slain since January; the total for 2011 was 56. This year looks certain to close with the state murder rate...
  • More Than a Million Evangelical Protestants Stage Gigantic Rally in Sao Paulo

    05/26/2005 8:05:37 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 86 replies · 1,412+ views
    Associated Press ^ | May 26, 2005 | Stan Lehman
    SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - At least 1.5 million evangelical Protestants rallied in the heart of this city's financial district Thursday, demonstrating their growing clout in the world's largest Roman Catholic country. Brazil's 13th "March for Jesus" began Thursday morning as hundreds of thousands of faithful from several evangelical sects walked more than 1 mile from the University of Sao Paulo's School of Medicine to skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista. The number hymn-singing marchers swelled and by the time they reached Avenida Paulista the crowd had grown to 2 million, according to the Reborn in Christ Church that organized the event. Sao...