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BRUMADINHO, Brazil | Search for survivors, despair in Brazil amid dam collapse

BRUMADINHO, Brazil | Search for survivors, despair in Brazil amid dam collapse

BRUMADINHO, Brazil —Jan 27, 2019— Brazilian officials on Sunday resumed the search for hundreds of missing people in the wake of a massive dam collapse, with firefighter crews returning to mud-covered areas after a several-hour suspension over fears that a second dam was at risk of breach.

Authorities evacuated several neighborhoods in the southeastern city of Brumadinhothat were within range of…

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RIO DE JANEIRO | Brazil's da Silva names successor, but will voters follow?

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RIO DE JANEIRO | Brazil's da Silva names successor, but will voters follow?

RIO DE JANEIRO — In a letter from his jail cell, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called on tens of millions of supporters to vote for the man he named to lead his Workers’ Party ticket in October’s presidential election.

“I want everyone who would vote for me to vote for Fernando Haddad for president of Brazil,” da Silva, who Brazilians universally call Lula, said on Tuesday, the deadline for the party to pick another candidate after da Silva’s candidacy was barred. “From now on he will be Lula for millions of Brazilians.”

While long anticipated, the formal designation of Haddad both settled one question and launched another: Will da Silva’s supporters actually listen?

The two men are close in their political views and said to be friends, but for many voters in Latin America’s largest nation they are also very different.

While da Silva is easily the country’s most recognizable politician after being president between 2003 and 2010, Haddad is largely unknown outside of Sao Paulo, where he was governor four years, a liability in a nation slightly larger than the continental U.S. While da Silva is charismatic and has an every-man touch, Haddad is a political science professor turned education minister who comes off as professorial. He also got trounced in his re-election bid as mayor in 2016, raising questions about how well he is at winning over voters.

Haddad, 55, also only begins his campaign in earnest on Wednesday, less than four weeks before voters go to the polls.

Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper university, believes the strength of the party and da Silva’s endorsement will be enough to help Haddad get to a second round of voting. If no candidate gets more than 50 percent on Oct. 7, as expected, the top two finishers will meet in an Oct. 28 runoff.

“He was introduced as the candidate very late, we have to see if there is time for him to get all the votes he needs,” Melo said. Before running for mayor in 2012, Haddad served as education minister under da Silva and his predecessor, President Dilma Rousseff.

He was confirmed as the replacement to da Silva on Tuesday after a meeting of his party’s executive committee in the southern city of Curitiba, where the former president is jailed for a corruption conviction. He will be joined on the ticket by Manuela D’Avila, a member of Brazil’s Communist Party.

Recent polls show Haddad with less than 10 percent of voter intentions, but the party hopes he will now rise with da Silva’s endorsement. The current poll leader is far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro.

A Datafolha poll published on Monday shows Haddad in fourth place, favored by 9 percent support. That was a rise of 5 percentage points in just a few weeks, but still behind Bolsonaro’s 24 percent, left-leaning Ciro Gomes’ 13 percent, centrist Marina Silva’s 11 percent and right-leaning Geraldo Alckmin’s 10 percent.

The poll had a margin of error of 2 percentage points. All the 2,804 voters sampled were interviewed on Monday, days after da Silva’s candidacy was barred by the electoral court and Bolsonaro was stabbed in an incident that might put him in hospital until election day.

The move to put Haddad on the top of the ticket was an acknowledgement that the left-leaning party could not get da Silva on the ballot despite numerous attempts in the courts.

One of the last appeals of the former president was denied by Brazil’s top court after Haddad was announced as his replacement.

Haddad met with da Silva after the decision, then delivered his first speech as the candidate in front the federal police building where da Silva is jailed.

“I feel the pain of many Brazilians who won’t be able to vote for who they want,” he said, standing next to D’Avila and other Workers’ Party heavyweights. “But now is not the time to have your head down.”

Da Silva is serving a 12-year sentence for trading favors with construction company Grupo OAS for the promise of a beachfront apartment. The former president has always denied wrongdoing, arguing this case and several others pending against him are meant to keep him off the ballot.

Da Silva led polls for more than a year, but his candidacy was recently barred by the country’s top electoral court.

The strategy of holding on to da Silva’s candidacy until the last minute caused much internal fighting within the party. Many believed that leaving Haddad so little time to present his case to voters was risky, while others thought it was best to keep da Silva front and center as long as possible.

Since the beginning of the year the Workers’ Party hinted Haddad could be the candidate. When he was named candidate for vice president in mid-August the choice became obvious.

“Haddad and I are like Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez,” da Silva once said, referring to superstar teammates on FC Barcelona’s soccer club. “We play together and we don’t even need to look at each other to know what the other is doing.”

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press

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Brazil's Temer survives corruption vote, but can he lead?

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Brazil's Temer survives corruption vote, but can he lead?

President Michel Temer may have saved his job by convincing a small majority in Brazil’s Congress not to suspend him and put him on trial for corruption, but his scandal-rocked government appears more weakened than ever.

The vote late Wednesday marked the second time in three months that Temer survived a legislative vote that could have suspended him for a trial, but analysts said he has spent so much political capital it raises the specter of a lame duck administration unable to enact a proposed overhaul of pensions and work rules aimed at reviving Brazil’s economy.

“Major structural reforms, such as social security reform, tax reform, further movement on labor, I think those are dead in the water in large part because Temer doesn’t have a whole lot of political capital and legislators have very little incentive after this vote to cooperate,” said Matthew M. Taylor, a professor at the School of International Service at American University and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The 77-year-old Temer spent recent weeks shoring up support, doling out local projects, plum positions and favorable decrees in a successful bid to avoid being put on trial for charges of obstruction of justice and leading a criminal organization. He needed backing from at least a third of the 513 deputies in the Chamber of Deputies — or 171 votes. He easily passed that mark with 251 votes for him, 233 against and the rest abstentions or absences.

“This accusation is fragile, inept and worse than the first one,” legislator Celso Russomanno said while voting in favor of the president.

Earlier in the day, Temer was hospitalized briefly for a urinary obstruction, but emerged smiling and flashing two thumbs up.

But the president didn’t get as much support as he did in an August vote on separate bribery charge, when 263 lawmakers voted in his favor.

In both cases, the number of supporters fell well below the 308 votes, or three-fifths of the chamber, that he would need to pass his big proposals, such as a revamp of the pension system that he says would help boost the economy. Latin America’s largest economy is struggling to recover from a deep recession that has led to high unemployment and pushed millions into poverty.

The opposition blasted Temer, whose approval ratings have dropped to single-digits.

“I vote with more than 90 percent of Brazilians who have already convicted Temer’s corrupted administration,” said lawmaker Luiza Erundina.

Beyond criminal accusations against Temer and scandals involving several of his Cabinet ministers, many Brazilians feel the administration lacks legitimacy because of how he came to power. Temer, then vice president, took over last year after President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from office. His term runs until Dec. 31, 2018.

For several hours Wednesday, many opposition lawmakers refused to enter the chamber, hoping to deny the necessary quorum and delay the vote into the night, when presumably more Brazilians are watching television. Many stations carried the vote live, forcing deputies to decide whether to publicly support a deeply unpopular leader with elections looming next year. All 513 seats will be up for grabs.

The charges against Temer stem from a mammoth corruption investigation that began as a probe into money laundering and ended up uncovering systemic graft in Brazil’s halls of power. Dozens of politicians and businessmen have been jailed since the probe launched in 2014.

Prosecutors allege Brazil’s government was run like a cartel for years, with political parties selling favors, votes and plum appointments to powerful businessmen. They say that Temer took over the scheme when he took power last year, after Rousseff was removed, and that his party has since received about $190 million in bribes.

Temer denies the charges and contends the prosecutor who brought them had a grudge against him.

He is not alone in facing allegations of corruptions. Watchdog groups estimate around 60 percent of members of Congress have been formally accused or are being investigated for wrongdoing, including numerous corruption cases. Many Brazilians say all they can do is hold their noses until next year’s election.

“To tell you the truth, I cannot think of any decent, honest politician who could be president right now,” said Marco Tribesi, a 19-year-old journalism student at Casper Libero University in Sao Paulo as he leafed through a magazine at a newsstand. “But hopefully someone will emerge and start to straighten things out.”

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Associated Press writer Mauricio Savarese reported this story in Brasilia and AP writer Sarah DiLorenzo reported from Sao Paulo. AP writers Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo and Peter Prengaman in Rio de Janeiro contributed to this report.

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Army mobilizes in Rio as shootings erupt in several areas

By Peter Prengaman, AP, September 22, 2017

RIO DE JANEIRO--Shootouts erupted in several areas of Rio de Janeiro on Friday, prompting Brazilian authorities to shut roads, close schools and ask for the Army to intervene.

Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said as many as 950 troops would be deployed around the perimeter of Rocinha, Rio’s largest favela, or slum, where some of the most intense battles were taking place.

Images on Globo News showed firefights between drug traffickers and military police moving into the area.

Jungmann said the troops would provide backup so that military police, including elite squads of commandos, could go after traffickers in the hills that make up the sprawling community in the city’s south.

The operation comes just as the city is hosting the Rock in Rio festival, featuring concerts by groups such as Bon Jovi, Guns N’ Roses and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In a statement, Rock in Rio said Friday’s concert would go on as scheduled.

Military police, tasked with patrolling and going after suspects, had been doing operations in Rocinha since Monday. The intensity of the firefights--gunshots are often heard in Rio--increased Friday and erupted in other neighborhoods, including Alemao, Dona Marta, Vila Kennedy and Chapeu Mangueira.

Several roads were closed in the morning, though most had opened by the afternoon. Several schools closed or announced they were keeping students inside until the situation calms down.

Several gangs are fighting for predominance in Rocinha and violence also is fed by armed militias of former police and military personnel that sometimes take security into their own hands.

About 8,500 troops were deployed in August to try to curb rising violence a year after Rio hosted the Summer Olympics. However, the troops have mostly been patrolling, not engaging with traffickers.

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BRUMADINHO, Brazil | 34 dead, many feared buried in mud after Brazil dam collapse

BRUMADINHO, Brazil | 34 dead, many feared buried in mud after Brazil dam collapse

BRUMADINHO, Brazil —Jan 26, 2019—  The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 34 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more bodies. An estimated 300 people were still missing and authorities expected the death toll to rise during a search made more challenging by intermittent rains.

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SAO PAULO | Stabbing of candidate shakes Brazil's presidential race

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SAO PAULO | Stabbing of candidate shakes Brazil's presidential race

SAO PAULO — The stabbing of a leading Brazilian presidential candidate jolted an already wildly unpredictable campaign to lead Latin America’s largest nation, with doctors saying Friday that Jair Bolsonaro will be hospitalized for at least a week.

Supporters of the far-right congressman who wants to crack down on crime said the attack would only boost his chances in next month’s election, but it was unclear when he would be able to return to campaigning in person.

A knife-wielding man whose motive was unknown stabbed Bolsonaro during a rally Thursday in Juiz de Fora, a city about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Rio de Janeiro, as he was being carried on the shoulders of a supporter.

Bolsonaro, 63, suffered intestinal damage and serious internal bleeding, said Dr. Luiz Henrique Borsato, one of the surgeons who operated on the candidate. He was in serious but stable condition and would remain in intensive care for seven to 10 days, Borsato said.

The candidate was transferred Friday to a premier hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. Supporters outside the hospital carried a giant inflatable doll of Bolsonaro dressed in a formal suit with a sash that said “President.”

“No matter what you think about him, he did not deserve this,” said Mauro Rodrigues, owner of a construction business who went to the hospital to support Bolsonaro. “It will definitely increase his chances of winning the election because people will be more sympathetic toward him.”

The attack is likely to have a major impact on the remaining four weeks of the campaign, from how candidates interact with supporters to their message.

For Bolsonaro, there will be questions about his physical ability to campaign — a key factor in a country slightly larger than the continental United States — as well as whether the attack will give him a boost among voters.

“He probably won’t go back to the streets during this campaign, so he can’t do it, but we can,” his son, Flavio, said in a video posted on Facebook. “More than ever I count with each one of you.”

Bolsonaro’s vice presidential running mate, retired Gen. Hamilton Mourao, told reporters that the candidate will “come out of this process stronger than he went in.”

The sentiment was echoed by Flavio Bolsonaro, who tweeted: “Jair Bolsonaro is stronger than ever and ready to be elected President of Brazil in the 1st ROUND!”

About a dozen candidates are competing in the Oct. 7 voting. If no one wins an outright majority, a second round will be held Oct. 28. In a video posted on the Facebook page of a senator who visited him in the hospital, Bolsonaro thanked his doctors in a weak and scratchy voice and said: “I never did harm to anyone.”

He described a painful wound, saying he had worried about an attack on the campaign trail.

“I was preparing for this sort of thing. You run risks,” he said.

The leader in the polls is former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but he is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption and has been barred from running. Bolsonaro is currently second, and while he has enthusiastic followers, his disapproval rating is higher than any other major candidate.

Friday was Independence Day in Brazil, and Bolsonaro had planned to attend a military parade in Rio de Janeiro.

The former army captain openly praises Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship and has long argued the country is in chaos and needs a strong hand. That message has resonated with Brazilians, but his often derogatory comments about women, blacks and gays have also repulsed many.

The attack “will turn into a dispute between the left and right,” said Mauricio Santoro, a political science professor at Rio de Janeiro’s state university. “It’s time that all presidential candidates make a declaration together to stop the aggressiveness.”

Videos on social media show Bolsonaro on the shoulders of a supporter, looking out at the crowd and giving a thumbs-up with his left hand. He suddenly flinches and then goes out of view. Other videos show supporters carrying him to a car and hitting a man who was apparently the attacker.

The suspect, identified by authorities as 40-year-old Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, was arrested within seconds.

The internet news portal G1 posted cellphone video, apparently obtained from police, of de Oliveira being questioned. Sitting on the floor with his hands cuffed behind him, a voice can be heard asking him who had sent him to attack Bolsonaro.

“I didn’t say anybody sent me,” said de Oliveira. “He who sent me was God on high.”

Luis Boudens, president of the National Federation of Federal Police, told The Associated Press that agents believed “they were not dealing with a mentally stable person.”

Eraldo Fabio Rodrigues de Oliveira, who is married to a niece of the suspect, told the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo that he appeared to be “disturbed” and would often lock himself in a shed when he visited his family.

“I can’t say he was crazy, but, from the way he acted, he wasn’t normal, no,” the relative was quoted as saying.

Lt. Col. Marco Rodrigues of the Minas Gerais state police told reporters that de Oliveira, who was once affiliated with a leftist party, said he acted because he disagreed with Bolsonaro. G1 quoted a lawyer for de Oliveira, Pedro Augusto Lima Possa, as saying his client did not mean to kill the politician, only wound him.

Federal police said another suspect was detained in connection with the attack and questioned. That suspect was released overnight but remains under investigation.

Minister of Public Security Raul Jungmann said the number of federal police providing security to candidates would be increased because of the attack, adding that Bolsonaro had been warned against launching himself into crowds as he did Thursday, according to the government-run news agency Agencia Brasil. Currently, 80 federal police protect five presidential candidates who requested security, and 21 were assigned to Bolsonaro, according to Jungmann.

Brazilians surged onto social media to argue over whether the attack supports Bolsonaro’s assertions that the country is off the rails or if his heated rhetoric contributed to inciting the attack.

Flavio Bolsonaro, a state legislator who is running for a seat in the federal Senate, rejected the idea that his father incited the attack, saying the candidate was engaged in a campaign of ideas. He said the mainstream media bear some responsibility, accusing them of portraying his father as a “monster.”

“They made Bolsonaro a martyr,” said Jonatan Valente, a student who joined a small vigil in Sao Paulo for the wounded candidate. “I think the left shot itself in the foot because with this attack they will end up electing Bolsonaro.”

After more than four years of revelations of widespread political corruption, anger is running high.

Despite being a congressman since 1991, Bolsonaro has harnessed much of the anger and presented himself as a maverick who will clean up a corrupt system. He also promises to confront a surge in crime, in part by giving police a freer hand to shoot and kill while on duty. He has promised to fill his government with current and former military leaders.

It was not the first incident of political violence this year. In March, while da Silva was campaigning in southern Brazil before his imprisonment, gunshots hit buses in his caravan, although no one was hurt. That same month, Marielle Franco, a councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, was shot to death along with her driver.

“The campaign will become much more emotional than it already was,” said Marcos Troyjo, co-director of the BRICLab at Columbia University. “Ideas will take a back seat.”

By SARAH DiLORENZO and PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press

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Firefighters search mud after Brazil dam collapse; 58 dead

BRUMADINHO, Brazil — Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighbourhoods with iron ore waste.

The confirmed death toll rose to 58, with up to 300 people still missing, authorities said. In an ominous sign, nobody was recovered alive Sunday, a stark difference from the first two days of the disaster, when helicopters were whisking people from the mud.

The slow speed of search efforts was due to the treacherous sea of reddish-brown mud that surged out when the mine dam breached Friday afternoon. It is up 24 feet (8 metres) deep in some places, and to avoid the danger of sinking and drowning searchers had to carefully walk around the edges or slowly crawl out onto the muck.

Even those efforts were suspended about 10 hours Sunday because of fears that a second mine dam in the southeastern city of Brumadinho was at risk of failing. An estimated 24,000 people were told to get to higher ground, but by afternoon civil engineers said the second dam was no longer at risk.

Areas of water-soaked mud appeared to be drying out, which could help firefighters get to areas previously unreachable. Still, it was slow going for the search teams, and residents were on edge.

“Get out searching!” a woman yelled at firefighters near a refuge set up in the centre of Brumadinho. “They could be out there in the bush.”

Brazilian searchers got reinforcements late Sunday, when more than 100 Israeli soldiers and other personnel arrived with plans to join recovery efforts.

Throughout the weekend, there was mounting anger at the giant Vale mining company, which operated the mine, and questions rose about an apparent lack of an alarm system Friday.

Caroline Steifeld said she heard warning sirens Sunday, but there was no alert when the dam collapsed Friday.

“I only heard shouting, people saying to get out. I had to run with my family to get to higher ground, but there was no siren,” she said, adding that a cousin was still unaccounted for.

In an email, Vale told The Associated Press that the area has eight sirens, but “the speed in which the event happened made sounding an alarm impossible” when the dam burst.

People in Brumadinho desperately awaited word on their loved ones. Romeu Zema, the governor of Minas Gerais state, said that by now most recovery efforts would entail pulling out bodies.

The flow of waste reached the nearby community of Vila Ferteco and an occupied Vale administrative office. It buried buildings to their rooftops and an extensive field of the mud cut off roads.

Some residents barely escaped with their lives.

“I saw all the mud coming down the hill, snapping the trees as it descended. It was a tremendous noise,” said a tearful Simone Pedrosa, from the neighbourhood of Parque Cachoeira, 5 miles (8 kilometres) from where the dam collapsed.

For many, hope was evaporating.

“I don’t think he is alive,” Joao Bosco said of his cousin Jorge Luis Ferreira, who worked for Vale. “Right now, I can only hope for a miracle.”

The carpet of mining waste also raised fears of widespread environmental contamination and degradation.

According to Vale’s website, the waste is composed mostly of sand and is non-toxic. However, a U.N. report found that the waste from a similar disaster in 2015 “contained high levels of toxic heavy metals.”

Over the weekend, courts froze about $3 billion from Vale assets for state emergency services and told the company to report on how they would help the victims.

Neither the company nor authorities had reported why the dam failed, but Attorney General Raquel Dodge promised to investigate. “Someone is definitely at fault, she said.”

Dodge noted there are 600 mines in Minas Gerais alone that are classified as being at risk of rupture.

Another dam administered by Vale and Australian mining company BHP Billiton collapsed in 2015 in the city of Mariana in Minas Gerais, resulting in 19 deaths and forcing hundreds from their homes.

Considered the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history, that disaster left 250,000 people without drinking water and killed thousands of fish. An estimated 60 million cubic meters of waste flooded nearby rivers and eventually flowed into the Atlantic Ocean.

Sueli de Oliveira Costa, who hadn’t heard from her husband since Friday, had harsh words for the mining company.

“Vale destroyed Mariana and now they’ve destroyed Brumadinho,” she said.

Other residents quietly noted that Vale was the main employer in the area.

“The company is responsible for a new tragedy, but it’s the principal employer,” said Diego Aparecido, who has missing friends who worked at Vale. “What will happen if it closes?”

Environmental groups and activists said the latest spill underscored the lack of environmental regulation in Brazil, and many promised to fight any further deregulation.

Marina Silva, a former environmental minister and presidential candidate, toured the area Sunday. She said Congress should bear part of the blame for not toughening regulations and enforcement.

“All the warnings have been given. We are repeating history with this tragedy,” she told the AP. “Brazil can’t become a specialist in rescuing victims and consoling widows. Measures need to be taken to avoid prevent this from happening again.”

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Associated Press writer Marcelo Silva de Sousa reported this story in Brumadinho and AP writer Peter Prengaman reported from Arraial do Cabo, Brazil. AP photographer Leo Correa in Brumadinho contributed to this report.

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Após crítica da Caneta, jornal americano corrige fake news sobre discurso de Michelle Bolsonaro

Após crítica da Caneta, jornal americano corrige fake news sobre discurso de Michelle Bolsonaro

O jornal americano Washington Post corrigiu a matéria onde transformou o discurso de Michelle Bolsonaro em “saudação militar”. A correção ocorreu poucas horas depois da matéria ser criticada pela Caneta.

Escrito por três funcionários da agência de notícias Associated Press, o repórter brasileiro Mauricio Savarese, a produtora-sênior Yesica Fisch e o diretor de redação Peter Prengaman, o relato…

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Gunman kills 4, then himself, after Mass at Brazil cathedral By PETER PRENGAMAN and C.H. GARDINER

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after Mass on Tuesday, killing four and leaving four others injured before taking a bullet in the ribs in a firefight with police and then shooting himself in the head, authorities said.

The mass shooting, a rarity in Latin America’s largest nation, happened right after the midday service had ended at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Campinas, a city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Sao Paulo.

“It’s so sad,” said Wilson Cassante, a press officer with the archdiocese. “It’s hard to imagine the pain this has caused.”

The investigator also said that before shooting himself in the head, the suspect took a bullet in the ribs from responding police. In total, the suspect fired at least 20 shots, said Caviola Filho.

Father Amaury Thomazi, who celebrated Mass before the shooting, posted a video recounting the chaos that followed the burst of gunfire.

“Nobody could do anything or help in any way” to stop the rampage, Thomazi said, calling on people to pray for the dead, the injured and the shooter.

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Brazil Elects Far-Right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro as Its Next President

Brazil Elects Far-Right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro as Its Next President

Author: SARAH DiLORENZO, PETER PRENGAMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE / AP

Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal has declared far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro the next president of Latin America’s biggest country

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Análisis: Bolsonaro prometió "defender la Constitución" de Brasil

Análisis: Bolsonaro prometió “defender la Constitución” de Brasil

Fuente: AP / SARAH DiLORENZO, PETER PRENGAMAN y MAURICIO SAVARESE

Rio de Janeiro, 29 oct 2018.- En sus primeras palabras como presidente electo de Brasil, el ultraderechista Jair Bolsonaro prometió defender la Constitución y unir una población profundamente dividida.

Su rival de la izquierda, Fernando Haddad, juró inmediatamente montar una oposición vertiginosa, mientras que los grupos…

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Despite doubts, business leaders rally around rightist in Brazil campaign

Despite doubts, business leaders rally around rightist in Brazil campaign

By Mauricio Savarese and Peter Prengaman

Published 10:56 am PDT, Saturday, October 6, 2018 … Business News

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Bill Cosby is sentenced to jail time; a populist wave begins to swell in Brazil.

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Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to serve three to 10 years in jail after a court deemed him a “sexually violent predator” on Tuesday. Cosby, who was once known as “America’s Dad,” was convicted in April on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. [NYT / Graham Bowley and Jon Hurdle]

Cosby’s defense team argued that the 81-year-old, who is legally blind, is too old and dependent to be sent to jail. The prosecutors, however, felt that he didn’t “deserve a free pass because of his advanced age.” [AP / Maryclaire Dale and Michael R. Sisak​]

Cosby is one of the first celebrities in the #MeToo era to go to trial, receive a guilty verdict, and succumb to the consequences. [Washington Post / Manuel Roig-Franzia]

The sentencing comes after some 60 women came forward in 2014 and 2015 to accuse Cosby of sexual assault. There was a consistent trend among the accusations against Cosby, which span from the 1960s to the 2000s: He invited them to interact one-on-one, under the guise of mentorship, and then drugged and forced himself on them while they were incapacitated. [Vox / Jenée Desmond-Harris]

His victims began speaking out after Hannibal Burress highlighted older accusations against Cosby in a standup performance that quickly went viral in 2014. [Guardian / Lucia Graves]

Because Constand’s assault was the only one to fall within the statute of limitations, her trial has been informally treated as a representation of the many other accusers. In a victim impact statement she read before the sentencing, Constand said, “Bill Cosby took my beautiful, healthy young spirit and he crushed it.” [Vox / P.R. Lockhart]

The guilty verdict came in Cosby’s second trial, after his first resulted in a mistrial (and after many women in Hollywood came forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault), and is a testament to the growing power of the #MeToo movement. [Vox / Jen Kirby]

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Far-right, populist presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is growing in popularity in Brazil as the country’s first round of elections quickly approaches. Bolsonaro is a brash, pro-torture former army captain who many say is racist, homophobic, misogynistic — and quite akin to US President Donald Trump. [The Wire / Shobhan Saxena]

In April, Bolsonaro was charged with inciting hatred against black people, indigenous communities, LGBTQ people, and women. He’s said women are ignorant and undeserving of equal pay, and once called a female politician “too ugly to rape.” Women across the country have launched a campaign on Twitter called ##EleNão (#NotHim) to protest his candidacy. [NYT / Shasta Darlington]

Bolsonaro is also disliked within creative and academic communities; 150 prominent artists and scholars signed a manifesto declaring that he was “a clear threat to our fundamental civilisational heritage.” [Guardian / Tom Phillips]

Polls are reporting that Bolsonaro and moderate candidate Fernando Haddad are almost neck and neck. They will likely not win a majority of the vote (which is necessary to win the election in the first round). As a result, Haddad and Bolsonaro may solely go head to head in a runoff. [Reuters / Brad Brooks]

Bolsonaro stopped campaigning in early September after surviving an assassination attempt while in a small town north of Rio de Janeiro. He will not return to the public eye until after the October 7 vote. [AP / Mauricio Savarese and Peter Prengaman]

Brazil is just three decades into its democracy and coming off years of political corruption scandals that saw the downfall and jailing of its beloved former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. [Economist]

During his second speech at the UN General Assembly, President Trump was surprised to face a laughing crowd after he declared that “my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” [Bloomberg / Jennifer Epstein]

A new study finds that Glyphosate, a common herbicide, is bad for bees. One scientist from the study says that “people should worry about” the weed killer, which is a predominant cause of declining bee populations. [USA Today / Ashley May]

Amazon begins broadcasting Thursday Night Football this week, and for the first time, the streams will include the option for commentary from an all-female panel (composed of two veteran sports journalists). [Engadget / Jon Fingas]

Google is going back on a ban from March and, once again, allowing cryptocurrency companies to advertise on its American and Japanese platforms. It’s unclear what inspired the change. [The Verge / Nick Statt]

“When our criminal justice system also fails to understand this threat [of toxic masculinity], we are in crisis. It is time to talk less about whether we should believe women and more about why we are so desperate, from the outset, to believe men.” [Chitra Ramaswamy questions why we defer to men’s accounts in rape cases / Guardian]

A simple fix to get more Americans to vote. [YouTube / Madeline Marshall]

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BRUMADINHO, Brazil | 9 dead, many feared buried in mud after Brazil dam collapse

BRUMADINHO, Brazil | 9 dead, many feared buried in mud after Brazil dam collapse

BRUMADINHO, Brazil —Jan 26, 2019—Rescuers in helicopters on Saturday searched for survivors while firefighters dug through mud in a huge area in southeastern Brazil buried by the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste, with at least nine people dead and up to 300 missing.

More than 24 hours since the disaster happened, finding many more survivors was looking increasingly unlikely.

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RIO DE JANEIRO | Brazilian candidate in serious condition after stabbing

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RIO DE JANEIRO | Brazilian candidate in serious condition after stabbing

RIO DE JANEIRO  — Jair Bolsonaro, a leading presidential candidate whose heated rhetoric has electrified some voters and angered others in a deeply polarized Brazil, was stabbed at a campaign event Thursday and suffered serious abdominal injuries.

Police said the suspected attacker was in custody.

Dr. Luiz Henrique Borsato, who performed emergency surgery, said Thursday night that the right-wing candidate was in serious but stable condition and would remain in intensive care for at least seven days. The first round of Brazil’s presidential election is Oct. 7.

The doctor said the two-hour procedure stopped serious internal bleeding and repaired most of the damage from the knifing. The candidate will need further surgery within months for a part of his intestines that was temporarily fixed with a colostomy, the surgeon said.

“We can’t say when he will be able to leave hospital,” Borsato said. “But in the first hours after the surgery his recovery has been very satisfactory.”

Numerous videos on social media showed Bolsonaro, who has promised to crack down on crime in Latin America’s largest nation, being stabbed with a knife to the lower part of his stomach while campaigning in Juiz de Fora, a city about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Rio de Janeiro.

At the moment of the attack, Bolsonaro was on the shoulders of a supporter, looking out at the crowd and giving a thumbs up with his left hand.

After the attack, he is seen flinching and then goes out of view. Other videos show supporters carrying him to a car and hitting a man who was apparently the suspect.

Police spokesman Flavio Santiago confirmed to The Associated Press that 40-year-old Adelio Bispo de Oliveira had been arrested in connection with the incident.

De Oliveira was beaten badly by Bolsonaro supporters after the attack. The man was arrested in 2013 for another assault, police said.

Luis Boudens, president of the National Federation of Federal Police, told AP that the assailant appeared to be mentally disturbed.

“Our agents there said the attacker said he was ‘on a mission from God,'” Boudens reported. “Their impression is that they were not dealing with a mentally stable person. He didn’t expect to be arrested so quickly; agents reacted in seconds.”

Bolsonaro’s son, Flavio Bolsonaro, initially posted on Twitter that the injury was superficial and his father was fine. However, an hour later he posted another tweet saying the wound was “worse than we thought.”

He arrived at the hospital “almost dead,” Flavio wrote. “His condition now seems stabilized. Please pray.”

A statement from federal police said the candidate had bodyguards. In the videos, Bolsonaro does not appear to be wearing a protective vest. Such measures are rare for candidates in Brazil.

“This episode is sad,” President Michel Temer told reporters in Brasilia. “We won’t have a rule of law if we have intolerance.”

Bolsonaro, a former army captain, is second in the polls to jailed ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been barred from running but continues to appeal.

Despite being a congressman since 1991, Bolsonaro is running as an outsider ready to upend the establishment by cracking down on corruption in politics and reducing crime, in part by giving police a freer hand to shoot and kill while on duty.

While Bolsonaro has a strong following, he is also a deeply polarizing figure. He has been fined, and even faced charges, for derogatory statements toward women, blacks and gays.

He speaks nostalgically about the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship and has promised to fill his government with current and former military leaders.

Earlier this week, Bolsonaro said during a campaign event that he would like to shoot corrupt members of the leftist Workers’ Party, which made da Silva its candidate. The comment prompted an immediate rebuke from the attorney general, who asked Bolsonaro to explain that comment.

His vice presidential running mate, Hamilton Mourao, is a retired general who blamed leftists for the knife attack.

Underling Brazil’s divisions, people took to Twitter to either to decry the stabbing and ask for prayers for Bolsonaro or to say the candidate had brought it upon himself and even may have staged it.

The top five trending topics in Brazil were related to the stabbing. Other presidential candidates quickly denounced the stabbing and many of them decided to suspend their campaign events Friday.

“Politics is done through dialogue and by convincing, never with hate,” tweeted Geraldo Alckmin, former governor of Sao Paulo who has focused negative ads on Bolsonaro.

Fernando Haddad, who is expected to take da Silva’s place on the Workers’ Party ticket, called the attack “absurd and regrettable.”

The attack comes at a time of increasingly heated rhetoric, and sometimes violence, related to campaigns and candidates.

In March, while da Silva was on a campaign tour in southern Brazil before his imprisonment, gunshots hit buses in his caravan. No one was hurt, and da Silva, who is in jail on a corruption conviction, was not in the vehicles that were hit.

Also in March, Marielle Franco, a left-leaning black councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, was shot to death along with her driver after attending an event on empowering black women.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the attack on Bolsonaro might reshape a presidential race very much up in the air with the front-runner, da Silva, in jail. In many ways, the incident feeds Bolsonaro’s narrative that Brazil is in chaos and needs a strong hand to steady it.

“It’s likely that Bolsonaro will use the attack to argue his opponents are desperate, that they had no other way to stop him,” said Mauricio Santoro, a political science professor at Rio de Janeiro’s state university.

A handful of Bolsonaro supporters held a vigil in São Paulo on Thursday night, and briefly exchanged insults with leftists. ‘They made Bolsonaro a martyr,’ said Jonatan Valente, a student. ‘I think the left shot itself in the foot because with this attack they will end up electing Bolsonaro.'”

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and PETER PRENGAMA , Associated Press