The Brazilian government froze Rio de Janeiro state’s bank accounts Monday, ordering the struggling state to pay up on $53 million in overdue debt.Rio, one of the states hardest hit by a deep recession in Brazil, “is blocked from making any kind of payment until the amount it owes the state has been paid,” said the state finance secretariat.Officials said the freeze would only apply for three days, and would not prevent the state from paying civil servants’ salaries on...
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The sweeping victory of centrist and right-wing parties in municipal elections on Sunday will give Brazil’s new President Michel Temer at least a temporary boost as he pushes through austerity reforms, analysts said Monday.The once-dominant leftist Workers’ Party was routed in the nationwide polls, confirming Brazil’s shift to the right in the wake of August’s impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff and her replacement with Temer.A member of the center-right PMDB party, he has vowed far-reaching reforms to drag Brazil out...
Rio on Sunday closes a Paralympic Games that many feared would be a fiasco but which turned into a triumph, though marred in the final hours by the death of an Iranian cyclist.Eleven days of competition where China dominated the medals table, followed by Britain, Ukraine and the United States, were ending Sunday with the last few events, including marathons and wheelchair rugby.At the closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana football stadium Brazilian officials were officially to hand over...
Barcelona star Neymar said he will step down as Brazil captain after leading the Olympic Games’ hosts to their first...
His legs were tired, but Britain’s Mo Farah produced blistering pace in the final straight to become the first man in 40 years to retain the two Olympic distance titles.The 33-year-old, who fought back from a stumble to claim the 10,000m last week, said his victory in the 5,000m on Saturday night had been the most satisfying of the four golds. Farah won his second straight 5,000m in 13min 3.30sec to match the feat of Finland’s Lasse Viren who retained...
Two-time former world champion Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya rained on Ethiopian Almaz Ayana’s bid for an Olympic distance double, kicking...
Rio de Janeiro was mighty different 104 years ago except for one vital constant: the passionate shouts of fans at the Flamengo v Fluminense football derby.On Thursday, more than a century and some 300 games later, the two teams face off again in the latest episode of Brazil’s most romantic football series.It’s not the most consequential game, although Flamengo is fighting near the top of the Brazilian championship and Fluminense is eying a berth in the South American Copa Libertadores.Instead...
Rio said farewell to the 2016 Paralympics Sunday in a closing ceremony showcasing Brazil’s passion for music and celebrating what many consider to have been a surprisingly successful Games. The famous Maracana football stadium was packed, with the Paralympians themselves seated across the field, as proceedings kicked off with fireworks. Among the first performers was Jonathan Bastos, a Brazilian who was born without arms but has became an accomplished musician, playing the guitar with his feet. Then it was Ricardinho,...
Brazil’s been partying hard for five years, hosting a string of international mega-events that end this Sunday with the Paralympics. So is it time for the hangover? There was the 2014 football World Cup, the Confederations Cup, the Rio+20 United Nations environmental summit, World Youth Day with Pope Francis, and then the Olympics in August and Paralympics in September. At each stage, the same fears of catastrophic delays — or worse — were raised. And each time Brazil defied its...
Allyson Felix clinched a record sixth career Olympic gold Saturday as the United States won the 4x400m relay for a...
Greece’s Ekaterini Stefanidi won the women’s pole vault gold medal at the Olympics here Friday after virus-stricken defending champion Jenn Suhr crashed out. European champion Stefanidi won on countback after three failures at 4.90m with Sandi Morris of the United States taking the silver. New Zealand teenager Eliza McCartney claimed a superb bronze medal after a leap of 4.80m before bowing out. The USA’s Suhr however tumbled out early, missing three times at 4.70m....
Usain Bolt will race the 200m final on Thursday after comfortably winning his semi-final, but there was no place for American rival Justin Gatlin as he failed to qualify. Gatlin, who has served two doping bans, tied up late in his semi-final, only finishing third in 20.13sec and missing out on one of the eight final berths. It was a different story for Bolt, however, who clocked a season’s best of 19.78sec in the next step on his quest for...
