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The vote was announced on the day of the crime by the leader of the Left Bloc, Catarina Martins, during the fortnightly debate with the prime minister, and was endorsed by the president of the Parliament, Ferro Rodrigues, and by the deputy André Silva, in a text that highlighted the political militancy of the councilwoman in favor of ...
She chaired the Women's Defense Commission and formed part of a four-person committee that monitored the federal intervention in Rio de Janeiro. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Working with the Rio de Janeiro Lesbian Front, Franco presented a bill to create a day of lesbian visibility in Rio de Janeiro in August 2017, but the bill was defeated by a vote of 19–17.
Rousseff gives her first public speech after being elected Brazil's first female president, 31 October 2010. Rousseff with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2011 On 18 October 2010, Brazilian artists and intellectuals held an event in the Oi Casagrande theatre in Leblon , Rio de Janeiro, to show their support to Rousseff's ...
In 1989, the first elections for president under the new Constitution were held and the young Fernando Collor de Mello was elected for a five-year term, the first president to be elected by direct popular ballot since the military coup. He was inaugurated in 1990 and in 1992 he became the first president in Brazil to be impeached due to corruption.
Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, one of Brazil's most influential indigenous leaders who led the people of Upper Xingu in central Brazil and helped create an indigenous park there, died on Wednesday from ...
Captain Harry Miller (1936) – beheaded after murder near New Trenton, Indiana, "Head and Hands" murder. [57] Sixteen victims of Jeffrey Dahmer (1978–1991). Adam Walsh (1981) — abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida and his head was found in a drainage canal two weeks after he was murdered.
Mexico has elected its first female president — a U.S.-educated climate scientist and former mayor whose landslide victory Sunday reflects both the continued dominance of the country's ruling ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to get him to sign for a loan, but he had been dead for hours, Brazilian police said on ...