AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Workers handled beef in Avellaneda in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. People cooled off in Arpoador beach in Rio de ...
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Santa Claus joins sharks for a holiday swim at a Rio de Janeiro aquarium
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Santa Claus has arrived in Rio de Janeiro — under water. Starting on Saturday, he’ll be spotted at AquaRio Marine Aquarium swimming with sharks during their daily fish ...
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Brazilian Santa swaps sleigh for Jet Ski to deliver toys — and joy — to disabled children in Rio
Dozens of children with disability gathered on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach on Tuesday to receive presents — and joy — from the white-bearded man himself, a joint effort by the city's ...
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Rio de Janeiro violence: Brazil army to take control of security
The Brazilian government has appointed an army general to oversee security in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in response to growing gang violence. President Michel Temer compared the violence to "a ...
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Brazil politician throws grenades at police in Rio de Janeiro state
A police car with a shattered windshield was towed away after Sunday's incident A Brazilian politician is in custody after throwing grenades at police officers who came to his house in Rio de ...
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Tina Hilgers, PhD
Rio de Janeiro: Observatorio de Favelas. Hilgers, Tina, and Laura Macdonald. 2017. “How Violence Varies: Subnational Place, Identity, and Embeddedness” in Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald (eds) ...
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Rio de Janeiro Low-Carbon City Development Program
The Rio de Janeiro Low Carbon City Development Program (LCCDP) is a systems-approach to low carbon development, including a framework and set of comprehensive requirements to help the city to plan, ...