Welcome to the 2016 Summer Olympics

twitter.com Rio de Janeiro is hosting the 2016 Olympic Games and has recently become the trendiest and most desirable city in the southern hemisphere, the cariocas are so lucky to live in Rio de Janeiro, a city that has the sexiest beach in South America (Copacabana) a place where you can find the most exotic looking women and the tiniest bikinis ever made. A city full of color, culture, excitement and beautiful people GO RIO!!

For more news & videos visit ?english.ntdtv.com Tourists arrive in Rio de Janeiro as the city wraps up preparations for the New Year. The big attraction is the New Year’s party on scenic Copacabana beach, with an impressive fireworks display planned. Thousands of tourists have already arrived in Rio de Janeiro, to celebrate 2011 in the city’s famous New Year’s party at Copacabana beach. Two million partygoers, dressed in traditional white, are expected to come here to watch the 20-minute fireworks show. It’s going to be a globally televised fireworks display. Some 25 tons of explosives, distributed among 11 rafts along the shore of the two-and-a-half mile beach, will mark the height of the night. Brazil’s Hotel Association says 90 percent of Rio’s 29-thousand hotel rooms were already occupied by Christmas Eve. This is an increase from last year. [Antonio Pedro Mello, Rio de Janeiro's Tourism Secretary] “We managed to anticipate this holiday season, during which Rio de Janeiro already has a large number of tourists here for the New Year.” Hundreds of workers are hurrying to finish setting up health centers and four stages that will host concerts on that special night. [Carla Santiago, Tourist]: “I am very excited, but also worried about the violence that we saw on the news and on the media. But, I am confident.” Last month, drug gangs launched a wave of violence in the city. 46 people were found dead when police and Army officials seized a notorious slum in the northern …

Brazil (pronounced /br??z?l/ ( listen); Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [b?a?ziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world’s fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of over 7491 kilometers (4655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It has borders with all other South American countries apart from Ecuador and Chile. Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to United Kingdom with Portugal and Algarves. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese Kingdom was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal. The independence from Portugal was achieved in 1822. Initially independent as the Empire of Brazil, the country has been a republic since 1889, although the …

A small war took place last week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between Brazilian forces and hundreds of drug traffickers holed up in the shantytown complex dubbed Complexo do Alemão. After recent efforts by officials to pacify Rio’s drug and gang-related violence ahead of the upcoming the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics Games, drug gangs struck out last week – attacking police stations and staging mass robberies. After days of preparation, Brazilian security forces launched a raid in the Complexo do Alemão, where between 500 and 600 drug traffickers were holed up. At least 42 people were killed in the violence last week, with security forces taking control of many neighborhoods. A relatively low number of arrests were made, and authorities warn of further conflict as they continue to try and flush out more suspects in Rio’s maze of favelas. The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. www.copyright.gov Music by – City of God/Metamorfose Ambulante

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Following Rio’s selection to host the 2016 Olympics, decades of housing rights were immediately at stake for Rio’s favela communities. More than ever, squatter communities in Rio de Janeiro are threatened with eviction by the authorities for the development of infrastructure for the Olympic Games of 2016, or for reinstatement of land ownership, boosted by the increasing value of Rio de Janeiro’s real estate, or because the government claims the areas are a risk for landslides. This is an introduction to two of Rio’s communities whose residents face the prospect of their eviction in relation to the 2016 Olympic Games. They are Vila Autódromo and Asa Branca, two small and neighboring communities in the West Zone of the city.

Fabiano Cid, Managing Director of Ccaps Translation and Localization, introduces Alexandre Techima, Planning and Coordination Director of the Organizing Committee for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, who talks about the city’s candidacy to host the Games In the first session of Think Latin America. This is the first part of a series of seven videos and the slides for this presentation can be downloaded from here: www.slideshare.net

Wild scenes erupted across Brazil as locals celebrated winning the Games. Rio de Janeiro was tonight named the host city of the 2016 Olympics beating Madrid.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil won the Rights to host The 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Millions of Brazilians celebrated the victory. The first Summer Olympics in South America and in a tropical country.

MaximsNewsNetwork: 05 October 2009 – UNWTO: After Rio de Janeiro won the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the country and South America is now looking to the benefits that tourism will bring from hosting the event. After Rio de Janeiro won the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the country and South America is now looking to the benefits that tourism will bring from hosting the event. Infrastructure and revenues from tourism look set to get a boost, in a region that has seen international arrivals drop by one percent from January to July this year, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Rio represents the whole of South America to a certain extent. It is the first time that South America gets the Olympic Games. It is great news for Brazil, said Mario Moyses, vice minister of tourism for Brazil. We have the 2014 [soccer] World Cup so this is a big year of opportunity; Aside of the Olympics. And we will also work with our other South American countries to build up visitors. News that Rio de Janeiro beat Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo in a competition to host the games was met with jubilation by the South American delegations at the 18th session of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) General Assembly in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Rio had the least-prepared infrastructure of the four cities competing for the Games. Now the city will look to build the Olympic Village as well as other developments at a cost of billion. A …