Brazil

New terminal opens at Brazil's busiest airport

8 Feb 2012

Brazil's busiest airport on Wednesday opened a new terminal meant to handle as many as 5 million domestic passengers a year.

Haitians bound for Brazil languish in Peru's Amazon

8 Feb 2012

INAPARI, Peru (Reuters) - Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed. Mostly educated and in their 20s, they have taken refuge in a stuffy church in the Peruvian border town of Inapari since Brazil stationed federal police along the ...

Brazil WCup workers threaten nationwide strike

8 Feb 2012

Workers building and renovating Brazil's stadiums for the 2014 World Cup are threatening to go on strike if employers don't agree to their demands for unified salaries and benefits.