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Cesar Schmitz, 48, had a cockroach problem in the backyard of his home in Enéas Marques, Brazil, and he wanted to settle the score at long last. “My wife complained that there was a lot of roaches invading our garden,” Schmitz said, per the New York Post. “She is scared of them and begged me to destroy their […]
Drake and his official merchandise company, TourLife are donating all proceeds from his Rock in Rio shirt to the organization Amazon Conservation Team. TourLife shared the news on Instagram, writing, “Dropping tomorrow at 12PM PST/ 3PM EST on Tourlife.com to support local Amazonian communities on the front lines in the fight against fires and deforestation […]
Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $5 million to the emergency Amazon Forest Fund created by Earth Alliance, an organization he formed with Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth last month. That financial commitment will be used towards providing “critical resources for indigenous communities and other local partners working to protect the life-sustaining biodiversity of the Amazon […]
People around the world are using the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia as fires continue to ravage Brazil’s rainforest. EuroNews reports that these blazes—which have been burning the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso for weeks—became so severe that the state of Amazonas was forced to declare a state of emergency earlier this month. Smoke produced by the fires […]
Convicted drug trafficker Clauvino da Silva was reportedly found dead Tuesday inside his prison cell, just days after he attempted to escape a Brazilian prison disguised as his daughter. Prison officials told the Rio Times they have launched an investigation into the inmate’s death, which they say was an apparent suicide. Silva—nicknamed “Shorty” or “Bajito”—was serving a nearly 74-year prison sentence for […]
Legendary Brazilian musician João Gilberto died Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, according to a Facebook message posted by his family. He was 88 years old. Though a cause of death has not been revealed, Gilberto’s son, Marcelo Gilberto, suggested his father had been battling health issues. “My father has passed. His fight was noble, he tried to maintain dignity […]
Singer Gabriel Diniz died in a plane crash Monday in his home country of Brazil. He was 28 years old. According to E! News, the singer was traveling to Maceió, Alagoas, to attend his girlfriend Karoline Calheiros’ birthday celebration. Halfway through the flight, the small plane crashed near the southern coast of Sergipe, killing Diniz and the two pilots Linaldo […]
Brazilian production team Tropkillaz have offered up the video for their latest banger, “Bola Rebola.” The visual is set on a warm day in a beach town, where everyone has a drink in hand and is having a good time. Tropkillaz tapped J Balvin, Anitta, and MC Zaac to add more twists of Portuguese, Spanish, and English to […]
Fashion insiders keep screwing up. Vogue Brazil‘s style director was forced to resign this week after photos from her 50th birthday party were criticized for being racist and romanticizing colonialism. Earlier this month, pictures of Donata Meirelles’ dinner party began circulating on the internet. The images showed the director and her guests sitting on an ornate chair […]
More than one week after a dam in Brumadinho, Brazil collapsed, two jarring videos have surfaced, showing the exact moment when one of the deadliest mining accidents in the country occurred, as well as the shocking immediate aftermath. The footage comes courtesy of the Brazilian mining company Vale, which is allegedly responsible for the incident that killed at least 115 people, and […]
