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People awaiting care at a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro The financial crisis of the State of Rio de Janeiro, paralyzed hospitals and reaches different sectors of the administration of governor Luiz Fernando Pezão. "The Rio de Janeiro is broken, bankrupt," said the doctor Jorge Darze, president of Sinmed/RJ (Syndicate of Doctors of Rio de Janeiro). The syndicate of doctors and other government agencies that are responsible for oversee the actions of the governor and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, formed a crisis cabinet to monitor the situation. The group wants an audit of accounts to find out, after all, why the state coffers are empty. In practice, they should be experiencing other reasons to justify what is happening today. At the same time, the subway extension works continue, new parks were built  and overpriced works of the Olympics are far from being finalized. The conclusion is that the money which should be allocated to health, was used in infrastructur

Submarine seized by police: drug trafficking The Pará State Police is investigating the responsible for the construction of a submarine that was seized in the November 16 near a fishing village located in northeastern of Pará. The suspicion is that the construction was financed by Colombians linked to a cocaine trafficking scheme. The police said the submarine structure is about 17 meters long, 3 meters in diameter and about 4 meters high, with a capacity to carry a load of up to 30 tons and carry 30 people. Seized cargo: materials for drug refining According to the investigations of the police, the responsible for building settled in the area since September and held an ostensive vigilance not to allow entry of people. Fuel tanks used by the group were found nearby, as well as electronics boxes with inscriptions in Spanish.

Passenger waiting for help after derailments Few months before of the Olympic Games, the city of Rio de Janeiro faces several problems. Unfinished works of the subway, congestion in the main avenues of the city, assault waves on the beaches and constant police actions in the poorest neighborhoods. But one issue stands out: the constant accidents in the rail system of Rio de Janeiro. Daily circulating more than 1 million people in the subway and metropolitan trains that serve the city. Happen frequent derailments, failure in air conditioning systems, power outage and inadvertent locking of the doors, which has left passengers locked in a composition. Rescue of passenger after train accident Companies who administer this system, the MetrôRio and SuperVia received six fines, the latter for operation failing. Together, the punishment amounted to BRL 499,118.99. Only to the concessionaire responsible for the trains, received four penalties of the state government. In addition

Governor of São Paulo travelin in a metropolitan train The CPTM (São Paulo Metropolitan Train Company) has 116 employees with remuneration higher than the governor Geraldo Alckmin: maximum value from BRL 21,600 determined by law. The company is obliged to respect the limit for being a public company dependent on government resources - the spend of the company with salaries was BRL 785 million in 2014, 38% of its revenue. In October, however, employees in leading positions, such as directors, managers and department heads, received over BRL 30,000. The governor signed a decree ordering the disclosure of the salaries of 44,000 employees of state-owned enterprises in August, but the state's transparency portal only began to publish the information on October. Right of reply The CPTM said respect the ceiling of functionalism and the highest salary is $ 20,300 (not counting additional funds for unhealthy activities, dangerous ou night work. The Metro (company