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Brazilian soccer fans start fight and destroy stadium in South American Cup final

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Last Wednesday (13), soccer fans of Flamengo promoted lamentable scenes of violence and vandalism. Police clashed with supporters inside and outside the Maracanã stadium, local of the World Cup final. After the game with Independiente, the Brazilian team saw the title of the South American Cup, stay with the argentine team. The confusion started even before the game, when Flamengo fans attacked an Argentine elderly with punches at the stadium door. They threw objects and even a cone on the bus that brought the Independiente's players. The situation worsened when soccer fans without tickets tried to invade the stadium, forcing the gates. The police reacted. Members of an organized crowd arrived in great numbers and tried to enter Maracanã stadium. Municipal guards made a barrier and scattered the group with tear gas bombs. The moods calmed down at the time of the game. But as soon as the match was over, police officers used the force to stop a fight in the Independi...

Argentine elderly is forgotten by family during vacations in Brazil

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A wave of forgotten elderly people is taking over the beaches of Brazil. The retired Maria Elena Pérez, 54, said she self lost on the beach of Ingleses, where she's staying, and that her family went visit the island of Florianópolis, without her. To make matters worse, the woman was robbed and ran out of money. A tourist found Maria walking lost and crying in Gaivotas street and took the woman to a store for get help. She doesn't remember of the hotel where her family is staying. Maria told the Zero Hora that she is a resident of São Miguel de Tucumán, in the north of Argentina, and that she's in Brazil by the second time. According to Anderson Pompeu, store's owner where she asked for help, Maria knows the husband's smartphone number, but don't get to conclude calls and no one answers. "The luck was which a employee don't finished their lunch and she can eat what was left," Anderson said. When the store closed, at 7:00 pm, she...