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The Brazilian publishing Globe Books announced the launch of a collection of albums in hardcover of the Tintin character, with the title The Adventures of Tintin. The character was created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé in 1929. The comic will be released as originally published in the 1930s, as a facsimile version of the series - these volumes are in black and white. Remember that, over the decades, Hergé redrew and modified several of his stories, is due to adapt to the new times or to correct some inconsistencies. The first titles that still arrive in this month to bookstores are Tintin in the Congo, Tintin in America and the Cigars of the Pharaoh, all in format 21 x 28 cm and priced at BRL 59.90. These albums are already on pre-sale on Amazon Brazil with discounted. In Brazil, the news generated a great controversy due to the announcement of the original publication of the work Tintin in the Congo, because various social groups in the country rank the book as being r...

A woman with 42 year old was raped in a land invaded, on the night of June 4, in the Castro Pires neighborhood in Teófilo Otoni city, in Minas Gerais. According to the military police, two men raped the victim in a wooden tent and canvas and are fugitives. According to the military, the victim, who showed signs of intoxication with alcohol, reported to police that she was in a bar when a man invited to his house. However, the victim was forcibly taken to camp and, according to her, she was forced to make sex into one of the Landless Movement tents. The victim said that when he arrived on the spot, another man was waiting. The woman was referred to a hospital in the city to carry out tests. Until 14:35 the next day, police also performed searches and no one had been arrested. In Brazil, the Landless Movement is a political grouping of communist orientation that aims at the end of private property, the end of the Catholic Church and the destruction of the market economy. ...

A group of militants of President Dilma Rousseff chose the wrong place for his act: the Rio Sul Mall is one of the largest shopping centers of Rio de Janeiro. The group entered the food court, where there were some families with children and began to attack the people with verbal insults and even with physical aggression: some people who were consuming fast-food products were unfairly attacked. The group stayed for about 10 minutes screaming and caused disturbances. The leader of the militants, with a megaphone shouted, "This mall doesn't receive poor people. But today, stopped to receive us. " At the same time, they began a be booed by the mall users and store employees. At the end of the act, the group leader distributed bread with mortadella and they left the place. They expected support from the public but only managed to even be booed by  mall users. So security guards surrounded the group and drove them out, while the police was called.

Courtyard of automaker crowded: crisis After four years of economic growth close to 0% and clumsy political actions committed by President Dilma Rousseff, the Brazil plunged into an economic crisis without limits: the shares of Brazilian companies fell sharply in international markets, the dollar value rises gradually every day, the industrial production is paralyzed and the purchasing power of the middle class fell for the third consecutive year. But the main sector of the economy that was affected, was the automotive sector. Increase in industry taxes, imported parts more expensive, bureaucratic and inflexible labor laws, labors without skilled labor, lending difficulties and low purchasing power of most of the population, are factors that are contributing to the automakers not able to sell their vehicles and therefore are paralyzing their activities (Fiat and Ford) and firing (VW and GM) and even leaving the country (Mahimdra). Mahindra: end of activities in Brazil ...

Although thousands of Cubans annually trying to leave the island due to bad social and economic conditions experienced by the local population, the Cuban government insists spend money maintaining their consulates in luxury residences in the last countries with which the dictatorial regime of Cuba have diplomatic relations. A clear example is the city of São Paulo, where the registered office of diplomatic representation of the country is located in a house of one of the cars of city neighborhoods.

After the revelation of numerous cases of corruption involving the current president of Brazil and members of the federal government, thousands of people are going to the streets of several cities every weekends to protest, but the main TV channels ( Globo , SBT , Bandeirantes and Record ) don't exhibit these manifestations and prefer to display news about violence cases in USA and European countries.