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A couple carrying two boxes of chicken eggs were expelled by militants from the PT (Workers' Party) of Santos Andrade Square, in the center of Curitiba, where the caravan of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) around the South region of Brazil. Entrepreneur Fabio Monroe, 44, and commercial manager Rosângela Araújo, 47, were forced to leave the square under threat from PT militants who said "bourgeois here, no." One of them poured water on the couple. Asked about what they were doing in the act with the boxes of eggs Monroe replied: "If they are doing their democratic exercise, we also want to. Eggs are to do what the people of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina have done in the last few days." Lula and his caravan were greeted with eggs in almost every city they passed through in the caravan that ends today after nine days. The couple came to the police after the expulsion, but the police said they couldn't do anythi...

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...

In the last Sunday (11 September), the inhabitant of Valdete Groff Azevedo received the news that outlaws literally led to his family home in the central area of ​​Cidreira, in the south region of Brazil. An occurrence was registered on Tuesday (13) at the local police station. The delegate Alexandre Souza is already investigating the unusual case and some suspects have already been identified. The surprise of the police to record the occurrence was that it was the theft of an entire house. Valdete received a call from a neighbor, when she was on the beach and he reported on the arrival of some bricklayers on site. She was surprised because they were not doing works, but she didn't care with the fact. "I only believed when I saw personally. I was so sad as surprise. At what level the crime arrived. I've never seen it. It's unbelievable", reported Valdete. The house before the robbery According to the neighbor of the family, two men arrived a...

An unusual scene daily draws the attention of drivers and pedestrians passing by Farrapos Avenue, corner with Cairú Street, since 23 August. Unemployed for 11 months, Delcimar Santos da Silva, 35, found a different way to look for a job. After ten interviews, more than 150 resumes sent and several "NO", he decided to go to the streets with a poster that expresses its interest in a job vacancy. - I never said not to work, always did everything they asked me - account while holding the placard in the pedestrian crossing, with the help of his son Gabriel da Silva, 13 years. Residents of the neighborhood Vera Cruz in Guaíba, he and his son they stay from noon to 15h in Farrapos Avenue. Then proceed to the corner of Ramiro Barcelos Street, where they remain until 17h. The honks and shouts of "Good luck!" are serving as support for both. In street, Delcimar makes clear: don't want nothing food or money, need a job. He is one of the 196,000 unemployed in ...

Drivers protesting in highway with bad conservation state Drivers facing the holes of the RS-786 road, on the north coast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, decided to put a couch in the middle of the track to alert anyone who travels there. A driver passed the spot around noon on 20 November when he saw the sofa in the height of 29 km, between Tramandaí and Cidreira. He stopped to take a picture, that practically viralizou on social networks. According to him, the situation is so critical that many people have risked not very orthodox ways. "People are already using the edge of the beach to haven't to go there, because that stretch is impossible to travel on," he added. There are several reports of drivers who accumulate losses breaking cars in the holes or even getting involved in accidents, because of the poor maintenance of the highway, says the driver. In the months of heat, the stretch gain a much larger movement by the arrival of touri...

Women caught naked in public places In the last two months a habit became common in southern Brazil: women  naked  are walking and running through the streets of big cities. At first the police thought it was an isolated case, but in the same month other women began to have the same behavior. Many people believe it's a form of protest, others believe that they just want media attention or have a mental disorder. This habit began in Porto Alegre and was extending into other cities of the state, arriving in the city of Novo Hamburgo. There were 7 cases of flagrant nudity and in these two cities these women were seen in various locations: squares, avenues, condominiums, parks and even in supermarkets.