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Teachers: street protests and empty classrooms Two months ago the teachers of public schools of São Paulo stopped their activities claiming salary increase and career plan. After several negotiations between the teachers' sindicate and the Secretary of Education, both sides reached a consensus and signed an agreement on the salary increase and changes in the hiring regime and tenders for years to come. However, most teachers didn't joined the agreement. The vast majority of these professionals are members of political movements of left and are making opposition to the party that currently governs São Paulo. Ie, they are using the strike as a political weapon to damage the image of the State government and are ditching the commitment to education of young people. Currently they make riots every Friday on Avenida Paulista, disrupting traffic in the region and preventing the passage of pedestrians on the streets. Since the beginning of the strike, hundreds of th...

Students use helmet for self-protection An unusual scene took place inside a classroom state school Wanda David Aguiar, in Roraima. Students used motorcycle helmets to protect themselves from ceiling fans. The case occurred on the night of March 19, few minutes after a ventilator almost reach students. No one is hurt. Helen Ruth, 20, is the 2nd year student of the school that is in the west zone of Boa Vista city, she told the "Brazil Unknown" that friends decided to wear helmets' by not withstand more live with the risk of injury inside the classroom'. Another student said that besides the precariousness of ceiling fans, the device of air conditioning installed in the classrooms do not work. On the night of Wednesday (20), students also staged a protest in front of the school. They questioned the reforms made at school and the lack of staff to clean the institution. Because of the protest, the school has run classes on the night shift. "Bes...

X-ray device out of use: harm to the population While waiting lists for examinations increase every day in São Paulo, two large hospitals are keeping expensive CT scanners and X-ray stored, without use. At Children's Hospital Darcy Vargas, a high-tech X-ray equipment is stored in the hospital for almost two years, without even having been withdrawn of the box. The machine valued at BRL 1 million is exposed to temperature changes and technological depreciation. Without the possibility to realize an examination at her daughter, who had just operate the column, the unemployed press operator Cassiano Jose Pantaleon had to spend out of pocket to realize the examination in private hospitals. "If I hadn't the $75, my daughter couldn't to do the X-ray?" He says. In the Southern Regional Hospital, in São Paulo (SP), one scanner valued at BRL 1.5 million is boxed for three months. The tomography device is used in the diagnosis of neurological, cardiac di...

Deputy car parked in bike lane The bike paths are gaining more space in the streets of São Paulo and at the same time, the irregular use of exclusive lanes for bikes is also growing. Ride around the city and find parked cars and motorcycles or traveling by red bands is common scene. In addition to conscientization, one of the reasons is the not application of fine to the offenders. Biker is caught traveling on bike path Recently, a cyclist photographed a car used by State Representative Milton Vieira (PSD) parked in a bike lane in downtown São Paulo. Image was shared by thousands of people on Twitter and Facebook. After the repercussion, Milton Vieira made a video to apologize, said it was cyclist and blamed his chauffeur.  This isn't the first case. In 2014 a driver photographed an official car of the town hall traveling over a stretch of bike path and a few minutes later, the same car was traveling by an exclusive bus lane. Another ...

Candidates doing photo shoot in Paulista Avenue Every year countless Brazilian women apply for the Miss Butt Contest to compete for a symbolic prize money and the opportunity to be considered the ultimate symbol in Brazil in the media, signing advertising contracts and posing naked in magazines. The assessment is the jury and also the public. To participate, women have to be above 18 years and participate in all stages, the first stage is the most eliminates the candidates why they select who really has a nice big butt, but unfortunately in the end is only a vague per State and only one woman can be chosen. The candidates have varied backgrounds and professions. We have since  gym teachers,  dancers of pole dance,  bartenders,  ex-models, university students, gym teachers,  personal trainers,  and even housewives. They are usually middle-class women and many even speak a second language, in most cases English. Most are sing...

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 ...

Man dressed as Batman argues with mayor of São Paulo Due to the increasing wave of violence that swept the Brazilian urban centers, several groups of people began to take justice into their own hands. Fight with bandits on the streets, arrest offenders on poles with chains and lynch the thieves in public places, became common activity in Brazil. To complete, a group of "vigilantes" began to act dressed as American superheroes fighting crime in Brazilian streets and even doing actions that benefit the environment. One of the points worked by public security experts is that these people are fighting spontaneously against crime because the Brazilian government is inefficient and does not have enough structure to educate young people and fight crime at the same time. In the state of São Paulo there is a deficit of about 100,000 police officers, besides the fact that public schools not form honest citizens due to little investment the federal government in educatio...