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Luciano Azevedo, mayor of Passo Fundo (RS), decided to raise the sum of BRL 400,000 that would go to the samba schools in the next Carnival and invest everything in the municipal schools. With the money, he installed about 400 air conditioners in the kindergarten classrooms. The residents supported 100% of the mayor's initiative, believing that this is what the  public money should be used, not to street carnival, which, in their opinion, generates violence and disorder in the city. According to the authorities, continuing to invest the taxpayer's money in the Carnival doesn't make sense anymore, since it only pleased to a minority. This think shows enough wisdom in understanding the real need of the population. The parents of the students were very pleased with the decision. Source: Portal do Litoral

That Brazil is a country where all foreigners doing what wants, this is nothing a new. All the products manufactured here are more expensive for the local population, and when exported, are marketed in other countries with much more competitive prices. Here, at Arroto News, we have already reported the Panettone Bauducco that is sold 67% cheaper in Canada . But now in 2017, the Brazilian industry has repeated this shame. At the end of January, the italian automaker Fiat (brand of the FCA group) decided to sell the Mobi model with a 1.0-liter and three-cylinder engine, in Mexico. This model car is made in Brazil, in the city of Betim (MG), and will be offered to Mexicans in the versions Easy, Like and Way. The most impressive is the price of the basic version of the vehicle: 149,900 Mexican pesos, equivalent to BRL 22,640 , or approximately 30% cheaper than the price paid for the same version in Brazil. Another differential is the guarantee given to Mexicans: 7 years of total vehicle...

A vigilante is terrorizing the bandits of the Jardim Centro Oeste, in the city of Campo Grande. With posters posted by the neighborhood poles, he says that he has killed 237 criminals in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro, and another 4 in the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul, but his goal is to reach 300 "insects" (as he quotes the bandits). With several errors of grammar, the justiceiro still says that he belonged to the BOPE (Operational Battalion of Special Police) of Rio de Janeiro, a corporation of which he claims to have been expelled, as well as his specialty is to exterminate all types of criminals, especially rapists and traffickers. In addition, he states that neighborhoods of Dom Antonio, Los Angeles, Parque do Sol, Bálsamo, Jardim Canguru, Itamaracá and Moreninhas are his "areas" of action. All the residents, with whom the Midiamax News reporting team talked, preferred to identify only with the first name. His visual resembles the look of t...

Five people were arrested at the Depac (Civil Police Department) at dawn on the 7th, after a fight at the restaurant in downtown Campo Grande, in the Mato Grosso do Sul state. It all happened because of a burp from one of the customers. Two boys caught the eye to the "burping-man" and started the discussion. Minutes later, after leaving the scene, the "burping-man" returned with a friend and started the aggressions. Victims and aggressors were taken to the police station, less than 500 meters from the site. According to the bulletin of occurrence disclosed in Campo Grande News portal, the event occurred in the snack bar located on Rua Barão do Rio Branco, between Padre João Crippa and José Antonio Pereira streets, in Campo Grande city, around 4:20 am. Heard by the delegate of duty, João Eduardo Santana Davanço, victims and aggressors were released on Saturday morning.

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...

It's not today that the expression "stranded" is frowned upon by society when the fact in question is a man or a woman that not be married, especially when they're people over 30 years of age. So to end with the unlucky and allow women to find companions at the end of the year, a Brazilian Youtube channel decided to promote a kind of "March to Marry", with the goal of reuniting couples and preventing that single people stay alone in the Christmas and in the New Year. The event was posted on a Facebook page and seeks to bring together more than 18,000 people on Paulista Avenue. The march will be on December 20th and all the people who don't have anybody to sleep together are invited. According to the organizers, the intention isn't to form new couples only, but form Christian couples who value the life.

The urban violence in Brazil seems to have no limits. Roberto Bardella, 52, was killed in the Morro dos Prazeres, Santa Teresa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro. He and his cousin Rino Polato, 59, were on two motorcycles and entered the slum by mistake and were killed by traffickers who confused them with police investigators. The Italian newspaper " Corriere della Sera " heard a friend of Bardella, the councilman Ennio Valiante - from the city of Jesolo, near Venice, where Bardella lived.  "Roberto? He was very cheerful and very cautious, He loved to ride a motorcycle and a year ago he was planning a trip to Rio de Janeiro," the councilor told the Italian newspaper. "A mutual friend said he had heard Bardella a few days ago and said that they would go to a favela to exchange a part of the motorcycle," added Ennio Valiante, adding that the Brazilian police quoted a mistake on the way from his friend until the slum. The news also says that the dead tou...