Citizens of Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador awoke around 5:52 a.m. local time to a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. The quake’s epicenter was reported in the Amazonas region, however, it was felt all the way in the capital of Lima and neighboring towns. The focal point of the event occurred roughly 25 miles northwest of Barranca […]
Marília Mendonça, a popular Brazilian singer, has passed away at the age of 26. The plane she was on crashed on Nov. 5, 2021, in Piedade de Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil — north of Rio de Janeiro. She was born in Cristianópolis, Goiás, Brazil on July 22, 1995. Her parents names are Mário Mendonça and […]
In the southern city of Criciúma, Brazil, according to The New York Times on Dec. 2, 2020, there have been two reported gang robberies within 2,000 miles apart. At about midnight in Brazil’s southern city of Criciúma, a group wearing headcovers and body armor held the city hostage for about two hours with powerful rifles […]