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Gisele Bündchen is the Fourth Highest-Earning Woman in Hollywood
By Amaris Castillo | 10/07/2011 - 10:30 | 0 Comments
We know Gisele Bündchen is raking in the dough! The 31-year-old Brazilian supermodel is the face of a slew of campaigns, including Victoria’s Secret (of course!), Esprit, and the lingerie brand Hope, and it all adds up—so it was no surprise to us when we learned that Bündchen made the Forbes...
Brazilian Tribe Vanishes After Suspected Drug Traffickers Raid Village
By Amaris Castillo | 08/10/2011 - 11:00 | 0 Comments
After suspected cocaine smugglers from Peru raided a jungle area in western Brazil, a lost Indian tribe that claimed the area as its home vanished according to Brazilian officials. Indian affairs experts in the largest South American country believe that the tribe might have run away in fear after the suspected smugglers raided a Brazilian guard post that was protecting...
This Week in Latino News
By Fox News Latino | 07/15/2011 - 13:00 | 3 Comments
—Meet Christian Lopez: The Yankees' diehard who caught Derek Jeter's 300th hit and returned it to his idol.
...Miss Brazil Robbed at Gun Point in Sao Paulo
By Amaris Castillo | 07/06/2011 - 15:30 | 0 Comments
Debora Lyra, also known as Miss Brazil, was held up at gunpoint in front of her condominium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to multiple press reports. Lyra was robbed of her purse, cellular phone and her car, which was given to her as the winner of the Miss Brazil pageant last year. The 2010 beauty queen expressed her reaction via...
Brazilian Judge Approves Country's First Gay Marriage
By Fox News Latino | 06/30/2011 - 15:30 | 0 Comments
First New York, now Brazil.
How the NY Gay Marriage Bill Is Changing Latina Lives
Just days after New York passed gay marriage, a Brazilian judge has approved what is apparently the South American nation's first gay marriage. Sao Paulo state judge Fernando Henrique...
The 5 Best Latin American Hangover Cures
By Grace Bastidas | 06/08/2011 - 16:00 | 0 Comments
You know the consequences—blazing headache, nausea, dry mouth, upset stomach, red eyes, muscle pain—and still, you decide to do one more kamikaze shot. And while you may not end up in Bangkok like the boys from The Hangover Part II, you will most likely end up hovering over your toilet. Thankfully we have the best Latin American cures for even the...
Brazil’s Best Exports
By Mariela Rosario | 05/20/2011 - 16:30 | 2 Comments
The Guinness Book of World Records recently declared that 114-year-old Maria Gomes Valentim, a resident of Brazil, is officially the world's oldest living human! Brazilian culture has given so many wonderful things to the world, and people there are clearly happy, or they would not be living to be 114.
From caipirinhas to samba—the stand-...
Brazil Recognizes Legal Rights of Same-Sex Couples, Defies Church
By Angie Romero | 05/09/2011 - 19:04 | 1 Comment
Brazil has never been a country that is afraid of defiance. Remember when they broke Merck’s patent on the AIDS drug efivarenz in 2007 in favor of a much cheaper, generic kind, in essence giving the middle finger to pharma giants?
Now, in a watershed moment for gay rights activists, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled that the legal rights of same-sex couples must...
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