BRAZIL FACES FLOODS AND PROTEST ON THE EVE OF WORLD CUP FIRST MATCH
As Brazil is hosting the soccer matches of the World Cup, more than 33,000 people flee disastrous floods in Brazil’s southern state of Parana. Evacuatating their homes and taking refuge with relatives or in shelters.11 people are reported killed so far.
Nearly 500 people were evacuated in Curitiba, the state’s capital that
also serves as the base camp for defending cup champions Spain, who
arrived on Sunday.
Authorities had reported nine deaths over the weekend. Most of the victims are in the interior of the state.
The flooding has affected the homes of half a million people to various degrees, civil defense officials said.
The protesting workers, who have declared a 24-hour partial strike,
invaded Avenida Vinte de Janeiro and managed to completely close it in
one direction before military police intervened and partially reopened
the road, said news website G1.
Meanwhile, striking airport ground staff in Rio de Janeiro blocked the
road leading to the city’s international airport Thursday, as Brazil
prepared to host the opening match of the World Cup.
The protesting workers, who have declared a 24-hour partial strike,
invaded Avenida Vinte de Janeiro and managed to completely close it in
one direction before military police intervened and partially reopened
the road, said news website G1.
TV images showed around workers in red T-shirts and carrying red
banners flooding onto the busy road and forcing drivers to stop, causing
a long traffic jam to form.
- Some passengers could be seen getting out of their vehicles and running toward the airport to catch their flights.
Source: Agency
A BRAZILIAN MAN FATHERS 50 CHILDREN BY 4 WOMEN
CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil - A 90-year-old Brazilian man has fathered at least 50 children by four different women – including his sister-in-law and his mother-in-law. Luiz Costa de Oliveira, a retired farm worker, had 17 children with his first wife before she died. He then remarried to Maria Francisca da Silva, 64, with whom he had another 17 children.
But during the course of his second marriage he also had a long affair with his wife’s sister Ozelita Francisca da Silva, 58, who gave birth to 15 of his children. He even had a fling with his mother-in-law Francisca Maria da Silva, 89, which also resulted in a child.
- "The best thing God made in the world was women," Mr Oliveira, who lives in Campo Grande in the northern state of Rio Grande do Norte, told the Diario de Natal newspaper.
- “I could even have other children and not know it because I always liked to go out with women.”
- He said that he also has more than 100 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
- “I don’t know all the names, but I know that I have many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren scattered around,” he added.
“He never mistreated any of us, always took care of the children and never let us lack anything in the house,” said Maria Francisca da Silva. Source: Agency
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