Because of the high numbers of cases of covi-19 in the first two months of 2022, several capitals Brazilian postponed the parties carnival for April. After two years without a parade due to the covid-19 pandemic, Brazil finally celebrated the carnivalwith an out-of-season revelry.
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In Rio de Janeiro, however, not everything was party. An accident resulted in the death of an 11-year-old girl. Raquel Antunes da Silva was pressed between an allegory and a poleon the night of Wednesday (20), while the car was moving along a street close to the Sambódromo.
Paraíso do Tuiuti – Carnaval 2022 04/23/2022 Sambódromo Special Group Fourth day of Carnaval 2022 Photographer – Marco Antonio Teixeira – Marco Antonio Teixeira/RioTur
Defendants
In early April, teacher Monique Medeiros, mother of Henry Borel, accused along with former councilor Jairo Souza Santos of the child’s murder, left the penal institute Santo Expedito, in the Complexo de Gericinó, in the west zone of Rio of January?? On day 6, she received electronic anklet??
On the 12th, councilor Chico Alencar (PSOL) rapporteur was drawn of the disciplinary process in the Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the Chamber of Rio de Janeiro, for the removal of the mandate of councilor Gabriel Monteiro (PL), the target of sexual harassment, moral harassment, rape and manipulation.
Councilor Gabriel Monteiro (PL) at Rio City Council during the ethical-disciplinary process at the Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum for alleged breach of decorum. ?? Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil
Also on the 12th the trial began of four defendants involved in the case of the death of pastor Anderson do Carmo, supposedly at the request of his then wife, former deputy Flordelis.
On the same day, the Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo (Alesp) approved the request for annulment of Deputy Arthur do Val for having uttered sexist phrases when referring to Ukrainian refugees saying that the women there are “easy” for being poor, even with his resignation??
On the 20th, the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes voted for conviction federal deputy Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ) to eight years and nine months in prison in a closed regime. On the 1st, the majority of the Supreme endorsed a series of precautionary measures against the deputy determined by Moraes.
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Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) started tracking cases of severe acute hepatitis of origin unknown in children in Europe, in the month of April. Cases began to emerge in the United Kingdom, which until the 26th had registered 111 records of the disease. The new cases lacked the viruses normally responsible for acute liver inflammation – hepatitis A, B, C, D and E.
On the 17th, the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, announced in a radio and TV statement, the end of the public health emergency as a result of the pandemic?? According to the minister, the announcement was possible because of the improvement in the epidemiological scenario, the wide vaccination coverage and the assistance capacity of the Unified Health System (SUS).
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International
war in ukraine
More than a month after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said believe that the conflict it can last a long time.
At the beginning of the month (4) the world was perplexed with the location, in the city of Bucha, of more than 300 bodies, total 410 on the outskirts of Kiev. On the 10th to count already passed 1.2 thousand??
Place where two men were buried in Bucha – REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/all rights reserved
THE humanitarian aid failed due to increased fighting. The installation of humanitarian corridors was also unsuccessful. Still on the 24th, there was an attempt to install the Mariupol corridor. The city was already completely taken over by Russian forces since the 16th. The residents were besieged at the Azovstal plant??
The conflict intensified in the East, starting, on the 18th, the Battle of Donbass??
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Birthday and re-election
On the 21st, the Queen Elizabeth, from the UK, celebrated his 96th birthday at his country estate in Sandringham. Gun salutes were fired in London and Windsor and military bands played Happy birthday to you to mark the date.
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, was re-elected on Sunday (24) for a new term. He defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
deaths
The writer and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) died on the 3rd, in São Paulo, at the age of 98. Lygia Fagundes Telles?? Lygia won the Camões Prize, in 2005, for her body of work, and the Juca Pato Prize, in 2009, as intellectual of the year.
The writer was born in São Paulo, studied at the Caetano de Campos School and graduated from the Largo de São Francisco Law School, at the University of São Paulo (USP). She joined the ABL in 1987 in chair 16, succeeding Pedro Calmon.
Lygia died at her home in São Paulo of natural causes.
Writer Lygia Fagundes Telles – National Archive / Correio da Manhã Fund
Writer Lygia Fagundes Telles – Playback/Facebook Lygia Fagundes Telles
Elections
During the 30-day party window period, a period for female and federal or state deputies to change political parties to run in the 2022 Elections without losing their mandate due to party infidelity, which ended on April 1st, about 70 federal deputies changed their initials?? Since 2018, by decision of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the change of acronym can only be made by the parliamentarian at the end of the current term.
governors of six Brazilian states resigned from office to contest the 2022 elections.
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The Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on the 8th that its board of directors has banned actor Will Smith from attending any of its events, including the Oscar ceremony, for 10 years after the best actor winner slapped host Chris Rock during this year’s awards show.
