Alagoas,officially State of Alagoas,is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders:Pernambuco;Sergipe (S);Bahia (SW);and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. It has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.8% of the Brazilian GDP. It is made up of 102 municipalities and its most populous cities are Maceió,Arapiraca,Palmeira dos Índios,Rio Largo,Penedo,União dos Palmares,São Miguel dos Campos,Santana do Ipanema,Delmiro Gouveia,Coruripe,and Campo Alegre.
The Brazilian Socialist Party is a political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1947,before being abolished by the military regime in 1965 and re-organised in 1989 after the re-democratisation of Brazil. It elected six Governors in 2010,becoming the second largest party in number of state governments,behind only PSDB. In addition to that,it won 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and three seats in the Senate,besides having been a member of the For Brazil to Keep on Changing coalition,which elected Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil.
Palmares,or Quilombo dos Palmares,was a quilombo,a community of escaped slaves and others,in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco,in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas. The quilombo was located in what is now the municipality of União dos Palmares.
Lula,Son of Brazil is a 2009 biographical Brazilian film based on the early life of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Fábio Barreto,the film was released on January 1,2010. Upon its release,Lula,Son of Brazil was the most expensive Brazilian film ever,with a budget of over 17 million reais,being later surpassed by Nosso Lar. The film was unanimously chosen by a Ministry of Culture commission as Brazil's submission to the 83rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,despite not having been chosen to compete.
The 2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides were a severe natural disaster principally affecting five northeastern states of Brazil. As a result of heavy rains,fourteen people were reported dead over a period of one month and at least 62,600 others had been left homeless as of 2 May 2009. Nineteen people were dead by 5 May 2009,with a significant increase in homeless people being reported,estimated at 186,000. The death toll by 8 May was thirty-nine and 270,000 people were reported homeless.
The April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides was an extreme weather event that affected the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the first days of April 2010. At least 212 people died,161 people have been injured,while at least 15,000 people have been made homeless. A further 10,000 homes are thought to be at risk from mudslides,most of them in the favelas,the shanty towns built on the hillsides above downtowns. Damage from the flooding has been estimated at $23.76 billion reais,about 8% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Rio de Janeiro State.
In November 2010,there was a major security crisis in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and some of its neighboring cities. The city's criminal drug trafficking factions initiated a series of attacks in response to the government placing permanent police forces into Rio's slums.
General elections were held in Brazil on 1 October 2006 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors,with a second round of the presidential election on 29 October as no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Events from the year 2004 in Brazil.
Events in the year 2010 in Brazil.
Events in the year 2006 in Brazil.
Events in the year 2003 in Brazil.
Intense flooding and mudslides struck São Paulo (city) and São Paulo (state),Brazil,following heavy rain and killed at least 21. The downpour in São Paulo and the surrounding areas set new records for rainfall levels for the month of March and left cities covered in up to a meter of slowly draining mud and flood water. The rain occurred after months of drought.
Events in the year 2018 in Brazil.
The Brazil Union is a liberal-conservative political party in Brazil. The party was founded on 6 October 2021 through the merger of the Democrats (DEM) and the Social Liberal Party (PSL). The merger resulted in the biggest party in Brazil,and was approved by Brazil's Superior Electoral Court on 8 February 2022.
Events in the year 2022 in Brazil.
In 2022,major floods and landslides occurred in Brazil.
Floods and mudslides occurred in the Northeast region of Brazil in 2022. Its cause was the rains that hit mainly the state of Pernambuco,but also Sergipe,Alagoas,Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte. Precipitation volumes surpassed the historical monthly average in several cities in just three days.
JoséMúcio Monteiro Filho is a Brazilian civil engineer and politician,affiliated with the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB),and is currently Brazil's Defense Minister. He had previously been Minister and president of the Federal Audit Court (TCU) during the first Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government and Minister of Institutional Relations during the same government.
During the 2023 Brazilian Carnival holiday weekend,record-breaking rainfall—reaching 682 mm (26.9 in) in 24 hours—caused deadly floods and landslides across the state of São Paulo. At least 64 people were killed,of which 63 were in São Sebastião.
