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...mother of Rogerio da Silva, Debora da Silva, refuses to give up the fight. Da Silva says nine men killed her son after stopping him at a gas station. She recounts that they asked him if he had any previous convictions and when he responded that he had once spent two years in jail for armed robbery, they allegedly told him his time was up. The 29-year old was ambushed as he drove away and shot four times, da Silva says, citing eyewitnesses at the scene. She says it was eyewitnesses who told her that some...
...This is a city with a fabulous richness and an almost unique integration of city and nature," says Rogerio Rocco, the former head of Brazil's environment-protection agency in Rio. "People pay to go on safari to see animals close up; we here have an open-air safari on a daily basis. It's priceless...
...violence began to ease in Dili, Alkatiri announced he would encourage a campaign of civil disobedience across the country. His statements - and his party's refusal to recognize the new government - have damaged Fretilin's already tarnished reputation. Former interior minister Rogerio Lobato is serving a seven-and-a-half-year jail term for arming a hit squad in the lead-up to last year's unrest. And just before the June election, the Fretilin-controled parliament voted to grant amnesties or reduce sentences for serious crimes relating to the violence of 2006, although the resolution was never signed into...
...Rogerio Marcio Botelho, 27, and his life a case study in the game gone global. Botelho, nicknamed Gaucho after former Brazilian national-team player Renato Gaucho, is one out of some 850 Brazilians professionally chasing football outside their homeland. These days his friends play for clubs in places like Azerbaijan, Armenia and Vietnam. "How was it today?" I ask as Gaucho steps out of the dressing room in a white turtleneck and a brown winter coat. He rolls his deep brown eyes. Then, his handsomely chiseled features warm up in disarming laughter. "I try. I give all myself...
Batista first tried his heart-trimming procedure on a Brazilian patient named Rogerio Luis Mocelim. Mocelim had been suffering from constant exhaustion, and doctors told him of a surgeon who might be able to help. Batista's procedure enabled Mocelim to increase the amount of blood pumped through his body from 15% to 60%. That was three years ago. Today Mocelim drives a truck and regularly plays soccer...