Brazil research clues

BRAZIL

1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies. Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or “fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).

1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil for sugar plantations.

16^th to 18^th centuries – High demand for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from west. (21 Sept 2012).

1662-1807 – Between 1662 and 1807 British ships carried 3.25 million Africans across the Atlantic. 70% of them destined for the sugar economies of Brazil and the Caribbean. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James Walvin ©2007 UK).

Jan 1748 – Brazil and back to the UK. The “Greyhound” with African slaves. (The trade, the owner, the slaves. James Walvin (c)2007 UK).

1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.

1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline internet).

7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP 9/7/97 timeline internet).

1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to help rebels there (timeline internet).

1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.

1874 – The “Adamant” ship arrived in Nelson New Zealand on 8 Aug 1874. On one voyage it ran aground off the coast of Brazil, but was refloated and continued its voyage. The voyage of the “Adamant” from Plymouth UK to Nelson NZ took 93 days. There were nine voyages to NZ altogether. (NZ genealogist. Jan Feb 2009).

13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4 million slaves were imported, the most of any country in the west.

13 May 1888 – Princess Isabel of Brazil signed 'Lei Aurea' abolishing slavery. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

1900 – 1957 – Brazil killed more than 80 Indian tribes. The population went from one. million to less than 200,000. (Worse than war. David Jonah Goldhagen (c)2009 US).

11 Feb 1935 – Johann “Jonny” Heinrich de Graff was sent to Brazil. Luis Carlos Prestes revolutionary movement wanted to overthrow the right wing government of Pres Getulio Vargas who had seized power in 1930. There was no SIS station in Brazil but the UK had business there. Canadian owned Brazilian Traction light and power company was the Rio utility company. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

24 Aug 1942 – Brazil and the allies. NZ Herald. Daily southern cross. Papers past.

26 Aug 1942 – Brazil. Christchurch Press NZ. Papers past.

29 June 1943 –Reading Eagle. Former Nazi envoy in Brazil jailed. 19 suspected as German spies. Rio de Janeiro, Kurt Preuffer, former German ambassador to Brazil and 18 others as Nazi spies.

May 1944 – In Brazil there were many arrests and 86 convictions, Abwehr Germans in Brazil. (FBI a history. Rodri Jefferys Jones ©2007 US).

30 May 1945 – Government of Brazil. The Press Christchurch NZ. Papers past.

1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during the resistance of World War Two, and went to Harvard business school, landed in Brazil. Erling Lorentzen, was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon flew to Paraguay in late 1987.

1967-1980 – Red cross passports. Nazi Franz Stangl arrived in Brazil in 1967. He died in a German prison in 1971. Commander of Sobibor and Treblinka death camps. Where 1,250,000 Jews and gypsies were gassed to death. Stangl Nazis escaped on Red Cross passports. Gustav Wagner commander at Sobibor death camp. Arrested in Brazil in 1978and freed in Oct 1980, died in Sao Paulo Brazil. (Gods bankers. Gerald Posner. (c)2015 US).

3 September 1969 – The US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped. Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.

1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel. President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans eventually backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter. German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of America. ©1981 PE Erdman).

1973 – John FW Dulles. Anarchists and Communists in Brazil. Austin Texas.

June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120 million Brazil (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

1976 – A Roman ship was found, underwater archeology. Rio de Janero in 1976 from 250 AD in Brazil. (Atlantis and other lost worlds. Frank Joseph (c)2008 UK).

30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao Paulo Brazil temple. (President LDS Mormon ©2006).

1980-2002 – Luiz Inaco Lula da Silva 2002 election in Brazil. A member of the progressive welfare party in 1980 helping the poor. Oil and gas reserves. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

Oct 1980 – Gustav Wagner died in Sao Paulo Brazil. (Gods banker. Gerald Posner. (c)2015 UK).

1988 – Antonio Bardellino and Mario Iovine, fish flour and cocaine business and murder. Interpol tracking. Bardellino’s body was never found. (Gomorrah, the other mafia. Roberto Saviano (c)2007 Italy).

1990s – In Brazil the Cali cartel worked closely with Italy’s organised crime groups there from Cyprus to launder drug money. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1994 – Orphans and the transition from slave to free labour in northeast Brazil. John Meznar. Journal of social history.

1 May 1997 – Christopher Colombo missing person.

1998-Nov 2005 – China’s President visited in Nov 2005, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru. Chinese business, a satellite program in 1998. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

1999 – A concise history of Brazil. Boris Fausto. Google books.

2000-2001 – Illicit trafficking in firearms. Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Pericles Gasparini Alves. UN institute. New York UN Worldcat database.

24 July 2002 – Ukraine and Brazil launch construction of a new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50 Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)

29 Oct 2003 – A shipment from Manaus Brazil through Rijeka Croatia was stopped in Hamburg Germany port with 255 kilos of cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

Feb 2004 – Cupola leader Fabio Franco was pulled out of the boot of a car by Brazil’s police after his arrest in Sao Paulo. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006 UK).

25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium ore, taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals in a pick up truck was seized.

Jan 2005 – World Socialist forum in Brazil. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

2006 – Smuggling charges as organs are harvested from street children in Brazil. Costa Nostra. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

13 May 2006 – Sao Paulo violence, a rebellion in several prisons in Brazil. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo, suspected gang members exchanged gunfire with police, and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks, and burned buses in and around Sao Paulo, for a second day. A Brazilian died when he opened a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid military bases.

27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake bomb.

2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century. ©20076 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in Brazil. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief, major general Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to sell eight combat airplanes to the Dominican republic, Estadao reported. The transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value. (Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under five in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been legally registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 boys and girls do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID is not able to identify themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

12 Nov 2010 – Transport trailers. Port of Gioia Tauro Calabria operation meta. An undocumented container from Brazil filled with trailers for agriculture. Metal tubes frames 1,000 blocks and 1,000 kilos of cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

February 2011 – LDS Mormon Church history in Brazil. Ensign p70.

8 April 2011 – 1,200 kilos of cocaime was sent from Brazil in cans of palm, container at the port of Livorno was seized. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

21 Dec 2011 – At Fiumicino airport a Spanish model from Sao Paulo Brazil was detained. 2.5 kilos of pure cocaine crystals were found in her artificial breasts and buttocks. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

19 March 2012 – Secret files show 9,000 Nazis fled to South America after world war two. 2,000 Nazis in Brazil. Secret files from Bazil and Chile. Daily Mail online. Allan Hall. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117093/Secret-files-reveal-9-000-Nazi-war-criminals-fled-South-America-WWII.html

June 2012 – LDS Mormon President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign. Nov 2012.

8 June 2012 – Peanuts. The port of Gioia Tauro found in a container from Bazil was 630 kilos of cocaine. 580 blocks stuffed in 16 bags hidden in a shipment of peanuts. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

15 June 2012 – Sugar. The port of London UK a harbor terminal on the Thames. 30 kilos of cocaine was found hidden in a load of sugar in a cargo ship from Brazil. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

22 July 2012 – In Portugal the police arrested a man from Vicenza and found 120 kilos of cocaine in a container of skins from Brazil. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

3 Sept 2012 – At Lagos Nigeria airport a Nigerian from Brazil Sao Paulo. Customs found 2.5 kilos of cocaine hidden in roast chicken. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

19 November 2012 – Brazil’s sex traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.

1 Jan 2013 – Mushtaq Ahmed. Missing person. Interpol.

12 May 2013 – Tammy Emanuele Alves Caldeira. Missing person.

13 March 2014 – NZ police look for cocaine smuggling suspect. Brazilian $1 million cocaine bust. South America. A cocaine supply route between Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand. Waikato Times NZ.

5 June 2014 – Daniel Stuckey. Andrew Blake. How FBI informant Sabu helped Anonymous hack Brazil. Motherboard Vice.

6 June 2014 – Two Brazilian's admit supplying cocaine. Possession of cocaine for supply 2.35 kilograms of cocaine worth 3.5 million was hidden. The Press NZ. David Clarkson.

23 June 2014 – FIFA world cup forces homelessness on thousands of children. Sick and elderly too. Liberty voice. Forced evictions by government. Liberty voice. Rebecca Savastio.

8 July 2014 – Brazil torture techniques revealed in declassified US documents.

6 Aug 2014 - . Four Brazil police officers arrested on rape charges. in a poor area. slums and police units. Latino Fox news EFE.

18 Sept 2014 – Tait expands in South America. New Zealand communications company buys Brazil giant SGM telecommunicacoei. Christchurch New Zealand based Tait communications. A digital wireless business. Sao Paulo military and police riots and anti poor people. Military police in Panama too. NZ Herald. Holly Ryan.

28 Sept 2014 – Senator dismissed for corruption in Brazil now behind bars. Banker construction magnate Luiz Estrevao. Fox news Latino.

4 Oct 2014 – Brazil elections. Wall street journal. Rio de Janeiro Rochinha slums. Reuters Sao Paulo.

6 Oct 2014 – The persistence of corruption in Brazil’s politics. Embezzlement and corruption. Brazil politics. Deusche Welle.

16 Oct 2014 – 51 arrested for child porn in Brazil. Brazil Business Today. Paedophiles.

22 Oct 2014 – Brazil corruption. Presidential voting, the evil of corruption is spreading like an epidemic. New York Times.

29 Oct 2014 – Lucas Lindemann Aagesen. Missing 9 year old boy. Interpol. San Paulo Brazil.

29 Oct 2014 – Brazil Socialist. The New Yorker. Dilma Rousseff. Brazil’s Socialist elected pres. The world’s fifth most populous country. Socialism and corruption. The Guardian UK.

31 Oct 2014 – Petrobras, law firms, corruption investigation., Petrobras is Brazil’s biggest company. Corruption scandals, money laundering and manipulation investigations.

31 Oct 2014 – Socialism and corruption in Brazil. Rouseff. The Guardian UK. embezzlement.

4 Nov 2014 – Petrobras int CEO. Wall Street Journal. Rio de Janero. Brazil State run company Petroleo Brasileko SA. Seattle SP.

4 Nov 2014 – Intelnews.org. Joseph Fitsanakis. Brazil to Portugal internet cable to avoid US intel agencies.

Nov 2014 – NZ prison guard denies corruption and bribery. Phillip Smith, murder and paedophile escaped from a NZ jail in Nov 2014 and went to Brazil. Robert Sikora denied charges. TVNZ. One news. Chris Chang. 21 Oct. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/prison-guard-denies-corruption-charges-in-phillip-smith-investigation-q16644.html

5 Nov 2014 – Brazil police and deaths in Belem. Police revenge attacks. Reports of off duty police killing nine people in Belem. BBC UK.

5-6 Nov 2014 – Nine people are killed in Brazil. Police vigilantes. San Paulo. The poor port city of Belem. Police killed nine people. Int business Times. Wall street journal.

9 Nov 2014 – US opens investigation into Brazil’s Petrobras. Nasdaq. US dept of justice. CNBC.

10 Nov 2014 – US turns up heat on investigation into Petrobras. Brazils biggest company, corruption case. Pres Dilma Rousseff. Financial Times.

10 Nov 2014 – Phillip Smith is now in Brazil. Brazil business news. Interpol.

11 Nov 2014 – Killer and paedophile from New Zealand is now in Brazil. Daniel Galvin. Passport Phillip John Traynor. Stuff.co.nz.

11 Nov 2014 – New Zealand murderer and prison escaper, paedophile may have joined up with an international paedophile ring in Brazil. NZ Herald. John Weekes.

11 Nov 2014 – Gherkin brought by Brazil’s banking rich for 700 million. Joseph Safra, Brazils second richest man is worth $12.2 billion. Bloomberg billionaires index. Telegraph UK.

11 Nov 2014 – The Gherkin, sold to Brazil’s Joseph Safra. The Gherkin is a London skyscraper. The Guardian UK.

11 Nov 2014 – Trail of escaped killer and paedophile leads to Brazil. Interpol spokesman Ricardo Quiroz.

11 Nov 2014 – Police talk to pair over Smith’s escape. A US based police officer is on his way to Brazil. Interpol alerts.

12 Nov 2014 – Skynews. Australia. International hunt for New Zealand paedophile killer. AAP.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil police kill six people a day says report. Brazil forum on public safety. Police killed 11,197 people over the past 5 years. The Guardian UK.

13 Nov 2014 – Let Brazils homeless speak for themselves. Citylab. Removal of minors on the streets. Treatment of homeless by government is harsh.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil’s police captured New Zealand murderer and paedophile Smith. Wellington Nick Perry. Brad Brooks in Rio de Janeiro.

15 Nov 2014 – Petrobras scandal widens, earning delayed. Sao Paulo, federal police arrested former executive. Wall street journal.

15 Nov 2014 – Brazil police arrest 18 in Petrobras corruption raids. State run oil firm Petrobras. BBC UK.

29 Nov 2014 – Skanska quits South America over corruption. 20 senior managers with a construction company in Brazil have been arrested for corruption. P

aying bribes. The Local.

14 Dec 2014 – Corruption allegations. Costa and moneylender Alberto Youssef among the first 20 to be arrested in March 2014. Corruption in Brazil. Telegraph UK.

17 Jan 2015 – Brazil and Tait. Tess McClure. Christchurch New Zealand tech company Tait communications. Brazil hub in Sao Paulo, Garry Diack. Contracts with the Sao Paulo police. Military police of the state of Parema and Petrobras. The Press Chch NZ. Stuff.co.nz.

22 Jan 2015 – A Brazilian surfer was shot dead by a police officer who was drunk. Funeral for the surfer with thousands of mourners. The Guardian UK.

27 March 2015 – Audrey Young. GCSB spying report. Brazil demands an explanation from New Zealand. Brazil diplomat Roberto Azevedo. The New Zealand GCSB spied on Brazil at the WTO. NZ Herald.

28 March 2015 – Corruption currents. Brazil new bribery scandal. Petrobras state owned oil company. Wall street journal.

28 March 2015 – Brazil police say massive tax fraud scheme. Sao Paulo AP Federal police say companies fraud amounts to $2 billion in unpaid fines and taxes. NZ Herald.

12 May 2015 – A mega city runs dry. Brazil's largest city is the focus of the worst water crisis. The largest city in a country, that holds 20% of the earth's fresh water supply ends up without any. Dandelion Care2.

8 June 2015 – Two people are dead after a prison riot erupted in south east Brazil's overcrowded jail. Two prisoners died. TVNZ. CTV news.

12 June 2015 – HSBC and Citigroup, Socgen foreign banks in Brazil. HSBC holdings pic. Scaling back in Bazil. Bloomberg.

26 June 2015 – Italy's mafia and cocaine trafficking. Calabrian crime syndicate Ndrangheta, drugs going through Brazil. 80% of all cocaine entering Europe goes through Santos port. Brazil. The Guardian UK.

29 July 2015 – Brazil businessman Odebrecht charged in corruption scandal. BBC UK.

29 July 2015 – CEO from Brazil Electonuclear was arrested in corruption probe. Electrobras unit. Bribes from construction companies between 2009 and 2014. Wall street journal.

1 Aug 2015 – HSBC nears $4 billion sale with Brazil. Bradesco is Brazil's second largest private bank, in talks with HSBC. Reuters. Financial Times.

19 Oct 2015 – Petrobras corruption. UK taxpayers pay millions, Brazil oil company. The Independent UK. Chris Green.

22 Oct 2015 – The horrors of Brazil's prisons. Jorges story. No matress to sleep on. State of Pernambuco, over crowded east Brazil. Human rights watch. The week in rights.

23 Oct 2015 – Killings of street children by police in Brazil, leading up to the 2016 Olympics. Twitter. CSC.

23 Oct 2015 – Street children are being killed in Brazil. Twitter. CSC.

4 Nov 2015 – Brazil's construction tycoon has been jailed for 19 years, for Petrobras corruption. Money laundering and racketeering. $8.3 million in bribes and Petrobras. Merco pres Sergio Cunha Mendes.

6 Nov 2015 – Dams burst in Brazil. 16 people were reported dead. A mining company in south east Brazil. Drowning homes and cars nearby. NZ Herald. Sydney Morning Herald.

27 Nov 2015 – A 6.4 earthquake hit western Brazil. G+. Griffin Walker. NDTV. USGS.

5 Dec 2015 – Corruption and economic crisis. The corruption scandal at Petrobras the . state owned energy company. Financial Times.

5 Dec 2015 – Global crisis. Goldman Sachs says that Brazil has plunged into an outright economic depression. One of the most important banks in the western world. A full blown economic depression. Brazil's economy and things are going to get far worse. An economic disaster. G+. Before its news.

12 Dec 2015 – Corruption in big irrigation plan. Millions of dollars was diverted. Arrests in corruption of water project. NZ Herald. Wall street journal. Sao Paulo. AP. Reuters.

24 Dec 2015 – Brazil and a mosquito virus. Link between mosquito virus and birth defects. VOA. State of emergency in Brazil. http://www.voanews.com/content/brazil-grapples-with-mosquito-borne-virus/3116730.html

5 Jan 2016 – Brazil heads for worst recession since 1901. Last time was 1930 to 1931 the Great Depression years. David Biller. Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/brazil-analysts-ring-in-new-year-with-deeper-recession-forecast

8 Jan 2016 – Anderson Luiz Dos Santos age 32 a tourist from Brazil, died in a head on car crash on 8 Jan 2016 in Queenstown New Zealand. Stuff.co.nz.

13 Jan 2016 – A tourist couple from Brazil in New Zealand, theft of a handbag. Stuff.co.nz. Hamish McNeilly. The cruise ship Celebrity Solstice in Otago port New Zealand. http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/75857617/cruise-over-for-lightfingered-passenger-in-dunedin

15 Jan 2016 – Zika virus and pregnancy. Brain damage in babies in Brazil. Dom Phillips. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazilians-panic-as-mosquito-linked-to-brain-damage-in-thousands-of-babies/2016/01/15/7e8e2dec-b8ca-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html

27 Jan 2016 – Brazil police raids. “Operation carwash” and “triple x”. Corruption, offshore companies and money laundering. Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-idUSKCN0V516Y

1 Feb 2016 - http://www.metronews.ca/news/world/2016/01/31/report-police-probing-if-officers-behind-killing-spree.html

10 Feb 2016 – Natural news. Like rape, its not your body now, it belongs to the government. http://www.naturalnews.com/052919_Zika_virus_private_property_rights_propaganda.html

12 Feb 2016 – Natural news. Mass fumigation of poor people in Brazil causes the brain damage. http://www.naturalnews.com/052943_Zika_virus_hoax_larvacide_chemical_GM_mosquitoes.html

19 Feb 2016 – New Zealand farmer Murray Douglas is now in Brazil. New Zealand farmers will travel to Sri Lanka soon. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11592269

22 Feb 2016 - http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/thieves-rob-brazil-home-pretending-to-be-zika-health-workers-1279810

Colombia research clues

Colombia

1565 – British slave ships African slaves men, women and children. (UK slave trafficking. Nick Hazlewood ©2004).

7 Dec 1580 – Recorded eruption of Galeras volcano. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

1945-55 – Mid 1940s in the decade ending in the 1950s, 300,000 people were killed, hacked to death with machetes. (Drug Barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)

1948 – Since 1948, when as a young student, Fidel Castro participated in the violence that rocked Colombia and distributed anti-US propaganda.

April 1948 – In Bogota Colombian, trained guerrillas for Latin America. Three day conference anti-US, violence and a riot called the Bogotazo, Fidel Castro. (The Havana mob. TJ English ©2007 UK).

7 April 1948 – Fidel Castro went to Bogota Colombia. He met with Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, two days later Geitan was murdered and riots broke out in the city. Riotingwent on for 3 days, called the Bogotazo. (Red heat. Alex von Tunzelmann (c)2011 UK).

1968-75 – Castro began supporting and training M19, a Colombian group that captured the Dominican embassy and justice building in Bogota and assassinated several Colombian judges.

1970s – 2010 – Aunty. Australian cocaine imports. A Colombian woman in her 50s who moved to Australia in the 1970s. Tonnes of cocaine every 18 months, a syndicate. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

1980s – Cocaine in Australia. Juan Guillermo Diez Orozco was a Colombian and Australian citizen. Cocaine importer. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

1981 – US drugs Mexico timeline 14 Jan 2010. Drug boss Pablo Escobar forms Medellin cartel with other Colombian traffickers, tonnes of cocaine into Miami Florida via the Caribbean. Reuters.

8 Feb 1982 – Miraflores Colombia, under aircraft explosion one person was killed and four wounded.

1983 – BCCI got 49% of Banco mercantile, a 24 branch Colombian bank, later renamed Banco de Credito y Comercio de Colombia. One of the board members was Rodrigo Llorente who was one of the richest politicians in Colombia.

1983 – BCCI got its Colombian bank and added seven new branches over the next four years while its assets grew to $213 million. Drug money in Colombia and BCCI one client was Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gadha, a cartel leader who stashed millions in BCCI.

31 March 1983 – 5,000 people were killed in Popayan. Timeline of earthquakes.

1984 – By 1984 FARC and M19 got $150 million a year from the business of protecting drug smugglers and traffickers. Colombian terrorist groups.

1984 – Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was shot dead by hitmen hired by the Medellin cartel. Byron de Jesus Velasquez was arrested. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

10 March 1984 – Tranquiliandia a large cocaine processing lab in the jungles of Caqueta, for the Medellin cartel, was destroyed by the Colombian police and DEA. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

Jan 1985 – Aldrich Ames sat in a KGB safe house in Bogota. Ames was a senior CIA officer, an American traitor. Spy. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).

6 Nov 1985 – M19 guerillas, 100 victims and many more missing. He army is blamed for forced disappearances of civilians. (Wikipedia timeline history Colombia).

6 Nov 1985 – 35 M-19 guerrillas attacked the Colombian palace of justice in Bogota. They held 250 hostages, many justices of Colombia. When govt troops took over the site 25 hostages were dead and all the guerrillas. By 1990 more than 200 court officials and 40 Colombian judges had been murdered. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

6 Nov 1985 – M-19 guerrillas occupied the palace of justice Bogota in Colombia. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 6 Nov 2015).

13 Nov 1985 – Armero city in Tolima was destroyed, flooding, and the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano. The Armeno tragedy. 20,000 dead and many made homeless. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

13 Nov 1985 – Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcan,o in the town of Armero erupted, spewing hot ash onto glaciers, which formed a river of debris and black ash, nearly 13 feet deep, burying the town of Armero, and killing 22,000 people, about 90% of the population. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

19 Dec 1985 – 71 bodies found in mass graves in Colombia. The Irish Times.

1986 – 20,000 civilians murdered by the Colombian military since 1986.

4 Feb 1987 – Drug dealer Carlos Lehder was arrested at a farm near Medellin. Extradited to the US on a DEA plane. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

1988 – Yair Klein in Colombia, an Israeli security company called Spearhead ltd, training hit squads of the Medellin cocaine cartel in assassination and bombing. Klein was in Antigua. Medellin chief Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. (Global research. Peter Dale Scott. 6 Sept 2008).

13 Jan 1988 – A huge bomb exploded outside the Monaco eight storey apartment building owned by Escobar in Medellin. The blast killed two nightwatchmen and dug a 13 foot hole in the street. The blast shattered windows in nearby buildings. The war of the cartels had begun. (Drug barons Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1989 – People were arrested and detained without being charged with a crime. Bogota Colombia and the Medellin cartel. Fortune magazine listed the cartel’s leader as the richest man in the world. Jose Rodriguez Gacha, worth $5 billion. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)

25 May 1989 – A 220 pound car bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Masa and his bodyguards travelling to Bogota. Killing 6 people and injuring more than 50. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

18 Aug 1989 – Pablo’s killed presidential candidate Luis Galan. Hit men killed PNC colonel Waldenar Franklin . Medellin cartel. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

27 Nov 1989 – Avianca flight 203 exploded with 107 people on board. A bomb was planted by the Medellin cartel. No survivors. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

1990s – Colombian drug trafficking in the early 1990s was a producer and distributor of heroin. By 1992 Colombia was producing heroin. Carli cartel drug heroin in the early 1980s. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1990-92 – In Aug 1990 Cesar Gaviria became president of Colombia. 41 traffickers had been extradited from Colombia to the US. June 1992 Miguel Maza Marquez was chief of DAS, Colombian intel, implicated in trafficking. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1990-94 – Sir Keith Morris was the British ambassador to Colombia. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

April 1990 - “Operation polar cap” was a US money laundering investigation. It involved hundreds of millions of laundered cocaine profits. LA Times reports April 1990. US 754 accounts in 173 banks in the US were frozen “Opeation polar cap” Bank of America, Security Pacific national bank. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1991 – The height of Escobar’s fight with the Cali cartel. There were 7,081 murders in Colombia, the worlds murder capital for that year. More than 500 police were killed by poor youth. (Drug barons Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1992 – Colombian drug lords move high grade heroin into the US. PBS frontline.

March 1992 – April 1993 – The collapse of the Colombian national electricity generation system caused power blackouts, 18 hours a day with no power. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

15 Feb 1993 – Bombings by Mafia druglords killed 14 people in Bogota. (Timeline internet).

1994 – Roberto Pannunzi Italian mafia was arrested in Colombia. He had links to Colombian cartels for trade in cocaine. He was extradited to Italy and released. Heart attack, and disappeared in 2009. (Timeline internet).

1994 – A decree was issued to regulate private vigilante groups with the army. Called CONVIVIR, or special vigilante and privatre security services. Mancuso was head of Convivir horizonte. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

6 June 1994 – 6 earthquake in Cualande Toez 1,000 people were killed Cauca. Timeline of earthquakes.

3 July 1994 – Pele and the mafia shoot of Colombia. Paul Wilson. The Observer. UK.

Oct 1994 – Corruption. Antanas Mockus was elected mayor of Bogota. Crime was rampant, the murder capital of the world. There were more than 4,200 murders in 1993 alone. The government was corrupt. Poverty widespread. The new mayor closed down the transit police department with 2,000 bribe taking cops. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)2008 US).

8 Feb 1995 – 6.4 earthquake 46 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

July 1996 – Juan Guillermo Diez Orozco went to Colombia from Australia. Cocaine network in Sydney. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

1997 – Colombia altered the constitution to re-introduce extradition to the US. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

1999 – By 1999, 85% of heroin sent to the north east US was of Colombian origin. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

19 Jan 1999 – Armenia earthquake over 2,000 people dead and 3,000 people were missing. Quarter of a million people were made homeless. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

25 Jan 1999 – 6 earthquake in Valle del Cauca, 273 people were killed and 900 people were injured, 2,000 people died in Armenia state. Timeline of earthquakes.

2000 – Australia, Juan Guillermo Diez Orozco and Australian Cornwell, Medellin Colombia. Adolpho Zapata and the cocaine trade. John Lawrence in Sydney Australia. Dominic Brokenshire. “Mr Carlos” was an alias for Orozco. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

2000 – In several cities in Colombia, libraries were destroyed by the civil war razing the country. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

2000-2001 – Liechtenstein based financier Rudolf Ritter laundered one million from the Colombian Cali cartel drugs. SPAG board a Russian company. (Deception. Edward Lucas (c)2012 UK).

31 Oct 2001 – Colombia sends drug lord to the US. Cocaine. Herald Sun.

2002-2008 – Colombia's top brass are implicated in extrajudicial executions. Murders. Unpublished evidence shows army generals and colonels from 2002 to 2008 (Human rights watch 25 June 2015).

2003 – Arms trafficking in Colombia. Kim Cragin. Bruce Hoffman. US DIA Santa Monica RAND Worldcat database.

2004 – Aerial spraying fails to reduce coca cultivation in Colombia. Washington office on Latin America. Coca and opium poppy production in South America ONSCP. 2004 coca and opium poppy Colombia and Andes. US office of national drug policy ONDLP.

April 2004 – In the first 10 months of 2004 Colombia extradited 250 people to the US for drug related crimes. In April 2004, 400 US military and 400 US contractors were operating in Colombia. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2 Aug 2004 – US listed Colombian president Uribe Colombian drug trafficking in 1991. Medellin cartel and govt.

22 Oct 2004 – A bomb explosion at a government building injured six people.

28 March 2005 – Smugglers submarine caught in Colombian drug net. The Australian.

21 Aug 2006 – Car bomb kills one person and wounds eight.

11 Oct 2006 – Major heroin shipment seized in Colombia. 56.8 kilos of heroin. BBC UK.

2007 – Drug trafficking, Cocaine and the CIA. Just like in the Asian golden triangle. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

18 Jan 2007 – Colombian ring smashed. Smuggling. The Australian.

29 March 2007 – Implicated, Colombian govt in Chiquita terror scandal. The Nation.

23 Dec 2007 – Colombian police seized 42 kilos of heroin in the biggest haul of 2007.. BBC UK.

2008 – In Haiti drug traffickers from Colombia have laundered money through property in Haiti in the last decade. Called an investment. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).

13 April 2008 – Missing person when 17 years old. Andry Julieth Escobar Rojas. Now 25 years old Spanish. Interpol.

30 Oct 2008 – Colombian army troops. Poor, unemployed and homeless people were taken to isolated areas and murdered. 3,350 cases were recorded. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

7 Jan 2009 – Body count. Colombian scandal declassified, a history of abuses by the Colombian army.

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under 5 in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 children do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID, those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK)

July Aug 2011 – Buenaventura Colombia. Kelly Nicholl. Mass graves. Gimena Sanchez Garzoll. NACLA.

8 Sept 2011 – Drug mule dies in New Zealand. A Colombian drug mule died after cocaine pellets burst inside. Telegraph UK.

2012 – Colombia Catholic church records 1600-2012. Deaths and child recognition. Family search LDS Wiki. Missing people in Colombia.

16 May 2012 – Blast in Bogota. http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2114969,00.html

3 Oct 2012 – Italian prosecutors say Canada is too lax on the Mafia. Ndrangeta has a presence in Toronto’s Thunder bay. Money laundering and Colombian drugs. CBS news.

5 Nov 2012 – Insight organised crime in the Americas. Colombia detains major heroin trafficker. By Laura Gomez. Carlos Mario Agudelo. Colombia had 3,950 hectares of poppy cultivation in 2004. Heroin into the US from Colombia.

26 Nov 2012 – Samanti Andrade Vanegas. Missing person. Interpol.

27 Nov 2012 – The Carabinier in Milan arrested 53 Italians and a Colombian for drug trafficking, weapons, stolen goods and money laundering. The network had in Cesano. Boscone, carpets with liquid cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

21 Dec 2012 – Lifting the veil on Colombia’s Emerald Czar. Documents Victor Carruza 1997 Miraflores massacre.

27 Dec 2012 – Carlos Ernesto Arango Laguado. Missing person Interpol.

18 Feb 2013 – Missing person when 4 years old. Now 6 years old. Diego Jose Uriana Ipuana. Male. Spanish. Interpol.

24 March 2013 – Carmen Arleth Arias Solipa. Missing person Interpol.

8 April 2013 – Chiquita block release of files on Colombia’s terror. Banana giant.

22 May 2013 – Danni Alejandro Bedoya Castaneda missing person . Interpol.

23 May 2013 - Adoption scandal. Orphanage dumped. Poor families lost children to the state. Child trafficking.

4 June 2013 – Missing person at 15 years old. Now 17 years old. Female. Leidy Carolina Ballen Martinez. Spanish. Interpol.

16 June 2013 – Nicolas Andres Avellaneda Rodriguez. Missing person. Interpol.

20 June 2013 – Paula Alejandra Cifuentes Florian. Missing person. Interpol.

9 July 2013 – Juan Carlos Alvarez Calle. Missing person. Interpol.

11 Nov 2013 – Luz America Alfardo Diaz. Missing person. Interpol.

15 Dec 2013 – Mario Arismendi Izquierdo. Missing person. Interpol.

19 Dec 2013 – Child soldiers being identified from mass graves. Talking About Colombia. The Colombian institute for forensic medicine has identified the remains of children from mass graves.

27 Dec 2013 – Jose Angel Alon Misa. Missing person. Interpol.

19 Feb 2014 – Maria Nancy Anaya. Missing person. Interpol.

24 April 2014 – Maria Lucerno Alvarado Sanabria. Missing person. Interpol.

18 July 2014 – Who controls Medellin’s fragile peace in Colombia’s model city. James Bargent. Christian Science monitor.

19 July 2014 – Gina Victoria Arias Canacho. Missing person. Interpol.

12 Aug 2014 – Missing person at 4 years old. Now 5 years old. Sofia Guerrero Camargo. Spanish. Female. Interpol.

13 Aug 2014 – Missing person at 13 years old. Now 14 years old. Salyda Vanesa Caldar Mendez. Female. Spanish. Interpol.

29 Aug 2014 – What happened to 92,000 disappeared people in Colombia. Bogota. More than 92,000 Colombians have disappeared over 50 years. ICRC. Newsweek. Reuters.

1 Sept 2014 – Deadly silence. 92,000 Colombians are still missing. Tens of thousands of people are missing in Colombia. Catholic online.

17 Sept 2014 – 97,000 people have disappeared in Colombia, 70,000 people are still missing. Colombia reports.

19 Sept 2014 – Virgins for sale in Colombia. The worlds biggest brothel. Channel 4 news. Criminal organisation “The office”.

20 Sept 2014 – Medellin as the world largest brothel. Sex trafficking and Pablo Escobar. Fox news Latino.

23 Sept 2014 – Police. Mexican cartels are trafficking cocaine directly from Colombia. VOA Bogota. Trustlaw.

26 Sept 2014 – Colombia needs more prosecutors for sex trafficking. Bogota. Identify and investigate sex trafficking crimes. Low conviction rates, an invisible problem. Reuters.

23 Oct 2014 – Nestle’s workers in Colombia protest with unions. Edgar Paez leader of the national food industry union. Sinaltreinal. Colombia reports.

29 Oct 2014 – Santos, ongoing corruption battle. Pres Juan Manuel Santos. Colombia reports.

11 Nov 2014 – 20 girls were held as sex slaves in Bogota by sex traffickers. 3 police raids in the city centre. Police find drugs and alcohol. Colombia reports.

14 Nov 2014 – Bogota police shut down a sex trafficking operation. Three people were arrested in Bogota. Underage girls are being raped by paedophiles. Colombia reports.

17 Nov 2014 – In Colombia one third of the sex slaves are under 14 years old. (Aangirfan).

21 Nov 2014 – 15 Colombian police were arrested in internal corruption crimes. Colombia reports.

21 Dec 2014 – Dominican republic seized half a ton of cocaine. Santo Domingo republic. 1,000 pounds (454kg) of cocaine. 12 people were arrested including a police officer. Drugs found on a fishing boat. The cocaine was from Colombia. The police officer arrested had $10,000 cash. AP. NZ Herald.

28 Dec 2014 – Missing person when 5 years old. Paula Nikol Palacios Narvaez. Female. Spanish. Interpol.

20 Jan 2015 – Italian police arrest a mafia drug ring. Links to Colombian organised crime, 26 arrested in Italy and 600kg of cocaine and hashish was seized. Telegraph UK.

27 Jan 2015 – Colombian orphans fed restaurant scraps. Welfare agencies. Corruption allegations. Orphans in care. Colombia reports.

8 Feb 2015 – A mass grave with 62 bodies was found in Colombia. Victims of a paramilitary group. New Kerala.co.

9 Feb 2015 – Missing person when 18 years old. Female. Laura Vanessa Arbelaez Zapata. Spanish. Interpol.

6 March 2015 – FARC asks the Colombian government to declassify archives. Commander Joaquin Gomez, Declassifying state archives. Telesur.

19 May 2015 – Colombia landslides, the death toll could rise as dozens of people are killed. At least 45 people were killed in landslides in the northeast mountain regions of Colombia. Telegraph UK.

25 June 2015 – Colombia's top brass are implicated in extrajudicial executions. Murders. Unpublished evidence shows Colombian army generals and colonels. From 2002 to 2008. (Human rights watch. 25 June 2015).

29 July 2015 – World news report. A 5.9 earthquake shakes the Colombia Panama border. Robinspot.com Twitter.

20 Aug 2015 – 341 images added to Cementerio de Since San Luis de Since Sucre Colombia 4 days ago. Billion graves activity.

16 Oct 2015 – Earthquake 3.2 in the Panama Colombia border region. EMSC.

16 Oct 2015 – Earthquake 2.8 Colombia. EMSC.

18 Oct 2015 – Missing people. Tens of thousands of missing people in Colombia. Yahoo news. Latin America news dispatch. Swissinfo.ch.

27 Oct 2015 – 12 people killed in a rebel attack in Colombia. Press TV. Twitter.

29 Oct 2015 – Colombians fear return of FARC terrorists. Frances Martel. Breitbart. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/29/colombians-overwhelmingly-reject-former-farc-terrorists-as-new-neighbors/

9 Nov 2015 – ICRC forensics searches for missing people in Colombia.

5 Dec 2015 – At least 16 women are feared killed by the monster of Monserrate. The bodies of 9 women have been found. The bodies were found on a hillside in Monserrate. Serial killer 34 year old Fredy Armando Valencia admitted to killing the women and burying them in Monserrate. Stuff.co.nz. NZ Herald. Onenews. AP. Bogota.

10 Dec 215 – Police corruption in Colombia. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. Illegal surveillance and rape. Spying on journalists to cover up male rapes. High ranking police from DIPOC police intel and rape of boys. Telesur. Reuters.

25 Jan 2016 - http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_29430043/un-oks-mission-monitor-future-cease-fire-colombia

27 Jan 2016 – ICRC missing people and unmarked graves. https://www.icrc.org/en/document/missing-and-consigned-oblivion-tragedy-colombias-unmarked-graves

28 Jan 2016 – New Zealander arrested in Colombia on drugs charges. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/76330460/New-Zealander-Peter-Leaitua-arrested-in-Colombia-on-drug-charges

28 Jan 2016 – New Zealand airport car and Colombian jewelery thefts. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/76315304/Abandoned-car-at-Wellington-Airport-linked-to-Colombian-jewellery-thefts

3 Feb 2016 - http://thebogotapost.com/2016/02/03/colombian-police-corruption-scandal/

13 Feb 2016 – Zika virus. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/208703/more-than-5000-pregnant-women-in-colombia-have-zika-virus

16 Feb 2016 - http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2016/02/16/colombian-official-resigns-amid-allegations-police-prostitution-ring/

16 Feb 2016 - http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/644513/man-arrested-drug-dealing-in-colombia-in-pictures

Brazil research clues

BRAZIL

1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies. Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or “fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).

1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil for sugar plantations.

16^th to 18^th centuries – High demand for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from west. (21 Sept 2012).

1662-1807 – Between 1662 and 1807 British ships carried 3.25 million Africans across the Atlantic. 70% of them destined for the sugar economies of Brazil and the Caribbean. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James Walvin ©2007 UK).

Jan 1748 – Brazil and back to the UK. The “Greyhound” with African slaves. (The trade, the owner, the slaves. James Walvin (c)2007 UK).

1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.

1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline internet).

7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP 9/7/97 timeline internet).

1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to help rebels there (timeline internet).

1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.

1874 – The “Adamant” ship arrived in Nelson New Zealand on 8 Aug 1874. On one voyage it ran aground off the coast of Brazil, but was refloated and continued its voyage. The voyage of the “Adamant” from Plymouth UK to Nelson NZ took 93 days. There were nine voyages to NZ altogether. (NZ genealogist. Jan Feb 2009).

13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4 million slaves were imported, the most of any country in the west.

13 May 1888 – Princess Isabel of Brazil signed 'Lei Aurea' abolishing slavery. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

1900 – 1957 – Brazil killed more than 80 Indian tribes. The population went from one. million to less than 200,000. (Worse than war. David Jonah Goldhagen (c)2009 US).

11 Feb 1935 – Johann “Jonny” Heinrich de Graff was sent to Brazil. Luis Carlos Prestes revolutionary movement wanted to overthrow the right wing government of Pres Getulio Vargas who had seized power in 1930. There was no SIS station in Brazil but the UK had business there. Canadian owned Brazilian Traction light and power company was the Rio utility company. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

24 Aug 1942 – Brazil and the allies. NZ Herald. Daily southern cross. Papers past.

26 Aug 1942 – Brazil. Christchurch Press NZ. Papers past.

29 June 1943 –Reading Eagle. Former Nazi envoy in Brazil jailed. 19 suspected as German spies. Rio de Janeiro, Kurt Preuffer, former German ambassador to Brazil and 18 others as Nazi spies.

May 1944 – In Brazil there were many arrests and 86 convictions, Abwehr Germans in Brazil. (FBI a history. Rodri Jefferys Jones ©2007 US).

30 May 1945 – Government of Brazil. The Press Christchurch NZ. Papers past.

1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during the resistance of World War Two, and went to Harvard business school, landed in Brazil. Erling Lorentzen, was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon flew to Paraguay in late 1987.

1967-1980 – Red cross passports. Nazi Franz Stangl arrived in Brazil in 1967. He died in a German prison in 1971. Commander of Sobibor and Treblinka death camps. Where 1,250,000 Jews and gypsies were gassed to death. Stangl Nazis escaped on Red Cross passports. Gustav Wagner commander at Sobibor death camp. Arrested in Brazil in 1978and freed in Oct 1980, died in Sao Paulo Brazil. (Gods bankers. Gerald Posner. (c)2015 US).

3 September 1969 – The US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped. Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.

1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel. President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans eventually backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter. German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of America. ©1981 PE Erdman).

1973 – John FW Dulles. Anarchists and Communists in Brazil. Austin Texas.

June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120 million Brazil (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

1976 – A Roman ship was found, underwater archeology. Rio de Janero in 1976 from 250 AD in Brazil. (Atlantis and other lost worlds. Frank Joseph (c)2008 UK).

30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao Paulo Brazil temple. (President LDS Mormon ©2006).

1980-2002 – Luiz Inaco Lula da Silva 2002 election in Brazil. A member of the progressive welfare party in 1980 helping the poor. Oil and gas reserves. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

Oct 1980 – Gustav Wagner died in Sao Paulo Brazil. (Gods banker. Gerald Posner. (c)2015 UK).

1988 – Antonio Bardellino and Mario Iovine, fish flour and cocaine business and murder. Interpol tracking. Bardellino’s body was never found. (Gomorrah, the other mafia. Roberto Saviano (c)2007 Italy).

1990s – In Brazil the Cali cartel worked closely with Italy’s organised crime groups there from Cyprus to launder drug money. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1994 – Orphans and the transition from slave to free labour in northeast Brazil. John Meznar. Journal of social history.

1 May 1997 – Christopher Colombo missing person.

1998-Nov 2005 – China’s President visited in Nov 2005, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru. Chinese business, a satellite program in 1998. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

1999 – A concise history of Brazil. Boris Fausto. Google books.

2000-2001 – Illicit trafficking in firearms. Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Pericles Gasparini Alves. UN institute. New York UN Worldcat database.

24 July 2002 – Ukraine and Brazil launch construction of a new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50 Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)

29 Oct 2003 – A shipment from Manaus Brazil through Rijeka Croatia was stopped in Hamburg Germany port with 255 kilos of cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

Feb 2004 – Cupola leader Fabio Franco was pulled out of the boot of a car by Brazil’s police after his arrest in Sao Paulo. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006 UK).

25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium ore, taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals in a pick up truck was seized.

Jan 2005 – World Socialist forum in Brazil. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

2006 – Smuggling charges as organs are harvested from street children in Brazil. Costa Nostra. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

13 May 2006 – Sao Paulo violence, a rebellion in several prisons in Brazil. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo, suspected gang members exchanged gunfire with police, and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks, and burned buses in and around Sao Paulo, for a second day. A Brazilian died when he opened a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid military bases.

27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake bomb.

2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century. ©20076 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in Brazil. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief, major general Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to sell eight combat airplanes to the Dominican republic, Estadao reported. The transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value. (Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under five in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been legally registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 boys and girls do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID is not able to identify themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

12 Nov 2010 – Transport trailers. Port of Gioia Tauro Calabria operation meta. An undocumented container from Brazil filled with trailers for agriculture. Metal tubes frames 1,000 blocks and 1,000 kilos of cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

February 2011 – LDS Mormon Church history in Brazil. Ensign p70.

8 April 2011 – 1,200 kilos of cocaime was sent from Brazil in cans of palm, container at the port of Livorno was seized. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

21 Dec 2011 – At Fiumicino airport a Spanish model from Sao Paulo Brazil was detained. 2.5 kilos of pure cocaine crystals were found in her artificial breasts and buttocks. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

19 March 2012 – Secret files show 9,000 Nazis fled to South America after world war two. 2,000 Nazis in Brazil. Secret files from Bazil and Chile. Daily Mail online. Allan Hall. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117093/Secret-files-reveal-9-000-Nazi-war-criminals-fled-South-America-WWII.html

June 2012 – LDS Mormon President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign. Nov 2012.

8 June 2012 – Peanuts. The port of Gioia Tauro found in a container from Bazil was 630 kilos of cocaine. 580 blocks stuffed in 16 bags hidden in a shipment of peanuts. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

15 June 2012 – Sugar. The port of London UK a harbor terminal on the Thames. 30 kilos of cocaine was found hidden in a load of sugar in a cargo ship from Brazil. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

22 July 2012 – In Portugal the police arrested a man from Vicenza and found 120 kilos of cocaine in a container of skins from Brazil. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

3 Sept 2012 – At Lagos Nigeria airport a Nigerian from Brazil Sao Paulo. Customs found 2.5 kilos of cocaine hidden in roast chicken. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

19 November 2012 – Brazil’s sex traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.

1 Jan 2013 – Mushtaq Ahmed. Missing person. Interpol.

12 May 2013 – Tammy Emanuele Alves Caldeira. Missing person.

13 March 2014 – NZ police look for cocaine smuggling suspect. Brazilian $1 million cocaine bust. South America. A cocaine supply route between Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand. Waikato Times NZ.

5 June 2014 – Daniel Stuckey. Andrew Blake. How FBI informant Sabu helped Anonymous hack Brazil. Motherboard Vice.

6 June 2014 – Two Brazilian's admit supplying cocaine. Possession of cocaine for supply 2.35 kilograms of cocaine worth 3.5 million was hidden. The Press NZ. David Clarkson.

23 June 2014 – FIFA world cup forces homelessness on thousands of children. Sick and elderly too. Liberty voice. Forced evictions by government. Liberty voice. Rebecca Savastio.

8 July 2014 – Brazil torture techniques revealed in declassified US documents.

6 Aug 2014 - . Four Brazil police officers arrested on rape charges. in a poor area. slums and police units. Latino Fox news EFE.

18 Sept 2014 – Tait expands in South America. New Zealand communications company buys Brazil giant SGM telecommunicacoei. Christchurch New Zealand based Tait communications. A digital wireless business. Sao Paulo military and police riots and anti poor people. Military police in Panama too. NZ Herald. Holly Ryan.

28 Sept 2014 – Senator dismissed for corruption in Brazil now behind bars. Banker construction magnate Luiz Estrevao. Fox news Latino.

4 Oct 2014 – Brazil elections. Wall street journal. Rio de Janeiro Rochinha slums. Reuters Sao Paulo.

6 Oct 2014 – The persistence of corruption in Brazil’s politics. Embezzlement and corruption. Brazil politics. Deusche Welle.

16 Oct 2014 – 51 arrested for child porn in Brazil. Brazil Business Today. Paedophiles.

22 Oct 2014 – Brazil corruption. Presidential voting, the evil of corruption is spreading like an epidemic. New York Times.

29 Oct 2014 – Lucas Lindemann Aagesen. Missing 9 year old boy. Interpol. San Paulo Brazil.

29 Oct 2014 – Brazil Socialist. The New Yorker. Dilma Rousseff. Brazil’s Socialist elected pres. The world’s fifth most populous country. Socialism and corruption. The Guardian UK.

31 Oct 2014 – Petrobras, law firms, corruption investigation., Petrobras is Brazil’s biggest company. Corruption scandals, money laundering and manipulation investigations.

31 Oct 2014 – Socialism and corruption in Brazil. Rouseff. The Guardian UK. embezzlement.

4 Nov 2014 – Petrobras int CEO. Wall Street Journal. Rio de Janero. Brazil State run company Petroleo Brasileko SA. Seattle SP.

4 Nov 2014 – Intelnews.org. Joseph Fitsanakis. Brazil to Portugal internet cable to avoid US intel agencies.

Nov 2014 – NZ prison guard denies corruption and bribery. Phillip Smith, murder and paedophile escaped from a NZ jail in Nov 2014 and went to Brazil. Robert Sikora denied charges. TVNZ. One news. Chris Chang. 21 Oct. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/prison-guard-denies-corruption-charges-in-phillip-smith-investigation-q16644.html

5 Nov 2014 – Brazil police and deaths in Belem. Police revenge attacks. Reports of off duty police killing nine people in Belem. BBC UK.

5-6 Nov 2014 – Nine people are killed in Brazil. Police vigilantes. San Paulo. The poor port city of Belem. Police killed nine people. Int business Times. Wall street journal.

9 Nov 2014 – US opens investigation into Brazil’s Petrobras. Nasdaq. US dept of justice. CNBC.

10 Nov 2014 – US turns up heat on investigation into Petrobras. Brazils biggest company, corruption case. Pres Dilma Rousseff. Financial Times.

10 Nov 2014 – Phillip Smith is now in Brazil. Brazil business news. Interpol.

11 Nov 2014 – Killer and paedophile from New Zealand is now in Brazil. Daniel Galvin. Passport Phillip John Traynor. Stuff.co.nz.

11 Nov 2014 – New Zealand murderer and prison escaper, paedophile may have joined up with an international paedophile ring in Brazil. NZ Herald. John Weekes.

11 Nov 2014 – Gherkin brought by Brazil’s banking rich for 700 million. Joseph Safra, Brazils second richest man is worth $12.2 billion. Bloomberg billionaires index. Telegraph UK.

11 Nov 2014 – The Gherkin, sold to Brazil’s Joseph Safra. The Gherkin is a London skyscraper. The Guardian UK.

11 Nov 2014 – Trail of escaped killer and paedophile leads to Brazil. Interpol spokesman Ricardo Quiroz.

11 Nov 2014 – Police talk to pair over Smith’s escape. A US based police officer is on his way to Brazil. Interpol alerts.

12 Nov 2014 – Skynews. Australia. International hunt for New Zealand paedophile killer. AAP.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil police kill six people a day says report. Brazil forum on public safety. Police killed 11,197 people over the past 5 years. The Guardian UK.

13 Nov 2014 – Let Brazils homeless speak for themselves. Citylab. Removal of minors on the streets. Treatment of homeless by government is harsh.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil’s police captured New Zealand murderer and paedophile Smith. Wellington Nick Perry. Brad Brooks in Rio de Janeiro.

15 Nov 2014 – Petrobras scandal widens, earning delayed. Sao Paulo, federal police arrested former executive. Wall street journal.

15 Nov 2014 – Brazil police arrest 18 in Petrobras corruption raids. State run oil firm Petrobras. BBC UK.

29 Nov 2014 – Skanska quits South America over corruption. 20 senior managers with a construction company in Brazil have been arrested for corruption. P

aying bribes. The Local.

14 Dec 2014 – Corruption allegations. Costa and moneylender Alberto Youssef among the first 20 to be arrested in March 2014. Corruption in Brazil. Telegraph UK.

17 Jan 2015 – Brazil and Tait. Tess McClure. Christchurch New Zealand tech company Tait communications. Brazil hub in Sao Paulo, Garry Diack. Contracts with the Sao Paulo police. Military police of the state of Parema and Petrobras. The Press Chch NZ. Stuff.co.nz.

22 Jan 2015 – A Brazilian surfer was shot dead by a police officer who was drunk. Funeral for the surfer with thousands of mourners. The Guardian UK.

27 March 2015 – Audrey Young. GCSB spying report. Brazil demands an explanation from New Zealand. Brazil diplomat Roberto Azevedo. The New Zealand GCSB spied on Brazil at the WTO. NZ Herald.

28 March 2015 – Corruption currents. Brazil new bribery scandal. Petrobras state owned oil company. Wall street journal.

28 March 2015 – Brazil police say massive tax fraud scheme. Sao Paulo AP Federal police say companies fraud amounts to $2 billion in unpaid fines and taxes. NZ Herald.

12 May 2015 – A mega city runs dry. Brazil's largest city is the focus of the worst water crisis. The largest city in a country, that holds 20% of the earth's fresh water supply ends up without any. Dandelion Care2.

8 June 2015 – Two people are dead after a prison riot erupted in south east Brazil's overcrowded jail. Two prisoners died. TVNZ. CTV news.

12 June 2015 – HSBC and Citigroup, Socgen foreign banks in Brazil. HSBC holdings pic. Scaling back in Bazil. Bloomberg.

26 June 2015 – Italy's mafia and cocaine trafficking. Calabrian crime syndicate Ndrangheta, drugs going through Brazil. 80% of all cocaine entering Europe goes through Santos port. Brazil. The Guardian UK.

29 July 2015 – Brazil businessman Odebrecht charged in corruption scandal. BBC UK.

29 July 2015 – CEO from Brazil Electonuclear was arrested in corruption probe. Electrobras unit. Bribes from construction companies between 2009 and 2014. Wall street journal.

1 Aug 2015 – HSBC nears $4 billion sale with Brazil. Bradesco is Brazil's second largest private bank, in talks with HSBC. Reuters. Financial Times.

19 Oct 2015 – Petrobras corruption. UK taxpayers pay millions, Brazil oil company. The Independent UK. Chris Green.

22 Oct 2015 – The horrors of Brazil's prisons. Jorges story. No matress to sleep on. State of Pernambuco, over crowded east Brazil. Human rights watch. The week in rights.

23 Oct 2015 – Killings of street children by police in Brazil, leading up to the 2016 Olympics. Twitter. CSC.

23 Oct 2015 – Street children are being killed in Brazil. Twitter. CSC.

4 Nov 2015 – Brazil's construction tycoon has been jailed for 19 years, for Petrobras corruption. Money laundering and racketeering. $8.3 million in bribes and Petrobras. Merco pres Sergio Cunha Mendes.

6 Nov 2015 – Dams burst in Brazil. 16 people were reported dead. A mining company in south east Brazil. Drowning homes and cars nearby. NZ Herald. Sydney Morning Herald.

27 Nov 2015 – A 6.4 earthquake hit western Brazil. G+. Griffin Walker. NDTV. USGS.

5 Dec 2015 – Corruption and economic crisis. The corruption scandal at Petrobras the . state owned energy company. Financial Times.

5 Dec 2015 – Global crisis. Goldman Sachs says that Brazil has plunged into an outright economic depression. One of the most important banks in the western world. A full blown economic depression. Brazil's economy and things are going to get far worse. An economic disaster. G+. Before its news.

12 Dec 2015 – Corruption in big irrigation plan. Millions of dollars was diverted. Arrests in corruption of water project. NZ Herald. Wall street journal. Sao Paulo. AP. Reuters.

24 Dec 2015 – Brazil and a mosquito virus. Link between mosquito virus and birth defects. VOA. State of emergency in Brazil. http://www.voanews.com/content/brazil-grapples-with-mosquito-borne-virus/3116730.html

5 Jan 2016 – Brazil heads for worst recession since 1901. Last time was 1930 to 1931 the Great Depression years. David Biller. Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/brazil-analysts-ring-in-new-year-with-deeper-recession-forecast

8 Jan 2016 – Anderson Luiz Dos Santos age 32 a tourist from Brazil, died in a head on car crash on 8 Jan 2016 in Queenstown New Zealand. Stuff.co.nz.

13 Jan 2016 – A tourist couple from Brazil in New Zealand, theft of a handbag. Stuff.co.nz. Hamish McNeilly. The cruise ship Celebrity Solstice in Otago port New Zealand. http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/75857617/cruise-over-for-lightfingered-passenger-in-dunedin

15 Jan 2016 – Zika virus and pregnancy. Brain damage in babies in Brazil. Dom Phillips. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazilians-panic-as-mosquito-linked-to-brain-damage-in-thousands-of-babies/2016/01/15/7e8e2dec-b8ca-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html

27 Jan 2016 – Brazil police raids. “Operation carwash” and “triple x”. Corruption, offshore companies and money laundering. Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-idUSKCN0V516Y

1 Feb 2016 - http://www.metronews.ca/news/world/2016/01/31/report-police-probing-if-officers-behind-killing-spree.html

10 Feb 2016 – Natural news. Like rape, its not your body now, it belongs to the government. http://www.naturalnews.com/052919_Zika_virus_private_property_rights_propaganda.html

12 Feb 2016 – Natural news. Mass fumigation of poor people in Brazil causes the brain damage. http://www.naturalnews.com/052943_Zika_virus_hoax_larvacide_chemical_GM_mosquitoes.html