http://baseballstatsandnews.com/topic/rio-de-janeiro2010-12-30T06:31:35Z2010-06-11T22:29:28ZAP Featurestag:baseballstatsandnews.com,2010-06-11:/professional-baseball/obituaries-news-309701a/

<div><p>Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar</p><p><a title="Miami" href="/topic/Miami" >MIAMI</a> (AP) &amp;#8212; Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar, one of the leading mambo dancers of the 1950s, has died. He was 81.</p><p>Aguilar died Tuesday at the Sinai Plaza Rehabilitation &amp;amp;amp; Nursing Center in Miami, said <a title="Barbara Craddock" href="/topic/Barbara+Craddock" >Barbara Craddock</a>, his longtime dance partner. Craddock described his cause of death as heart failure but said it could be related...

2010-12-30T06:31:35ZAP Newstag:baseballstatsandnews.com,2010-12-30:/photo/brazil-rio-2016-2404018p/

<a title="Jacques Rogge" href="/topic/Jacques+Rogge" >International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge</a>, from <a title="Belgium" href="/topic/Belgium" >Belgium</a>, delivers a speech during a ceremony laying the cornerstone of the future Olympic village in <a title="Rio de Janeiro" href="/topic/Rio+de+Janeiro" >Rio de Janeiro</a>, <a title="Brazil" href="/topic/Brazil" >Brazil</a>, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2010&#160; <a...

2010-12-30T06:31:34ZAP Newstag:baseballstatsandnews.com,2010-12-30:/photo/correction-brazil-rio-2016-2404017p/

Authorities and athletes, from left, <a title="Sandra Pires" href="/topic/Sandra+Pires" >Sandra Pires</a>, from <a title="Brazil" href="/topic/Brazil" >Brazil</a>, Olympic gold medalist at the <a title="1996 Summer Olympics" href="/topic/1996+Summer+Olympics" >1996 Atlanta</a> beach volleyball games, <a title="Joao Havelange" href="/topic/Joao+Havelange" >FIFA Honorary President Joao Havelange</a>, <a title="Rio de Janeiro" href="/topic/Rio+de+Janeiro" >Rio de Janeiro</a>'s <a title="Sergio Cabr...

2010-12-03T11:43:53ZAP Newstag:baseballstatsandnews.com,2010-12-03:/photo/brazil-lula-2391589p/

<a title="Brazil" href="/topic/Brazil" >Brazil</a>'s <a title="Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva" href="/topic/Luiz+Inacio+Lula+da+Silva" >President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva</a>, center, gestures next to <a title="Rio de Janeiro" href="/topic/Rio+de+Janeiro" >Rio de Janeiro</a>'s governor <a title="Sergio Cabral" href="/topic/Sergio+Cabral" >Sergio Cabral</a>, second left, and with unidentified journalists and officials during a press conference with members of the international media in Rio de Janeiro...

2010-11-30T13:33:11ZAP Newstag:baseballstatsandnews.com,2010-11-30:/photo/brazil-rio-violence-2389955p/

Members of the Peacemaker Police Unit Program (UPP) stand in formation during the inauguration of a new UPP police post in the Morro dos Macaos slum in <a title="Rio de Janeiro" href="/topic/Rio+de+Janeiro" >Rio de Janeiro</a>, <a title="Brazil" href="/topic/Brazil" >Brazil</a>, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities seized control of the Morro dos Macaos slum in Oct. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2010&#160; <a href="http://www.ap.org">AP News</a></div></div><div...

2010-11-29T11:02:26ZAP Newstag:baseballstatsandnews.com,2010-11-29:/photo/aptopix-brazil-rio-violence-2389342p/

A police officer patrols in the Complexo do Alemao slum in <a title="Rio de Janeiro" href="/topic/Rio+de+Janeiro" >Rio de Janeiro</a>, <a title="Brazil" href="/topic/Brazil" >Brazil</a>, Monday Nov. 29, 2010. Authorities seized control of what was long the most dangerous slum in the city that will host the <a title="2016 Summer Olympics" href="/topic/2016+Summer+Olympics" >2016 Olympics</a>, as operations continued Monday to locate drug gang members. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)<div id="copyright"><...