CHICAGO, Ill.(Dec. 7, 2012) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Friday afternoon that it has selected forward Maicon Santos in the Stage-One draft of the MLS Re-Entry process. In four MLS seasons the Brazilian forward has tallied 21 goals and added eight assists. “We are pleased to add Maicon Santos to our roster ahead of the 2013 season,” said President of Soccer Operations Javier Leon. “Maicon is a talented forward who brings with him a scoring touch and MLS experience.” In 2012, Santos made 26 appearances for D.C. United, scored seven goals and added three assists over 1,470 minutes, helping D.C. United reach the Eastern Conference Final. Santos started and played the full 90 minutes of D.C. United's 3-1 loss to the Houston Dynamo in the first leg of the Eastern Conference Final Nov. 11. A product of Paracambi, Brazil, Santos made his professional debut with Rio de Janeiro-based Madureira Esporte Clube in 2004. His career included stops in Tunisia, Libya and Israel before joining MLS when he signed with Chivas USA in 2009. In two seasons with the Goats, Santos made 19 appearances, scored two goals and added one assist. In 2010, Santos joined Toronto FC where he played 32 matches over the course of two seasons, scoring ten goals and adding three assists from 2010-11. Santos joined FC Dallas for the second half of the 2011 season and scored two goals and added one assist across 11 games. Stormy weather late on 21 February 2024 swept over southern parts of the state from late 21 February 2024 the Recreio dos Bandeirantes neighbourhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro city recorded 42.8 mm of rain and the neighbourhood of Bangu was reported in municipalities outside the state capital Videos shared on Social Media showed the dramatic recuse of a mother and her two daughters who were swept away by fast-flowing flood waters through the streets of Nova Iguaçu at least 8 fatalities were reported across the state as a result of incidents caused by the heavy rain including 4 members of the same family who died after a landslide buried their family home in Barra do Piraí Two people died in separate landslides in Japeri Two fatalities were also reported in Nova Iguaçu although the full details of the incidents were unclear Flooding and landslides have also caused widespread material damages displacing around 600 people across communities in Barra do Piraí The state government said it was providing assistance to affected areas of Nova Iguaçu Sections of several major roads in the area have been closed The state’s fire service carried out over 137 interventions in the space of 24 hours including the dramatic rescue by helicopter of a man trapped in flood waters in Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin The state government warned of further heavy rain and the continued risk of flooding and landslides over the coming days Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList Brazil (AP) — Edizangela Alves Barros believed that being forced to relocate to make way for a mammoth dam in Brazil’s Amazon would mean a brighter future for her family their newly built settlement has more expensive electricity bills and intermittent public lighting -- a cruel irony for a community just 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the world’s third-biggest hydroelectric dam “We left our wooden houses to live in concrete houses but our economic situation got worse,” Alves Barros a colossus built with enough concrete and steel to make 22 Eiffel Towers Boats crossing the river beside it look like toys Belo Monte was conceived to bolster Brazil's faltering electrical grid the dam has been a boon — at least to the people in cities more than 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) away There is a different view in the region where the dam was built and it has dried up stretches of the Xingu River Critics also say that promises of jobs and economic development to accompany the dam weren't met “There were a lot of promises — generate jobs the region’s economy was going to grow,” said Sabrina Mesquita do Nascimento a researcher with the Federal University of Para’s Center for Advanced Amazonian Studies The promises either didn’t materialize or evaporated once construction ended All the damages fell to these people,” do Nascimento said Belo Monte has the capacity to generate 11.2 gigawatts of power less only than China’s Three Gorges and Itaipu on Brazil’s border with Paraguay It required excavating a canal larger than the Panama Canal and job seekers flocked to Altamira seeking one of the 60,000 promised positions Residents who fished and bathed in the Xingu saw their lives take a dramtic turn a fisherman who lives in a small wooden house with a makeshift dock where he plays with his six dogs fish are scarce and he picks up odd jobs to make ends meet That isn’t what he expected after hearing the plans outlined by the dam’s builder for preserving local communities’ customs Federal prosecutors have carried out 27 different investigations focused on Belo Monte they have accusedcompanies and public agencies of not performing mandatory consultations with indigenous communities or not fulfilling pledges to implement basic sewage for area residents Norte Energia said local families eat more than three times the amount of fish suggested by the World Health Organization and stressed that they had created a “cooperative” of fishermen to mitigate impacts on the river Norte Energia also said it did not force indigenous communities to relocate who is still waiting to get electricity in his home beachgoers on Ipanema applaud the sunset every evening illuminating the Christ the Redeemer statue the Maracana soccer stadium and homes of 13 million city dwellers Few Rio residents realize their televisions and washing machines draw some power from the distant mega-dam Belo Monte has been sending power along the world's longest 800 kilovolt transmission line which snakes for 2,534 kilometers (1,574 miles) through 81 cities and three ecosystems to a substation in Rio state The line to Rio state isn’t a straight shot The local subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned company built it with 435 kilometers (270 miles) of detours to avoid crossing indigenous land and keep local communities on board vice president at State Grid Holding Brazil The company also raised towers above tree-level to avoid cutting down a 120 yard-wide strip of forest along the way “People would be shocked at the amount of effort and investment that is necessary to give us the comfort of our daily lives,” Leal said at the company’s building in Rio’s city center Transmission line construction was impeded by 2017 protests in Para state and Brazil's government deployed National Guard troops to ensure no delays in work that was considered essential for growth of the country's economy some of them caused by faults at power plants a power failure threw Brazil’s two largest cities into darkness People living in Brazil’s biggest cities are largely unaware of Belo Monte's impact on the region where it was built That’s because the wealthier southeast operates under an illusion of self-sufficiency a professor at the Federal University of Rondonia who leads a research group on Amazon territories They feel removed from Amazon exploitation -- whether a massive iron mine’s exports or Belo Monte’s energy “Those excesses make their lives operate well in the metropolis but they don't understand where it comes from Belo Monte caused pain for local communities that has only worsened as construction dust settled a lawyer who has represented some of the people relocated The loss of jobs brought by the dam’s construction fueled an explosion in violence “People lost their jobs and the city became a breeding ground for social problems,” Santana said Altamira’s homicide rate was 36 per 100,000 residents making it Brazil’s second-most violent city Hotels built to accommodate the once-booming workforce are empty and larger firms are caught up in the sprawling “Car Wash" corruption probe that revealed bribery in Brazil’s construction sector President Jair Bolsonaro unveiled the inaugural plaque on Belo Monte’s final turbine maximum generation is lacking given low rainfall roughly half the year and the fact that the plant was built with a “run of river" model rather than with a reservoir as a concession to environmentalists director of infrastructure consulting firm CBIE is evaluating construction of a natural gas-fired power plant on the site Norte Energia told The Associated Press in an emailed response only that it is developing projects to expand the power sector the risk of (Brazil) lacking energy would have been enormous,” Pires said by phone it is a project that will help the Brazilian electricity sector very much.” development for the national good is a perspective lost on local communities The government and companies paid lip service to helping residents who found their own voices stifled as they were stuck with hardship “A lot of money came through here,” said Alves Barros Associated Press writers Diane Jeantet and Marcelo de Sousa reported from Rio de Janeiro AP journalists David Biller in Rio de Janeiro and Mario Lobao in Altamira contributed to this report Diane Jeantet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianejeantet Marcelo de Sousa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/msilvadesousa