But among those who joined the race on a hot and sunny morning was the public security secretary for the state of Rio de Janeiro, Jose Beltrame.
BBC: Rio peace race retraces favela drug lords' escape route
One dated March 2009 commits Vanessa Precht, a Brazilian who formerly worked at Barcelona FC and who was Mr Rosell's partner in Ailanto, to leasing a farm in the state of Rio de Janeiro from Mr Teixeira for 10, 000 reais a month for five years.
The final solution came when, in 2008, IPHAN resumed work under the supervision of architect Cristina Lodi and succeeded, in an unprecedented way, orchestrating a set of agents that were decisive for the result: besides IPHAN itself, ICMBio, the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Rio de Janeiro City Hall, the private sector, led by the Association of Entrepreneurs Friends of UNESCO, and Roberto Marinho Foundation.
Carlos Ramos or "Carlinhos the Waterfall" - the man from whom Mr Diniz is accused of taking money for favours while head of the Rio de Janeiro state lottery - is thought to be a kingpin of the Rio numbers game.
Petrobras has been studying an alternative to transport the equipment by ferry to the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro State (Comperj).
Meanwhile, the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Sergio Cabral, used his speech to attack Brazilian football clubs, which he said were "unprofessionally run".
"The degree of civilisation of a country can be measured by the way people in a nation treat their homosexual community, " Claudio Nascimento, head of Rio de Janeiro state's Gay, Lesbian and Transsexuals Committee said, according to O Globo.
In Brazil more than 100 people were killed after hours of torrential rains triggered mudslides in Rio de Janeiro state.
In Rio de Janeiro's state universities, 20% of places are set aside for black students who pass the entrance exam.
The development comes after some 200, 000 people protested in Rio de Janeiro against the bill, which they said would deprive Rio state of much of its oil revenue.
In Rio de Janeiro state, flooding and mudslides turned the once-picturesque tourist town of Teresopolis into a wasteland.
Rio de Janeiro governor Sergio Cabral had warned the measure could bankrupt his state ahead of the 2016 Olympics.
But in a statement quoted by the Folha de Sao Paulo, the Rio de Janeiro state government pointed out that this was a test event, using only 30% of the stadium's full capacity, and did not represent the full reopening.
Timothy Wirth later became undersecretary of state for global affairs for the Clinton-Gore administration, U.S. representative to the 1992 UN Rio de Janeiro Climate Summit that set Kyoto Protocol carbon regulations in motion, and president of the UN Foundation.
In Rio de Janeiro a populist governor brought in a law obliging the main state university to reserve 40% of its places for blacks and half for graduates of state high schools (which, unlike state universities, are for common folk).
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