NPR In case you missed this one over the holidays: Late Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, who co-wrote the famous song, "The Girl From Ipanema," once said "São Paulo is the graveyard of samba." Now 100 years after the first recorded samba, São Paulo Read more ... is pioneering the genre's second act.

AP Images A Chinese national, living in Venezuela, looks for his passport in the remains of the building where he maintains a home and business in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, that were looted by demonstrators the night before. Hundreds of Read more ... police and soldiers have been deployed to the streets of Ciudad Bolivar, where weekend violence left dozens of businesses destroyed or damaged after massive looting over the sudden decision to yank the 100-bolivar, the most widely used currency note from circulation. #APPhoto by Alejandro Cegarra

Yahoo Finance Dozens of businesses were destroyed.

The Wall Street Journal The government of Venezuela has decided to extend the use of the 100-bolivar note until Jan. 2, following protests and looting by people angry at being left largely without cash.

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The Economist Venezuela’s currency, the bolívar, is worth a thousandth of what it was in 1999, when Hugo Chávez came to power http://econ.st/1InqluG

Daily Mail Sport Rogério Ceni... São Paulo FC legend.

VICE News São Paulo's Cracolândia is symbolic of the country’s drug epidemic.

NBC News It's in the center of the American Heartland but Bolivar, Missouri, got its name from a Latin American general and liberator admired by early settlers.