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  • Right now I am drinking a super red from the Douro in Portugal, Vale do Bonfim, which at $12 is a stellar value ....

    Red Newt Cellars 2007 Sawmill Creek Vineyards Gewurztraminer 2009

  • Police last week said Antônio Bonfim Lopes, the drug lord known as Nem who was arrested in the runup to the incursion, ran an organization with sales of as much as $57 million each year.

    Brazilian Police Occupy Lawless Rio Slum Paulo Prada 2011

  • Associated Press Antonio Bonfim Lopes, alias "Nem," center, is escorted handcuffed by police at the federal police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday.

    Brazil's Strike on Drug Gangs in Slums Yields Top Rio Boss John Lyons 2011

  • On Wednesday night authorities landed an early blow, arresting the favela's drug boss, 35-year-old Antonio Bonfim Lopes, as he attempted to flee inside a car boot.

    Life and death in Rio's drug wars 2011

  • An expanse of brightly colored satin ribbons hanging from holes drilled into the walls in a space off the lobby, it mimics the iron gates of a church in Bahia, Brazil, Nosso Senhor do Bonfim, which bristle with ribbons left by pilgrims.

    A Fresh Approach Yields Poetry 2010

  • She then hacked Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos 'body into more than 100 pieces, which she boiled and fried before hiding in plastic bags beneath a staircase in her house, Bonfim said.

    Archive 2007-03-25 Bill Crider 2007

  • Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, drugged her husband in his sleep, then stabbed him to death two years ago in Salvador, about 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo, said police spokesman Idmar Bonfim.

    Archive 2007-03-25 Bill Crider 2007

  • Bonfim and Maria Tebus Torres - had been freed definitively or were being allowed home only temporarily to wash and change clothes.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Bonfim had come under mounting pressure in recent weeks for his inability to stem the rise of inflation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, known as Nem, was captured after being discovered hiding in the boot of a car stopped at a roadblock, as police surrounded the sprawling Rocinha shanty-town in an attempt finally to wrest back control of the area.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Robin Yapp 2011

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