Sources: O Globo Online and Brazil public holidays. Late on Tuesday, Brazil's President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared the next 3 days, July 18-20, 2007, to be days of national mourning in homage to the approximately 200 people who died when a TAM airliner crashed into a building at the end of the runway at São Paulo's Congonhas airport. This period of national mourning will not be a public holiday, in the sense that stores, businesses and the government will continue to run on a regular schedule.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Brazil Declares 3-Day National Mourning Period
Sources: O Globo Online and Brazil public holidays. Late on Tuesday, Brazil's President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared the next 3 days, July 18-20, 2007, to be days of national mourning in homage to the approximately 200 people who died when a TAM airliner crashed into a building at the end of the runway at São Paulo's Congonhas airport. This period of national mourning will not be a public holiday, in the sense that stores, businesses and the government will continue to run on a regular schedule.
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