 Around Brazil
Around Brazil: Lençois Maranhenses
By Ricky Skelton
Parque Nacional Lençois Maranhenses is a huge expanse of white wind-blown dunes with fresh water pools in the hollows between them. There is no more photogenic ...
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Around Brazil: Sailing in Paraty
By Marilyn Diggs
Picture gentle cotton clouds in a cerulean sky, emerald green islands with palm tree contours and turquoise water lapping against the sides of a 45-foot sailboat ...
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Article
Brazil: The Curmudgeon in Alcohol-Induced Dudgeon
By The Curmudgeon
Bush and Lula, the favourite 4-letter words of the Brazilian left, have recently signed an agreement to encourage the development of ethanol as fuel for automobiles, ...
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Article
Misunderstanding Brazil‘s National Anthem: A Crash-Course in the Hymn of the Nation
By Joe Lopes
When I told my Brazilian wife about an article I read recently bashing her country's melodious Hino Nacional ("the world's worst national anthem," was the staggeringly ...
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Interview
Brazil Through Foreign Eyes
Meet Richard Dougherty, from the USA, who has travelled in Brazil and married a Brazilian. Read the following interview where he tells us about some of his most memorable experiences from ...
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Article
Brazil's Politicians Share the Spoils
By John Fitzpatrick
Trying to explain Brazilian society to western Europeans and Americans can be frustrating. When you tell people, for example, that public employees can go on ...
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Article
Brazil: Weekly News Roundup
Rise in Support for Death Penalty
A poll published in Folha shows that 55% of those who answered would vote to reinstate the death penalty, which is up 4% from last year. Capital ...
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Arts
Brecht, Weill & Buarque: The Brazilian Play's the Thing! Part 1
By Joe Lopes
Returning now to Ópera do Malandro and the two quotations by Kurt Weill that have occupied our thoughts since the outset of this essay-to wit, the difference ...
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Language
Popular Brazilian Expressions Part 1
By Tamashin
I started collecting Brazilian expressions in 1993 when I first came to Brazil. Asking people to explain them was a good ice-breaker though you would be guaranteed ...
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Arts
Brazil: Nova Jerusalem's Passion Play
By Lance Belville
A Great Experience If Your Faith And Your Feet Are Up To It
Like just about everybody else in Brazil who reads, or watches TV news, I have been ...
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Article
Understanding Brazil: The National Anthem
By Ricky Skelton
Brazil has the world's worst national anthem. It is official. After exhaustive research (involving watching World Cups and international football for a lifetime), ...
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Article
Brazil: Press Release
Brazilian ADRS are the most traded on the NYSE says Reginaldo Alexandre of the Association of Capital Markets Analysts and Investment Professionals, APIMEC
SÃO PAULO: April 9, 2007 ...
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Interview
Brazil Through Foreign Eyes
Meet James Weed, from the USA, who works in Brazil. Read the following interview where he tells us about some of his most memorable experiences from Brazil and gives some useful advice to ...
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Article
Brazil: Weekly News Roundup
Flight Chaos Caused by Strike
More chaos affected air travellers starting at the end of last week with a 24 hour strike by air traffic controllers. All 67 of Brazil‘s airports ...
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Language
Portuguese Tip: Regularity of Verbs
By Teacher Claudia
Dear readers, today we'll see a delicate topic, the regularity of verbs in Portuguese. When my first Australian student asked me about that, I wasn't prepared ...
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Arts
Theater, the Brecht of Life: The Influences on Chico's "Modern" Street Opera, Part II
By Joe Lopes
"The Play's the Thing!"
The significance of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking theories from the twenties and thirties on the burgeoning Brazilian theater ...
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Article
Cida - A Brazilian Entrepreneur
By John Fitzpatrick
Most workers in Brazil work in the informal sector. The country´s leading expert in labor issues, Professor Jose Pastore, estimates that 60% of the workers ...
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Around Brazil: João Pessoa Part 5
By Tamashin
Here is part 5 of Tamashin‘s article about João Pessoa. To read the previous parts click the relevant links at the end of the article.
We didn't spend ...
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