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52-two-year-old Slovenian marathon swimmer Martin Strel has become the first person to swim down 5,265 km South America’s Amazon River breaking his own three-year world record set in China. He averaged about 80 km a day in the swim from Peru to...
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The end of the diploma requirement to be a professional journalist in Brazil is yet another chapter in the bitter story of Brazilian printing press’ decadence....
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Brazil is proving to be the best alternative for national - and even foreign - companies to maintain their cash flows in the face of retracted global markets and of the...
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Brazil’s Senate - whose president José Sarney, a former president of the nation, has been accused of corruption - apparently has a secret bank account operating...
made popular Jul 7 2009
Eco Factor: Electric vehicle charging stations harness solar energy.
Brazil has already been reducing the impact of vehicular pollution on the environment. The country...
made popular Jul 7 2009
He who pays the piper, may not always call the tune. At least this is what astounding news released Wednesday June 30th, by IPEA (Applied Economic Research Institute -...
made popular Jul 3 2009
On July 13, the Latin America Initiative at Brookings will host a discussion on the recently released book, Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil’s...
made popular Jul 2 2009
This campaign for jangadeiro, Developed by Advanced, Fortaleza, Brazil, makes us remember some poignant moments in the past which shocked the world. This campaign, with...
made popular Jun 30 2009
The concentration of land in Brazil continues to be among the highest in the world. In the past few years, the agro-exporter model, based in agribusiness, not only...
made popular Jun 29 2009
After weeks of searching and 51 bodies found, the Brazilian military has called off the search for Air France Flight 447, which crashed over the Atlantic on June 1,...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Only two letters separate “pre-salt” from “pre-school,” but between these two options is an immense separation for the future of Brazil. Diverse...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the...
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Israel is ever more desperate for people to like it. The Zionist state behaves, as the Angry Arab explains, like a loser kid in high school who is begging to tag along...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Nations distinguish themselves by gestures large and small. In the coming weeks, Brazil will define itself to the United States and to the wider international community...
made popular Jun 17 2009
A few days ago, I was returning home from a friend of mine here in my city and, to my surprise, a company donated a land and made that area a public garden space.
I...
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Luis Carlos da Silva is helping construct a 10-foot cinder-block wall around Dona Marta, the slum he calls home.
He is paid $90 a week by a contractor hired by the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say.
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Sunday, an Airbus of Air France that left the Rio toward Paris disappeared over the ocean. The Flight AF 447 carrying 228 people, including crew and passengers. Most of...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Did Air France flight AF-447 that took off from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for Paris hit the Bermuda Triangle? If not, how do we explain the mysterious disappearance of...
made popular Jun 2 2009
Raging torrents from a ruptured dam swamped a rural Brazilian city Thursday, forcing residents to scramble onto rooftops and climb high trees to escape the deadly...
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Walls are going up around the hillside slums of Rio de Janeiro, further dividing a city already separated between rich and poor.
Beneath the gaze of the statue of...
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