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In Brazil, besides the economic booming, there is another market that is growing fast: the art market.
In big cities like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, artists are founding more and more opportunities to sell their work. Most especially in Sao Paulo,.
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For those who think that Brazil comes down to the Amazon, Rio de Janeiro and beaches, this article will be a shock. There is much more than that in Brazil.
Precisely...
made popular Dec 24 2010
In a few days to start the summer in the Southern Hemisphere here in Brazil, tens of millions are preparing for their trips in January. The preferred places of...
made popular Dec 15 2010
Like other large countries, Brazil is composed of different regions, different cultures, different accents, rhythms and different types of people. Even the cuisine...
made popular Nov 16 2010
Passengers, angry about slow service, took out their frustration on trains in Sao Paulo, Brazil, bashing windows and damaging at least 17 train cars Tuesday, an...
made popular Sep 22 2010
Brazil’s ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff remains on track to win next month’s election in the first round despite an ethics scandal...
made popular Sep 18 2010
The tone of Brazil’s presidential race has lurched lower and is likely to stay there as scandal accusations and increasingly bitter exchanges between the two main...
made popular Sep 15 2010
Brazilian police say a man has confessed he inserted two needles and a nail into a baby girl’s body because her beauty bothered him.
Police say a 28-year-old...
made popular Sep 2 2010
An Amazonas TV host accused of ordering executions to boost his programme’s ratings died in Sao Paulo yesterday, taking to the grave the truth about his alleged...
made popular Jul 28 2010
Sao Paulo is Latin America’s most populous city and one of Brazil’s most dynamic. It is also home to two football clubs: the popular Sao Paulo FC along with the...
made popular Jun 21 2010
Sao Paulo is Latin America’s most populous city and one of Brazil’s most dynamic. It is also home to two football clubs: the popular Sao Paulo FC along with...
made popular Jun 18 2010
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked up budding ties between Brazil — notably their diplomatic cooperation over Iran’s nuclear program —...
made popular May 27 2010
At least one person was killed and 20 others were wounded in fights between fans of soccer clubs Palmeiras and Sao Paulo over the weekend in Brazil, the press reported...
made popular Feb 23 2010
The party thrown by the members of the Rosas de Ouro samba school to celebrate winning the top award at Sao Paulo’s Carnival competition ended early after a fight...
made popular Feb 19 2010
A private university in Brazil said Tuesday that because of negative public reaction, it reversed a decision to expel a student who wore a short dress to class, but the...
made popular Nov 16 2009
Recently, my house was hit by lightning. To be more precise, this occurred February 10 and this fact (or bad luck or divine punishment or whatever...) will remain in my...
made popular Apr 2 2009
Sao Paulo City, scene of the country’s biggest electoral dispute
It is time for analysis and reflection on the year that is ending.
However, just draw a line...
made popular Dec 20 2008
I know very well that we are undergoing a financial crisis. Some countries are suffering more, others less, but in any event, is a pessimistic time. That’s...
made popular Oct 15 2008
Walking into Brazil’s new soccer museum is like entering a hall filled with busts of Greek gods. Suspended on glass screens some eight feet tall in the darkened...
made popular Oct 14 2008
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The best Brazilian footballer of all time, Edison Arantes do Nasimento Pele, has opened the first football museum in Sao Paulo, where exhibits from Brazil’s...
made popular Oct 3 2008
In the 70’s, the problems caused by pollution, traffic and violence reached an unbearable level in Sao Paulo. Many wanted to leave the city, but could not because...
made popular Sep 29 2008
Some time ago, I wrote about the relationship between the massacre of Carandiru and the rising of the PCC (First Command of the Capital).
Briefly, after a Sao...
made popular Sep 28 2008
Probably if you are not from Brazil or South American, maybe you don’t know the reputation of Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo. This avenue is the main financial...
made popular Sep 14 2008
In the previous article, I mentioned the massacre of Carandiru as the apex of a police strategy that is still followed by many states in Brazil (first kill, them ask...
made popular Sep 2 2008
One important warning: This article contains photos taken after a massacre. If you have a strong stomach, go ahead, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
In the...
made popular Aug 28 2008
Can you imagine yourself living in hell? Can you imagine you, your family and your friends having to work and study in a place that was completely taken by violence and...
made popular Aug 25 2008
Contrary to stereotype, the murder rate is falling
made popular Aug 23 2008
The biggest rivalry that exists between the Brazilians is between paulistas (born in the state of Sao Paulo) and cariocas (born in the state of Rio de Janeiro). When...
made popular Aug 19 2008
Some time ago, I read an article in a certain publication that if the United States to raise the import Brazilian ethanol, in fact would be changing the oil dependency...
made popular Aug 13 2008
This article is not mine, I translate if from http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u427459.shtml
The infant mortality rate of Sao Paulo in 2007 reached...
made popular Aug 5 2008
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Passengers wait for their flights at the Sao Paulo international airport, Monday, May, 4, 2009. The swine flu epidemic has largely spared the Southern Hemisphere.
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