Brazzil Magazine

Chico’s Legacy

Until you hear the thundering bass created by two or three alfaias roaring in ...

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Jeff Duneman

Paradise Regained

A local from Lagoinha once described it to me as one of those places ...

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Philip Blazdell

The Alley’s Vampire

Pretty thing are you, I thought cynically, coveting the gorgeous young fascist and his ...

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Márcia Denser

Welcome to Hell

In Nao Verás País Nenhum, the crime problems of today pale in comparison to ...

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Joe Jaramillo

Not Taking It Anymore

Angry citizens were deciding to express frustrations and demand accountability. A growing Carioca constituency ...

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Phillip Wagner

Dirty Business

Staggering amounts of computers, batteries, televisions and other appliances, so-called technology trash, are filling ...

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Kathleen Bond

Overpopulated

Brazil started the century with 17 million people and ended it with an estimated ...

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Ricardo C. Amaral

The Wise Old Man

Till the end, Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, was never afraid to defend what he ...

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Rodolfo Espinoza

In the Blacklist

The big recording stores don’t carry any titles by Wilson Simonal, a singer who ...

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Alessandra Dalevi

In Bed With a Brazilian

Brazilians spend an average of 30 minutes doing it. By comparison, Thais don’t spend ...

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Francesco Neves