Brazzil Magazine

The Last of the "Colonels"

Senator Antonio Carlos Magalhães and Senate president José Sarney represent a dying species. President ...

A Pipa Dream

Pipa was the first city in Brazil where people used ketchup, chewing gum, and blue ...

Where Did All the Blacks Go?

When I asked in Bahia a group of Brazilian school kids what race they ...

So Vain

Why does President Cardoso want Brazil as a permanent member of the UN Security ...

Velloso with a J

They were practically unknown from people outside the jail system until they staged the ...

Gay Rio

By Brazzil Magazine Pleasures in the Parks of Rio de Janeiro during the Brazilian ...

The Economy of Chaos

For long considered a patrimony of Brazilian music, Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, better known ...

The Fifth, a Charm

Born on May 23, 1908 (some experts say it was in 1902), in São ...

The Long Goodbye

Death, which is rarely kind, was its unkindest, this beginning of year, taking away ...

The Bluff Is Back

There was a clandestine recording of a Lula minister’s meeting. Chicanery and surprise attacks ...