Brazzil Magazine

To Curb Speculation Brazil Reverses Course and Taxes Foreigners Who Buy Stocks

Foreigners investing in Brazil will pay a 2% tax on Brazilian real denominated, fixed-income ...

Brazil Petrobras Breaks Record Producing 2 Million Oil Barrels Daily

Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil and gas multinational informed that domestic oil output increased 1.2% ...

Brazil Got the Olympics. Now We Need a Pact to Attune Us to the 21st Century

President Lula, Governor Sérgio Cabral, Mayor Eduardo Paes and Carlos Nuzman, the president of ...

With Old Woman’s Death Brazil Amazon Tribe Reduced to Five People

Decimated in the 1980s and living isolated in the northern Brazilian state of Rondônia ...

After 21 Deaths, 4,000 Policemen Take Over Rio’s Streets

Four thousand military policemen have taken to the streets of Rio and Greater Rio ...

Despite Claims to the Contrary Gays Are Not Endangered in Brazil

The other day a Brazilian friend asked me if I had noticed that, within ...

Balance of Rio’s One-Day Drug War: One Arrested, 12 Killed

Rio de Janeiro has said no to an offer by the Brazilian federal government ...

Brazil: Rio’s Drug Lords Knock Down Military Chopper and Kill Two Policemen

Rio de Janeiro's drug traffickers knocked down a police helicopter that was after them, ...

Brazil Expecting an Obama Visit in the Next Few Months

American president Barack Obama might visit Brazil before the end of the year once ...

Brazil’s Public TV Will Target 3 Million Brazilians Overseas

Tereza Cruvinel, the chairwoman of Brazilian state-owned communications company Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), ...