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Brazilian Sounds: The Other Simone, Nature-ly

Simone Guimarães’s voice is of rare beauty and at times she might even make ...

Brazil: We Saw the Future. It Wasn’t Good.

The Day of the Teacher, the day of the future, must be a day ...

Under the Gun in Rio

In Rio, anyone can ask around and find a cheap pistol and a handful ...

All in a Brazilian Week

In Brazil, barely a day goes by without a new corruption scandal being reported ...

Brazil: Indians Give up Land for Fear

Close to 1000 farmers turned up at a protest armed and saying that they ...

Brazil and the Jeitinho: A Cultural Lesson in Bahia

I couldn’t help to think about that word jeito. What sort of magical thing ...

Brazil: A Wave of Attacks Against the Police

Attacks against 11 police stations in São Paulo city didn’t come as a surprise. ...

Brazil: Starving at Home to Fatten Speculators

The Brazilian economy continues to be the cave of Ali Baba transformed into a ...

Brazil Mourns Loss of Pioneer Woman Writer

Writer Rachel de Queiroz, who would be 93 in two weeks, had a very ...

Brazil Is Coming to (New York) Town

This December, when the temperature outside is a balmy ten degrees, New Yorkers will ...