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Paulistas and Caiçaras: Parallel Lives in Brazil

Violence and physical confrontation was a way-of-life for the average youngster spending time in ...

Orson Welles’ Youth’s Folly in Brazil

The story that so much interested filmmaker Orson Welles, was the tale of four ...

Brazil-USA: Learning to Bridge Cultures

When Brazilian and American executives are briefed on what to expect from their counterparts ...

Safety in Rio: Don’t Trust the Statistics

Rio de Janeiro is a big city with a big crime problem. How bad ...

Castroneves’s Thrill Is Back

It seems appropriate that Brazilian racecar driver Hélio Castroneves, whose exuberant fence climbing after ...

How to Marry a Brazilian

For an American citizen the road to marry a Brazilian can be rugged and ...

Trying to Gag Lula

By creating phony crises, the media is falling into the hands of those who ...

For Job Seekers Brazil Is No Eldorado

Thinking of moving to Brazil? If the aim is to make a lot of ...

Fast Times in Lula’s Brazil

The sudden resurgence of the real has scared some people, including President Lula. In ...

Waiting, Waiting for a Doctor in Rio

The Brazilian Institute for Social Welfare is relatively serious about  what it proposes to ...