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More Than Jobim’s Alter Ego

Newton Mendonça and Tom Jobim met in 1942, when they were fifteen, and became ...

The Rise of the Brazilian Empire

Brazil’s imperialism is generally overlooked by Brazilians. The boundaries of Brazil were created mainly ...

Brazilian Wonderland

Trade figures for Brazil look quite promising. Fact unheard, gasoline prices fell and the ...

How Brazil’s Lula Is Fooling the World

Lula’s party, the PT, covered up its historic radicalism during Brazil’s presidential campaign with ...

IMF Wants More from Brazil

Every Brazilian had to work one whole month in 2002 just to pay Brazil’s ...

Erasing the National Memory in Brazil

Due to lack of funds, São Paulo’s TV Cultura has been reusing old videotapes ...

The Old Boys (and Girls) from Brazil

The proportion of Brazil’s elderly is increasing more rapidly  than that of children. In ...

Brazil, Still a Banker’s Paradise

Banks in Brazil rank among the planet’s most profitable with returns on equity that ...

Lula: "We Should Stop Blaming Others"

Lack of money is not an excuse, says Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

Gil and Gal—What a Guy, What a Gal

Brazil’s Culture Minister, Gilberto Gil, should make singer Gal Costa an arts ambassador and ...