December 2004
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December 2004
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Written by Srinjay Chakravarti
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Monday, 06 December 2004 13:57 |
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What are the images that come immediately to mind when you hear the word 'India'? Something exotic, I'm sure: maharajahs, snakes, tigers, elephants, fakirs - and not necessarily in that order.
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December 2004
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Written by Janer Cristaldo
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Sunday, 05 December 2004 17:23 |
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Brazilian judge sets maximum of 2,400 reais (US$ 887) to those granted amnesty – so says the headlines of the newspaper Estadão (O Estado de S. Paulo). A Federal Court decided recently that the government not authorize any monthly installment payment above R$ 2,400 to politically persecuted individuals given amnesty.
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December 2004
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Written by Débora Xavier
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Sunday, 05 December 2004 11:46 |
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On March 31, 1964, a military uprising overthrew the legal government of Brazil and began to curtail citizen rights and liberties as they cracked down on leftists. The President, João Goulart, and many other politicians and prominent Brazilians, fled the country. Others would be forced into exile by the military government.
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December 2004
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Written by Anna Ioakimedes
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Saturday, 04 December 2004 16:34 |
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Less than a week after the de facto February 29 coup d'état that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Brazilian government let it be known that it would send 1,100 troops to lead and provide the core units for MINUSTAH, the UN's international peacekeeping force in Haiti.
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December 2004
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Written by Cristovam Buarque
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Thursday, 02 December 2004 10:51 |
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When an intellectual dies, we remain his or her disciples, when a political leader dies, we continue as his or her followers, but when someone who represents a moral patrimony of the country dies, we remain moral orphans.
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