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Shortly after the November 2, 2004 United States election, Brazilian Senator Cristovam Buarque paid a visit to Brazil’s former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso at Brown University, where the latter is a visiting professor. What follows is a translated excerpt from a recording made of their interview.
On a cool Saturday morning in Rio de Janeiro, Zé Luiz Summer, a 34-year-old Afro-Brazilian, leaves his home in Rocinha, Brazil’s largest favela (shantytown) and begins descending down the meandering alleyways of the favela.
If not maddened by it, whoever bothered to review the statements, interviews, debates, and documents that emerged from the Brazilian administration’s recent extended cabinet meeting would at least have fallen into a state of deep perplexity. 
Researchers in Brazil say they are close to completing 'genetic maps' of the parasites responsible for three of the developing world's most insidious diseases — sleeping sickness, cutaneous leishmaniasis and Chagas disease.
It doesn’t hurt to ask: for what reason have managing editors from the newspapers Estado de São Paulo and Folha only now made a fuss about the criteria of Esso Award (Esso is Exxon Mobil’s Brazilian subsidiary) for excellence in Brazilian journalism?