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Brazilian composer Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga, Braguinha, one of Brazil's most enduring and beloved popular composers, died Sunday, December 24, in Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 99. Family and friends were getting ready to celebrate his 100th birthday on March 29. Admitted to the Pró-Cardíaco hospital the previous day, he passed away in the morning of Christmas Eve. The medical bulletin announced he had died from multiple organs failure due to a generalized infection of urinary origin. 
2006 was a very positive year for Brazilian musicians and the MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) in the United States. The labels and venues finally realized that there is a market for them outside the "Brazilian Circuit" (Newark, Boston and Miami), so the year was generous both on stage and on the shelves of our favorite record stores, speaking of which, there's the bummer factor of Tower Record's demise - they had the best World Music section in town.
Eduardo Bueno is a well-known Brazilian historian with the rare quality of also being a very good writer. He dazzles at the same time that he educates the reader. Helping us to understand the present and imagine the future, he reveals Brazil's past as he describes our prior reality.
Resorting to the biblical parable on the Valley of Tears is off limits to describe the weeping that's shaking right now all crannies and nooks of Brasília's Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Square). Built on a plateau, our capital does not meet the topographical conditions to retain anything.