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For the fifth successive Christmas, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an association of rubbish collectors, many of whom live in the streets. If you walk or drive around Brazil's larger cities you will be familiar with these "catadores," as they are known, filling plastic bags or pulling rickety wooden carts packed with rubbish, mainly paper and scrap metal. 
The Aymara people, who for centuries have lived around Lake Titicaca in the
Andes, defend the principle of seven different types of peace. The first is
inner peace. Peace with yourself through the health of your body, the clarity of
your mind, the pleasure of your work, the reciprocity of your loves. Without
peace with yourself, you are not at peace.
Dublauto Gaúcha is a small maker of components for the shoe
industry based in the city of Ivoti, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio
Grande do Sul. Founded in 2003, as the arm in the state of an already successful
company from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, Dublauto has ten
employees, produces 200,000 meters of items per month and has customers in
Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. 
There has been a curious religious phenomenon in Brazilian football in the last decade or so. Increasingly, players have been showing their devotion to Jesus during and after matches. Perhaps this is a reflection of the rising power of Protestant evangelical Christianity in Brazil. 
Brazilians grew up hearing that Brazil was the country of the future. During
hard times, it was common to hear comments as "yeah, always the future, never
the present" and such. Well, things are changing. Is the future here? Or maybe
is it around the corner? What does this present economic situation, these new
numbers really mean?