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The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
Brazil has become a high-tech and growing civil-military power in the same league as Russia, India and China (the BRIC countries). When it comes to Brazil and military technology, one name comes to mind: Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica, S. A.). The Brazilian company specializes in civilian and military aircraft, and is regarded as one of the top three aircraft companies in the world, next to Boeing and Airbus. 
Brazil's new rules for exploration and production of oil in the subsalt layer maintain the attractiveness to private companies, be they national or foreign. The statement was made in São Paulo, by the president of the Energy Research Company (EPE), an organization connected to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Maurício Tolmasquim, in an interview to foreign correspondents in Brazil. 
It's Carnaval in Rio and I am honestly not that excited about it. I did the whole Rio experience last year with a bunch of blocos, performing in the Children's Parade, and going to two nights at the Sambadrome (one night of the Special Groups, the other the Champion's Parade). My experience at the Sambadrome was amazing, an incredible opportunity, one I felt no need to repeat this year. 
It is a great time for 46-year old Vanda Guiomar Pignato, a native of Brazil, who on June 1st, 2009 became the First Lady of El Salvador, Central America, a country of about 6.5 million people. She is the most politically savvy and educated woman ever to have such position in a country where according to the latest U.S. Department of State's country report, only a tiny percentage of women graduate from college.