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September 2004
How Art Has Changed Some Brazil Favela's Kids PDF Print E-mail
2004 - September 2004
Written by Dayanne Mikevis   
Thursday, 30 September 2004 08:20

Morrinho ProjectImprovising, a boy gathered bits of building blocks, cement and paint to build a toy: a mock up model of the favela (shantytown). Soon the children's game became a serious business, found collaborators and started attracting attention.

 
Brazil: The Media Is Not Beyond Suspicion PDF Print E-mail
2004 - September 2004
Written by Alberto Dines   
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:40

Folha de S. PauloWith the inevitable outcome, it is safe to say that the Federal Council of Journalism served the press an extraordinary purpose. Despite sentenced to termination on the shelf, the project and its mentors set off involuntarily the most important debate over the press in the last decades. Brazilian democracy, impawned, is grateful.

 
Sorriso: a City Worth US$ 174 million PDF Print E-mail
2004 - September 2004
Written by Joel Santos Guimarães   
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:49

Soy farm in SorrisoThis is the GDP of Sorriso, a city in the midwestern state of Mato Grosso. The 13 greatest soy producers in the state are organizing themselves in order to export directly, in five years time, about 200,000 tons of soy. This is equivalent, in today's values, to an income of US$ 55 million per year. The city has the greatest soy productivity in the world, and a per capita income above the Brazilian average.

 
Between a Saint and a Sinner in Laguna, Brazil PDF Print E-mail
2004 - September 2004
Monday, 27 September 2004 08:54

 Between a Saint and a Sinner in   Laguna, Brazil

Brazil never felt more like Spain or Italy. At the present time in Brazil, evangelical Protestantism is making deep inroads into Catholicism. Everybody seems excited and amused. A local man tells a miraculous story about a sixty year-old retired teacher who had rather suddenly gotten married. "The real miracle was that she was a virgin."

By Terry Caesar

 
In Brazil, All Is Allowed... After the Elections PDF Print E-mail
2004 - September 2004
Sunday, 26 September 2004 08:54

 In Brazil, All Is Allowed… 
  After the Elections

There are those in Brazil who believe that the government will propose in November, after the elections, the infamous labor reform, extinguishing all remaining rights after the Cardoso sociological hurricane blew by. It seems the scale will tilt toward the economic team's side, which will certainly be kept in place if Cardoso ever returns to power.
By Carlos Chagas

 
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