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When the People Take Over in Brazil

Avenida Paulista, a three-kilometer long avenue, is regarded as São Paulo’s best-known landmark. Why ...

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Zahar, Synonym of High Culture in Brazil

This year, 2005, the second publishing house established by Jorge Zahar, Jorge Zahar Editor, ...

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Brazil’s Globo: a Soap Opera Global Empire

With every episode, another country falls in the web of appreciators of Brazilian audiovisual ...

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In Brazil, the Racial Democracy Myth Lives Forever

As Brazil’s new mayors take up their positions it is worth reflecting on the ...

Ball, Sex and Cachaça in the Tragic Life of Brazilian Hero Garrincha

Reading Garrincha, Ruy Castro’s splendid study of the forgotten Brazilian right-winger and twice World ...

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Salvador, Brazil, Made Me Do It

I am 5500 miles from home, and I’ve just met a fellow member of ...

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US Envy Behind Brazil’s Linguistic Reactionaryism

About two years ago I wrote an article suggesting that President Luiz Inácio Lula ...

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Gay Marriage and Naturism Get Their Day in Brazil

Forget the headlines about the World Social Forum and Brazil’s effort to mediate in ...

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Brazil, the Republic of Monoglots

Last week, all the newspapers and the overall press in Brazil gave wide release ...

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Brazil: In Morrinho the War Never Ends

It’s midmorning in Morrinho. Three figures peer down from a concrete rooftop at the ...