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Crime and Impunity

Political assassination is an all too common occurrence in Alagoas. Ten percen or more ...

LETTERS

There are between 16.5 million and 30 million Brazilians working in the informal economy, ...

The Devil and Ms. Joyce

Irreverent, sensual without being crass, author Joyce Cavalcante has focused her writer’s eye on ...

Poetry Sorceress

‘Inside me lives/ The peasant/ Grafted to the land,/ A little moody./ Hard worker./ ...

Water Wonderland

Recife is full of surprises: bright sun, ever-blue skies tempered by the ocean breeze, ...

The Importance of Being Brazil

Brazil has the ninth largest economy in the world, its market size is about ...

Tangled Law

Brazil loves constitutions. Since the first one in 1824, the country has had six ...

POR AÍ

Irreverent, sensual without being crass, author Joyce Cavalcante has focused her writer’s eye on ...

Still Queen

Rita Lee’s new album, 3001, sure is electric. For years I hadn’t heard such ...

Back in Africa

Closing my eyes I let the sounds and smells drift over me. The colorful ...