Tag: Salvador

Japam-born Yukachan, Carnaval ambassador in Bahia, Brazil

Brazil: New Ambassador of Bahia’s Carnaval, a Japanese Girl, Ruffles Feathers

When winter arrived in the Japanese city of Nagoya during the late 90s, a ...

Lavagem do Bonfim at Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Jesus and the African Gods in Brazil’s Northeast

It must be hard to be a religious fundamentalist in Salvador, Bahia, in the ...

Progress Killed Carnaval in Brazil

The “Tríduo momesco” (King Momo’s Triduum) was the dressed-up name, pretentious.  It became inappropriate ...

Brazil Gets Its Holiday Inn Number 10

Capitalizing on the growing needs of mid-market hotels in Brazil, InterContinental Hotels Group, continues ...

In Brazil, Blacks Earn Only Half as Much as Whites

A survey just released by the union-linked socio-economic studies department (Departamento Intersindical de EstatÀ­stica ...

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