At the request of senator Arthur Virgílio, the leader of the opposition party PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy) the Brazilian senate is summoning a psychic service to help elucidate what caused the massive blackout last week, which left 18 of Brazil's 26 states in the dark.

The esoteric foundation Cacique Cobra Coral (Coral Snake Chief), which has a department in charge of forecasting and changing th… Continue

With the "main target" being the recovery of a bi-national hydroelectric dam that has fallen into the hands of an enemy country, Brazil launched Sunday military exercises involving Army, Navy and Air Force located in three states next to landlocked Paraguay

According to the NGO "Defesa@net - Defense, Strategy and Intelligence," the purpose of such a huge mobilization of personnel and resources in su… Continue

Celso Amorim, Brazil's Foreign Affairs minister is sounding the alarm that relations between the United States and Latin America are deteriorating and called on American president Barack Obama to begin a dialogue with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

"It's possible that when President Obama concentrates on the region's problems relations between United States and South America will have deterio… Continue

Jay Bauman

On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video here. It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking.

First, m… Continue

Ashamed of her world famous son's bad manners, who was so impolite to refer to the Brazilian leader in a newspaper interview as illiterate, rude and tacky, a mother is calling this Monday, November 16, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to apologize in her own name and in the name of her whole family.

She is going to tell Lula that she doesn't agree with what the son said. The woman is 102-year-ol… Continue

The recent blackout in Brazil, which left 50 million people in the dark across 18 of Brazil's 26 states, raised questions about whether the country is sufficiently prepared to provide secure energy when it hosts the World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The city of Rio de Janeiro, which will host the Olympics was one of the most affected by the power outage. As for the Wo… Continue

Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose.

As with most titillating stories these days, her activities were captured on youthful cellphone cameras and displayed on You… Continue

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).

The results of the research conducted with the university's Applied Statistics Laboratory were presented by sociologist Alba Zaluar, who is in charge of analyzi… Continue

When 20-year-old Brazilian tourism student Geisy Arruda appeared in college wearing a bright-pink miniskirt and heavy make-up on, she probably could not have imagined what she was about to encounter: A group of 700 enraged students ready to insult her and even attack her.

The incident occurred on October 22, and it involved 700 students from well-known Uniban (Universidade Bandeirantes - Bandeirantes… Continue