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Brazil Buying Russian Anti-Air System. Move to Stir Up LatAm and the US

In a move certain to irk the United States and elevate the temperature of the arms race in Latin America, the Brazilian army is in the process of buying a sophisticated antiaircraft system from the Russians, the Tor-M2E, says Brazilian daily Folha de S. Paulo. The new equipment would put Brazil in a much better position in terms of its defense capabilities. The negotiations with Russia are part of B… Continue

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 25, 2009 at 11:31am — No Comments

Magic Is Gone: Lula Unhappy with Obama on Honduras, Copenhagen, Doha

Global warming, Honduras elections, Doha round of negotiations, these three items are just the beginning of a laundry list of matters the Brazilian government is not happy with in the Barack Obama administration. The magic is gone. This in the wake of a Sunday letter sent by the American president to his Brazilian colleague and the warm reception granted Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monda… Continue

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 24, 2009 at 8:34pm — No Comments

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Added by DJ SEDUCE on November 21, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Dissertation buy or not to buy-that is the question?

Added by Gaili Jensen on November 20, 2009 at 9:35pm — No Comments

Without Answers, Brazil Senate Summons Psychic to Find Out Blackout's Causes

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 19, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

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Added by PLATANOTV on November 18, 2009 at 12:12pm — No Comments

Brazil Starts 8,000-Men War Games on Border as Message to Neighbors

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 16, 2009 at 3:14pm — No Comments

Brazil Calls on Obama to Start Dialogue with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 16, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Some Humility Would Do Lula Good. On Human Rights Brazil Has Long Way to Go

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 16, 2009 at 11:03am — No Comments

Singer Caetano Veloso's Mom Calls Brazil President to Apologize for Son's Insults

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 15, 2009 at 10:41pm — No Comments

Brazil Sees Chaos Scenario if Caught in Blackout During Olympics

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 15, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Geisy, Brazil's Miniskirt Student, Should Try US College Next Year

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 11, 2009 at 4:11pm — No Comments

Vigilante Groups in Brazil Trump Drug Gangs and Become Rio's New Authority

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 11, 2009 at 3:14pm — No Comments

Miniskirt in Brazil School Results in Riot, Expulsion and Federal Action

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

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 8, 2009 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Bitter and Isolated Dies Anselmo Duarte, Brazil's Only Cannes Winner

Brazilian actor, screenwriter and filmmaker Anselmo Duarte died at dawn this Saturday (November 7), in São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, at the age of 89, from complications of a stroke. Duarte had been admitted to the General Hospital in São Paulo (Hospital das Clínicas) in the beginning of the month and had been in a coma for several days. In August, Duarte had already suffered a moderate m… Continue

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 7, 2009 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Brazil Blasts US and Casts Doubt It Will Buy American Fighter Planes

Brazilian Defense minister, Nelson Jobim, told reporters this Friday, November 6, that the dispute between the US, France and Sweden to sell 36 fighter planes to the Brazilian Air Force is still going on and it's very strong. He then went on to say he didn't want to create a controversy with any comment that might be seen favoring any of the countries and companies involved. But he didn't spare the Uni… Continue

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 6, 2009 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Brazil: Caetano Veloso Calls Lula Illiterate and Says He'll Vote for Marina Silva

Caetano Veloso, renowned Brazilian singer-composer, gave his full support to Brazil's Green party presidential hopeful Marina Silva who he expects will show more elegance and pragmatism than President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he described as "illiterate" and a "coarse speaker". "Marina is Lula da Silva and Obama at the same time," said Veloso in an interview published Thursday in the daily O Es… Continue

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 6, 2009 at 11:45am — No Comments

MARIANA MARTIN Brazilian Bossa Nova

Added by Mariana Martin on November 4, 2009 at 9:50pm — No Comments

Bye, Neguinho do Samba! You Left Olodum Orphan and Brazil and World Much Poorer

By Phillip Wagner I am the co-founder and Director of Rhythm of Hope, working in the Afro Brazilian cultural epicenter of Salvador, Bahia. Through Danielle Giron Valim there I met Antonio Luiz Alves de Souza, a remarkably creative and compassionate man who became and remained a personal friend of many years. On October the world lost this very special and, in some ways, genuinely important individual.… Continue

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 4, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Lula Tells Obama How to Solve US's Health Crisis: Go the Brazilian Way

"Next time I see Obama I'm going to say: "Make a SUS. It costs less, it has quality and it's universal."" This is the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva talking and he believes he can contribute to solve the decades-old health insurance problem that plagues the United States. SUS stands for Sistema Único de Saúde (Universal Health System) and is the Brazilian National Health System, whic… Continue

Added by Brazzil Magazine on November 3, 2009 at 9:28pm — No Comments

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