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Brazilian Volcanoes

Regina — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:16:24 +0000

Trindande and Martim Vaz Archipel

Once upon a time, God was showing an angel around the brand new Earth. “This is Indonesia – they will have tsunamis and volcanoes. And this is the US – they will have hurricanes and earthquakes”, he says. The angel points to Brazil: “what about this country?”. God answers that Brazil [...]

Brazilian Babel

Regina — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:50:57 +0000

Baré indians in the Cuieiras river, in the Amazon/photo by Daniel Zanini

by Sylvia Estrella, guest writer*

You may be under the impression – like most people – that Portuguese is the only language spoken in Brazil. In fact, 0.5% of the population (around 750,000 people) are native speakers of 200 other languages, including the [...]

Brazil in the News

Regina — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:35:17 +0000

Footballfancast.com – Top TEN Brazilian starlets that could take the Premiership by storm

The Wall Street Journal -What’s happening in Brazil in 2010 (a pretty cool event agenda)

For Brazil, It’s Finally Tomorrow

Don’t Rock the Boat (about the presidential campaign)

Eike Batista discusses, in video, why Brazil is so appealing to investors.

The New York Times - Nuns Face [...]

Brazil in the news

Deep Brazil — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:47:07 +0000

Every Sunday you will find here the latest news about Brazil published by the international media.

The Economist – The Money Trail – “Corruption in Brazil: Many corruption scandals stem from the high cost of politics, and unrealistically tight campaign-finance rules”

Financial Times – Brazil to reverse easing as inflation fears rise (you need a free registration to [...]

More investment in infrastructure

Deep Brazil — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:01:12 +0000

A study released today by BNDES, the main federal bank responsible for financing infrastructure projects, reveals that Brazil will increase its investments in power dams, highways, railways, ports, telecommunications and sanitation. According to daily paper Folha de S. Paulo, around R$ 274 billion (151 billion dollars or 111 billion euros) should be invested between 2010 and [...]

10 Brazilian drinks as cool as caipirinha

Deep Brazil — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:15:22 +0000

Cachaças that are worth a meal

Caipirinha – a mix of sugar cane spirit (cachaça), crushed lime, white sugar and ice – is a big hit among foreigners that visit Brazil. It is pretty much everywhere in the country and many Brazilian families own the special wooden mortar used to prepare the beverage. Caipirinha and its variations, [...]

Biopirates attack!

Deep Brazil — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:35:33 +0000

by Sylvia Estrella, guest writer*

Brazilwood exports, as seen by André Thevet, 1575

Only 12 countries are considered mega-biodiverse, that is, they have 70% of all the species of vertebrates, insects and plants known by Science. Brazil is the leader of this ranking. It is estimated that it has around 150,000 described species, or 13% [...]

Brazil will pay high price for climate change

Deep Brazil — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:14:31 +0000

Storm over São Paulo/Fabiano (LycoSp)/Flickr

Brazil will lose between US$ 417 billion (in an optimist scenario) and US$ 2 trillion of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per year by 2050 thanks to global warming. This means, in the worst scenario, the GDP might be reduced in 2.3% by the middle of the century. This is one [...]

10 unforgettable Brazilian dishes

Deep Brazil — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:00:19 +0000

Selling tacacá in Belém

You most certainly heard of, or even tasted, churrasco (barbecue) and feijoada (a complex meal that includes a stew of black beans with pork and several side dishes, including rice, collard greans, pealed orange, cassava flour, red pepper sauce and our national distilled beverage, cachaça).

Now, can you tell me what a buchada [...]