http://deepbrazil.com Culture, Music, Environment, Economy, Society Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:49:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://deepbrazil.com/2011/05/13/abolition/ http://deepbrazil.com/2011/05/13/abolition/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 12:06:39 +0000 Regina http://deepbrazil.com/?p=7686

To remember the slavery days and celebrate the (official) abolition anniversary, a great but disturbing Elza Soares video clip, where she sings that “the cheapest meat in the market is the black flesh”.   ...]]> http://deepbrazil.com/2011/05/13/abolition/feed/ 5 http://deepbrazil.com/2011/01/21/brazil-explained-in-100-images-part-1/ http://deepbrazil.com/2011/01/21/brazil-explained-in-100-images-part-1/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:00:12 +0000 Deep Brazil http://deepbrazil.com/?p=1603

[UPDADE] – You have the option of seeing all the 100 images in only one post. Click here. Today we will begin a tour of 150 years of Brazilian history through photography and other iconography. Ten ...]]> http://deepbrazil.com/2011/01/21/brazil-explained-in-100-images-part-1/feed/ 4 http://deepbrazil.com/2009/11/17/5-million-workers-under-age/ http://deepbrazil.com/2009/11/17/5-million-workers-under-age/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:07:34 +0000 Deep Brazil http://deepbrazil.com/?p=113

One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, ...]]> http://deepbrazil.com/2009/11/17/5-million-workers-under-age/feed/ 3