Brazil: all things illegal, in numbers
Havocscope is a web project that monitors everything published about the black market and other contraventions. Drug, animal or organ traffic, illegal logging and […]
Month: July 2011
Great source of translated Brazilian lyrics
Lyrics Translate is a pretty good source for lovers of Brazilian music that wonder what those lyrics are all about. It offers both the […]
Florianópolis in old postcards
Before the Argentinian tourists, before the surf, before becoming one of the coolest Brazilian destinations, Florianópolis, the capital of the Southern state of Santa Catarina, […]
130k kids under 14 are the heads of their families
The number: according to IBGE, the Brazilian statistics bureau, 662 thousand teens between 15 and 19 and 132 thousand 10-14 year old kids are the […]
Wonderful musicians you never heard of
What if you could get insider information about great Brazilian musicians that are ignored by the wider public? Sparrow Roberts is an American that runs […]
Goddesses gone wild: movie divas in Brazil
Lana Turner fell for a Brazilian pilot that she met in Belém, in the Amazon. Marlene Dietrich had to pretend fainting so her bodyguards […]
Brazil in 23 MAD magazine covers
Brazil has been – to put it mildly – a challenging market for the publishers of MAD, the longest-running humor magazine of the US. It […]